One of the Boys (Roger Daltrey album)
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| Studio album by Roger Daltrey | ||||
| Released | 13 May 1977 | |||
| Recorded | November 1976-March 1977 | |||
| Studio | Ramport Studios, London and Pathe Marconi Studios, Paris | |||
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| Length | 39:19 | |||
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Polydor – 2442 146 (UK) MCA – MCA 2271 (US) |
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| Producer | Dave Courtney, Tony Meehan | |||
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| Rolling Stone | (favourable) |
One of the Boys is the third studio solo album by the Who's lead vocalist, Roger Daltrey. It was first released in 1977, on Polydor in the UK, and MCA in the US. The sessions were recorded at the Who's Ramport Studios during the winter of 1976 (vocals were recorded at Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, due to tax complications), and Daltrey allowed students from the local Battersea technical school to film them as an educational project. This also marked the first time that Daltrey had written or co-written a song since "Here For More" (released as the B-side of the Who's "The Seeker") in 1970, and Lisztomania in 1975. Daltrey's original choice for producers were Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, but they declined.
When Leo Sayer launched his own career as an artist, Daltrey called on a widening group of friends to write for and perform on his albums. Paul McCartney contributed the new song "Giddy" to One of the Boys, where the band included Hank B. Marvin of the Shadows, Eric Clapton of Cream, Alvin Lee and Mick Ronson, as well as calling two members of the Who, John Entwistle and Keith Moon.
Daltrey embraced punk rock on this album, and later appeared in public with safety pins through his nose (a trend of the punk movement).
On this cover, after releasing Ride a Rock Horse with Daltrey as a rampant centaur another visual trick is played with Daltrey's mirror image, with reference to Magritte's famous painting Reproduction Interdite, photographed and designed by Daltrey's cousin Graham Hughes
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