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Roger Daltrey threatened to cancel a gig in New York after a member of the audience was began smoking weed.
Daltrey is extremely allergic to pot smoke and is naturally concerned with delivering the grandiose vocal performance required of The Who's back catalogue. According to Newsday, Daltrey's performance at Nassau Colliseum was noticably hampered as the smoke too hold: “The smoke’s impact was almost immediate on his voice, which went from crystal clear and potent for the opening ‘I Can’t Explain’ to something rougher and more limited during ‘I Can See for Miles.'”
As Consequence Of Sound show, Daltrey confronted the audience member and threatened to walk off stage unless the joint was extinguished The show then continued as planned.
Below: Watch Roger Daltrey challenge smokers in the audience in New York
The Who are headlining Glastonbury this year and will be returning to Worthy Farm for the first time since 2007 when they also played the Sunday closing set. “It’s great to be ending this part of a 50 year career at the most prestigious and respected music festival in the world," said Daltrey of the announcement. "We'll do our best to close this years event with a bang, unless of course the fireworks get wet!"
They are also set to play British SummerTime in Hyde Park. For the final date on the band's huge Who Hits 50 tour, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend will be joined by Paul Weller, Kaiser Chiefs, Johny Marr, former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes, Weller-approved mod throwbacks The Rifles and the endlessly quoatable duo Sleaford Mods. Barclaycard presents British Summer Time takes place on Friday 26 June.
Roger Daltrey has previously described the show as “the beginning of the long goodbye". This will be the fourth time the band have played Hyde Park (three times as headliners and once as part of Live 8). "It's always a good gig," Daltrey has said of the central London setting. "It's got nice grass, beautiful trees."
He added: "I remember doing it with an eye patch holding my eye in when we did Quadrophenia, that was a nightmare. We had a quarter of a million people coming the next day and I've got a fractured cheekbone. How we did that show I'll never know."
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