that's where the who started. ♪ >> reporter: born in a working class neighborhood in london, daltreyschool pates, pete townsend and john entwistle who shared a love for elvis, bo diddley and the everily brothers. >> we would make a hell of a racket, and the neighbors ever complained because they were so happy that i gave up the bugle and started the band. ♪ >> reporter: they would refine that racket. add drummer keith moon and build a sound around townshend's hard driving chords that spoke to teenagers' rage, angst and isolation. ♪ people try to put us down >> reporter: different than what the beatlings were doing. >> yeah, this was in your face stuff, the stuff that came from the inside of youth of the day. ♪ out here in the fields, i fight for my meals ♪ ♪ i get my back into my living >> reporter: while the chemistry clicked and they'd go on to sell 100 million records, it was a combustible mix. >> you know, it was a very volatile group of people. pete's described as four people who never should have been in a band together. >> yeah, we were more like a gang. we were much more like

kibble white. >> and roger daltrey is with us this morning. you referred to in the title was your grammar school head master who said to you what? >> he expelled me from the school after giving me six strikes with the cane for being a rather naughty boy. and as i was leaving his office, he held the door open for me and as i walked past him he said, you'll never make anything of your life, daltrey. you know, immediately with the arrogance and, you know, the ack anger that was going through me of youth, i thought i'll show you, thanks a lot mr. kibble white. >> have you ever seen him since? >> no. but i've had come kind of second kind of contact with his family because i really mean it today as a thank you. >> right. >> i do wonder if he hadn't have said that to me which way my life would have gone. >> not before a stent as a sheet metal worker and after getting kicked out of school, i mean, how did that trajectory lead you to a band, to -- >> i was already in a band. one of the reasons i got kicked out of school i was already in a band. and tha

. >> roger daltrey from the who was in town today as part of his cancer work. he delivered a check for half a million dollars to northwestern adolescent program. >> in 1993 jon huntsman and his wife karen founded the huntsman cancer institute that has touched many, many lives over the years. >> many courageous battles have been fought behind the walls and mr. huntsman money and passion that fueled cures for >> disease. >> i want to thank ulta beauty, an amazing partner for the last four years and helped raise millions for breast cancer research and today they want to present this check for $2.25 million to breast cancer research foundation. >> a record-breaking telecast for stand up to cancer this the group the group raised more than $123 million for life-saving research during its star-studded show friday night. it featured a cast of celebrities from entertainment, music, sports, science along with survivors who have benefitted from stand up to cancer funded breakthroughs. >> i'm robert, a national political reporter at the national post, joined to have shawn