

One band is unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums and then the other band doesn’t exist. In 2021, Daltrey criticised the rise of woke culture in an interview with Zane Lowe's Apple Music 1 podcast, arguing that younger generations are limiting themselves by stifling and undoing creative freedoms that had emerged through the artistic revolutions of the 1960s. That’s the real big difference between these two bands. But the Stones went on, we started doing stadium gigs in the ’70s and still doing them now. The unusual elements included Daltrey on vocals, John Entwistle on bass. After leaving London's Acton County Grammar School in 1963, he formed a skiffle band called The Detours, then displayed an early genius by putting together unusual elements into a world-class performance. "They did a great gig, and I was there, at Shea stadium. Roger Daltrey is noted as a founder of the legendary rock band The Who.

“So that business started in 1969 and the Beatles never experienced that," he continued. They broke up before that business started, the touring business for real.” “The big difference, though, is and sort of slightly seriously, is that The Rolling Stones is a big concert band in other decades and other areas when The Beatles never even did an arena tour, Madison Square Garden with a decent sound system.

There’s obviously no competition,” he said at the time. The Who were unfortunately forced to cancel their UK arena tour earlier this year due to the pandemic, and Roger says he can’t wait to get back on stage. That remark also didn't faze Jagger, who replied with a cheeky comment of his own. Tickets to Roger Daltrey’s Who Was I UK Tour go on sale at 9am on Friday 10th September 2021. In another interview he declared that "The Beatles were better.” Auch als Solo-Sänger kann er auf einige große Erfolge zurückblicken. That wasn't the first time McCartney's given the Stones a hard time. Roger Daltrey ist eine lebende Rock-Legende und bekannt als Sänger von The Who. Paul McCartney is here, he’s going to help us – he’s going to join us in a blues cover later.” “There’s so many celebrities here tonight,” he said during the set. Macca's words didn't seem to affect Jagger, who actually acknowledged the diss during a concert in Los Angeles. Here are the most recent UK tour dates we had listed for Roger Daltrey. The Who frontman's comments come after Paul McCartney called the Stones "a blues cover band" during a recent interview. "He’s the number one rock ‘n’ roll performer."īut when it came to the band's musicianship, he wasn't so nice: "As a band, if you were outside a pub and you heard that music coming out of a pub some night, you’d think, ‘Well, that’s a mediocre pub band!'” “You’ve got to take your hat off to him," Daltrey said. Roger Daltrey had some choice words when asked about The Who's contemporaries The Rolling Stones during an interview with the Coda Collection.įirst, the singer praised Mick Jagger.
