Moonlighting (Roger Daltrey album)
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Moonlighting: The Anthology is a compilation album released by Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE , is an English singer and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also...

 on 7 February 2005
2005 in music
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. The collection is notable for including tracks from various projects throughout his career, such as stage and film appearances, as well as a good sampling of songs from his discography. It was released on the Sanctuary
Sanctuary
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 label in the UK and also included "A Second Out," a previously unreleased song written by Daltrey and Steve McEwan
Steve McEwan
Steve McEwan is a British-born hit songwriter, artist, and musician. His songs have been recorded by country music artists including Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill and Keith Urban...

 of the band UnAmerican
UnAmerican (band)
UnAmerican were an English rock band based out of London. The group was fronted by former World Party member Steve McEwan.-Biography:Steve McEwan played guitar in World Party, and while in the group began working with fellow member Guy Chambers on a side project. They wrote several songs together...

.

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "One Man Band" (Courtney, Leo Sayer
    Leo Sayer
    Leo Sayer is a British singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. Sayer became a naturalised Australian citizen in 2009. Sayer was a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s...

    ) 3:52
  2. "The Way of the World" (Courtney, Adam Faith
    Adam Faith
    Terence "Terry" Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith was a Teen idol English singer, actor and later financial journalist. He was one of the most charted acts of the 1960s. He became the first UK artist to lodge his initial seven hits in the Top 5...

    ) 3:16
  3. "Thinking" (Courtney, Sayer) 4:25
  4. "There Is Love" (Courtney, Sayer) 4:36
  5. "Giving It All Away" (Courtney, Sayer) 3:34
  6. "(Come And) Get Your Love" (Russ Ballard
    Russ Ballard
    Russell Glyn Ballard is an English singer, songwriter and musician.-Career:Ballard was initially a guitarist with Buster Meikle & The Day Breakers in 1961, together with Roy Ballard, Russ's older brother on piano and Bob Henrit on drums...

    ) 3:44
  7. "The World Over" (Paul Korda
    Paul Korda
    Paul Korda is an English songwriter, singer, musician, and actor. He has been writing and performing music since the 1960s...

    ) 3:08
  8. "Proud" (Ballard) 4:51
  9. "Dear John" (Courtney) 3:48
  10. "Avenging Annie" (Pratt) 4:32
  11. "One of the Boys" (Gibbons) 2:46
  12. "Martyrs and Madmen" (Steve Swindells
    Steve Swindells
    Steve Swindells is an English singer-songwriter, keyboardist, party organiser, club promoter and journalist.Swindells grew up in the Bath and Bristol area, dropping out of art college to play keyboards with the rock band Squidd. Relocating to London in 1973 and living in squats, he recorded his...

    ) 4:19
  13. "Say It Ain't So, Joe" (Murray Head
    Murray Head
    Murray Seafield Saint-George Head is a British actor and singer, most recognised for his international hit songs "Superstar" and "One Night in Bangkok" and his album Say It Ain't So...

    ) 4:16
  14. "Bitter and Twisted" (Swindells) 4:07
  15. "Free Me" (Ballard) 3:59
  16. "Without Your Love" (Billy Nicholls
    Billy Nicholls
    Billy Nicholls is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and musical director, who first gained fame in the 1960s while still a teenager with his Pet Sounds influenced album, Would You Believe, originally released on Immediate Records.Nicholls' compositions have been covered by many...

    ) 3:19
  17. "Waiting for a Friend" (Nicholls) 3:24
  18. "Parting Would Be Painless" (Hain) 3:42
  19. "After the Fire" (Pete Townshend
    Pete Townshend
    Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career...

    ) 4:37
  20. "Under a Raging Moon" (Downes, Parr) 5:34


Disc 2
  1. "Behind Blue Eyes
    Behind Blue Eyes
    "Behind Blue Eyes" is the title of a song by English rock band The Who. It was released in November 1971 as the second single from their fifth album Who's Next and was written by Pete Townshend originally for his Lifehouse project...

    " (Townshend) 2:29
  2. "Won't Get Fooled Again
    Won't Get Fooled Again
    "Won't Get Fooled Again" is a song by the rock band The Who which was written by Pete Townshend The original version of the song appears as the final track on the album Who's Next...

    " (Townshend) 7:52
  3. "Quicksilver Lightning" (Moroder, Pitchford) 4:43
  4. "Lover's Storm" (Kelly, Usher) 3:54
  5. "Mack the Knife
    Mack the Knife
    "Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife", originally "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer", is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera. It premiered in Berlin in 1928 at the...

    " (Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

    , Kurt Weill
    Kurt Weill
    Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...

    ) 4:49
  6. "The Pig Must Die" (Mike Batt
    Mike Batt
    Michael Philip "Mike" Batt is a British songwriter, musician, producer and Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry...

    ) 4:30
  7. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" (Elton John
    Elton John
    Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...

    , Bernie Taupin
    Bernie Taupin
    Bernard John "Bernie" Taupin is an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs, making his lyrics some of the best known in pop-rock's history.In 1967, Taupin answered an advertisement in...

    ) 6:12
  8. "Rock and Roll
    Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin song)
    "Rock and Roll" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, which was first released as the second track from the band's fourth album in 1971, with a guest appearance by The Rolling Stones pianist Ian Stewart.-Overview:...

    " (John Bonham
    John Bonham
    John Henry Bonham was an English musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer of Led Zeppelin. Bonham was esteemed for his speed, power, fast right foot, distinctive sound, and "feel" for the groove...

    , John Paul Jones
    John Paul Jones (musician)
    John Paul Jones is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer. Best known as the bassist, mandolinist, and keyboardist for English rock band Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a solo career and has gained even more respect as both a musician and a...

    , Jimmy Page
    Jimmy Page
    James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Jimmy Page...

    , Robert Plant
    Robert Plant
    Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...

    ) 3:39
  9. "Who's Gonna Walk On Water" (MacMahon) 4:45
  10. "Love Is" (Byrd, Daltrey, Katz, MacMahon) 4:09
  11. "Blues Man's Road" (Byrd, MacMahon) 4:03
  12. "Baba O'Riley
    Baba O'Riley
    "Baba O'Riley" is a song written by Pete Townshend for the English rock band The Who. Roger Daltrey sings most of the song, with Pete Townshend singing the middle eight: "Don't cry/don't raise your eye/it's only teenaged wasteland"...

    " (Townshend) 3:23
  13. "Pinball Wizard
    Pinball Wizard
    "Pinball Wizard" is a song written by Pete Townshend and performed by the English rock band The Who, and featured on their 1969 rock opera album Tommy. The original recording was released as a single in 1969 and reached No. 4 in the UK charts and No. 19 on the U.S...

    " (Townshend) 3:43
  14. "The Real Me" (Townshend) 4:30
  15. "Child of Mine" (Daltrey, MacMahon) 4:02
  16. "Born to Run
    Born to Run (song)
    "Born to Run" is a song by American singer songwriter Bruce Springsteen, and the title song of his album Born to Run.- Songwriting :Written at in Long Branch, New Jersey in early 1974, the song was Bruce Springsteen's last-ditch effort to make it big. The prior year, Springsteen had released two...

    " (Bruce Springsteen
    Bruce Springsteen
    Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...

    ) 5:12
  17. "A Second Out" (Daltrey, McEwan
    Steve McEwan
    Steve McEwan is a British-born hit songwriter, artist, and musician. His songs have been recorded by country music artists including Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill and Keith Urban...

    )

Song chart positions

  • "Giving It All Away" (#5 UK), 1973
  • "Without Your Love" (#20 US), 1980
  • "Free Me" (#39 UK), 1980
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