Bob Pridden is the long-standing sound engineer of rock band The Who, and co-produced Roger Daltrey's vocals on their 2006 album Endless Wire. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that Bob Pridden be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that Bob Pridden be merged into this article or section. ... Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944) is a rock vocalist, songwriter, and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of The Who, an English rock band. ... Endless Wire is an album by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot, released in 1978 on the Warner Brothers label (#3149). ...

He was born in 1946 in Ickenham, England, only a few miles from the west London neighbourhoods in which Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and the other original members of The Who grew up. According to a post Pete Townshend left on his website in April 2007, Bob and the rest of the band "all converged just before the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. So we have worked together for 40 years."

During that time, Pridden has remained a constant feature of any Who live appearance, visible on the edge of the stage behind his mixing desk, gently rocking to the music, while ensuring that all the musicians hear their own and each other's performances at their preferred levels. His reputation as "the fifth member of The Who" was reinforced by his photograph appearing on the back of the The Who's 1974 album 'Odds & Sods'.

Pridden has worked both on stage and in the studio with many other of rock's major names, as well as some younger acts he was keen to see succeed. He is credited on several of The Who's albums, including 'Live at Leeds', often said to be the best live rock album ever released, and received credit as producer on the 1973 LP 'Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert', organized by Townshend, Pridden and others to help their old friend Clapton emerge from a troubled period. Apart from early seminal live events such as Woodstock, one of Pridden's most notable contributions was at Live Aid in London in 1985 when he acted as sound engineer not only to The Who but also to rock aristocrats David Bowie and Paul McCartney.

Pridden continues to tour with Townshend and Daltrey as The Who, although without the other two original members, drummer Keith Moon (died 1978) and bass-player John Entwistle (died 2002). He is unusual in the music business for having attained recognition for his technical rather than musical input. Following the abovementioned peaen to Pridden on Townshend's website, an aspiring musician apologized on her blog for her recordings' shortcomings, explaining that they were "proof positive that I am not Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, George Martin, Glyn Johns, Bob Pridden, or Nigel Godrich."