The Who will perform one last time in North America this summer

LONDON – British rock set The Who are to accidental their last goodbye to North America this summer.

Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend confirmed Thursday that they volition execute hits from six-decade vocation during "The Song Is Over North America Farewell Tour," named aft the band’s 1971 hit.

The band, which by the 1970s had go 1 of the world’s biggest touring bands, easy filling the largest U.S. stadiums, volition play their archetypal gig successful Florida connected Aug. 16, with further dates successful cities including New York, Toronto, Los Angeles and Vancouver, earlier a last day successful Las Vegas connected Sept. 28.

“Every musician’s imagination successful the aboriginal '60s was to marque it large successful the U.S. charts," Daltrey said. “For The Who, that imagination came existent successful 1967 and our lives were changed forever.”

The set went from performing nine shows to headlining the Woodstock festival successful the U.S. and becoming 1 of the biggest box-office gully successful the world. The set were inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall Of Fame successful 1990.

Daltrey, 81, and Townshend, 2 years his junior, person been 1 of rock's astir prolific treble acts, surviving the deaths of drummer Keith Moon successful 1978 and bass guitarist John Entwistle successful 2002.

“Today, Roger and I inactive transportation the banner for the precocious Keith Moon and John Entwistle, and, of course, each of our long-time Who fans," Townshend said. “I indispensable accidental that though the roadworthy has not ever been enjoyable for me, it is usually easy: the champion occupation I could ever person had. I support coming back.”

Though Daltrey didn’t constitute songs, helium was capable to transmission Townsend’s galore and analyzable moods — defiance and rage, vulnerability and desperation.

Together, they forged immoderate of rock’s astir defining sounds: the stuttering, sneering transportation of “My Generation,” the anguished outcry of “They’re each wasted!” from “Baba O’Reilly,” and the all-time shriek from “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”

Pre-sales volition tally from May 13 up of the wide merchantability opening May 16.

“Well, each bully things indispensable travel to an end. It is simply a poignant time," Townshend said. “For me, playing to American audiences and those successful Canada has ever been incredible.”

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