Music Who WHO discloses the new project ‘The Song Is Over’. What is it?

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltreyfrom The Whowill hold a press event in London this Thursday, where they will make an “special announcement followed by an exclusive session of questions and answers”, which will be broadcast live to fans around the world. (They are already collecting questions on social networks.) Instigively, the project is called “THE SONG IS OVER”(“The song is over).

They have not yet clarified exactly what will be announced, but it is quite possible to deal with a farewell tour. Rock bands usually do not make press conferences except to announce tours, and “THE SONG IS OVER”It is a perfect name for a last tour of the The Whosince it is the title of a dear track from the album Who’s Next.

Of course, this would not be the first farewell tour of the The Who. They launched one in 1982 that put them on the cover of Rolling Stone with the headline “The Who: The End“. But Pete Townshend I was 37 at the time. Roger Daltrey It was 38. Townshend complete 80 on May 19, and Daltrey It has 81. A farewell tour of two octogenaries carries a much higher weight than one by guys a decade younger than members of the members of Maroon 5.

There is a strong precedent to announce farewell tours at press conferences. Elton John gathered the press at Gotham Hallin New York, in 2018, and gave the news alongside Anderson Cooper. Mötley Crüe announced its supposed last tour in the Beacher’s Madhouse Theaterin Los Angeles, in 2014, and even signed a contract – legally doubtful – of “cessation of tour activities”.

These events generated global headlines and helped both artists sell many tickets. And even if two farewell tours seem a little silly, in this case they would be separated for 43 years. (Kiss He started his farewell tour in 2000 and then made a second just 17 years later.)

But, in fact, we still don’t know what The Who It will announce tomorrow. It can be a new perfume. It can be a new rock opera that uses an old title. It can be the biographical film on Keith Moon what Roger Daltrey It has been promising for about 30 years. (Mike Myers It was considered to the role, but has gone from age for a long time.)

But, as they are calling this mysterious project of THE SONG IS OVERit seems that our initial assumption is correct. Coincidence or not, they played “THE SONG IS OVER”For the first time in the band’s history in March, in Royal Albert Hall. It may have been the first clue that this tour was on the plans, but it was also a little disastrous – Daltrey She had difficulty listening and stopped the first attempt in the middle.

“To sing this song, I need to hear the tone,” he told the public. “And I can’t listen. There’s no shade here. I just hear the battery, ‘Bum Bum Bum’. You can’t sing like that. Sorry, we will try again, even if it’s late.”

Reports about what happened behind the scenes vary, but there is no doubt that the longstanding drummer Zak Starkey was removed from the band in the following weeks. “After playing these songs with the band for so many decades, I’m surprised and sad that someone had a problem with my performance that night,” he said in a statement, “But what can you do?”

Just three days later, Pete Townshend announced that he had been rehired. “There were some communication problems,” he said, “personal and private on all sides, who needed to be resolved – and were treated happily.”

This means that Starkey will be in place on the battery if THE SONG IS OVER It’s really a farewell tour. We’ll know for sure tomorrow.

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