You bet! Roger Daltry earns $1m for private gig

HE’S headlined some of the world’s biggest stages as the lead singer of sixties mod pioneers The Who.

But while Roger Daltrey commanded a comparatively modest audience at the weekend, his fee was equal to the enormous sums earned during his touring heyday with the iconic band.

The 74-year old reportedly pocketed $1 million (€813,200) for a performance at a 60th birthday party in California, where he performed some of The Who’s best known tracks – albeit without bandmate Pete Townshend.

TMZ claim the party was held in honour of pain medicine specialist Dr. Craig Flashner MD at his sprawling home in Westlake Village, an hour’s drive outside Los Angeles.

The extravagant party, which also featured performers from hugely popular circus Cirque du Soleil and a troupe of fire eaters, reportedly cost the practitioner $1.5million (€1.2million) – with the bulk of his outlay going to Daltrey.

Flashner, who is understood to own more than 500 nursing homes across the United States, later posed for a snap with the legendary singer, published exclusively by TMZ.

A representative has been contacted for further comment.

The performance comes after Daltrey admitted he was hard of hearing after years of performing, and now relies on lip-reading and in-ear monitors to follow the music at live concerts. Speaking to fans during a gig at the Hard Rock Resort in Las Vegas, he said: ‘The trouble with these ear things that I wear is that I am very, very deaf.’

Daltrey has also claimed Pete Townshend ‘wears two hearing aids’.