Rock And Roll Corridor Of Famers THE WHO have confirmed a strong lineup of particular visitors set to hitch them on their last North American run, “The Tune Is Over Tour”. Artists together with BILLY BOB THORNTON AND THE BOXMASTERS, Billy Idol, Booker T. Jones, CANDLEBOX, FEIST, Joe Bonamassa, THE JOE PERRY PROJECT (Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Buck Johnson, Chris Robinson, Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz),Tom Cochrane and ZZ Ward will seem throughout varied stops on the historic farewell tour.
Moreover, THE WHO has added a second evening in Chicago, Illinois — Tuesday, September 9 at United Middle — resulting from unbelievable fan demand. Joe Bonamassa will help each Chicago dates.
“The Tune Is Over” marks a bittersweet goodbye for one among rock’s most enduring and influential acts, celebrating almost six a long time of groundbreaking music. Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend introduced the tour throughout a reside press convention from London’s Iconic Photographs gallery, the place additionally they unveiled a uncommon piece of memorabilia: the American soccer helmet from their 1974 album “Odds & Sods”, from the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame.
Tickets for the newly added Chicago present will probably be accessible beginning with a Citi presale and thru THE WHO fan membership (particulars beneath) starting on Tuesday, Might 20. Extra presales will run all through the week forward of the final on-sale starting on Friday, Might 23 at 10:00 a.m. native time at thewho.com/tour/. All different exhibits are on sale now on the identical location.
Be a part of the Whooligan fan membership to obtain early ticket entry, unique Whooligan merchandise, and a duplicate of the beforehand unreleased album “Reside At The Oval 1971”, one among THE WHO‘s most legendary exhibits, which has been newly blended and mastered from the unique tapes.
The tour may even provide quite a lot of VIP packages and experiences for followers to take their live performance expertise to the subsequent stage. Packages differ however embrace premium tickets, entry to pre-show soundcheck, invitation to the pre-show VIP Lounge, a limited-edition autographed tour poster and extra. VIP package deal contents differ based mostly on the provide chosen. For extra info, go to vipnation.com.
THE WHO “The Tune Is Over” 2025 North American tour dates:
Aug. 16 – Dawn, FL – Amerant Financial institution Area =
Aug. 19 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Middle =
Aug. 21 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Middle ^
Aug. 23 – Atlantic Metropolis, NJ – Jim Whelan Boardwalk Corridor +
Aug. 26 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park ~
Aug. 28 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Seashore Theater $
Aug. 30 – New York, NY – Madison Sq. Backyard $
Sep. 02 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage >
Sep. 04 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage >
Sep. 07 – Chicago, IL – United Middle <
Sep. 09 – Chicago, IL – United Middle < (new present)
Sep. 17 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl ~
Sep. 19 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
Sep. 21 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre #
Sep. 23 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Area #
Sep. 25 – Seattle, WA – Local weather Pledge Area #
Sep. 28 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Backyard Area !
= with BILLY BOB THORNTON AND THE BOXMASTERS
^ with ZZ Ward
+ with Booker T. Jones
~ with THE JOE PERRY PROJECT
$ with FEIST
> with Tom Cochrane
< with Joe Bonamassa
# with CANDLEBOX
! with Billy Idol
Over the weekend, Townshend introduced that THE WHO has parted methods with drummer Zak Starkey — the son of THE BEATLES legend Ringo Starr — who had performed with the band for 3 a long time.
“After a few years of nice work on drums from Zak the time has come for a change,” the guitarist wrote on his official Instagram. “A poignant time. Zak has numerous new tasks in hand and I want him the perfect.”
Starkey, who was reinstated into the long-lasting rock band after being fired in April 2025, confirmed he was let go a second time in a Might 18 Instagram submit. He wrote: “I used to be fired two weeks after reinstatement and requested to make a press release saying I had stop the who to pursue my different musical endevours this might be a lie. I like THE WHO and would by no means had stop. So I did not make the assertion ….quitting THE WHO would even have let down the numerous superb individuals who stood up for me (thanks all 1,000,000 instances over and extra) via the weeks of mayhem of me entering into an out an in an out an in an out like a bleedin squeezebox x”.
THE WHO shared in its Might 18 announcement that musician Scott Devours, who beforehand labored with Daltrey, would substitute Starkey whereas Zak pursues different tasks.
One in every of in style music’s most influential and resilient pairings, Pete and Roger have rewritten the rulebook on what it means to be a world-changing reside act all through a sea of seismic shifts that might have put every other rock dyad on the mat. Townshend has commented on their high-performance commonplace, which has “risen out of the ashes of the halcyon years of rock ‘n’ roll.” That is why it is no shock they’ve stacked among the greatest critiques of any performing artists previously decade. Selection raved “rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest achievement…” about their earlier American tour; proof of their unbelievable endurance and a testomony to an unparalleled repertoire of songs written by Townshend and sung by Daltrey with an consideration to element unmatched within the rock period.
Followers and critics proceed to hail Pete and Roger‘s capacity to play the lengthy sport in music with ardour and integrity like few earlier than them. The historic 2025 “The Tune Is Over” tour will mark the ultimate face-to-face celebration of this timeless reference to North American WHO followers, endlessly appreciative of the band’s capacity to dispense with nostalgia and ship genuine rock moments time and time once more.
Additional proof that the duo continues to be on the high of their sport may very well be gleaned in a 2024 evaluation of their efficiency on the Teenage Most cancers Belief‘s historic annual live performance at London’s Royal Albert Corridor, honoring the work of its founder, Roger Daltrey, who stepped down from his curatorial position after 24 years. One reviewer of THE WHO‘s efficiency known as it: “Probably the most joyous bombastic live shows London’s magnificent Royal Albert Corridor has ever seen…”
America’s love affair with THE WHO reside started 58 years in the past when the band had been a part of “Murray The Okay’s Music In The Fifth Dimension”, a sequence of showcase occasions at RKO’s 58th Avenue Theatre in New York over 9 days in March and April 1967. The band performed simply three songs (“Cannot Clarify”, “Substitute”, “My Era”),and different acts on the invoice included CREAM, SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES, SIMON & GARFUNKEL and WILSON PICKETT. Later that summer time, it was on the seminal Monterey Worldwide Pop Pageant in California that they rose to prominence in a defining second of the Summer time Of Love. Two years later, THE WHO had been as soon as once more entrance and middle on the most well-known pageant of the ’60s, Woodstock, performing an incendiary set within the early hours of August 17, 1969.
THE WHO continued to thrill U.S. followers all through the Nineteen Seventies earlier than enterprise their first “farewell” tour in 1982, which featured two exhibits on the legendary Shea Stadium in New York. When the band returned to the street within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s maybe one among their biggest performances was at “The Live performance For New York Metropolis” at Madison Sq. Backyard shortly after the phobia assault of 9/11, their three-song set in entrance of emergency staff and first responders was met with a primal roar from an viewers. When Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey got the Kennedy Middle Honors in December 2008 for his or her contributions to American tradition, a tribute efficiency of “Baba O’Riley” was delivered with a full choir of New York firefighters in gratitude for THE WHO‘s efficiency on the present.
Picture credit score: William Synder / Trinifold (courtesy of Reside Nation)
