Roger Daltrey has said that The Who “were the first heavy metal band”, claiming that they paved the way for the genre in the ‘60s. READ MORE: Pete Townshend tells us about his new Quadrophenia ballet and the future of The Who The rock icon made the comments during a new interview with Rolling Stone, saying that they demonstrated multiple sounds, live performance tricks and more that would go on to be synonymous with heavy metal. “We were just different than everybody else,” the frontman said, saying that while Americans generally “don’t really know The Who from the early ’60s”, if they were to look back, they’d see that their style back then had elements reminiscent of what would later be considered metal. “As the drummer of Deep Purple [Ian Paice] said recently: ‘The Who started it all.’ We were the first heavy metal band,” Daltrey said.…