The Who Relaunch 50th Anniversary Tour After Roger Daltrey Illness




The Who will relaunch their "Who Hits 50!" North American tour on February 27th, 2016 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, resuming a massive trek that was canceled earlier this month after singer Roger Daltrey fell ill.
"We will be starting our rescheduled shows in March and will be coming back stronger than ever!" guitarist Pete Townshend said in a statement.

After initially postponing four dates — as well as their September 17th slot at the iHeartRadio Festival — the Who called off their fall trek to allow Daltrey the chance to recover from viral meningitis.

"I am now on the mend and feeling a lot better, but I am going to need a considerable time to recover," Daltrey said at the time. "The doctors tell me I will make a complete recovery, but that I should not do any touring this year."

As promised, all original ticket purchases will be honored at the rescheduled dates. The only note, per a statement, was that tickets for the October 19th show in Toronto will be accepted at the March 1st show, while those for the December 1st gig in Toronto will be honored at the April 26th performance. A complete list of dates is available below.

Tickets and VIP packages are available via the Who's website. Citi cardmembers will also be able to purchase tickets for U.S. dates via Citi's Private Pass Program.

Daltrey described the "Who Hits 50!" trek as "the beginning of a long goodbye." The show featured a setlist spanning the band's entire 50-year history — a mix that Townshend dubbed "Hits, Picks, Mixes and Misses."

Who Hits 50! rescheduled tour dates

February 27 — Detroit, MI @ Joe Louis Arena
March 1 — Toronto, On @ Air Canada Centre
March 3 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
March 7 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
March 10 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
March 12 — Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
March 14 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
March 16 — Pittsburgh, PA @ CONSOL Energy Center
March 19 — Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
March 21 — Milwaukee, WI @ BMO Harris Bradley Center
March 24 — Washington, DC @ Verizon Center
March 26 — St. Louis, MO @ Scottrade Center
March 29 — Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
April 26 — Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
April 29 — Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
May 1 — Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center
May 4 — Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre
May 6 — Saskatoon, SK @ SaskTel Centre
May 8 — Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place
May 10 — Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
May 13 — Vancouver, BC @ Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
May 15 — Seattle, WA @ KeyArena at Seattle Center
May 17 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center
May 19 — Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena
May 22 — Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center
May 25 — Los Angeles, CA @ STAPLES Center
May 27 — San Diego, CA @ Valley View Casino Center
May 29 — Las Vegas, NV @ Colosseum at Caesars Palace

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40 Years Ago: The Who Struggle With Growing Older on ‘The Who by Numbers’


After releasing two of the greatest rock concept albums of all time in Tommy and Quadrophenia, the Who had nowhere to go but down — at least in terms of overweening ambition, anyway. The result, 1975′s The Who by Numbers, proved a critical and commercial triumph in the face of personal adversity.

At the time, the band were battling demons on two fronts. On one hand, they felt somewhat boxed in after setting the template for rock concept records. As singer Roger Daltrey complained, fans and critics expected the band’s albums to come with a certain amount of heft, to the point that they sometimes weren’t willing to give non-concept efforts their proper due.

Grumbling that “nobody wanted to listen to what [else] we were doing” after Tommy came out, Daltrey argued to Rolling Stone, “Who’s Next holds up much better, but nobody wanted to take it seriously because it was just nine songs and no great thing about a bloody spastic.”

Further complicating things was the band members’ increasingly critical view of where the Who stood — or should stand — in a turbulent musical landscape that had grown to encompass styles that seemed to exist in contrast to the growing complexity and maturity of the band’s own work. For guitarist Pete Townshend, who wrote the bulk of the material, the question proved particularly vexing.

