(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME")ĭALTREY: (Singing) Say that you love me and I know that half the battle is won. It can't come from the head, and living goes into the gut, doesn't it? Touch wood, my voice has held up, and it just seems to have a quality today that is in some ways probably the best its ever been. GREENE: Well, I love how you've talked about how singing soul is different once you've accumulated years of experience.ĭALTREY: Well, it - soul comes from the gut. They introduced us all to it, and of course as young, English teenagers growing up, this was magical music.
After the war, we had the GIs over in England. This is all American heritage music that Americans at the time didn't know about.
It's the cover of a song from 1964 called "As Long As I Have You." It's originally by a soul singer named Garnet Mimms, and it's one of a few songs here that Daltrey used to play with Pete Townshend way back when they were in the High Numbers.ĭALTREY: Well, these are the kind of guys we used to idolize, and we used to copy - the Solomon Burkes, the Garnet Mimms, Arthur Alexander. GREENE: This is the title track on Roger Daltrey's new album. Ain't nothing in this world that I can't get as long as I have you. But let me tell you, girl, you ain't seen nothing yet. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "AS LONG AS I HAVE YOU")ĭALTREY: (Singing) I had a lot of battles. And, of course, by him saying that, I just got re-energized and went back into it and here it is. I'll play some guitar that will give you a bit more of maybe what you're looking for. He said, I think I can strip the stuff down. And my management, unbeknown to me, sent the tapes to Pete, who called me up and insisted - he said, Roger, you've got to finish this. And by the time I went back to what I'd recorded prior to The Who going on tour and the illness, I was completely disillusioned with what I heard. But I wouldn't recommend anybody goes out and catches it because it's not pleasant. What do you mean?ĭALTREY: 'Cause I didn't think I would make it, and I came to terms with the end of my life, and that was kind of interesting. GREENE: You got a lot out of the meningitis. GREENE: Yeah, that must have been really scary.ĭALTREY: Yeah, it was kind of scary, but it was also - what can I say? I got a lot out of it. He was out on the road with The Who.ĭALTREY: In the middle of that tour, I got a really bad dose of meningitis. Roger Daltrey had taken a break from recording. GREENE: But the enjoyment of making the record would come to an abrupt end. UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) You ain't done nothing. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOU HAVEN'T DONE NOTHING")ĭALTREY: (Singing) But we are sick and tired of hearing your song telling how you're going to change right from wrong 'cause if you really want to hear our views you haven't done nothing. So - and Pete didn't like the idea, so I'd got the chance to do it now. At that period - yeah, before we were The Who. The idea of doing pre-Townshend stuff was an idea I had for The Who about 10 years ago where Pete was struggling writing a new album, and I said, why don't we do this kind of stuff and call it High Numbers, which was The Who's name.ĭALTREY. INSKEEP: David Greene caught up with Roger Daltrey just last week.ĭALTREY: This is the kind of material we were playing when we were at the Marquee Club and early gigs that we used to do in London around 1964 before Pete Townshend started writing the songs. ROGER DALTREY: (Singing) So I want you to stop 'til you find out what's wrong. At the age of 74, Roger Daltrey is returning to that music for his new solo album, which is called "As Long As I Have You." When they got their start in the mid-'60s, they were covering American soul songs. INSKEEP: That voice belonged to Roger Daltrey. THE WHO: (Singing) Out here in the fields. Rolling Stone magazine wrote (reading) the voice of The Who is one of the most powerful instruments in hard rock.
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