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Roger Daltrey wants to work with Jimmy Page

Roger Daltrey wants to work with Jimmy Page
February 23, 2010
Sean Michaels
guardian.co.uk

If Pete Townshend's tinnitus forces the Who into retirement, Roger Daltrey would love to record new music with Jimmy Page. The My Generation singer has proposed a blues album with the Led Zeppelin guitarist, saying he'd "love to do something".

"I'd love to do an album with Jimmy," Daltrey told BBC 6 Music. "He needs a singer to drive him." The two have worked together before, on a B-side for Daltrey's first solo album in 1973. "I don't sing the blues with the Who, but that's what I used to be before Townshend started writing," Daltrey said. "I used to be a great blues singer."

If things with Page don't work out, perhaps he could work with Liam Gallagher. Daltrey revealed that he approached the former Oasis frontman to see if he would perform at the forthcoming Teenage Cancer Trust gig, which is the Who's last scheduled concert. "I actually rang him," Daltrey told Absolute Radio, "but he's otherwise engaged." Gallagher's brother, Noel, is scheduled to perform later in the trust's 2010 concert series, playing solo gigs on 25 and 26 March.