You’ve been involved with raising awareness and funds for teen cancer research by way of concerts for years now. (The Who song of the same name was also licensed as the podcast’s theme song.)Īnd, as Daltrey tells RS, the Who are plotting a return to live performance next year, which will include several benefits to make up for lost funding.
It premieres on October 5th across all platforms. Undeterred, however, the band has found a new way to give back: The Real Me, a podcast hosted by Daltrey that features teen cancer patients not only talking about their stories but presenting songs they’ve written and performed. Two, which means the band was unable to raise the money they intended to earmark for Teen Cancer America - a foundation Daltrey started with Pete Townshend in 2012 to help teen cancer patients by way of building cancer units in hospitals - and the Teen Cancer Trust in the U.K. It wasn’t owned by some rip-off organization that pays musicians peanuts.”ĭaltrey faced two challenges at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic: One, the Who was forced to cancel the remainder of its 2020 shows. “There was a record market and also a DVD market, so we gave quite a bit of money out of that. “After the Who got back together, we did a couple of shows and gave all the money from the live album to the charity,” Daltrey says. When the Who reunited in the mid-Nineties after a brief sabbatical, Daltrey promised his doctor that he and his band would help him raise awareness (and money) for the fight against teen cancer, something that’s proven hard to do in the digital age. Roger Daltrey takes the collapse of the old-school music business personally.
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