In an October 2024 interview with The London Standard, The Who’s Pete Townshend revealed that he and bandmate Roger Daltrey had met for lunch recently and agreed to “definitely do something next year” with the group. Now, Townshend has shared a few more details about The Who’s 2025 plans with another U.K. newspaper, The Telegraph.
The band’s guitarist and primary songwriter said of his recent lunch with Daltrey, “We’re both a little bit ambivalent, but I’m pretty sure that we will [tour]. We have accepted an offer from Live Nation to do something in America.”
Townshend was accompanied during the interview by his wife, Rachel Fuller, with whom he collaborated on the newly released concept album The Seeker, inspired by Herman Hesse’s 1922 novel Siddhartha. After Pete’s comment about The Who’s plan to tour again, Rachel quipped, “I’m going to play tambourine!”
Townshend added about the as-yet-unannounced concerts, “Roger says he wants it to be ‘raw.’ The problem with that is: if I go back to the style that I had back in the ’60s, he won’t be able to hear a f—ing thing.” It’s no secret that the 80-year-old Daltrey and the 79-year-old Townshend have experienced severe hearing issues as they’ve gotten older.
