Roger Daltrey: New Solo Album " As Long As I Have You"

Roger Daltrey has a new solo album coming up. As Long As I Have You is a mix of original songs (Certified Rose Always Heading Home) and a bunch of covers, including Nick Cave’s Into My Arms and Stephen Stills’ How Far. The title track was recorded by Garnet Mimms in 1964. Pete Townshend plays guitar in the album.

This is a return to the very beginning, to the time before Pete started writing our songs, to a time when we were a teenage band playing soul music to small crowds in church halls. That’s what we were, a soul band. And now, I can sing soul with all the experience you need to sing it. Life puts the soul in. I’ve always sung from the heart but when you’re 19, you haven’t had the life experience with all its emotional trials and traumas that you have by the time you get to my age. You carry all the emotional bruises of life and when you sing these songs, those emotions are in your voice. You feel the pain of a lost love. You feel it and you sing it and that’s soul. For a long time, I’ve wanted to return to the simplicity of these songs, to show people my voice, a voice they won’t have heard before. It felt like the right time. It’s where I am, looking back to that time, looking across all those years but also being here, now, in the soulful moment

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