The 82-year-old is best known for being the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band The Who, known for his powerful voice and charismatic stage presence.
His stage persona has seen him dubbed one of the “gods of rock and roll” and one of the greatest singers of all time.
But outside of that, he has a love for Sussex, having lived here for more than 50 years.
Roger Daltrey’s quiet life in the Sussex countryside
Roger Daltrey was in East Acton, London, during a Second World War bombing raid.
He went to Victoria Primary School and Acton County Grammar School in West London, which was the same school that future fellow bandmates Pete Townshend and John Entwistle attended.
Daltrey made his first guitar himself in 1957 and later joined a skiffle group called the Detours, who needed a lead vocalist, and produced it when they told him to bring a guitar.
His father bought him an Epiphone guitar in 1959, and he became the band’s lead guitarist.
In 1964, they discovered that another band was performing as the Detours, and discussed changing their name, with The Who eventually chosen.
He has been married twice, first to Jacqueline Rickman from 1964 to 1968, and then to Heather Taylor from 1971.
It was in the early 1970s that Daltrey bought a farm at Holmshurst Manor, a Jacobean country house near Burwash in East Sussex.
In 1981, he opened a trout farm, Lakedown Trout Fishery, designing its four spring-fed lakes himself, and the business is now run by his son Jamie.
Sir Roger Daltrey at his trout lake in Sussex in 1983 (Image: Nigel Holland)
Speaking to Sussex Life, Roger recalled when he and Heather first set eyes on Holmshurst.
He said: “The hallway was black as pitch, there was damp, the kitchen was terrible.
“Then we walked up to the front room and I saw the view.
“The house is on a hill looking across the valleys and villages of the High Weald of East Sussex.
“You can see for miles and miles and miles and miles.
“I stood open-mouthed and knew I had to live there.
“We moved into the place that would be our home for the rest of our lives on June 26, 1971.
“Holmshurst is a very special house and it grounded me.
“It was built for a Quaker.
“There’s nothing fancy about it. It’s a simple, functional place which suits me.”
He explained that it took him ten years to decorate the property, including painting, scrubbing and digging, enlisting the help of Herbert, the son of the publican who ran the local, The Kicking Donkey, to help restore the lake.
Roger Daltrey was knighted for his services to music and charity (Image: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)
He added: “I ended up with four interconnected lakes and could invite all my old workmates from the sheet metal factory to come fishing.
“They would sit there by the water and tell me it was criminal, Rog, to keep all this to yourself.
“And of course they were right.
“So I opened Lakedown Trout Fishery to the public and met lots of people who were more interested in fish than rock star Roger.”
Roger went on to say that nature is now a sanctuary for him, having spent his early childhood living with his parents, younger sisters, uncle, aunt and cousins in rented rooms in Shepherd’s Bush, west London.
He continued: “I love walking on the Sussex Weald and I like the ruggedness, the reality about East Sussex.
“It’s rough round the edges, a rough diamond.
“Some of the architecture in St Leonards and Hastings is to die for.
“How it’s not protected I don’t know.
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