According to The Sun, Daltrey disclosed to the audience that he is losing both his hearing and his sight. Daltrey drew eerie parallels to his own obstacles by humorously referenced the band’s 1969 rock opera Tommy, which tells the tale of a boy who is deaf, dumb and blind.

Roger Daltrey of the rock band The Who has revealed that he is slowly going deaf and blind after turning 81 on March 1. “The joys of getting old mean you go deaf. I also now have got the joy of going blind,” Daltrey told the crowd at London’s Royal Albert Hall during a concert on Thursday, March 27, per Sky News.

Daltrey joked once his voice was gone he’d have a “full Tommy,” referring to The Who’s 1969 rock opera, Tommy. The album tells the story of a fictional character named Tommy Walker who dissociates and becomes “deaf, dumb and blind” to the world around him.