Posted on 12/13/2025 7:49:32 AM PST by DoodleBob
The Who's Roger Daltrey has been knighted for his services to charity and to music. The 81-year-old singer received his honour from the Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle yesterday (December 10) and told the Press Association that he considered the award to be "an incredible honour".
"I was born in the Second World War and grew up in the streets in London," he said, "for a kid like me, achieving this, it's a dream.”
Daltrey was responsible for launching and curating the Teenage Cancer Trust's annual week of charity benefit shows at London's Royal Albert Hall: the initiative has raised more than £34 million for charity over the past 25 years, and the singer has described his stewardship of the long-running concert season as "an incredible ride."
Reflecting on his honour, Daltrey says, "For me, it's a double honour because I'm getting it for my work with Teenage Cancer Trust. So personally it's wonderful. But for Teenage Cancer Trust, I'm accepting it on behalf of all those people who may never get an honour and without whom we never would have made the success we have made of our charity. It's important to me that I make them realise they are really appreciated."
(Excerpt) Read more at loudersound.com ...
It appears that as the hair disappears off the top of the head, more is grown at the bottom of the head. A restoration of balance? Look at me, I’m still alive! Very understandable. The ravages of age...that kind of thing...
It’s not just that he’s unshaven. He looks gaunt as if ill. At 81, Roger Daltrey looks in better health.
The Who Sell Out... again.
but, as yanks we have no idea what it’s like to be born and grow up with all that brainwashing about the importance of the crown.
Bowie turned down CBE and knighthood. Now there was a real artist.
Well done Roger, and a big thank you to Mr. Kibblewhite.
Daltrey is 81 and keeps talking about his, his, his, his, his ge-ge-generation.
Daltry was a real trouble-maker in that business as he REFUSED to do drugs.
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Yes, but I don't know how that relates.
Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon bought a hearse. The Queen ordered it to be towed because it reminded her of the one that carried her husband.
As the story at the link reported, the impound fee was more than 8x what they paid for it. In effect, it was stolen from them (deprivation of use of property).
He sure played a mean pinball!
Call him Lightning…uh, Sir Lightning, that is.
"Off with 'is head, bloody old faht!" **SNIKT!**
So sexy! And provided background music of my youth.
You are referring to the previous Queen, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother of Elizabeth 2, correct?
That was a great book.
Sir Mick Jagger (2003): For services to rock music (Rolling Stones).
Somehow I can’t see Sir Keith Richards happening.
Are you joking? What an athlete, in his mid-forties! Here he was playing volleyball in Brazil a couple of months ago:
Keith Richards: “A damn knighthood? I wouldn’t let that family near me with a sharp stick never mind a sword!”
Yeah, it was the Queen Mother who had their hearse towed.
Not much more than a tradition of pop culture. The monarchy is nothing but a tourist attraction for England.
His father and his wife just went through two years of cancer treatments and his brother can’t stop acting a fool, so he may have lost a little weight, but that’s about it. Unless you actually know something, quit the “crepe hanging”, okay? :-)
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