At this time, one of many biggest bands in rock historical past, The Who, have introduced their bittersweet remaining tour of the US and Canada as a very grand finale of their illustrious six-decade profession. Full tour routing and ticketing info is on the market beneath.
The legendary duo revealed the information dwell throughout a press convention on the Iconic Pictures gallery in Piccadilly, London. View the livestream announcement beneath that includes Roger Daltrey & Pete Townshend discussing the 2025 collection of dates, aptly titled The Music Is Over North America Farewell Tour (named after The Who’s 1971 traditional track).
The key press convention in London is showcasing a uncommon piece of Who memorabilia and US connection, an American soccer helmet featured on the sleeve of their traditional 1974 album, ‘Odds & Sods’ just lately returned from the Rock ’n’ Roll Corridor Of Fame.
Roger Daltrey says: “Each musician’s dream within the early 60’s was to make it large within the US charts. For the Who, that dream got here true in 1967 and our lives have been modified eternally. The heat of the American audiences over time have been inspirational to me, and mirror the sensation I keep in mind getting after listening to the primary rock data coming throughout the radio. Musical freedom! Rock gave us a sense of generational riot. To me, America has all the time been nice. The cultural variations had a huge effect on me, this was the land of the attainable. It’s not straightforward to finish the large a part of my life that touring with The Who has been. Thanks for being there for us and stay up for seeing you one final time.”
Pete Townshend says: “Nicely, all good issues should come to an finish. It’s a poignant time. For me, enjoying to American audiences and people in Canada has all the time been unbelievable. The heat and engagement of these audiences started again in 1967 with hippies smoking dope, sitting on their blankets and listening deeply and intensely. Music was in all places. All of us felt equal. At this time, Roger and I nonetheless carry the banner for the late Keith Moon and John Entwistle and naturally, all of our longtime Who followers. I need to say that though the highway has not all the time been gratifying for me, it’s often straightforward: one of the best job I might ever have had. I preserve coming again. Each time I do, I meet new followers and really feel new power. Roger and I are in an excellent place, regardless of our age, desperate to throw our weight behind this fond farewell to all our devoted followers, and hopefully to new ones who would possibly bounce in to see what they’ve been lacking for the final 57 years. This tour shall be about fond reminiscences, love and laughter. Ensure you take part.”
Tickets shall be accessible beginning with a Citi presale and thru the Who Fan Membership (particulars beneath) starting on Tuesday, Might 13. Further pre-sales will run all through the week forward of the overall onsale starting on Friday, Might 16 at 10:00 AM native time at thewho.com/tour/.
Citi is the official card of The Who – The Music Is Over – North American Farewell Tour. Citi cardmembers can have entry to presale tickets within the U.S. starting Tuesday, Might 13 at 10:00 AM native time till Thursday, Might 15 at 10:00 PM native time by means of the Citi Leisure program. For full presale particulars, go to www.citientertainment.com.
Be part of the Wholigan Fan Membership solely HERE to obtain early ticket entry, unique Wholigan merchandise, and a duplicate of the beforehand unreleased album, The Who Stay At The Oval 1971, one in every of The Who’s most legendary exhibits, which has been newly combined and mastered from the unique tapes.
The tour may also provide a wide range of VIP packages and experiences for followers to take their live performance expertise to the following stage. Packages range however embrace premium tickets, entry to pre-show soundcheck, invitation to the pre-show VIP Lounge, a restricted version autographed tour poster & extra. VIP package deal contents range primarily based on the provide chosen. For extra info, go to vipnation.com.
Certainly one of common music’s most influential and resilient pairings, Pete and Roger have rewritten the rulebook on what it means to be a world-changing dwell act all through a sea of seismic shifts that may have put some other rock dyad on the mat. Townshend has commented on their high-performance customary, which has “risen out of the ashes of the halcyon years of rock ‘n’ roll.” That’s why it’s no shock they’ve stacked a number of the finest evaluations of any performing artists up to now decade. Selection raved “rock ’n’ roll’s biggest achievement…” about their earlier American tour; proof of their unbelievable endurance and a testomony to an unparalleled repertoire of songs written by Townshend and sung by Daltrey with an consideration to element unmatched within the rock period.
Followers and critics proceed to hail Pete and Roger’s capability to play the lengthy recreation in music with ardour and integrity like few earlier than them. The historic 2025 The Music Is Over tour will mark the ultimate face-to-face celebration of this timeless reference to North American Who followers, eternally appreciative of the band’s capability to dispense with nostalgia and ship genuine rock moments time and time once more.
Additional proof that the duo continues to be on the prime of their recreation might be gleaned in a 2024 overview of their efficiency on the Teenage Most cancers Belief’s historic annual live performance at London’s Royal Albert Corridor, honoring the work of its founder, Roger Daltrey, who stepped down from his curatorial position after 24 years. One reviewer of The Who’s efficiency referred to as it: “One of the crucial joyous bombastic concert events London’s magnificent Royal Albert Corridor has ever seen…”
America’s love affair with The Who dwell started 58 years in the past when the band have been a part of ‘Murray The Ok’s Music within the Fifth Dimension’, a collection of showcase occasions at RKO’s 58th Avenue Theatre in New York over 9 days in March and April 1967. The band performed simply three songs (‘I Can’t Clarify’, ‘Substitute’, ‘My Technology’), and different acts on the invoice included Cream, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Simon & Garfunkel, and Wilson Pickett. Later that summer season, it was on the seminal Monterey Worldwide Pop Pageant in California that they rose to prominence in a defining second of the Summer season Of Love. Two years later, The Who have been as soon as once more entrance and centre on the most well-known competition of the ’60s, Woodstock, performing an incendiary set within the early hours of August seventeenth, 1969.
The Who continued to thrill US followers all through the Seventies earlier than enterprise their first ‘farewell’ tour in 1982, which featured two exhibits on the legendary Shea Stadium in New York. When the band returned to the highway within the late Nineties and early 2000s maybe one in every of their biggest performances was at The Live performance For New York Metropolis at Madison Sq. Backyard shortly after the fear assault of 9/11, their three-song set in entrance of emergency staff and first responders was met with a primal roar from an viewers. When Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey got the Kennedy Heart Honors in December 2008 for his or her contributions to American tradition, a tribute efficiency of ‘Baba O’Riley’ was delivered with a full choir of New York firefighters in gratitude for The Who’s efficiency on the present.
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THE SONG IS OVER
2025 NORTH AMERICA TOUR
• Aug 16 – Dawn, FL – Amerant Financial institution Area
• Aug 19 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Heart
• Aug 21 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Heart
• Aug 23 – Atlantic Metropolis, NJ – Jim Whelan Boardwalk Corridor
• Aug 26 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park
• Aug 28 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Seashore Theater
• Aug 30 – New York, NY – Madison Sq. Backyard
• Sep 2 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
• Sep 4 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
• Sep 7 – Chicago, IL – United Heart
• Sep 17 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
• Sep 19 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
• Sep 21 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
• Sep 23 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Area
• Sep 25 – Seattle, WA – Local weather Pledge Area
• Sep 28 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Backyard Area