ROGER DALTREY, the iconic lead singer of The Who, will perform The Who’s legendary rock opera TOMMY from start to finish. (The Who never actually played the complete TOMMY.) Daltrey premiered the show at The Royal Albert Hall in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust on March 25th and is now taking it on the road.

Employing striking visuals to accompany the music, every show will be an unforgettable experience for lifelong fans and newcomers alike, who will be treated not only to the full majesty of TOMMY, but also to a variety of Who Classics and more.

TOMMY is one of the most acclaimed and defining works of the rock era. Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, the 20 million-selling double album spawned a successful 1975 film of the same name, with DALTREY playing the title role, which re-underlined its place in the cultural firmament.

DALTREY is pulling out all the stops with a full backing band that will bring the rock opera’s wide-ranging sounds and textures vibrantly to life. Joining him will be Frank Simes (guitar), Scott Deavours (drums), Jon Button(Bass), Loren Gold (Keyboards) and also on guitar will be Simon Townshend, younger brother of The Who’s guitarist PETE TOWNSHEND.

Commenting on the tour, Pete Townshend says "Great to see Roger performing TOMMY with his band in 2011. I will be there in spirit and Roger has my complete and most loving support. Roger is touring his unique concert version of TOMMY using his faithful presentation of the original work as the backbone for a set of wider material. It is wonderful to hear the way Roger and his new band re-interpret the old Who songs."

Throughout this tour, songs such as “Pinball Wizard,” “The Acid Queen,” “I’m Free,” “See Me, Feel Me” and “We’re Not Gonna Take It” promise to transport attendees into the world of this classic album with shuddering intensity and poetic power.

A 1989 tour by The Who saw them reprise TOMMY live. The upcoming DALTREY tour will differ in that all of the album’s songs will be played. When DALTREY and his band performed TOMMY in March 2011 at a sell out concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall, The Independent called the show “a faithful reading... The stand-outs, ‘I'm Free', ‘See Me, Feel Me’ and the anthemic climax of ‘We're Not Gonna Take It’ are rousing.” Afterwards, the Who blogosphere was alight with comments from long standing fans lucky enough to see the show. These included comments like "Roger nailed Tommy" and "Last night’s concert was the best I've ever seen - what a great band!”

Roger describes the show and visuals as "A Tommy Show for today's audience from a different perspective."

“TOMMY, an album that tells a story about a “deaf, dumb, and blind boy” who becomes the leader of a messianic movement, will always be seen as a turning point for the band,” adds DALTREY. “Within it, I found the new voice of The Who and the band found its stride in making that music, adjusting it, using all that knowledge that we had from jazz and the blues into making it work in a rock way.”

The much-anticipated three-week tour launches on July 3rd at RAGLEY HALL, ALCESTER and concludes on July 24th at POWDERHAM CASTLE, EXETER.

TOUR DATES, CITIES & VENUES :

3-Jul ALCESTER RAGLEY HALL
4-Jul GATESHEAD SAGE
6-Jul GLASGOW CLYDE AUDITORIUM
7-Jul MANCHESTER BRIDGEWATER HALL
9-Jul NOTTINGHAM ROYAL CENTRE
10-Jul NEWPORT CENTRE
12-Jul BRISTOL COLSTON HALL
13-Jul SOUTHEND CLIFFS PAVILLION
15-Jul GUILDFORD GUILFEST
16-Jul HAMPSHIRE BROADLANDS
17-Jul HARROGATE RIPLEY HOUSE
19-Jul HULL CITY HALL
21-Jul LONDON INDIGO 02
22-Jul NORWICH BLICKLING HALL
24-Jul EXETER POWDERHAM CASTLE

His voice is shot, however he is still one of the greats.

It's gotten betetr after his recent surgery. But wow,that's a lot of shows in a short time.

I'm gonna be there for Indigo O2. Great Who show there a couple of years ago just before Christmas.Met a few guys and gals from IORR there that night.Hopefully Pete will be there at the gig. ><

bring it to the states

As much as I love The Who, Roger, Pete et.al. I can't help but accept that they'll never be able to move forward. Like The Stones, Roger and Pete will NEVER be able to create any new music that comes close to the stuff they made in that golden period between Tommy and Quadrophenia. A shame really. But who can blame them for flogging that horse as long as they can get away with it? Bills must be paid.

Pete is working on a new LP or he would be there. Look for The Who kicking hard in 2012.
Roger Daltrey is coming to the USA in September with this show!

oh.. and Rogers throat surgery has left him in great vocal shape!








