Who’s higher? Who’s greatest!
Music is over? It sounds inconceivable, doesn’t it?
This advantageous journal is out in UK outlets tomorrow. However as this 172-page Definitive Version Final Music Information to The Who reaches the USA, it will likely be doing in order The Who embark on their farewell North American tour, which begins in Florida on August sixteenth, winding up in Las Vegas on September twenty sixth.
“Properly, all good issues should come to an finish,” Pete Townshend mentioned on the announcement in early Might. “It’s a poignant time. For me, taking part in to American audiences and people in Canada has at all times been unimaginable…”
Properly would possibly he suppose that. By no means thoughts the musical triumphs at generational occasions like Monterey (1967) or Woodstock (1969), or taking part in Tommy dwell for the primary time at classical music venues. The USA was additionally a scene of nice legend-making notoriety. That may imply detonating a bit of a TV studio on the Smothers Brothers present or being banned from the Vacation Inn chain of inns following Keith Moon’s birthday celebration. It was their playground, and – to be momentarily vulgar – additionally a spot the place they made some huge cash.
The Who’s unimaginable story – through in-depth evaluations of their beautiful catalogue, to alarming recollections of Keith Moon’s excessive spirits, to not point out insightful interviews with Pete Townshend – are to be discovered on this new journal. When you ever really feel at sea in all these pages, our eight-page Miscellany timeline will shortly put you again on the right track.
However what of The Who, 2025? A brand new field set is claimed to be within the works, with UK dates presumably to comply with – though Roger Daltrey was actually hedging his bets when he confronted questions on such a tour in Might. “Let’s see if we survive this one…” he mentioned.
Within the meantime, benefit from the journal.