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12:44pm (UK) Palace Award for Rock Star Daltrey By Laura Elston, PA Deputy Court Correspondent He may have been accepted by the “Establishment”, but rock star Roger Daltrey insisted today that The Who’s songs were not quite the Queen’s cup of tea. The 60-year-old lead singer said the monarch would have “fallen off her podium” if his rebellious 60s anthem My Generation had been blasted out at Buckingham Palace while he collected his CBE. Daltrey said afterwards: “She said I got this for my music as well as charity work but I don’t think she’s a rock and roll fan....

'We'll go on until we drop dead' After Pete Townshend's arrest and John Entwistle's death, the Who's Roger Daltrey tells Michael Shelden why he's still raging against authority It's been almost 40 years since Roger Daltrey first shouted and snarled and famously stammered his way through the Who's classic rock anthem My Generation, defiantly declaring: "Hope I die before I get old". Though band member Keith Moon seemed to take the lyric to heart - dying in a blaze of excess, 25 years ago - Daltrey is now on the verge of 60 and is still going strong, his voice...