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Commenting on the tour, Pete Townshend says "Great to see Roger performing TOMMY with his band in 2011. I will be there in spirit and Roger has my complete and most loving support

He'll be there in spirit. Not good enough. He needs to be there in person. This is basically "The Who Featuring Original Lead Singer Roger Daltrey". I always knew it would come to this one day.



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Petes not done. Hes just not touring right now.

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Pete is working on a new LP or he would be there. Look for The Who kicking hard in 2012.
Roger Daltrey is coming to the USA in September with this show!

oh.. and Rogers throat surgery has left him in great vocal shape!

thanks for the update. any word on where the dates in the USA will be?

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Pete is working on a new LP or he would be there. Look for The Who kicking hard in 2012.
Roger Daltrey is coming to the USA in September with this show!

oh.. and Rogers throat surgery has left him in great vocal shape!

thanks for the update. any word on where the dates in the USA will be?

made public soon. 35-40 Dates all over the states

Blimey, just take it for what it is. Daltry is touring a well known album. No mention of the Who. It's sounds great fun to me...

American dates have been announced:

DATE CITY VENUE

9/13 Hollywood, FL Seminole Hard Rock

9/15 Alpharetta, GA Verizon Wireless Pavilion

9/17 Boston, MA Agganis Arena

9/18 Newark, NJ Prudential Center

9/21 Philadelphia, PA MANN Center

9/23 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum

9/24 Hartford, CT XL Center

**9/27 Montreal, QC Place Des Arts

**9/28 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place

**9/30 Toronto, ON Sony Centre For The Performing Arts

10/1 Windsor, ON The Coliseum at Caesars Windsor

10/5 Minneapolis, MN U.S. Bank Theater at Target Center

10/7 Hammond, IN Venue at Horseshoe Casino

10/8 St. Louis, MO Peabody Opera House

10/11 Cedar Park, TX Cedar Park Center

10/12 Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre

10/14 Kansas City, MO The Midland by AMC

10/16 Broomfield, CO 1STBANK Center

10/19 Los Angeles, CA NOKIA Theatre

10/21 San Jose, CA San Jose Civic

10/22 Las Vegas, NV The Joint

10/24 Portland, OR Rose Quarter-Theatre of the Clouds

10/25 Seattle, WA KeyArena at Seattle Center

**10/27 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena

**10/29 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place

**10/30 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome

**11/1 Saskatoon, SK Credit Union Centre

**11/2 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre

**Shows on sale Thursday, May 19. All other shows go on sale Friday, May 20. Tickets for the U.S. shows are available at www.aeglive.com.

I think when guys like Daltrey or Waters tour with a well Known album like Tommy or the Wall (respectively) go see them if you want. At this point in their lives its likely that this tour may be the last one. Its clear that Pete Townshend doesn't want to tour with the Who and Pink Floyd will never reunite for a tour (nor Zeppelin for that matter, but I don't much care about them), so this may be the last chance to see rock n roll icons.

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I think when guys like Daltrey or Waters tour with a well Known album like Tommy or the Wall (respectively) go see them if you want. At this point in their lives its likely that this tour may be the last one. Its clear that Pete Townshend doesn't want to tour with the Who and Pink Floyd will never reunite for a tour (nor Zeppelin for that matter, but I don't much care about them), so this may be the last chance to see rock n roll icons.

Exactly. I'm sure you'd all go & see Jagger if he toured with Exile...wouldn't you?

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I think when guys like Daltrey or Waters tour with a well Known album like Tommy or the Wall (respectively) go see them if you want. At this point in their lives its likely that this tour may be the last one. Its clear that Pete Townshend doesn't want to tour with the Who and Pink Floyd will never reunite for a tour (nor Zeppelin for that matter, but I don't much care about them), so this may be the last chance to see rock n roll icons.

Exactly. I'm sure you'd all go & see Jagger if he toured with Exile...wouldn't you?

Yeah but would you go see Keith if he toured Talk is Cheap?

wow nothing near virginia

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I think when guys like Daltrey or Waters tour with a well Known album like Tommy or the Wall (respectively) go see them if you want. At this point in their lives its likely that this tour may be the last one. Its clear that Pete Townshend doesn't want to tour with the Who and Pink Floyd will never reunite for a tour (nor Zeppelin for that matter, but I don't much care about them), so this may be the last chance to see rock n roll icons.

Exactly. I'm sure you'd all go & see Jagger if he toured with Exile...wouldn't you?

