How many rock memoirs actually have a meaning?"-The New York Times Book Review Daltrey's peculiar swaggering selflessness is the key to this book, and a key (one of four) to the Who. 'Empathy, that's the root of it all, ' he writes at the end of his book. "A working-class brawler, a delinquent tea boy in a sheet metal factory, discovers within himself the psychic-emotional circuitry to conduct some of the rarest electricity in rock 'n' roll. "Colorful.The curly-haired, microphone-swinging, full-throated frontman of The Who brings a Cockney conversationalism to the story of his life and complicated relationship with his legendary bandmates."- USA TODAY (3.5/4-star review) "Unaffected, lucid, and entertaining: One of the best rock memoirs in recent memory. Named a 'BEST BOOK' OF 2018 by Kirkus & The Guardian This is not just a hilarious and frank account of more than 50 wild years on the road, it is the definitive story of The Who and of the sweeping revolution that was British rock 'n' roll. 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, but also how all those post-war kids redefined the rules of youth. Making his first guitar from factory off-cuts, Roger formed a band that would become The Who, one of the biggest bands on the planet. That could have been where the story ended, as the life of a factory worker beckoned, but then came rock and roll. This is the story of his tempestuous school days and his expulsion, age 15, thanks to his authoritarian headmaster, Mr Kibblewhite. Our generation changed it.' Roger Daltrey is the voice of a generation, and this is his story. You went to school and then you went to work. 'Before the sixties, you were a child and then you were a man.
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