The father of an 11-year-old girl who is crossing her fingers for a Daltrey rendition of “Behind Blue Eyes” - which the Who singer said is often mistaken for a Limp Bizkit original - Gaines also noticed a man in his 80s scooping up tickets. Since Roger’s concert will benefit teen cancer research, we felt that this was also a meaningful link between Ray and Roger.” “Also, I believe Ray’s death resulted after a long battle with cancer. “We felt that Roger taking the date might be a way to pay homage to Ray,” Gaines said. When the 74-year-old passed away in May, OC Fair entertainment director Dan Gaines immediately honed in on his friend, Daltrey. Originally, Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek was scheduled to take the stage. Having forayed into the UCLA Medical Center, Daltrey is now looking to help other Southern California hospitals with oncology services for youths. In Costa Mesa, $1 from each ticket sold will be donated to the Who Cares Foundation, which funds Teen Cancer America’s efforts. “This isn’t a cupboard in a side hallway - there’s MTV,” he noted. Add a cancer diagnosis to the mix and they go entirely inward, which he deemed “horrendous.” The teenage wings are a step up for many who have undergone treatment under the old system.Ī believer that the best therapist for a teenager is another teenager, Daltrey, 69, recounted conversations with parents whose offspring struggled to express themselves. Such facilities are met with enthusiasm by medical personnel and ailing adolescents, Teen Cancer America chair Rebecca Rothstein remarked. In the past 25 years, the England-based Teen Cancer Trust has relied on the help of Daltrey and bandmate Pete Townshend, establishing more than two dozen wards - similar to dormitories - that create a venue for similarly stricken young patients to be in each other’s company. Late diagnoses and isolation make it worse.
Cautioning that he could discuss this topic for hours, Daltrey noted that one in every 360 boys and 420 girls is diagnosed with rare, aggressive strains of cancer.
ROGER DALTREY KIDS PROFESSIONAL
What he calls the “cheaper end of care” is pegged to the construction of hospital units with professional services, specialized nursing and a teenage-friendly environment.
His goal is to highlight this demographic, which is otherwise erroneously swept into the categories of children or adults, he said. It’s my aim to change that.”ĭaltrey is leading from the front, hoping that American bands will put their strength behind this initiative for adolescents ages 13 to 23. “They get very different diseases, react very differently, need more psychological help and very little is done. “It’s just an anathema to me that, in this day and age, people in the medical community haven’t come to terms that teenagers are very different from children and adults,” he said, frustration rippling through his voice. He spent a decade prior to that laying the groundwork in the United States. The charity in question is Teen Cancer America, Daltrey’s pet project for the past two years. “For a charity, I’ll play anywhere,” he responded. What about the OC Fair urged him to sign up, then? Fairs are a strange sort of fun because you can never be sure what you’re going to get, Daltrey admitted. Hardcore fans tend to flock to theaters and arenas, regardless of whether it’s a solo program or a tour by the Who. The details escape him, he said - it’s been so long. Saturday’s concert at the Pacific Amphitheatre will be his second such gig in a career spanning 50 years. This is the story of My Generation, Tommy and Quadrophenia, of smashed guitars, exploding drums, cars in swimming pools, fights, arrests and redecorated hotel rooms.Roger Daltrey doesn’t perform at fairs. The band became The Who - Maximum R&B - and, by luck and by sheer bloody-mindedness, Roger Daltrey became the frontman of one of the biggest rock bands on the planet. He made his first guitar from factory off-cuts. The life of a factory worker beckoned.īut then came rock and roll. Thanks to Mr Kibblewhite, his authoritarian headmaster, it could all have ended there. This is the story from his birth at the height of the Blitz, through tempestuous school days to his expulsion, age 15, for various crimes and misdemeanours within a strict school system.
That generation was the first to rebel, to step out of the shadows of the Second World War. Roger Daltrey is the voice of a generation.
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