Roger Daltrey's not-quite NDE

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The Who singer Roger Daltrey reveals he feared he was dying after meningitis scare cancelled tour
By Sophie Law For Mailonline

14 October 2018



Quote:The Who's frontman Roger Daltrey says he thought he was dying after he contracted meningitis.
The 74-year-old rock legend, who sang I Hope I Die Before I Get Old, became so ill that he had to cancel the band's 50th anniversary world tour in 2015. (...)

He said the pain he felt was 'unbearable. I was in tears. I couldn't move. My brain was shutting down.'Daltrey was so convinced he was going to die that he called all his close friends in order to say his final goodbyes.  The singer revealed that after doing this, he felt a strange floating sensation 'that felt incredible.'
He said: 'Then I thought, I wonder what's next?'
However, after the singer's strange visions were then diagnosed as illness and he had been suffering from viral meningitis, which causes fevers and hallucinations.
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