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If you want to understand what rock and roll was truly like in the 1970s, there were a handful of bands ready to showcase it. Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and The Who<\/a> were all bastions of this modern style of rock, where ambitious ideas were encouraged and unbridled hedonism was celebrated.<\/p>\n The latter band however, represented something a little bit more transitionary. In Roger Daltrey, they had a frontman who was vibrant and charismatic<\/a>, harking back to the greats of old. Building off the blocks of blues rock legends before him, Daltrey gave the band the gravelly rock undertone they were searching for, and one that was necessary in making them a worldwide favourite. He grounded the ideas of Pete Townshend and injected it with a palpable sense of emotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, Daltrey took those queues from the man who inspired most of his generation, Elvis Presley. He explained, \u201cIt was when I first saw Elvis with a guitar. I thought, well, that looks cool.\u201d Adding he saw The King \u201cJust on black and white, the BBC TV\u201d, yet it was enough to be transfixed by the colour of his performance. He marvelled at the time of him, saying \u201cWow, wonderful. Just like John Lennon<\/a>, you know, that\u2019s what I want to be. Everybody wanted to, I\u2019m going to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n Daltrey continued to explain how the work of his bandmate built upon those foundations. Townshend was famously ambitious with his ideas and took The Who into more experimental realms, but Daltrey was convinced that it remained faithful to the bedrock of blues. <\/p>\n \u201cI mean, Pete\u2019s guitar style. It\u2019s so different from anything else that was out there. But you can still hear the fact that we, before we were playing our own stuff, we were playing Muddy Waters and Johnny Hooker and all that stuff, and the Everly Brothers and Elvis. It was all in there somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n