LONDON (AP) — British rock band The Who’re to say their ultimate goodbye to North America this summer time.
Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend confirmed Thursday that they may carry out hits from six-decade profession throughout “The Song Is Over North America Farewell Tour,” named after the band’s 1971 hit.
The band, which by the Nineteen Seventies had grow to be one of many world’s greatest touring bands, simply filling the biggest U.S. stadiums, will play their first gig in Florida on Aug. 16, with additional dates in cities together with New York, Toronto, Los Angeles and Vancouver, earlier than a ultimate date in Las Vegas on Sept. 28.
“Every musician’s dream in the early ’60s was to make it big in the U.S. charts,” Daltrey said. “For The Who, that dream came true in 1967 and our lives were changed forever.”
The band went from performing membership reveals to headlining the Woodstock pageant within the U.S. and turning into one of many greatest box-office draw on this planet. The band had been inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Corridor Of Fame in 1990.
Daltrey, 81, and Townshend, two years his junior, have been certainly one of rock’s most prolific double acts, surviving the deaths of drummer Keith Moon in 1978 and bass guitarist John Entwistle in 2002.
“Today, Roger and I still carry the banner for the late Keith Moon and John Entwistle, and, of course, all of our long-time Who fans,” Townshend said. “I must say that although the road has not always been enjoyable for me, it is usually easy: the best job I could ever have had. I keep coming back.”
Although Daltrey didn’t write songs, he was in a position to channel Townsend’s many and complex moods — defiance and rage, vulnerability and desperation.
Collectively, they solid a few of rock’s most defining sounds: the stuttering, sneering supply of “My Generation,” the anguished cry of “They’re all wasted!” from “Baba O’Reilly,” and the all-time scream from “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” Two of their albums “Tommy” and “Quadrophenia” had been additionally tailored into profitable movies in 1975 and 1979, respectively.
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“Well, all good things must come to an end. It is a poignant time,” Townshend said. “For me, playing to American audiences and those in Canada has always been incredible.”
Daltrey, who mentioned a throat specialist has advised him he ought to have a “day off” after each gig he performs, and Townshend additionally revealed there aren’t any plans for the time being for a farewell tour of the U.Okay.
“Let’s see if we survive this one,” Daltrey mentioned. “I don’t want to say that there won’t be (a U.K. farewell tour), but equally I’m not confident in saying there will be.”
