Roger Daltrey says that when he feared never being able to sing again his back-up plan was returning to being a painter and decorator.
The Who’s frontman was worried about his future in rock’n’roll due to throat surgery two years ago.
The singer, 77, had the op to remove pre-cancerous cells. He said: “It was scary but not scary. You’ve just got to roll with it.
“You have got to accept when you get hit by a blow that you might not be able to sing after this operation because they didn’t know what it was.
“It could have been cancer. You go under the anaesthetic with the feeling it’s one of two things.
“I’m going to wake up and it is going to be OK and I am going to be able to carry on, or I won’t be able to sing again. If I can’t sing again, I’ll go back to being a painter and decorator – I’ll manage.”
Speaking on the Life on a Plate podcast, he credited a masseuse who went on tour with him in the 1980s with teaching him a lesson about acceptance, which helped him come to terms with the potential end of his singing career.
Roger said: “She was as strong as a horse and a fantastic masseuse...
“I used to scream sometimes. And she used to say to me ‘what are you holding on for?’, and she was so right.”
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