The Who’re saying goodbye. The rock band introduced on Thursday that they’ve set their ultimate North American tour, titled the Track Is Over Tour, after their 1971 music. The band calls it the “grand finale of their illustrious six-decade profession.”
The Track Is Over Tour will kick off in Dawn, Florida on Aug. 16, taking them throughout the nation in stops together with Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles, earlier than the tour ends on Sept. 28 in Las Vegas. Thus far the band hasn’t revealed dates outdoors of North America. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, Could 16 at 10 a.m. native time.
This after all isn’t The Who’s first farewell tour, because the band first stated goodbye 1982. In addition they had their fiftieth anniversary tour in 2015 and performed dozens of exhibits in 2019.
“Each musician’s dream in the early 60’s was to make it huge in the US charts. For the Who, that dream got here true in 1967 and our lives had been modified without end,” Roger Daltrey stated. “The heat of the American audiences over the years have been inspirational to me, and replicate the feeling I keep in mind getting after listening to the first rock information coming throughout the radio. Musical freedom! Rock gave us a sense of generational insurrection. To me, America has all the time been nice. The cultural variations had a huge effect on me, this was the land of the doable. It’s not straightforward to finish the huge 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.”
As Pete Townshend added: “All good issues should come to an finish. It’s a poignant time … At present, 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 pleasurable for me, it’s normally straightforward: the finest job I may ever have had.”
Final month, The Who had one other shakeup after they briefly parted methods with their drummer, Zak Starkey, the son of Ringo Starr. The separation solely lasted just a few days, nevertheless, with Townshend saying that “there have been some communication points, private and personal on all sides, that wanted to be handled, and these have been aired fortunately.”
