New dates for the Who’s postponed 50th anniversary tour
Singer Roger Daltrey, left, and Pete Townshend of the band the Who, shown performing in June at the Glastonbury music festival in England, will resume their 50th anniversary tour in February. Dates had been postponed when Daltrey was diagnosed with viral meningitis.
The Who will revive its 50th anniversary tour that went on hold while singer Roger Daltrey is recovering from viral meningitis, with a new round of shows starting next winter.
The Who Hits 50! tour resumes Feb. 27 in Detroit and reaches Southern California with new dates on May 22 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, May 25 at Staples Center in Los Angeles and May 27 at the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego. The next leg of the tour is scheduled to run through May 29 in Las Vegas.
“I am now on the mend and feeling a lot better,” Daltrey said in a statement that also included a comment from lead guitarist and chief songwriter Pete Townshend that the band “will be coming back stronger than ever.”
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Tickets from the originally scheduled shows will be honored at the new dates, according to the statement.
“The Who came out swinging ... stuffing a career’s worth of classic moves into its opening song,” the Chicago Tribune wrote when the band came through the Windy City in May on the tour’s first leg.
A full list of the rescheduled dates is available at the Who’s official web site, www.thewho.com.
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