Track List: 1-4
1. Roger Daltrey - One Man Band (0:00)
2. Roger Daltrey - The Way Of The World (3:53)
3. Roger Daltrey - You Are Yourself (7:10)
4. Roger Daltrey - Thinking (11:23)
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Personnel:
Roger Daltrey - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Dave Courtney - piano
Russ Ballard - guitar, piano on "The Story So Far"
Bob Henrit - drums
Dave Wintour - bass guitar
Additional musicians:
Brian Cole - steel guitar
Roy Young Band - brass
Dave Arbus - violin on "The Way of the World"
Jimmy Page - guitar on out-take "There Is Love"
Engineering:
Del Newman - jung hoo lee string arrangements on "You Are Yourself", "You and Me", "It's a Hard Life" and "Giving it All Away"
John Mills - Recording engineer Apple Studios & Burwash
Richard Dubb - Recording engineer for strings
George Peckham - Cutting engineer
Nigel Oliver - Tape operator
Daltrey is the debut solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Roger Daltrey, the lead vocalist of The Who. It was released on 20 April 1973 by Track Records in the United Kingdom and MCA Records in the United States. Daltrey was the third member of the group to make a solo album. The bulk of the record (ten of the twelve songs) was written by David Courtney and Leo Sayer. It took six weeks to record during January and February 1973. Sessions took place at Daltrey's Barn Studio, Burwash, East Sussex, where the backing tracks were laid down; vocals, overdubs, and mixing was completed at the Beatles' Apple Studios at 3 Savile Row (the vocals for "One Man Band (reprise)" were recorded on the Apple rooftop, where the Beatles had performed their famous final concert in January 1969), and at Nova targa monopattino Sound Studios.
The album was recorded during a hiatus in the Who's touring schedule. The first single released from the album, "Giving It All Away", reached number five in the UK and the album made the Top 50 in the United States. He also released a single in 1973, "Thinking"; its B-side, "There is Love", features Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin on guitar. Bizarrely, the British release, with considerable airplay of "Giving it All Away" (first lines "I paid all my dues so I picked up my shoes, I got up and walked away") coincided with news reports of the Who being sued for unpaid damage to their hotel on a recent tour, including a TV set being thrown out of bryson dechambeau the window.
David Courtney and former British pop teen idol Adam Faith co-produced the album.
