"Watching Them Kick My Kid"

["Scott Schrade" <schrade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Repost from the Relayers:

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DALTREY ON TOWNSHEND AFFAIR: 'LIKE WATCHING THEM KICK MY KID'
Roger Daltrey admits he's angry over media leaks from "areas of 
authority who should have known better" in the U.K. child porn scandal 
involving his longtime The Who bandmate Pete Townshend.

"It was like watching them kick my kid," says Daltrey. "There were half 
truths and things said that weren't true at all that stoked the flames. 
And I saw Pete on one side telling the whole truth, and this going on on 
the other side."

The legendary singer, who will be inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall 
of Fame in the gala Music Matters benefit at the Bowl tomorrow night 
(6/27), tells us he and Townshend plan to record a new album together in 
October. Townshend's been writing new songs, he reveals. They're getting 
set for a string of concerts in Britain and Europe in the fall as well.

Things are getting back to normal for Townshend, who was arrested in 
January for accessing a child pornography Internet site -- and said he 
was doing research for his planned autobiography, which would deal with 
the sexual abuse he says he suffered as a child. He was cleared of 
criminal charges, but was formally cautioned by British authorities last 
month and placed on a register of sex offenders.

"He discussed (the autobiography) with me three years ago," says 
Daltrey. "His ideals were completely innocent. If I'd thought for one 
millisecond that what he was being accused of was true, I'd never have 
stood up for him."

Daltrey's association with the Hollywood Bowl goes back to 1966 -- when 
The Who performed and the late Keith Moon threw his drum set into the 
famous site's former lily pond and jumped in to swim with other revelers.

Now, Daltrey (along with Patti LuPone, the Smothers Brothers, Nathan 
Lane and the late Leopold Stokowski) is being honored by the Bowl, and 
in August, he'll appear as Eliza Doolittle's cockney pop Alfred P. 
Doolittle in a one-night-only performance of "My Fair Lady" with John 
Lithgow and Melissa Errico.

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