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The Who ‘Going Mobile’ For The Last Time?
The Who’s Pete Townshend told reporters in London this week that the band would celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2015 with a global tour before putting its Magic Bus up on blocks … forever.
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The Joint, Las Vegas, Nev.
Townshend talked about the band’s final hoorah while he and Who frontman Roger Daltrey were at a screening of the rock doc “Sensation – The Story Of The Who’s Tommy,” reports the Evening Standard.
“For the 50th anniversary we’ll tour the world,” Townshend said. “It’ll be the last big one for us. There are still plenty of places we’ve not played. It would be good to go to eastern Europe and places that haven’t heard us play all the old hits.”
We wouldn’t blame you if Pete’s words give you a slight feeling of déjà vu. The Who’s 1982 outing was supposed to be the band’s swan song. But less than 36 months after that tour’s final stop the band performed on “Live Aid.” Four years later The Who was back in full force with the 1989 “Tommy” tour.
Townshend and Daltrey are the last surviving original members of The Who. Drummer Keith Moon died in 1978 after taking an overdose of an anti-alcohol abuse drug. John Entwistle died in Las Vegas the night before The Who was to launch its 2002 North American tour. Nevada’s Clark County medical examiner ruled that the bassist died of a heart attack brought on by cocaine usage.