Pete Townshend Confirms the Who’s Return in 2025
The Who is not completed but. After a yr largely spent aside, Pete Townshend confirms that he and Roger Daltrey might be working collectively once more in 2025.
“I met with Roger for lunch a couple of weeks ago,” Townshend tells The Standard. “We’re in good form. We love each other. We’re both getting a bit creaky, but we will definitely do something next year.”
Their most up-to-date tour collectively dates again to 2023, when the Who’s reveals have been augmented with strings. Townshend signifies that any future dates would extra intently resemble Daltrey’s extra stripped-down 2024 U.S. tour.
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“The last big tours that we’ve done have been with a full orchestra, which was glorious,” Townshend argues, “but we’re now eager to make a noise and make a mess and make mistakes.”
The Who performed a few stand-alone reveals in March in assist of Teenage Cancer Trust at London’s Royal Albert Hall. More just lately, Daltrey inducted Peter Frampton into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Townshend will take the stage in November at the Theatre Royal in London for a efficiency of The Seeker, an upcoming idea album accomplished along with his spouse Rachel Fuller. The most up-to-date album underneath the Who banner stays 2019’s Who.
Townshend factors the finger at Daltrey for this delay, although the dam could also be near breaking: “The album side of it – Roger’s not keen but I would love to do another album,” Townshend provides, “and I may try to bully him on that.”
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