The Who
singer Roger Daltrey has attacked the modern music industry for being too
money-driven, saying artists do not have enough anger.
The
singer, 71, sold more than 100 million records with his band, who will start
their last world tour at the end of the month. He told the Standard: “The music
business … it’s been stolen. Nobody wants to put in any money on nurturing
artists - if you don’t have the first hit, ‘Goodbye!’ In our days, people wanted to take chances
and we were allowed to. The artists ran the business. Now, business runs the
artists. You get accountants and lawyers basically deciding who’s going to make
it and who’s not.”
He said
“unexpected” stars do crop up, such as Royal Blood, and “it won’t be long until
we have another Sex Pistols”. But he added: “There’s not enough anger out there
in the music. And there’s not a lot of contemplation in the lyrics, it’s all
very sweet ... But that’s the iPhone generation.”
He said
The Who would not hit the road again after their Hits 50! Tour: “We will always
do shows for charity, when we can, because it’s of enormous value to people and
Pete [Townshend] and I love to play. But we won’t do long, schlepping tours.
It’s killing us.”
Daltrey
was speaking as he helped launch Into Sport, a National Lottery-funded
partnership including Inclusion London, Interactive and Southwark Disablement
Association, that aims to help disabled people into sport in Southwark. Daltrey
was inspired to help after a Who road manager was injured.
He said:
“He was in a wheelchair from 1965. So I’ve always been aware of how hard it is
for people who are disabled. You talk to people and they say, ‘The world don’t
care about us.’ Well that’s not true - the world does care.”
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