Roger Daltry The Biography
Tim Ewbank and Stafford Hildred
When I finish a book I am often left with a general impression of a book. It could be anything really. An impression of how the band began or what conditions were like when they were poor. Anything number of things.
This book left me asking one seemingly simple question: Why? Why? Why did the authors, editors, and whoever allow this nonsense to be released? Why?
Oh my, this is not good. I like to leave books behind and try to move on to the next book cold. I couldn’t do that in this case. The problem is I just finished reading what might be the single best biography of a popular artist ever written. And then I picked up this book for a read. What a mistake.
Maybe if I had left this for a few weeks and then went on to this book. Well, now that I think about it that would not have changed anything. Waiting a few weeks would have simply delayed the inevitable.
The book is filled with inaccuracies and sloppy editing. I hate to be picky but things like dates are important in the real world but they seem less important here. Why didn’t someone properly check for issues like these? It pains me to even think about them. Just grab some unpaid interns and let them do some checking on dates and such if that’s all too dull for everyone else.
Why oh why? Would you release a book riddled with such inaccuracies? Did you think no one would care? Dates are important. There is really no excuse for this kind of sloppiness. But this is what we have so . . .
I always like to say something, anything, good about the books I write about. So here goes: Roger Daltry The Biography has a great front cover picture. Rockin’ Roger swings that microphone in the air like no one else.
That’s a fabulous picture and it tells a better story about Roger Daltry than this book does. Roger has always been a man in motion on stage. Daltry grabs you and pulls you into the music. It does everything this book doesn’t.
Otherwise, the pictures in this book seem to be thrown together by some lonely unpaid intern who has no idea who Roger Daltry is but is desperately hoping to move up the ladder to a paying position.
Should you read this? Nope. That was pretty easy. There is no reason for anyone to read this vapid book.
However, if you happen to find this book really, really cheap and have an afternoon to kill and have some interest in Daltry then maybe. But just maybe. I can’t even suggest you read for any reason.
Maybe you just want to torture yourself for a few hours and you think this might be good for that. Nope. It’s not worth reading for that reason either. Why is it not worth reading?
Simply because you could better spend your time reading a good biography. There are many, many to choose from. There is bound to be one that would grab your attention and be a better way to spend your time than this. This is not a well-researched or well-written book, sadly.
I know this is going to sound crazy but you could always spend that time with your family. I am certain that time with your kids, grandkids, or a friend would be so much better spent than time with this. I know I would have been happier,
This is just a perfectly passable passel of papers, nothing more. Why, oh why did they write this? Why?
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