See the latest living members of the WHO now, at 78 and 77
Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey always perform live.
As the last surviving members of the WHO,Pete Townshend andRoger DalTrey easily qualify asLiving legends- Two veterans of one of the most influential rock groups of all time, credited with all helppopularize the synthesizer toDevelopment of Rock Opera. Although they still perform together as the UNS almost 60 years after the group training (despite a break again which extended from 1983 to 1999), the quarries of Townshend and Daltrey also have them carried on their own individual paths. Continue to read to learn what they are doing since the 70s of the 70s of the group, both separately and together.
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DalTrey has had a successful solo career.
While he was still a member of the WHO, DalTrey launched his own solo career in the early 1970s, starting with the albumDaltrey In 1973. During the following decades, he continued to record independently even on tour with his longtime group, released his ninth album,As long as I, in 2018.
Although his solo work has never reached advanced sales or the critical success of his work with WHO ("[B] there would be another stupid concept album, and that is Always ", the critic Robert Cristgauwrote on a daltrey make an effortCream Magazine), the singer has successfully filmed as a solo artist for years, playing alongsideEddie Vedder,,Eric Clapton, and Pete Townshend's brotherSimon.
DalTrey also worked as an actor.
Start with a turning point at the Golden Globe nominated as a title character in the 1975 film adaptation of the album Who's ConceptTommy, DalTrey launched an acting career prolific to accompany his work as rock star. The same year, he appeared in the directorKen Russell Surrealist biopicLisztomaniaAnd follow -up with roles in the 1978 horror filmInheritance And the film for childrenPirates.
On television, he appeared in various TV movies, specials and series, in particular by playing himself in an adaptation of thePhilip Pullman novelHow to be cool, as well as episodes ofCrypt tales,,Laws and Clark, andCursors. In recent years, he has played on the guestThis 70s show,,The powerful boosh,,CSI, andOnce upon a time.
Townshend also released his own music.
Townshend also enjoyed a fruitful solo career, starting with the 1972 releaseWho came first. A subsequent solo album, 1980Empty glass, produced his most famous solo work, the single of the top 10, "Let My Love open the door". He remained active in the decades to follow, releasing more solo work, briefly forming a supergroup with guitarist Pink FloydDavid Gilmour, write and direct an adaptation to Broadway fromTommyand even co-protect the animated filmThe iron giant.
Townshend wrote a novel.
In November 2019, Townshend's first novelAnxiety age was published before a production based on it which he described as a "Opera Art Installation"In addition to his last solo work. With at least the first part of his Magnum opus away, it seems that he may have started to slow down a little. In 2021, he would haveSold the wick, his 26 -year -old London house, and scalded in greener pastures.
"[M] married there and I havecampaign," he saidRolling stoneEarlier this year. "We walk every day. We have much more, I suppose, every day, the lifestyle of the countryside."
They are still on tour.
However, the two septuagenarians have not slowed down much. In April, they embarked on a North American tour called "The Who Hits Back!" It will last until November. The two remaining members are supported by an orchestra while they play classics from albums likeQuadrophène andTommy, as well as songs from their 2019 album,Who- This despite DalTrey revealing that years of concert of noisy rock concerts have left him "Very, very deaf. ""
The couple hopes to do their turn through the United Kingdom in 2023 as they compensate for a tour in 2019 which was disrupted when DalTrey experienced a vocal problem and then delayed by the Pandemic COVID-19.
"[I] are not a farewell tour," said TownshendRolling stone. "Apart from anything else, we always have people who have tickets for the 2019 UK tour. We are very, very eager to do this tour and we will do this tour in 2023, I think. But I speak Tins that I don't really know. I don't have a guarantee, like everyone. I don't really know what's going to happen next month. "AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
DalTrey is also still on a solo tour, playing shows in the United Kingdom throughout the summer of 2022 as part of its reprogrammed "Live and Kicking" tour.
In 2021, Townshend suggested that there could even be another album who in the future, suggesting "there are pages and pages of Draft lyrics"become a record If it has a financial meaning, according toThe mirror.
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They founded a charity against cancer.
Since 2002, all products for the sale of live albums in WHOBis The series went to support various charitable organizations at the service of young people. DalTrey helped found theAdolescent cancer trust Series of concerts, during which the WHO has played several times over the years; The effort has collected more than 20 million pounds sterling to improve the care and treatment of patients with adolescent cancer in the United Kingdom.
In 2011, Daltrey and Townshend founded the DalTrey / Townshend Teen and Young Cancer Program program together togetherUCLA medical center. DalTrey also joined forces with colleagues singersJulie Andrews andSteven Tyler To provide funding for research onVocal cord repair For cancer patients.
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