The Who Hits Back! North American Concert Dates Announced: Is This The Band's Farewell Tour?

The Who is returning to the music scene by announcing their 5-month long North American Tour. The 58-year old band has also addressed concerns if this will be their farewell tour.

The legendary British band retakes the center stage for their North American Tour, "The Who Hits Back!". A couple of shows in the 2022 tour are a remainder of the rescheduled 2019 tour.

The then "Moving On! Tour", was interrupted in September 2019

because frontman Roger Daltrey needed throat surgery. In 2020, the band postponed the tour indefinitely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Who Hits Back!

After their official reunion as a band, The Who's 2022 North American Tour will happen between April, May, October, and November.

Fans will witness the band again, but now with the participation of local orchestras at each respective stop on tour.

The local orchestras will help a now-recovered Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend recreate classic songs from the likes of "Tommy", "Quadrophenia", "Who's Next", and tracks from the 2019 record "Who".

Other performers at the shows include drummer Zak Starkey, bassist Jon Button, guitarist-singer Simon Townshend, keyboardist Loren Gold, backing singer Billy Nicholls, orchestra conductor Keith Levenson, lead singer violinist Katie Jacoby, lead cellist Audrey Snyder, and keyboardist Emily Marshall.

Tickets for The Who's "The Who Hits Back!" will go on sale on Friday, February 11, 2022, and fans can avail of those here.

Is this goodbye?

In a Rolling Stone interview, The Who guitarist Pete Townshend promised fans that the upcoming tour is not "part of a long goodbye".

He also revealed that Frontman Roger Daltrey "is of the opinion that he wants to sing until he drops."

For Townshend, he thinks otherwise "That's not my philosophy of life. There are other things that I want to do, still want to do, and will do, I hope. I hope I'll live long enough to do them," he continued.

The 75-year-old guitarist reiterated that "The Who Hits Back!" is not the band's farewell tour.

"Apart from anything else, we still have people who have tickets for the UK 2019 tour. We're very, very keen to do that tour, and we'll be doing that tour in 2023, I think, Townshend revealed.