![]() ![]() Kibblewhite: My Story” (Henry Holt) – a horribly titled but entertaining and revealing read - Roger Daltrey gives his version of the story of the rock band, the Who, territory that his bandmate and on-again, off-again friend and collaborator, Pete Townshend, already reviewed in his own chronicle, “Who I Am.” Like Townshend, Daltrey pays tribute to the group’s early Jewish managers and to the Mod fashions the group adopted, created by tailors in Jewish East London He also recounts paths crossed with two of the most notorious Jewish gangsters of all time, and the surprise of learning that he had a Jewish daughter.īorn and raised in the rough, working-class neighborhoods of heavily-bombed Acton and Shepherd’s Bush, Daltrey, like so many other British would-be rockers of his generation, got bitten by the rock ‘n’ roll bug as a young teenager, when the sounds of Elvis Presley and Bill Haley first entered England’s dreaming. We can turn it into a fundraiser for Teen Cancer America.ĭaltrey: I’d love to do it, love to do it. If you ever want to come down, I’ll take you out at 170 mph. Sir Jackie Stewart gave me some tips - ”keep the car balanced, keep the car balanced” - and I enjoyed it very much.Ĭlash: I take people around the Daytona speedway for the NASCAR Racing Experience. I also went out in a detuned Formula One car, around a Lotus track. Mind you, it was only us two on the track, but he was too slow. I overtook the pace car, which upset them a bit. I’ve also been around the Atlanta speedway in a stock car. Everywhere we went, it was foot to the floor. ![]() We had Aston Martins, E types, Ferraris. They had just started laying out motorways, and there was almost no traffic. In the early 1960s, there was no speed limit in England. Needless to say, you want to puke at the time. What can I say? I couldn’t believe I was doing it. Brian Cleary LAT Photo USAĭaltrey: Mario is one cool dude. Andretti gave Daltrey a thrill ride around the track there in a 2-seat Indy car. Racing legend Mario Andretti and The Who frontman Roger Daltrey, at the Long Beach Grand Prix, April. Worry doesn’t really produce anything anyway.Ĭlash: I know that you took a thrill ride in a two-seat lndy car with Mario Andretti at the Long Beach Grand Prix a few years back. You know what I’m saying? It’s basically beyond my comprehension. Your physical being will change, but some part of you can never leave, even if it’s just dust floating about in Nebula 1115XBXYZZ. The universe will remain constant, and you move on. But when they go off to market, I’m aware of where they’re going. In my will, it should say to put me in a paper bag and take me down to the dump. Then I’ll ask you, What do you want your epitaph to be?ĭaltrey: “Gone”. But I lived in the ignorance of it - we all do when we’re young.Ĭlash: So you’re not afraid of death. The pain never left them, I do know that. How my parents got through the war, losing brothers and sisters, I don’t know. That really terrifies me, that they’ll have to go through a terrible time. They are the most important thing in my life. Things that really frighten me are what might hurt my family. I’m not afraid of death, that’s for sure. And like attracts like, there’s no doubt about that.Ĭlash: How do you deal with fear, and what are you afraid of?ĭaltrey: I’m afraid of the things that everybody else is. In the back of your head, if you think lucky, be lucky, it’s incredibly positive. You can either be someone who has a negative outlook on life, or someone who has a positive one. There was this North London saying that, when you used to go into a bank to rob it, be lucky, get away with it. It’s actually a saying I got from a friend, John McVicar, when I acted in a film about his life. ![]() Are you a lucky guy?ĭaltrey: I do believe in that. ![]() Clash: You always put the words “be lucky” at the end of your e-mails. ![]()
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