While Daltrey had planned to tour the U.S. The Who revealed a gargantuan 112-track deluxe edition package of The Who Sell Out this past April. He and Taylor celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 19. If Townshend is correct, then Daltrey's vigilance paid off. I think Heather is the redhead he wrote 'Foxey Lady' about, so I think there was some intrigue going on there.” I think it had something to do with him being concerned about Jimi Hendrix stealing his girlfriend. He used to enjoy being in the studio, and suddenly he was gone… I was finishing the songs as I was finishing the vocals, imagining that Roger would come in and replace mine. I don’t know whether or not this is turning into sort of silly gossip, but I think wasn’t around as much as he would normally be. “And at that time Roger’s girlfriend, Heather, who became his wife, had been seeing Jimi. “Jimi Hendrix was using the studio on the days that we weren’t in there,” Townshend recalled. Townshend conceded that he'd never spoken to Daltrey about what happened, but he added that Daltrey's absences were the reason he handled vocals on so many tracks on The Who Sell Out, including "Odorono," "Our Love Was," "Sunrise" and "Can't Reach You." The Who's Pete Townshend outed his longtime partner's crisis of confidence in a recent conversation with Classic Rock magazine. But then he was the band member whose brain was never addled by long-term cocaine use or week-long benders.Roger Daltrey missed a number of sessions for The Who's third album, The Who Sell Out, to keep an eye on his girlfriend - now wife - whom he feared was being seduced by Jimi Hendrix. He wasn’t the one who drove a Cadillac into a swimming pool (that was Moon) or smashed up instruments (Townshend and Moon), or demolished hotel rooms to such an extent that the band was banned from many during their heyday. “Somebody had to be the sensible one,” he says now. “I was the straight one with three addicts in the band. I knew I had a sound in me which could move people.” I could have very easily gone off the rails too but the most important thing in my life was to be a singer. He details all the excesses - from the high points of hits including My Generation and rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia, to the lows, the deaths of Moon and Entwistle - in his memoir, Thanks A Lot Mr Kibblewhite: My Story (named after his old grammar school teacher who said he’d never amount to anything). Off stage, Daltrey would distance himself from his drug-ravaged bandmates, he recalls. “In the Seventies, quite often I’d stay in different hotels because we got thrown out of so many. We used to do three-hour shows at enormous volume. The last thing I wanted to do was to let the audience down.” So if you didn’t sleep that night and you had a show the next day, your voice wouldn’t recover for the next show. He may not have been a drug addict, but he was a sex symbol. He had left his first wife Jackie and their son Simon to pursue a rock career, and when he married American model Heather in 1971, she knew the score, he says. “If it was going to last, it had to be a marriage with no issues because of the business I was in,” he writes. And we were away on tour for five, six months at a time as one of the biggest rock bands in the world.” “Life on the road, month after month, can be a very lonely place without company. He admits that to come home and tell her he’d been a good boy would have been a lie. “Sexual infidelity should never be a reason for divorce,” he writes. “For a man, it’s mostly just a shag, unless you fall in love.” He and Heather, with whom he has three children, have been together for nearly 50 years. “I’m starting to like her and I’m thinking of not kicking her out,” he laughs. She understood me and knew the business I was in, and accepted me for my honesty at the beginning, and it worked. We never let those silly things that usually break marriages up break ours up.
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