Gary Coleman

In 2004, Coleman played a supporting role in the controversial computer game Postal 2 by Running With Scissors, Inc. In the New Year's Honours List published 31 December 2004 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to Music, the Entertainment Industry, and Charity. Coleman placed 8th in a field of 135 candidates, receiving 14,242 votes. Daltrey and his second wife, Heather, have two daughters, Rosie and Willow, and a son, Jamie. After Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy, Coleman stated that he would be voting for Schwarzenegger. In 2003, he hosted the History Channel's Extreme History with Roger Daltrey. This campaign was coordinated by the free news weekly the East Bay Express. He has played a number of television roles, including BBC Television Shakespeare, the science fiction series Sliders, and Highlander: The Series.

Coleman was a candidate for governor in the 2003 California recall election. He has appeared on stage in productions of The Wizard of Oz (as the Tin Man) and A Christmas Carol (as Scrooge). He was ordered to pay bus driver Tracy Fields $1,665 for hospital bills resulting from a fight, stemming from an attempt by Fields to get Coleman's autograph whilst he shopping for a bulletproof vest in a California mall.[1] (http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,3385,00.html) Coleman said he felt "threatened by her insistence" and punched her in the head. Daltrey's appearances in over 30 feature films include starring roles in: McVicar, as British train robber turned journalist John McVicar; Tommy, as "deaf, dumb and blind kid" Tommy Walker; and Lisztomania, as Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Coleman appeared in court on November 2, 2000, charged with assault. The collaboration came about through Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian's girlfriend, whose mother is a friend of Daltrey and his wife. As with Knight Rider, Rubik's Cube, Care Bears and other artifacts from the early 1980s, Coleman's popularity coincided with the childhood of a particularly productive demographic of internet users, and he is, as of 2004, a minor cult figure. In 2003, he provided backing vocals for thrash-metal band Anthrax on the song, "Taking the Music Back" from their album, We've Come for You All.

He occasionally appears in cameo roles, most of which refer to his earlier acting career. In 1992, Daltrey appeared on the Chieftains' Grammy Award-winning album, An Irish Evening: Live at the Grand Opera House. In 2001 he was employed as a shopping mall security guard in the Los Angeles area (a video of him trying to stop a vehicle from entering a compound while the driver ridiculed him was a popular Internet meme). Daltrey celebrated his fiftieth birthday in 1994 by performing at Carnegie Hall in a show called, "Daltrey Sings Townshend," accompanied by The Julliard Orchestra, Townshend, Entwistle, Irish dancers and a group of folk musicians. Despite this, Coleman filed for bankruptcy in 1999. On Rocks in the Head, Daltrey is credited (along with Gerard McMahon) for co-writing seven of the eleven tracks. He briefly owned a video game arcade in Fisherman's Village in Marina del Rey, near Santa Monica, California. Each of the album's tracks, including "Let Me Down Easy" by Bryan Adams, expresses the frustration of growing older as only a man who sang "Hope I die before I get old" can.

Coleman famously sued his own parents over misappropriation of his $3.8 million trust fund, and won a $1,280,000 ruling on February 23, 1993. The title track to Under a Raging Moon was a tribute to Who drummer Keith Moon, who died in 1978. As he grew older, however, he fell from public favour and, after the cancellation of Diff'rent Strokes, his acting career declined sharply; his career path was common to many child stars and other icons of the period, such as Mr T and Henry Winkler. McVicar included two hit singles, Free Me and Without Your Love and was Daltrey's best-selling solo recording. At the height of his fame on Diff'rent Strokes, Coleman earned $70,000 per episode. But since it featured all the other members of The Who — Townshend, Entwistle and Kenney Jones — it could almost have passed as a Who album. During the run of the show Coleman was a popular figure, starring in a number of feature films and made-for-TV movies including On the Right Track, and The Kid With the Broken Halo. McVicar was billed as a soundtrack album for the film of the same name, which Daltrey co-produced and starred in.

Coleman has had two kidney transplants, one in 1973 and one in 1984, and requires constant dialysis. Paul McCartney contributed the new song "Giddy" to Ride a Rock Horse, where the band included Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee and Mick Ronson. Coleman was born with a congenital kidney defect known as nephritis, which halted his growth at an early age, leading to a notably small stature (4' 8") which became his most distinguishing feature. When Sayer launched his own career as an artist, Daltrey called on a widening group of friends to write for and perform on his albums. He was particularly famous for his catch phrase, "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?", delivered to his character's older brother Willis Jackson. The emotional range displayed in Daltrey proved that the singer was capable of operating outside the context of The Who and of expressing his own moods, not just Townshend's. Born in Zion, Illinois, Coleman is most famous for the role of Arnold Jackson on the Diff'rent Strokes, an American sitcom which ran on NBC from 1978 to 1986. and the album, which introduced Leo Sayer as a songwriter, made the Top 50 in the United States.

Gary Coleman (born February 8, 1968) is an American actor. The top single off the album, "Giving It All Away," reached number five in the U.K. Another popular internet Meme; a photograph of Gary Coleman and David Hasselhoff (http://www.february-7.com/warehouse/knightrider&arnoldjackson.jpg). 1973's Daltrey was not the first solo release by a member of The Who, following albums by both John Entwistle and Pete Townshend, but it was the first to make a significant impact. Coleman on the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171041/). While he has always considered The Who his primary ambition in life, Daltrey has released eight solo albums. CNN's take on Coleman's 2003 candidacy for the governorship of California (http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/06/candidate.coleman/). When Tommy appeared as a feature film in 1975, Daltrey played the lead role and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture".

