After Colin Dawson left the band, Daltrey switched to vocals and played harmonica as well, while Townshend became the lead guitarist. At that time, the band consisted of Daltrey on lead guitar, Pete Townshend on rhythm guitar, John Entwistle on bass, Doug Sandom on drums and Colin Dawson on lead vocals. He invited schoolmate John Entwistle to play bass in the band, and on the advice of Entwistle, invited Pete Townshend to play guitar. Was it simply rock 'n' roll? It was obvious to a young man as intelligent as Roger that there was no future in conforming any more." ĭaltrey became a sheet metal worker during the day, while practising and performing nights with the band at weddings, pubs and working men's clubs. Describing the post-war times, Pete Townshend wrote in his autobiography, "Until he was expelled Roger had been a good pupil." "Then he heard Elvis and transmogrified into a Teddy Boy with an electric guitar and a dress-sneer. When his father bought him an Epiphone guitar in 1959, he became the lead guitarist for the band and soon afterwards was expelled from school for smoking. They told him he had to bring a guitar, and within a few weeks he showed up with it, and he could play it too. He made his first guitar from a block of wood, a cherry red Strat copy, and joined an existing skiffle band called the Detours in need of a lead singer. His parents hoped he would eventually continue on to study at university, but Daltrey turned out to be a self-described "school rebel" and developed a dedicated interest in the emerging rock and roll music scene instead.
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He showed academic promise in the English state school system, ranking at the top of his class on the eleven plus examination that led to his enrolment at the Acton County Grammar School. He was one of three children born to parents Irene and Harry Daltrey, and grew up with two sisters, Gillian and Carol.ĭaltrey attended Victoria Primary School and then Acton County Grammar School for Boys along with Pete Townshend and John Entwistle.
Roger Harry Daltrey was born in the Hammersmith area of London, but was brought up in Acton, the same working class suburban district that produced fellow Who members Pete Townshend and John Entwistle.
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