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ROGER DALTREY - DALTREY RETIRES MICROPHONE-SWINGING
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DALTREY RETIRES MICROPHONE-SWINGING
ROGER DALTREY's failing eyesight has ended the rocker's trademark microphone-swinging stage antics. The Who frontman worries he'll look foolish if her hurls a microphone into the air and then loses it in the lights. And, after almost blinding Gary Glitter during rehearsals for The Who's Quadrophenia shows in London a decade ago - when he hit him with a stray mic - Daltrey has decided to retire his famous stage technique. He says, "I got very good at it. I could probably have taken a cigarette out of someone's mouth (swinging the microphone). "I wouldn't dare try it now, because I can't see it anymore. I throw it and from then on I'm thinking, `Where's it gone?' and hopefully it'll come back somewhere where I might be able to catch it."
01 November 2007 22:23
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whogirl 
( 1)
posted on 02/11/2007 12:17
You are both wrong, including the writer here. It was Glitter who hit Daltrey
with the mic stand on the eve of the Quadrophenia Show in Hyde Park in July of
1996. Hence the reason why it was Daltrey who was sporting an eye patch the
day of the show. Daltrey fractured his orbit, which is a very painful injury.
As for the swinging. Roger Daltrey was on Conan O'Brien on Oct 31. Conan
asked him how good he got as far as the microphone swinging was concerned and
he said he could take a cigarette out of someones mouth from a distance (he
used the example of from where he sat to the start of the audience) He said he
doesn't do that anymore because he can't see it as well. He never said he
stopped swinging the mic.
Please a little fact checking. I have never seen an accurate fact in a single
Contact Music article.
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Galadriel1010 ( 1)
posted on 01/11/2007 22:30
He didn't hit Glitter with a stray mic. He hit him with the base of a mic stand
as he was waving it around.
As you do
