And I used to basically herd them around. Pete was an alcoholic, John was an alcoholic, they were all doing speed, every kind of drug you can imagine. He explains: “I would have been dead very young if I’d been doing those drugs. Guitarist, singer and songwriter Pete Townsend has been in and out of rehab battling alcohol addiction.Īnd in 2002, the night before the band were about to start a tour of the USA, bass player John Entwistle died at 57 of a cocaine-induced heart attack.ĭuring all those year Roger purposefully stayed away from hard drugs – and in doing so he became the glue that kept the band together. He regularly passed out on stage after downing cocktails of drugs. The Who’s wildman drummer died at 32 in 1978 after overdosing on the sedatives he was taking to get over his alcohol addiction. This recurring reliance on sleeping pills makes the death of his bandmate Keith Moon – killed by a similar drug – weigh even more heavily on his mind.
“All the time I get to points where I have to stop taking the pills. Get to middle age, sleep gets harder and harder. “When I want to get off them I do, but the trouble with singing is if you don’t sleep, you don’t sing. Roger, though he looks years younger than his 71 years, admits: “I’ve had a few problems with prescription drugs. But he knows more than anyone that he can’t rely on them all the time. And so for decades Roger has turned to sleeping pills. The Who’s front man Roger Daltrey collapses on to his bed, exhausted from performing to another sell-out audience.ĭespite a life on the road lasting 54 years, sleep never comes easily.
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