The Who Announce 2025 North American ‘Farewell Tour’ Dates

After 61 years, The Music is Over for rock titans The Who. On Thursday (Might 8) the band introduced they’ll play their closing run of reveals in North America this coming August and September as a part of a farewell tour. The announcement was made by guitarist Pete Townshend at a press convention in London with singer Roger Daltrey showing through video hyperlink.

The tour – named after their 1971 music “The Music is Over” – kicks off in Newark, N.J. on Aug. 19 and runs by main cities together with New York Metropolis, Boston, Toronto, Los Angeles and extra. See the total run of reveals under. The band has not introduced any additional reveals exterior of the U.S. and Canada presently.

Tickets shall be out there by The Who Fan Membership, starting Might 13. Further presales will run all through the week forward of the overall sale beginning Might 16 at 10 a.m. native time. See the total data right here.

“Properly, all good issues should come to an finish,” Townshend stated in a press release. “It’s a poignant time. For me, taking part in 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,” he continued. “At present, Roger and I nonetheless carry the banner for the late [drummer] Keith Moon and [bassist] John Entwistle and naturally, all of our longtime Who followers.”

Daltrey added, “Each musician’s dream within the early 60’s was to make it massive within the U.S. charts. For the Who, that dream got here true in 1967 and our lives have been modified without end. The heat of the American audiences over time have been inspirational to me, and replicate the sensation I bear in mind getting after listening to the primary rock data coming throughout the radio. Musical freedom! Rock gave us a sense of generational rebel.”

“To me, America has all the time been nice. The cultural variations had a big impact on me, this was the land of the potential,” Daltrey continued. “It’s not simple to finish the massive a part of my life that touring with The Who has been. Thanks for being there for us and sit up for seeing you one final time.”

Daltery, Townshend and Entwistle first carried out dwell collectively as The Detours in 1962, and formally turned The Who in 1964, with drummer Moon finishing the basic lineup in Might of that 12 months. They toured primarily within the U.Ok. and Europe and first hit the U.S. in 1967 to assist their third LP The Who Promote Out.

Their hell-raising excursions continued with the releases of rock operas Tommy (1969) and Quadrophenia (1973). Their 1970 dwell assortment Stay at Leeds is extensively thought of one of many defining dwell rock albums of its period.

This isn’t the primary time that The Who’ve introduced a ‘farewell tour.’ In 1982 the band performed a closing run of reveals within the U.Ok. and North America and immortalised the present with dwell album Who’s Final. They reunited for brief performances at Stay Support in 1985 and 1988, and a 12 months later in 1989, the group reunited for a 50-show tour. 

In 2015, The Who’s fiftieth anniversary tour was dubbed as a “lengthy goodbye” by Daltrey and noticed them play 70 reveals in Europe, North America and Asia. Between 2019 and 2021, the band toured their 2019 album WHO, their first in 13 years.

The information follows a current live performance at London’s Royal Albert Corridor which noticed longtime drummer Zak Starkey, son of Ringo Starr, sacked from the group for his efficiency. After a quick interval of uncertainty, Starkey was reinstated with Townshend saying, “There have been some communication points, private and personal on all sides, that wanted to be handled, and these have been aired fortunately.

The Who ‘The Music is Over’ North American Tour Dates