Their final tour began at the Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Florida, on August 16th, visited Newark, New Jersey, on August 19th, and the iconic band will take to the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia tonight (August 21st).
Notably, the tour is called ‘The Song Is Over’ after their classic track of the same name. It wasn’t until earlier this year that The Who performed it live for the first time, despite it originally being released in 1971, but now it is their set closer.
As noted by Ultimate Classic Rock, the original lyrics in ‘The Song Is Over’ are: “The song is over, I’m left with only tears, I must remember, Even if it takes a million years.”
However, in New Jersey, Daltrey emotionally sang, “The song is over, Thanks for all the years, I’ll always remember, Even if I live for a million years.”
The Who’s farewell tour will conclude in Las Vegas on September 28th, and they will be joined on the jaunt by special guests Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters, Billy Idol, Booker T Jones, Candlebox, Feist, Joe Bonamassa, The Joe Perry Project, Tom Cochrane, and ZZ Ward.
Earlier this month, Daltrey expressed his fears about his health holding out for the extensive tour, telling The Times, “The potential to get really ill is there and, I have to be honest, I’m nervous about making it to the end of the tour.”
Looking beyond the tour, his bandmate, Pete Townshend, revealed that he has a whopping “140 tracks ready to go,” outside of plans for a solo album, Age of Anxiety, for which he has 26 songs. He added, “I want to continue to be creative. I’ve got songs in all kinds of development.”
