Roger Daltrey: Who Am I?
Chris Welch, Creem, March 1986
TWO YEARS AFTER the final agonizing bust-up of the Who Roger Daltrey can no longer stand premature rock burial. Daltrey never wanted the group to break up, but bowed to Pete Townshend's wishes, after his old sparring partner went through mind-wrecking personal crises.
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