Roger Daltrey is the voice of a generation. That generation was the first to rebel, to step out of the shadows of the Second World War… to invent the concept of the teenager. This is the story from his birth at the height of the Blitz, through tempestuous school days to his expulsion, age 15, for various crimes and misdemeanors within a strict school system.

Thanks to Mr. Kibblewhite, his authoritarian headmaster, it could all have ended there. But then came rock and roll. He formed a band. The band became The Who — Maximum R&B — and, by luck, Roger Daltrey became the frontman of one of the biggest rock bands on the planet. Four years in the making, this is the first time Roger Daltrey has told his story. It is the definitive story of The Who and of the sweeping revolution that was British rock 'n' roll.