I don't- why I listened, I don't know why. He said to me, just whatever you do, he said, I've watched your- you know, I know your personality, he said, just never take chemicals. I patents and become very good friends with a guy called Owsley, who was producing all the purple haze at the time. I got lucky in San Francisco in 1967, when the drug thing stopped being just a bit of pot, started to get into the chemicals. ROGER DALTREY: It was the savior because it kept me out of all the other things that my friends were getting into at the time, which was drugs, and crime, and all that. LYNDSEY PARKER: Was that why you turned to music? They never pick on the big ones, do they? ROGER DALTREY: No, you know, they always pick on the little ones. LYNDSEY PARKER: What were you bullied for? And I think Tommy kind of always- I call those my Tommy years. It was a tough time, and I'll never forget that. And then I- you know, I learned to fight back and was hanging on by a thread in a lot of ways. I didn't have a very good time at school.
I was very lonely.īut also, I had the band. I remember my teenage years as being very traumatic in a lot of ways. "Deaf, dumb, and blind" was a metaphor for that. ROGER DALTREY: When I think back to my teenage years, that is my Tommy period.
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Is there anything about the movie when you look back on that that you think is really relevant to what's going on today? You were mentioning things like isolation. There's a lot of things going on with that film, the story line of "Tommy," both the original album and theater production and the film, which made a huge impression on me as a child, that I think really ring true today. LYNDSEY PARKER: I'm curious- I'm going to go off on a little bit of a tangent here, but as I was doing some research for this interview, and just, you know, looking things online, I realized that this year is the 45th anniversary of the movie "Tommy," for which you were nominated for a Golden Globe. They tend to retreat into themselves and go into an isolation. Putting a 16-year-old boy in a children's hospital with 2-year-olds wasn't a very good idea, especially when they have cancer. They also suffer most of all from late diagnosis.Īnd the cancers they get are incredibly aggressive because of the age they're at, perhaps. In this age group, they tend to get very, very rare cancers. There is absolutely nothing apart from what we do for them. ROGER DALTREY: What our organization does is to it's one of the only age-specific things in the whole of the hospital system for that age group- adolescents and young adults. LYNDSEY PARKER: Well, obviously I want to start off the interview by talking about this new initiative you're doing for Teen Cancer America to address what's going on in the world with the pandemic and the coronavirus. LYRICS: That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball. He recalled how he felt the movie's theme of isolation reflected his own struggles growing up and how Tina Turner scared him silent with her role as the Acid Queen. Roger Daltrey of The Who spoke to Yahoo Entertainment about the role his charity Teen Cancer America is playing in helping teens with cancer in hospitals across the country Daltrey also reminisced about his acting debut in the 1975 cult classic 'Tommy' based on The Who's album of the same name.
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