🎵 Pete Townshend Tells All About The Who's Final Tour (AARP Article)

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🎵 Pete Townshend Tells All About The Who's Final Tour (AARP Article)

FROM THE ARTICLE.

The Who's Pete Townshend Tells All: ‘I'm 80, Why Shouldn't I Revel In It?’

The band's guitarist and main songwriter reveals the secrets of The Who's final tour.

By Jim Sullivan, AARP. Published August 15, 2025.

Pete Townshend, The Who’s guitarist and main songwriter, wrote “My Generation” in 1965 at 20, penning the iconic line: “I hope I die before I get old.” Didn’t turn out that way. Townshend is 80, singer Roger Daltrey is 81. The Who’s drummer Keith Moon did die young at 32 in 1978, and bassist John Entwistle at 57 in 2002.

But Townshend and Daltrey are on what they promise is (really this time!) the final Who tour, “The Song Is Over,” a 17-date trek across North America (Aug. 16 to Sept. 28). Scott Devours, 58, takes the spot of Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey, 59, their recently sacked longtime drummer; the bassist since 2017 has been Jon Button, 54.

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