Sixties rock legend Roger Daltrey, the lead singer of The Who, said he’s feeling the effects of age, losing his sight as well as his hearing.

While raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust, Daltrey spoke from the stage during a performance.

The 81-year-old singer likened his struggle to that of one of his band’s most famous creations, according to The Sun.

“The joys of getting old mean you go deaf, I also now have got the joy of going blind,” Daltrey said, while wearing purple-tinted sunglasses. “Fortunately, I still have my voice, because then I’ll have a full Tommy.”

Tommy, of course, is the name of The Who’s celebrated 1969 rock opera, later made into a film, about a man named Tommy Walker who becomes deaf, blind and unable to speak. The song “Pinball Wizard” details his prowess with the game.

Daltry is a patron of the cancer trust, and the group have been giving benefit concerts for the charity for more than 20 years.

Guitarist Pete Townshend, 79, also joked about his knee replacement, while admitting it was nothing compared to what the patients in the Teenage Cancer Trust deal with.

“Maybe I should auction off the old one (knee),” he said. “Elton John had one done, and he wears his as a bracelet. Unfortunately, mine’s in three bits.”

Daltry and Townshend have said for several years that they were nearing the end of their careers.

“We’re both old,” Townshend said in a 2023 interview. “That in itself has a downside because, apart from what you can or can’t do on the stage, when you finish touring you come back to normal life – whatever it is that you decide to do to fill your time away from the road – and it’s harder and takes longer.

“So life slows down because it’s so much harder getting up and down the stairs, but it also speeds up.”

Last year, the group talked about another tour.

The Who started in 1964 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.