Tuesday, April 3rd, 1973

The Daily Mirror carried an article entitled "Barn Stormer - With a New Pure Sound"

 

Transcript:

 

BARN STORMER — WITH A NEW PURE SOUND

ROGER: the voice that grew up—rich.

ONCE Roger Daltrey's life was so noisy he used to hit his head against the wall for a bit of relief.

Then he joined The Who pop group where the noise, though loud, was to his liking.

Now the London lad, who has been belting out rock 'n' roll songs with the loudest band in the land for nigh on nine years, has decided it's time to tone down.

He has settled down in a huge Elizabethan manor surrounded by thirty-five acres of peace and quiet—and has made himself an album.

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TUESDAY SCENE

by DEBORAH THOMAS

It is his first solo effort on record, most of which was made in his barn. It's warm and dry in there.

The sheer energy built up through his rock 'n' roll days has been honed down into something finer, stronger and with more depth.

Roger doesn't just open his mouth and sing, he plays his voice like a glass violin. "It's grown up," he says—as though he and his throat have separate lives.

The new album is called "Daltrey" with a single taken from it called "Giving It All Away."

Roger, 28, is delighted he sounds so different from The Who, but he is not leaving the group.

"I don't want to take away from the 'Oo I'm trying to add to it," he tells me.

Above, on the lawn, his wife, Heather bounces Rosie on her knee.

Rosie is Roger's six-month-old blue-eyed darling.

He has named her not after a flower but after the second love of his life—a cup of Rosie Lea.

The only sound to be heard at the pop star's country retreat is the sound of Rosie gurgling.

Now that Roger Daltrey has grown up and grown rich he is determined he will never again have to bash his head against the wall.