“Before the emergence of punk, the Who were the only band who actually sat round a table to decide ‘Should we go on or not?’ Would we be doing music a favour if we just f—ing stopped? We actually considered that,” Townshend told NME

“Around the time of The Who by Numbers we used to have really quite heavy conversations about where music was going to go – particularly in this country – and whether we should be involved in it, and the problem with [drummer Keith Moon] living in America and living that Hollywood lifestyle and whether we should try and force him to come back to England … all those kind of things. Whether our music should change, whether we should let the Who tradition just bash on until it got really boring, whether we should try and force change by starting labels and working with other bands.”

As Who fans are well aware, the band opted to forge ahead with their seventh studio album, The Who by Numbers, which arrived in stores on Oct. 3, 1975 — nearly two years after Quadrophenia, and a relative eternity during the speedier release cycle that was the norm at the time. Realizing their rather chaotic state would make recording more of a slog than normal, they enlisted producer Glyn Johns to help wrangle the sessions into shape, and as the weeks dragged into months, Johns earned every penny of his paycheck even though the album’s aesthetics were less intricate and synthesizer-driven than the recordings that had preceded it.

“Glyn worked harder on The Who by Numbers than I’ve ever seen him. He had to, not because the tracks were weak or the music poor but because the group was so useless,” Townshend’s quoted as saying in Alan G. Parker and Steve Grantley’s The Who by Numbers. “We played cricket between takes or went to the pub. I personally had never done that before. I felt detached from my own songs, from the whole record. Recording the album seemed to take me nowhere. Roger was angry with the world at the time. Keith seemed as impetuous as ever, on the wagon one minute, off the next. [Bassist John Entwistle] was obviously gathering strength throughout the whole period; the great thing about it was he seemed to know we were going to need him more than ever before in the coming year.”


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The Who‘s 2015 June 26th show at London’s Hyde Park will be issued as a four-disc deluxe book set in November, along with other special editions.

In their fiftieth anniversary year, the band played to a crowd of 50,000, delivering a set jam-packed with hits. It was all filmed in HD of course, and the deluxe edition features two-CDs of audio, a blu-ray and a DVD of the concert housed in a 60-page hardcover book. This is just £30 on Amazon France which is the best price at the moment.

Further DVD+2CD, DVD+3LP, 2CD sets and individual blu-ray and DVD releases will be available to pre-order soon.

Live in Hyde Park is out on 20 November 2015
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Alcuni brani direttamente dal nuovo album live.
Una The Seeker da paura.

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Non solo The Seeker ma anche gli altri due pezzi non scherzano
Accidenti questi spaccano anmcora e alla grande

Ladies and gentlemen..........The Who

50 YEARS OF THE WHO
7 January 1966. The Who are up in Middlesborough playing at Mister McCoy's Club.

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Concerti: gli Who saranno headliner al Festival dell'Isola di Wight del 2016

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The Who, la migliore live band della storia del rock, tornano in Italia per due imperdibili concerti il 17 settembre all'Unipol Arena di Bologna e il 19 settembre al Mediolanum Forum di Assago.

I biglietti per entrambe le date saranno disponibili a partire dal 6 maggio alle ore 10 su http://www.ticketone.it

oh yeah!!!

finalmente. si sa qualcosa sul prezzo?

Cazz...io è da ieri che cerco ma niente il prezzo non si sa..speriamo non sparino cifre aasurde

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Da venerdì in vendita i biglietti per Casalecchio di Reno e Milano, uniche 2 tappe italiane.
Sici

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Preso 2 parterre per Milano alle 10,00. Alle 10,05 erano finiti

anch'io ho preso 2 parterre per il Forum a 90 € cad.
ora il nuovo giochino e' non comunicare i prezzi fino alla vendita, maledetti
comunque sono tuttora disponibili tutti i settori, basta aggiornare la pagina e vanno e vengono

line-up "originale" degli ultimi anni, con Zak alla batteria e Palladino al basso:
Roger Daltrey – voce
Pete Townshend – chitarra
Simon Townshend – chitarra
Pino Palladino – basso
Zak Starkey – batteria

presi