“We hadn’t played those two songs before and we ran them down at the soundcheck and went for it. It’s always a joy to sing, that’s for sure.” The show also featured the live debut of two songs that were soon to arrive on record, on the WHO album, “Hero Ground Zero” and “Ball And Chain.” Both are on the Wembley memento. Something about what it evokes in one’s mind when you sing that song, it’s just lovely. On “Imagine A Man,” for example – a deep cut taken from The Who By Numbers – there is no hiding place for him as a vocalist, nor does he need one. Most of the orchestrated rock bands that you go out and see, the stuff that the orchestra’s playing, most of it can be played on a bloody synthesizer.” Imagine A Man As the album shows, when Daltrey stepped out at Wembley to lend his vocals to Townshend’s creations, underpinned by both band and orchestra, the results were majestic. “It was trying to convince them to keep all that, keep all the volume and all the punch and everything else, but still have the quality of the music behind it coming from an orchestra, and it will make it even bigger. One of the problems I realised I would have for a band like The Who was that most Who fans want it to be loud and raucous, they want that Live At Leeds, raunchy, and all that stuff. I didn’t quite have the arrangements right then, but it was an experiment to see where this could go. “For my 50th birthday I did Daltrey Sings Townshend. “I was doing this way back in 1994,” he adds. Very unusual songs compared with most rock music. I’ve always felt that an orchestra and his music would work because of the complexity of his music and the fact that he writes from an inner perspective. They’re always diminished, they’re never what you quite think they are. “When you listen to the voicings of the chords that he plays, they’re not your normal major chords. “Pete writes in a classical form, he always did,” he says. The way it affects the human body.” He adds with a laugh: “Digital is dead, that’s all I can say.” Daltrey has long known that Pete Townshend’s music lends itself to such arrangements as happens in few other rock bands. “It’s chalk and cheese, it’s night and day. Then The Who Hits Back! lands in their home country for a ten-date itinerary, accompanied all the way by full orchestras every night.“You really do start to understand the difference between the real power of instruments in an orchestra, and the sound of synthesized music,” says Daltrey. The orchestral connection will continue with their first European shows, outside of the UK, for seven years in June, in Barcelona, Florence, Berlin, and Paris. Indeed, its arrival at the top of Billboard’s classical chart has given the band their first US No.1 in its entire 59-year American chart history. The rain shower at the end in ‘Love Reign O’er Me’…we only have the best effects! It was astonishing, wasn’t it?” The concert, and now the album, underlined how The Who’s already mighty sound can be amplified both sonically and creatively by an orchestra. I don’t usually like stadium venues but the sound on the stage that day was fabulous for us. “I’m very proud of the record, especially if you can hear it on vinyl,” he continues of the one UK show on the band’s Moving On tour that year. “It was an historical event for us, 40 years being away from Wembley, the old one, and playing it again at this stage of our career, to a full audience. “When I listened to the live recordings of it, I thought this would just be great to get it down on record,” he says of the newly-released, multi-format The Who With Orchestra: Live At Wembley. But the way the stars aligned to make it one of the great highlights in the recent history of this storied band simply demanded that it be preserved on album. By Phil Sexton THE WHO The fact that The Who’s epic July 2019 gig at Wembley Stadium took place in a time before lockdown gives it an almost other-worldly place in the collective memory. " No More Mr.From udiscovermusic: Roger Daltrey On ‘Wonderful Day’ Of ‘The Who With Orchestra: Live At Wembley The frontman tells us about a concert in July 2019 that was so memorable, it demanded to be preserved on album. ( McEnroe & Cash with the Full Metal Rackets ) (Roger Daltrey with the Boys Choir of Harlem) "Say It Ain't So, Joe" Īn Irish Evening: Live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast (The Chieftains) Martyrs & Madmen: The Best of Roger Daltrey The following is the solo discography of British rock musician Roger Daltrey.Ī Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who Daltrey performing at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park in 2005
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