The Who Farewell Tour

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One of the most impactful touring concerns in the history of live music will make its last run with The Who’s final tour of North America, set to begin Aug. 16 at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla.

Billed as “The Song is Over—North American Farewell Tour,” the trek currently stands at nearly 20 shows in 14 cities, including doubles in Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles so far. Immediate plans call for the tour to wrap North America on Sept. 28 in Las Vegas, though longtime Who manager Bill Curbishley and tour promoter Steve Herman with Live Nation both tell Pollstar further international shows could be in the cards.

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But for Who fans in America, you better, you better, you bet: this is it. “This definitely will be the last tour of the U.S., that’s for sure,” The Who’s founding front man Roger Daltrey, 81, who with guitarist Pete Townshend, 80, will be the only survivors of the original band standing on stage, stated definitively. “We will not be back touring.”

Without question, the tour will close the routebooks on one of the most influential bands to ever invade American shores. The Who are one of the few bands still working that have been around since Pollstar began documenting ticket sales, reporting more than 400 shows that sold 6.3 million tickets and grossed $360 million worldwide. Live Nation has produced the last decade of The Who’s shows, to the tune of $50 million gross and 434,496 tickets sold to 46 shows reported. That includes an earlier “farewell tour” 43 years ago, a long goodbye that obviously didn’t take.

“Seven years later, Pete came back and said he wanted to work again, so back we went onto the road,” Curbishley recalls with amusement. “I look at this adventure now as being, yeah, it may be an end to actual touring, but they’ll certainly do individual shows. I can’t see them ever stop doing that, especially charitable shows. I can see them picking up and doing odd shows here and there until they decompose.”

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