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Roger has also cultivated a singing career outside of The Who, beginning in 1973 when he found himself on the BBCвЂ™s Top Of The Pops, the UKвЂ™s then premier chart TV show, promoting the single вЂGiving It All AwayвЂ™ which reached number five in the UK charts.

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He has also narrated a series for the History Channel, undergoing extreme hardships similar to those faced by pioneering settlers in America and elsewhere. Other US TV appearances include Lois & Clarke (Superman), Midnight Caller, William Tell, Sliders and Highlander as well as Leprechauns for Celtic Leprechaun Ltd and The Bill, the long running UK TV police drama. вЂ“ which uses Who songs as theme music вЂ“ as five separate, differently made-up characters, one of them a middle-aged African-American woman. Most recently he appeared in the US CBS TV show C.S.I. Other film credits over the years include Ken RussellвЂ™s Lizstomania, the title role in McVicar, Lightning Jack with Paul Hogan, Teen Agent, and numerous roles in TV dramas. This in turn led Roger to develop a concurrent career as a film actor while continuing to sing with The Who.

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In this respect Roger became Tommy, the deaf dumb and blind boy of PeteвЂ™s imagination, and it was therefore only natural that he should assume the role in Ken RussellвЂ™s movie adaptation of the rock opera in 1975, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. On Quadrophenia, PeteвЂ™s second and more ambitious rock opera, Roger was able to bring all his newfound abilities to bear on rockers like вЂ5.15вЂ™ or power balladsВ such as вЂLove Reign OвЂ™er MeвЂ™ which has since become a concert showcase for his outstanding vocals. The Tommy era saw Roger mature enormously as a vocalist, and nowhere was this maturity more evident that on WhoвЂ™s Next, whether on the melodies of the beautiful вЂBehind Blue EyesвЂ™ and вЂThe Song Is OverвЂ™ or, at the other extreme, the torturous scream that climaxes вЂWonвЂ™t Get Fooled AgainвЂ™. At the same time he contributed to the groupвЂ™s sense of showmanship by developing his unique skill at twirling his microphone lead around like a lasso and, by the time of Tommy in 1969, becoming one of rockвЂ™s most iconic sex symbols with his golden curls, bare chest and fringed suede coats. RogerвЂ™s earliest tastes in music ran to the blues and R&B which formed the setlist during their early years as The Detours, as well as Fifties rockвЂ™nвЂ™roll, which is reflected in his outstanding interpretations of such noted Who covers as Eddie CochranвЂ™s вЂSummertime BluesвЂ™ and Johnny Kidd & The PiratesвЂ™ вЂShakinвЂ™ All OverвЂ™.В When Pete Townshend became the groupвЂ™s songwriter, Roger became the mouthpiece forВ his lyrics and ideas. That same energy, coupled with his unwavering resolve, has sustained the group during periods of uncertainty ever since. In those days Roger, whose daytime job was working in a sheet metal factory, even made the bandвЂ™s guitars, and it was his energy and ambition that drove the group during their formative years.

Born in the West London suburb of ShepherdвЂ™s Bush on March 1, 1944, Roger first assembled the group that would become The Who in 1961 while at Acton County Grammar School, recruiting John Entwistle and subsequently agreeing to JohnвЂ™s proposal that Pete Townshend should join. If any one member of The Who can be said to be the groupвЂ™s founding member it is singer Roger Daltrey.