The Who singer Roger Daltrey going deaf and blind at 81: ‘The joys of getting old’

New York Post ^ | 3/31/25 | Connor Surmonte

[Round Earther]

Roger Daltrey of the rock band The Who has revealed that he is slowly going deaf and blind after turning 81 on March 1.

“The joys of getting old mean you go deaf. I also now have got the joy of going blind,” Daltrey told the crowd at London’s Royal Albert Hall during a concert on Thursday, March 27, per Sky News.

[Round Earther]

But he sure plays a mean pinball.

[Olog-hai]

He’s turning into Tommy all right. Plays by sense of smell . . .

[Paladin2]

Deeply consider the alternative.

[Round Earther]

He hoped he died before he got old.

[T.B. Yoits]

[FlipWilson]

Evidently he is playing by intuition now.

[metmom]

A certain degree of hearing and vision loss seems to be normal for most everyone over 70, based on the number of older folks I have talked to.

[Jeff Chandler]

He was talking about his generation.

[doorgunner69]

Several years behind him and I too am going deaf.. Not blind at all thank God. Going deaf is a PITA, being blind would be a disaster.

[Allegra]

How do you think he does it?

[38special]

I don’t know

[gundog]

I don’t know....

[762X51]

He won’t get fooled again.

[gundog]

[HerrBlucher]

I completely understand why he is going deaf, decades of rock and roll will do that. But the article did not say why he is going blind? Macular degeneration? Diabetes?

[Nervous Tick]

The exodus is here
The happy ones are near —
let’s get together, before we get much older

Old age wasteland,
it’s only old age wasteland...
THEY’RE ALL WASTED!

[Larry Lucido]

Ah, but is he going dumb too?

[lee martell]

Memory. The chronologic memory of all those touring/ recording years, plus the Muscle memory of those moments where emphasis and intonation are expected. He’s telling the familiar story and acting it out.

[bankwalker]

don’t hear no buzzers or bells ...

[Fuzz]

Me too.