When asked by Howard Stern if he has had oral sex, Coleman said: "No! That's not a place for a young woman's face to be.". With each of The Who's milestone achievements, Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia, Daltrey was the face and voice of the band as they defined themselves as the ultimate rebels in a generation of change. 103). (Giuliano, p. During a recording session (in an incident that Daltrey claimed was overblown), Townshend whacked the singer over the head with his guitar and Daltrey responded by knocking Townshend unconscious, again with a single blow.

Later, in October, 1973, with Townshend at a low point after struggling through the Lifehouse and Quadrophenia projects while Daltrey was experiencing some success with his solo projects and acting roles, tension between the two created more sparks. He once flushed drummer Keith Moon's pills down the toilet and, when Moon protested, knocked him down with one punch. Yet, in the midst of the band's success, Daltrey repeatedly found himself fighting to keep the other members of The Who away from the drug and alcohol dependence that he believed would destroy them. Later, his scream near the end of Won't Get Fooled Again became a defining moment for the band and for all of rock music.

Daltrey's stuttering expression of youthful anger, frustration and arrogance in the band's breakthrough single, My Generation, captured the revolutionary feeling of the 1960s for many young people around the world and became the band's trademark. His habit of swinging the microphone around by its cord on stage became a signature sign of his exuberance. (Their second single, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere was the only song on which Daltrey and Townshend collaborated.) As Townshend developed into one of rock's most accomplished composers, Daltrey's vocals became the vehicle through which Townshend's visions were expressed, and he gained an equally vaunted reputation as an incomparably powerful vocalist. With the band's first record deal in early 1965, Townshend began writing original material and Daltrey's dominance of the band began to recede.

In 1964, he also helped decide on a new name for the group that had been suggested by Townshend's roommate, Richard Barnes — "The Who.". 26) He generally selected the music they performed, including songs by The Beatles, various Motown artists, James Brown, and other rock standards. If you argued with him, you usually got a bunch of fives." (Giuliano, p. According to Townshend, Roger "ran things the way he wanted.

Early on, Daltrey was the band's leader, earning a reputation for using his fists to exercise control when needed, despite his small stature. After a couple of years, Daltrey switched to vocals and Townshend to lead guitar. At the time, the band included Daltrey on lead guitar, Pete Townshend on rhythm guitar, John Entwistle on bass, Doug Sandom on drums and Colin Dawson on lead vocals. He became a sheet metal worker during the day, while practicing and performing nights with the band at weddings, pubs and men's clubs.

Soon after, interested in nothing but rock and roll, he was expelled from school. He made his first guitar from a block of wood and formed a band called, "The Detours." When his father bought him an Epiphone guitar in 1959, he became the lead guitarist for the band. His parents, Harry and Irene, hoped he would eventually continue on to study at a university, but obeying the rules and learning from his instructors was not in the plans of the self-described "school rebel.". He showed academic promise as a child in the English public school system, ranking at the top of his class on examinations that led to his enrollment at the Acton County Grammar School for boys.

Daltrey was born in the Shepherd's Bush section of London, the same working class neighborhood that produced fellow Who members Pete Townshend and John Entwistle. In addition, he has enjoyed a successful solo music career, and has acted in a large number of film, theater and television roles. Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born March 1, 1944) is a popular music artist, best known as the founder and lead singer of the British rock band The Who. Extreme History with Roger Daltrey, The History Channel (http://www.historychannel.com/global/listings/castbios.jsp?ACatId=8923935&CaseId=8923933&EGrpId=8921282).

Barling, Biography of Roger Daltrey, thewho.net (http://www.thewho.net/index.php?modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=5&page=1). David M. Steve Huey, Roger Daltrey - Biography, AllMusic.com (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3ueyxdgbjolj~T1). ISBN 0-8154-1070-0.

Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend. Penguin Books, Ltd. Geoffrey Giuliano (1996). Best (Rodney Marsh), 2000. Chasing Destiny, 2000.

Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (King Janos), 2000. Like It Is (Kelvin), 1998. Vampirella (Vlad), 1996. Coles), 1994.

Lightning Jack (John T. If Looks Could Kill (Blade), 1991. Buddy's Song (Terry Clark); also Music Score Composer, Producer, 1991. Cold Justice (Keith Gibson), 1989.

Mack the Knife (Street Singer), 1989. The Little Match Girl, 1987. Murder: Ultimate Grounds for Divorce, 1985. McVicar (John McVicar), also Producer, 1980.

The Legacy (Clive), 1978. Tommy (Tommy Walker), also Music Score Composer, 1975. Legacy (Clive Jackson), 1975. Lisztomania (Franz Liszt), 1975.

Free Me (#39 UK), 1980. Without Your Love (#20 US), 1980. I'm Free (#13 UK), 1973. Giving It All Away (#5 UK), 1973.

Rocks in the Head, 1992. Can't Wait to See the Movie, 1987. Under a Raging Moon, 1985. Parting Should be Painless, 1984.

McVicar, 1980. One of the Boys, 1977. Ride a Rock Horse, 1975. Daltrey, 1973.