I’m talking about mainstream big-selling stuff. And that’s what makes the feeling of “Fucking hell, this feels massive.” And then we all change positions and start clinking glasses and all that shit.ĭaltrey: So much of the music in the last 10 years, it’s kind of ignored what you can do with just voices. Ten of us will stand around a mic, but it’s mental because it’s “Sing it high, sing it low, sing it drunk, sing it out of tune,” because when you play a gig, 50 percent of people don’t know how to sing. Yungblud: It’s just me and my mates, basically. I love the way you use the crowd-singing sound that you use in your mixing. I was just listening to your new album, and it’s really uplifting. …You thought that’s going to be the new movement. Instead of having motorbikes and long drape jackets, like the Teds, these guys had short hair and smart suits, three-quarter-length coats. All of a sudden there was this whole new fashion movement coming out of two little parts of London: Lewisham and Catford in South London. And in between it was a kind of weird barren period, that early Rolling Stones period, the Beatles-look thing. It was Townshend’s observation of our fashion and the times were changing. We don’t wanna go there again, do we? Thank goodness rock music came along. Prior to us, of course, they channeled it into the Second World War. There was all this pent-up aggression that’s always there in youth, but it’s whether you channel it in a creative way. I knew Elvis, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry because my old man and my granddad were like, “That was it,” but it felt so far away to me.ĭaltrey: Well, Townshend tapped into the feeling of the youth at the time. Yungblud: It’s so mental, because to me I thought you lot were first, just because I was English. Paul McCartney will always tell you it’s Little Richard, that’s where got their. Lots of people talk about Elvis and all the other people around, but Little Richard kinda gets forgotten. I was 13 when I heard Little Richard and Elvis. style icon who released his self-titled album in September, is simply in awe of Daltrey, having grown up listening to his music being played by his dad and granddad.ĭaltrey: I was only on the tail end of the first one. Both are invested in this conversation in their own way: Daltrey is genuinely curious about how Yungblud manages the modern music industry and social media, both of which he finds disagreeable, and has questions from his granddaughters, two big Yungblud fans. It’s the first in-person meeting for Daltrey, one of the quintessential frontmen of British rock music, and the 25-year-old Yungblud - real name Dominic Harrison - the new face of British pop rock. On the contrary, the much younger star he’s meeting has flown in from Paris, where he played a show last night, and will soon hop on a flight to L.A. This location was chosen for its familiarity (Daltrey has recorded here) and for ease - the 78-year-old lives not too far from Kore, just outside of London. “A young musician on time! Unheard of,” Daltrey booms. ROGER DALTREY WALKS through Kore Studios near London’s Shepherd’s Bush, opening doors and looking for Yungblud.
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