The Who are saying goodbye. Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend have announced the Song Is Over Tour, which will feature their final shows in North America. See the band’s purported farewell tour dates below. Scroll down for the Who’s press conference about the farewell tour.
The Who toured North America for the first time in 1967. And, in 1982, they actually went on a “farewell tour.” Townshed recently told Rolling Stone, however, that it was never the band’s idea to say they’d stop touring. “It wasn’t me that said, ‘This is the last tour.’ It was the Who’s manager,” he said. “And he did it because it was a ‘ka-ching’ moment. We sold out an arena tour. It wasn’t a very smart thing to do. I should have really protested, but I didn’t. But I felt we could go, ‘I don’t care what the manager says, I don’t care what the record company or the promoter says. If we want to get back together on a tour again, we fuckin’ will.’ It just took a long time.”
Read about the Who’s The Who Sell Out at No. 69 in the Pitchfork feature “The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s.”
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The Who:
07-20 Padua, Italy – Stadio Euganeo
07-22 Milan, Italy – Ippodromo Snai San Siro
08-16 Sunrise, FL – Amerant Bank Arena
08-19 Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
08-21 Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
08-23 Atlantic City, NJ – Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall
08-26 Boston, MA – Fenway Park
08-28 Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Beach Theater
08-30 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
09-02 Toronto, Ontario – Budweiser Stage
09-04 Toronto, Ontario – Budweiser Stage
09-07 Chicago, IL – United Center
09-17 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
09-19 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
09-21 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
09-23 Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena
09-25 Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
09-28 Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena