MPBrown Music Reviews

  Album Review #21   Artist:   The Who Album:   Who Are You Year of Release:   1978 Grade:   4.5 / 5   Band Members Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, percussion Peter Townshend – guitars, piano, synthesizer, backing vocals, lead vocals on “Sister Disco” (bridge) John Entwistle – bass, synthesizer, backing vocals, lead vocals on “905”, brass Keith Moon – drums, percussion, backing vocals   Background One of the great live bands of all time, The Who mixed hard rock, rock opera, pop, and punk music (before it became a thing).   It had one of the ultimate lead singers in Roger Daltrey, power chord master Pete Townshend, quiet but thundering bassist John Entwistle, and maniac drummer Keith Moon to form the quartet of rock’s loudest bands.   They created an original masterpiece as the rock opera “Tommy” and the classic album “Who’s Next”.   They followed that up with another (but less successful) rock opera “Qu...

Album Review #18 Artist:  Roger Daltrey Album:   McVicar (soundtrack) Year of Release:   1980 Grade:   4 / 5   Band Members Roger Daltrey – vocals Pete Townshend – guitar Ricky Hitchcock – guitar Billy Nicholls – guitar Jo Partridge – guitar John Entwistle – bass Herbie Flowers – bass Dave Markee – bass John Bundrick – keyboards Ken Freeman – keyboards Ron Aspery – flue Kenney Jones – drums Dave Mattacks – drums Stuart Elliott – drums Frank Ricotti – percussion Tony Carr - percussion   Background Roger is famous as the lead singer and founding member of The Who.   During a break from The Who, Daltrey made a movie starring himself as John McVicar, a British criminal.   Daltrey had previously recorded a song called “The Prisoner” based on the McVicar case ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McVicar ).   Daltrey had previously starring in the movie “Tommy” based on The Who’s rock album of the s...