Roger Daltrey has said that he never reads reviews of his work, whether they’re positive or negative.The singer of The Who wrote a “backstage diary” for The Times in which, among other things, he reflected on the final series of concerts he curated for Teenage Cancer Trust.
He mentioned that he avoids even positive reviews on social media on the basis that likes and comments are “just ego food”.“The reviews [of the concert] are in but I won’t read them,” he wrote. “If you read the good ones, you have to read the bad ones, and the bad ones will upset you.
I steer clear of it all — reviews, Twitter, all of that.“Social media might be great for talking to people but when you start adding comments and likes, it’s just ego food, isn’t it?
I don’t care what people think of me. I can’t live like that.”He also reflected on turning 80 elsewhere in the diary. “I have to be realistic,” he wrote. “I’m on my way out.
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