Yeah but would you go see Keith if he toured Talk is Cheap?

I wouldn't go out of my way to see Keith whatever he did. I'm a Stones / Jagger fan, not a Keith / Winos fan.

Who will tour in 2012

When Roger and John Entwistle toured in 1995 together with a local symphony backing the core band ended up being one of the better shows I've even seen.

To see Roger do a basically a solo tour doing Tomm that's been beat to death does not excite me.

Tommy sold 20 million copies? Really??
They've outsold every other individual Stones album, including Hot Rocks?
I've never heard that before.

Tommy was huge.
Boy that clip of See Me Feel Me is outstanding, Roger's voice has really recovered! That is so fantastic to hear!!

That is a lot of shows. Roger's voice must be feeling better.

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Tommy sold 20 million copies? Really??
They've outsold every other individual Stones album, including Hot Rocks?
I've never heard that before.

i believe thats worldwide sales. hot rocks has sold way more than that worldwide

Roger has a fantastic band with him. (including Simon Townshend)
Its not only 'Tommy' but another hour plus of the classics & some rarities that Pete wont play on tour

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Pete is working on a new LP or he would be there. Look for The Who kicking hard in 2012.
Roger Daltrey is coming to the USA in September with this show!

oh.. and Rogers throat surgery has left him in great vocal shape!

I ADORE this band, and this clip exemplifies why. When the Who are cooking and laying it on, they are awesome beyond description, I could never get tired of seeing them live. May they reign over us for ever.

Thanks for posting.

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Pete is working on a new LP or he would be there. Look for The Who kicking hard in 2012.
Roger Daltrey is coming to the USA in September with this show!

oh.. and Rogers throat surgery has left him in great vocal shape!

thanks for the update. any word on where the dates in the USA will be?

Sept. 13: Hollywood, Fla. (Seminole Hard Rock)
Sept. 15: Alpharetta, Ga. (Verizon Wireless Pavilion)
Sept. 17: Boston, Mass. (Agganis Arena)
Sept. 18: Newark, N.J. (Prudential Center)
Sept. 21: Philadelphia, Pa. (MANN Center)
Sept. 23: Uniondale, N.Y. (Nassau Coliseum)
Sept. 24: Hartford, Conn. (XL Center)
Sept. 27: Montreal, Quebec (Place Des Arts)
Sept. 28: Ottawa, Ont. (Scotiabank Place)
Sept. 30: Toronto, Ont. (Sony Centre For The Performing Arts)
Oct. 1: Windsor, Ont. (The Coliseum at Caesars Windsor)
Oct. 5: Minneapolis, Minn. (U.S. Bank Theater at Target Center)
Oct. 7: Hammond, Ind. (Venue at Horseshoe Casino)
Oct. 8: St. Louis, Mo. (Peabody Opera House)
Oct. 11: Cedar Park, Tex. (Cedar Park Center)
Oct. 12: Grand Prairie, Tex. (Verizon Theatre)
Oct. 14: Kansas City, Mo. (The Midland by AMC)
Oct. 16: Broomfield, Colo. (1STBANK Center)
Oct. 19: Los Angeles, Calif. (NOKIA Theatre)
Oct. 21: San Jose, Calif. (San Jose Civic)
Oct. 22: Las Vegas, Nev. (The Joint)
Oct. 24: Portland, Oreg. (Rose Quarter-Theatre of the Clouds)
Oct. 25: Seattle, Wash. (KeyArena at Seattle Center)
Oct. 27: Vancouver, B.C. (Rogers Arena)
Oct. 29: Edmonton, Alb. (Rexall Place)
Oct. 30: Calgary, Alb. (Scotiabank Saddledome)
Nov. 1: Saskatoon, Sask. (Credit Union Centre)
Nov. 2: Winnipeg, Manitoba (MTS Centre

waters does the wall
daltrey does tommy
van morrison does astral weeks

do you really find it exciting?
WHO'S NEXT?
neil young will do harvest
springsteen will do the river
kinks will re-unite to do arthur

and then we are all waiting for the next cover album of robert plant, gregg allman, csn and hundreds of others cover album.
I cannot see many positive things in these operations, beside my respect or love for many of these artists.
they don't have nothing new to tell? ok, perfect, there are hundreds of young/younger wonderful r'n'r' band out there with a lot of energy
(black keys, north mississippi allstars, gov't mule, cracker, band of heathens, derek trucks, ryan adams,phish, ALO, dave matthews - i could ahead on for hours)
i don't have a lot of time anymore for these old monuments