Roger Daltrey is a classic rock legend as the frontman of The Who. The 81-year-old rocker is still performing, but at a charity concert in London this past weekend, Daltrey shared that he’s losing both his hearing and his vision. According to The Sun, Daltrey compared his issues to the band’s 1969 album “Tommy,” about a pinball wizard who’s deaf, dumb and blind.
“The joys of getting old mean you go deaf, I also now have got the joy of going blind. Fortunately I still have my voice, because then I’ll have a full ‘Tommy,‘” Daltrey told the crowd.
The singer previously said that he had suffered hearing loss due to years of exposure to loud music saying he was “very, very deaf.”
At the same concert over the weekend, Who guitarist Pete Townshend joked about his knee replacement saying: “Maybe I should auction off the old one. Elton John had one done, and he wears his as a bracelet. Unfortunately, mine’s in three bits.”
The Who were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide in their 60-year career.
