Then he passed out, and then now they’re starting to get worried.” Daltrey remembered him, Heather, and Katherine putting Hendrix to bed and “took his boots off at around 2 a.m.”ĭaltrey then explained the heavily sedated rock legend popped up from a drug induced stupor: “They put the kettle on for a cup of tea and blow me if 10 minutes later he doesn’t appear in the doorway with his boots back on, his hat on all skew-whiff and says, 'Right I’m ready for the interview.' I mean, you can’t make it up.”īy 11 a.m. He recalled Heather telling him it was “obvious that Jimi was taking more and more barbiturates and his speech became slurred. but it gradually slowed down, slowed down until Devon finally fell asleep.” So he quotes one line and she’d quote the other. At my house was my wife-to-be Heather and another girl called Katherine.”ĭaltrey went on to recall, “He and Devon were doing this thing, which gospel singers do, and they were doing it with a call and answer - and they were doing it with Bob Dylan lyrics. I was on tour in Germany, and Jimi and his friend, Devon Wilson, came to my cottage in Berkshire. Taylor and Hendrix had previously been involved with each other, with the guitarist writing “Foxey Lady” about her.ĭuring a chat to BBC Radio and transcribed by American Songwriter, Daltrey spoke about the visit in September 1970: “No one knows about it but myself and about three other people that are still alive. At the time, Hendrix - a labelmate of Daltrey's - and his girlfriend Devon Wilson were staying with the Who frontman and his fiancee Heather Taylor at their home in the English countryside. And sometimes I Was pulling them off.Roger Daltrey revealed that he spent time with Jimi Hendrix only days before his September 18th, 1970 death at age 27. There were challenges going on for me and I was rising to them. “I was finding way of creating new harmonies and textures and new sounds. “It felt to me like I Was discovering things about the guitar that I hadn’t discovered before. Pete said: “I very much enjoyed that process. The ‘Baba O’Riley’ hitmakers “very much enjoyed” the challenge of making the record. “In a sense, the power-pop thing was a recognition, during that time in 67, that the function of the pop song had changed.” They’re going to be more dangerous, possibly.’ And they’re going to be more important and they’re going to be much more emphasised. They’re going to have power and energy and colour and humour. “I think power-pop was just an attempt to say, ‘Listen, pop songs are not going to be about what they’ve been about any more. He told Classic Rock magazine: “I suppose it’s about writing pop songs that have a little more going for them than the usual subject matter.

The band had described the record as “power pop”, which subsequently signified a whole new genre and guitarist Pete Townshend explained they wanted to show pop was more than just throwaway tracks. “So they put an electric fire at the back, and by the end I was literally cooking. They were freezing cold and after sitting in them for an hour my teeth were chattering.

“Unfortunately for me, the beans had been put in cold storage. “I drew the short straw of getting to sit in the baked beans. He recalled: “We’d just come back from Hawaii on the Herman’s Hermits tour. The Who frontman “drew the short straw” when it came to creating the artwork for the group’s 1967 album ‘The Who Sell Out’ – which featured the band posing with giant props for spoof advertisements – and ended up “very sick”. Roger Daltrey contracted pneumonia after sitting in a tub of baked beans for a photoshoot.

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