Editing Roger Daltrey (section)

==Early life==
Daltrey was born on 1 March 1944 in [[Hammersmith Hospital]], [[East Acton]], London, during a World War II bombing raid.<ref name="NeillKent2011"/> He is the eldest of three children of Harry and Irene Daltrey, and has two younger sisters.<ref name="NeillKent2011"/> His father, an insurance clerk, was called up to fight in the [[Second World War]], and three-month-old Roger and his mother were evacuated to a farm in Scotland.<ref name="NeillKent2011">{{cite book |first1=Andy |last1=Neill |first2=Matt |last2=Kent |title=Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of The Who 1958–1978 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_RwOaA1GTjQC&pg=PA10 |access-date=6 March 2016 |date=26 August 2011 |publisher=Ebury Publishing|isbn=978-0-7535-4797-7 |page=10}}</ref>

Daltrey attended Victoria Primary School and [[Acton High School|Acton County Grammar School]] in west London,<ref name="NeillKent2011"/> the same school [[Pete Townshend]] and [[John Entwistle]] attended.<ref name="NeillKent2011"/> He showed academic promise in the English state school system and was top of his class in the [[eleven-plus]] examination, after which he went to Grammar School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/Roger-Daltrey/biography |title=Biography |website=monstersandcritics.com |access-date=14 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810001321/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/Roger-Daltrey/biography/ |archive-date=10 August 2014}}</ref>

Daltrey's first guitar, a cherry red [[Fender Stratocaster|Stratocaster]] replica, he made himself in 1957.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/jan/28/petetownshend.popandrock |title=Who's back |first=Dave |last=Simpson |date=28 January 2005 |website=The Guardian|location=London}}</ref> He joined a [[skiffle]] group called the Detours who needed a lead singer, and produced it when they told him to bring a guitar. His father bought him an [[Epiphone]] guitar in 1959 and he became the band's lead guitarist.<ref name="NeillKent2011"/>

He also became the band's leader, and gained a reputation for using his fists to impose discipline. According to Townshend, Daltrey "ran things the way he wanted. If you argued with him, you usually got a bunch of fives,<ref name="fives">{{cite web |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/a-bunch-of-fives |title=A BUNCH OF FIVES {{!}} meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary |website=dictionary.cambridge.org |access-date=2020-02-13}}</ref> [a hard punch]".<ref>{{cite book |title=Behind Blue Eyes |url=https://archive.org/details/behindblueeyesli00giul |url-access=registration |last=Giuliano |first=Geoffrey |year=1996 |publisher=J. P. Dutton |page=[https://archive.org/details/behindblueeyesli00giul/page/26 26]|isbn=9780525940524 }}</ref> Daltrey explained, later in life, that this harsh approach came from the tough neighbourhood in which he had grown up, where arguments were resolved by fighting. He was expelled from school, and Townshend wrote in his autobiography, ''"''until he was expelled, Roger had been a good pupil."<ref "memoir">{{cite book |last=Townshend |first=Pete |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ckrw61EVuJ0C&pg=PT38 |title=Who I Am: A Memoir |date=9 October 2012 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=9781443418201 |page=38}}</ref>

They discovered in 1964 that another band was performing as the Detours, and discussed changing their name. Townshend suggested "the Hair" and Townshend's room-mate Richard Barnes suggested "The Who". The next morning, Daltrey made the decision for the band, saying "It's the Who, innit?"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Neill |first1=Andy |last2=Kent |first2=Matt |title=Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of The Who 1958–1978|page=35 |date=2007 |publisher=[[Sterling Publishing]] |isbn=978-1586635916 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_RwOaA1GTjQC}}</ref>