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Roger Daltrey and Robert Plant Launch Teen Cancer Center

The Who vocalist Roger Daltrey is taking action to address a specific “teenage wasteland”: specialized care for adolescents suffering from cancer. Alongside former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, Daltrey held a press conference at UCLA in Los Angeles on Friday to announce the launch of his newly formed foundation, the Daltrey/Townshend Teen & Young Adult Cancer Program, which is focused on expanding the options and resources available to sick teenagers in an environment where people are classified merely as adults or children. Co-founder and The Who bandmate, guitarist Pete Townshend, was unable to attend the press conference due to...  read more

Pete Townshend Back For The Who's Quadrophenia Tour

Though it was announced earlier this year that Pete Townshend would not join Roger Daltrey on his Tommy tour, the guitarist has said that he will play on the 2012 Quadrophenia tour....  read more

The Who's Roger Daltrey Announces Tommy Tour

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has recently announced a tour of North America, where he will perform the band’s groundbreaking rock opera Tommy in its entirety....  read more

Who Frontman Roger Daltrey Hints at Upcoming Rock Band Game

"Music is our last true great freedom," Daltrey says. "They can burn our books, they can burn our paintings, but they can't stop us singing and making music."  read more

Roger Daltrey Gets Ready for His First Solo Tour Since 1985

Roger Daltrey may be getting older, but he has a plan to keep himself singing on stage as long as possible. His "Use it or Lose it" solo tour begins Oct. 10 in Vancouver, a solo venture that the vocalist believes will help keep his voice "in trim," according to The Who's website. ...  read more

The Who's covers album put on hold

The Who was supposed to be working on an album of cover songs with T Bone Burnett, but according to frontman Roger Daltrey, Burnett (who's on the road with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss) is too busy to produce a record just now. ...  read more