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\"Roger<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n

Sat 25 October 2025 10:06, UK <\/p>\n

What is your favourite song by your favourite band? There\u2019s a good chance that the track you are thinking of is, generally, quite an annoying song for them to perform. That\u2019s certainly what happened to Roger Daltrey<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Often, the songs fans adore the most are those their creators despise most. Ostensibly, playing such songs over and over, hearing fans chant the lyrics into the night and facing the radio the following morning can become rather grating. This was certainly true for Robert Plant\u2019s \u2018Stairway to Heaven\u2019, Thom Yorke\u2019s \u2018Creep\u2019 and Kurt Cobain\u2019s \u2018Smells Like Teen Spirit\u2019. For the quintessential rock singer, Daltrey, a classic song by The Who ran its course many years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the early 1970s, The Who\u2019s guitarist and primary songwriter Pete Townshend abandoned Life House<\/a>, his rock opera follow-up to Tommy. Several songs from the project were ultimately released in the band\u2019s masterpiece 1971 album Who\u2019s Next, including \u2018Baba O\u2019Riley\u2019, \u2018Behind Blue Eyes\u2019 and \u2018Won\u2019t Get Fooled Again\u2019.\u00a0It is often regarded as the band\u2019s greatest effort, and it is certainly packed full of fan favourite tracks. <\/p>\n

Although the band has a vast discography chock-full of iconic hits, Daltrey once admitted that \u2018Won\u2019t Get Fooled Again\u2019 is the only one he\u2019s ever got tired of performing. Considerin daltrey has been on a stage for the majority of his life, one might expect some tracks to get up his nose a little, but you\u2019d also imagine that it wouldn\u2019t be the songs that his fans are most excited to see, and that track is certainly one of them. \u201cThat\u2019s the only song I\u2019m bloody bored shitless with,\u201d he confessed to Rolling Stone in 2018. \u201cI don\u2019t know why, but I\u2019m being honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daltrey has long been the agitator of the band in terms of getting back on the road. It has always seemed, especially in the later years when it was just him and Pete Townshend of the original quartet, that he was the driving force behind any touring. So when he admitted, \u201cAll the others I can approach like I\u2019m singing for the first time,\u201d it was quite a shock. \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening there psychologically. Maybe it\u2019s the song, but I never seem to be in the same pocket where I\u2019m singing it for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Roger<\/a>Roger Daltrey on stage with The Who. (Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n

The iconic vocalist has named one other Who track that he\u2019s not fond of hearing or performing, this time, because of a curse. Appearing on the Howard Stern Show in 2015, Daltrey revealed that the band\u2019s founding drummer, Keith Moon, encountered difficulty when attempting to record \u2018Music Must Change\u2019 for Who Are You in 1978. <\/p>\n

\u201cKeith couldn\u2019t play the drums to it,\u201d Daltrey said. \u201cIt was in a three-four. Keith couldn\u2019t play normal drums. Keith could play great Moon drums, and that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Moon couldn\u2019t conform to \u201cnormal\u201d drumming measures, The Who employed a session drummer to take over. However, Daltrey would come to regret this decision when, on September 7th, 1978, Moon passed away following a drug overdose.\u00a0Naturally, Moon\u2019s bandmates had difficulty coming to terms with the loss. For Daltrey, \u2018Music Must Change\u2019 recalls the humiliation the band put their drummer through when hiring a replacement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1979, The Who returned to the road with Kenny Jones as Moon\u2019s replacement. They would include \u2018Music Must Change\u2019 as part of their live shows for a couple of years but ultimately dropped it from setlists for many years after the tour of \u201881.<\/p>\n

Following two decades of dormancy, The Who decided to bring \u2018Music Must Change\u2019 back into the fold. \u201cWe brought it back in 2002 for the last tour with John Entwistle<\/a>, and we rehearsed it,\u201d Daltrey told Stern. \u201cWe were going to do it in the show, then John died.\u201d <\/p>\n

The founding bassist, Entwistle, died in Nevada in 2002, aged 57, the night before The Who were scheduled to play the first concert of their US tour. With its connection to the deaths of both Moon and Entwistle, Daltrey regards \u2018Music Must Change\u2019 as a cursed track and avoids singing or listening to it at all costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only right that these personal feelings should intertwine with the performance of the tracks, and it is totally expected that he wouldn\u2019t want to perform them. But, considering just how professional Daltrey has always been as a singer, it is still somewhat surprising that two of the band\u2019s tracks would be so staunchly hated. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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