Re: Roger Daltrey - European Hero

["Helen" <elbo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good man Roger, hurrah.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cady" <brianinatlanta2001@yahoo.com>
To: "oddsandsods" <oddsandsods@thewho.net>; <thewho@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:12 PM
Subject: Roger Daltrey - European Hero


> Time Europe's Monday issue salutes European Heroes as
> its cover story.
> From the Time Europe website at:
> http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero/daltrey.html
>
> Roger Daltrey, Britain
> The Kids Are Alright
>
> Walking through the Royal Albert Hall's backstage
> corridors, Roger Daltrey  front man for mod/rock
> legends The Who for the past 40 years  bumps into
> Oasis front man Liam Gallagher emerging from his
> dressing room.
>
> The stars embrace like old mates. "We were short of a
> support act tonight so that lot [Oasis] have pulled
> themselves together  now I've got to support them,"
> Daltrey explains.
>
> For the last three years Daltrey, who lost a young
> sister to cancer in the late '70s, has been calling on
> all the mates he can muster to stage an annual series
> of benefits for the Teenage Cancer Trust, an
> organization he has been involved with since his
> doctor founded it in 1991. This year an ambitious run
> of six nights saw acts as diverse as Coldplay, Eric
> Clapton and Madness turn up and raise the roof  few
> refuse when Daltrey beckons.
>
> The proceeds from the gigs are used to build dedicated
> hospital units for the specific needs of teenage
> cancer sufferers, which the Trust says produce a 15%
> better chance of recovery over general cancer wards.
> "That is for no medical input at all," says Daltrey.
> "It's purely psychological support in being in an
> environment that doesn't feel like a hospital, around
> people of your own age."
>
> This June in Liverpool, he will open the eighth such
> unit, built with money raised at the 2000 concerts.
> His motive is simple; he may be 59, but the man who
> sang the ultimate teen anthem hopes people won't die
> before they get old.
>
>
> =====
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