keith moon fatally overdosed in 1978. >> i wish we could have saved him.ow about drug abuse and rehab and all that, we might have done better. >> reporter: a cocaine-fueled heart attack claimed bassist john end whtwhistle in 2002. that left daltrey and townshend, who don't see each other all that much. >> after half a century of working closely with this guy, it's never ring him up and go get a beer and talking about life? >> we didn't have that kind of relationship. we did in the early days, used to go fishing, play golf. >> is any of that part sad? >> i had it once. if he ever wanted it again, he would make an approach. i don't want to play golf. i'd still go fishing. >> reporter: still, the two remain linked by something other than their music. so where are we? >> well, this is the first teen cancer hospital america ward that we managed to get ucla. >> reporter: for decades, daltrey and townshend have given their names, money and time to building teen cancer units in hospitals across the uk, and now america. >> nice to meet you. >> how are you, young ma

. ♪ time to take my hand >> along with guitar rift pete townsend, basist john and drummer keith moon,ggest and influential acts. ♪ ever since i was a young boy ♪ i played the silver ball >> selling 100 million records ♪ ♪ sure plays a mean pin ball ♪ soon you'll see me ♪ can't you feel me ♪ i'm coming >> producing two full-length rock operas. ♪ ♪ mama can you hear me ♪ can you feel me near you >> and performing a historic sunrise set at wood stock. ♪ listening to you, i get the music ♪ >> now daltrey is telling his tale of more than 50 years in rock-n-roll in his new auto biography, thanks a lot mr. kibble white. >> and roger daltrey is with us this morning. welcome, rother. >> good to be here, thanks. >> the mr. kibble white 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 wi