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As sublime as some of the albums they produced were during their heyday, the past merits of The Who<\/a> have somewhat been tarnished by the constant bickering between Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend in recent years.<\/p>\n This petulant and argumentative side to the two principal figures of the band that has appeared of late might make it seem like they were simply only going in for one final reunion for the immense paycheque at the end of it, or simply because they wanted to pay service to their fans and though they could get over the fact that they weren\u2019t on the best of terms. On the other hand, it could simply be two crotchety old blokes going head to head with one another in a battle of the egos, you decide. <\/p>\n However, it can\u2019t possibly have all stemmed from nothing, and there must have been an origin to all of their highly publicised disputes, even though from the outside, the prolific nature of the band and their constant ability to exceed expectations might have made the inner dynamics of the group seem much more harmonious.<\/p>\n The feuds between Daltrey and Townshend<\/a> are definitely not a new thing, as they were at each other\u2019s throats for the entirety of one of their biggest tours together, and despite the immense nature of the spectacle they were putting on, Daltrey claimed to hate every moment of it.<\/p>\n In a 2024 interview with Musoscribe, Daltrey was asked about the disastrous start to the 1973 tour in support of Quadrophenia, where the high-concept nature of the album with its detailed narrative arc proved to be tough to translate to the audience without any form of visual representation. While the band would, of course, end up giving away the rights to director Frank Roddam to make a film adaptation of the storyline in 1979, they couldn\u2019t get it right on stage initially.<\/p>\n During the first shows of the tour, the band found themselves pausing to explain the ongoing narrative between songs, which Daltrey confessed \u201cdid in [his] head,\u201d while also comparing the situation to \u201cbeing on a school bus with a broken clutch.\u201d<\/p>\n Much to Daltrey\u2019s frustration, this carried on for a number of shows, but it was eventually resolved through a number of tweaks, such as having an actor portray the protagonist of Jimmy and having it on a screen behind the band, and with Daltrey re-writing the dialogue, which he couldn\u2019t help but dig at Townshend over. <\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n \u201cPete\u2019s dialogue is a bit like his books,\u201d he said. \u201cA little overblown.\u201d<\/p>\n
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