Daltrey (album)

Daltrey
Studio album by
Roger Daltrey
Released20 April 1973 (1973-04-20)[1]
RecordedJanuary–February 1973
Studio
Genre
Label
Producer
Roger Daltrey chronology
Daltrey
(1973) 		Ride a Rock Horse
(1975)
Singles from Daltrey
  1. "Giving It All Away"
    Released: April 1973[2]
  2. "Thinking"
    Released: September 1973
  3. "It's a Hard Life"
    Released: November 1973 (NL)
  4. "One Man Band"
    Released: January 1974 (Ger.)[3]

Daltrey is the debut solo studio album by the English rock singer Roger Daltrey, lead vocalist of the Who. It was released on 20 April 1973 by Track Records in the United Kingdom and MCA Records in the United States. Daltrey was the third member of the group to make a solo album. The bulk of the record (ten of the twelve songs) was written by David Courtney and Leo Sayer. It took six weeks to record during January and February 1973. Sessions took place at Daltrey's Barn Studio, Burwash, East Sussex, where the backing tracks were laid down; vocals, overdubs, and mixing was completed at the Beatles' Apple Studios at 3 Savile Row (the vocals for "One Man Band (reprise)" were recorded on the Apple rooftop, where the Beatles had performed their famous final concert in January 1969), and at Nova Sound Studios.[4]

The album was recorded during a hiatus in the Who's touring schedule. The first single released from the album, "Giving It All Away", reached number five in the UK and the album made the Top 50 in the United States. He also released a single in 1973, "Thinking"; its B-side, "There is Love", features Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin on guitar. Bizarrely, the British release, with considerable airplay of "Giving It All Away" (first lines "I paid all my dues so I picked up my shoes, I got up and walked away") coincided with news reports of the Who being sued for unpaid damage to their hotel on a recent tour, including a TV set being thrown out of the window.[5]

David Courtney and former British pop teen idol Adam Faith co-produced the album.

  1. ^ "BPI".
  2. ^ "The Great Rock Discography". p. 879.
  3. ^ "Roger Daltrey singles".
  4. ^ "Roger Daltrey Discography". Archived from the original on 19 June 2010.
  5. ^ Roger Daltrey#cite note-27