My CD arrives tomorrow, just over 45 years later than the disc my Mum bought me for Easter, 1976! đ€« He's always looked the epitome of fitness, and one of the tracks from 'Odds and Sods' is entitled 'Now I'm A Farmer', which describes Roger's other 'job', though the lyrics ".and I'm diggin', diggin', diggin', diggin', diggin'" are hardly descriptive of the lifestyle of a trout farmer, which is what Roger did, and possibly still does. Roger gets 5ft6 for his peak and one inch less for today. I wanted to hear a few tracks, and it was the Pete Townshend version of 'Pure and Easy' that came up on my phone, with him singing it live. One of my favourites is called, 'Pure and Easy', and I'm almost certain that it first appeared on the Pete Townshend album 'Who Came First'. đÄȘs the title of the album suggests, it's a mixture of songs made by The Who - all very tuneful and catchy - which I believe John Entwistle pieced together. Occasionally, these old records sell at ridiculous prices. I checked to see if Amazon were selling it and they are, at a thoroughly affordable price of ÂŁ5.01, so I ordered a copy. Simple as that I make no apologies.In the early hours of this morning, it occurred to me that I hadn't heard The Who's album 'Odds and Sods' for simply ages. He said: âIâve always said about this business, âYou donât give it up, it gives you up.' Iâm going to do it as long as I can, but then one day it will give me up and I wonât be able to do it. Weâve had the money and spent it.âÄespite his advancing years, the veteran rocker has no desire to retire. Roger told the Independent Newspaper: âWho wants to leave a family with those kind of headaches? In 2012, the 'Won't Get Fooled Again' hitmakers sold the publishing rights to their catalogue for a rumoured $100 million because they don't want to cause legal issues when they die. We used to lead the world in that, pay an awful lot of tax. "Weâve given our music industry to a lot of foreign-owned companies, and the moneyâs not coming here any more. You need a billion streams to earn 200 quid. The streaming companies pay so little in the beginning and then the record companies take 85, 90 per cent of that. "I think we really do have to be concerned when young musicians canât earn a living writing music. âOur music industry, I think, has been stolen. Theyâre doing bugger all and taking all the money, and the musicians are getting nothing. They just press a button and it goes out on digital, whereas before they had to manufacture, they had to distribute, they had to do all that stuff. That is ridiculous, and theyâre being robbed blind by streaming and the record companies, because the old deals with record companies that existed in the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, theyâre still working on the same percentage breaks. He said: "Musicians cannot earn a living in the record industry any more. The 78-year-old Who frontman thinks musicians are being "robbed blind" by their record labels, who have much less to do in the digital age but still take the same percentages, and by streaming services, who issue low royalty payments.
Roger Daltrey believes the music industry has been "stolen" from artists.
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