Legendary Rock Band The Who Announce Additional ‘Moving On!’ U.S. Tour Dates For 2020

Legendary rock band The Who have announced they’ll be moving on in 2020 with more tour dates, not quite ready to close the books on their acclaimed MOVING ON! TOUR, which paired Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend with local symphony orchestras across North America and was hailed bycritics as a once-in-a-lifetime rock experience. Along with a series of rescheduled shows announced earlier in the month (see complete list of dates below) the band has expanded their 2020 itinerary to include a show on April 21 in Hollywood, FL (Hard Rock Live), April 23 in Cincinnati, OH (BB&T Arena at Northern Kentucky University), and a series of six shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV kicking off on May 5 and running to May 16 (see dates below). Tickets will be available at Ticketmaster.

The Who’s April
23^rd show in Cincinnati will have added historical significance as
it will be the first time the band will be performing in the city since eleven
lives were tragically lost as the concert crowd waited to get into The Who’s concert
on December 3, 1979. The historic show
was announced last night by local Cincinnati TV station WCPO after airing a
documentary special commemorating the 40^th anniversary of the
tragedy – The Who: The Night That Changed Rock. Pete and Roger were both
interviewed for the special program along with long-time manager Bill
Curbishley. The Who will make a donation from the concert to the P.E.M. Memorial, the organization that was founded to honor friends and
classmates that lost their lives at the December 3^rd, 1979 concert,
providing college scholarships for students at Finneytown High School.

As always, the upcoming shows
will feature THE WHO’s full live band comprised of guitarist/backup
singer Simon Townshend, keyboardist Loren Gold,
bassist Jon Button, drummer Zak Starkey and backing
vocals by Billy Nicholls along with orchestra conductor Keith
Levenson, lead violinist Katie Jacoby and lead cellist Audrey
Snyder, passionately delivering THE WHO’s many classics. As
well as some songs from The Who’s brand new album, titled WHO,
their first full-length album in 13 years, available everywhere this Friday,
December 6. The recent
single ‘All This Music Must Fade,’ has also drawn praise as “The Who’s defiant post-script” by The New York Times. A recent Rolling Stone feature
proclaimed the album a worthy addition to their canon, noting the
above-mentioned track and “Street Song,” citing “Daltrey’s anguished vocal”
as “among the more moving performances of his career.”

Local
symphonies will again be joining The Who for the 2020 shows, putting
their indelible stamp on the music’s timelessness in support of Roger and
Pete’s trademark emotional power. The 2019 spring and fall
legs of the MOVING ON! TOUR generated the most unanimous
outpouring of acclaim from critics and fans of any live rock show this year,
winning raves across North America for the orchestral dynamic as well as the duo’s
cathartic rock firepower and intimate acoustic numbers. “They’re not getting older. They’re getting
better. You better, you better, you bet.” hailed the Worcester Telegram, with Pollstar Magazine
affirming “Daltrey is in peak form, and so is
Townshend, lavishing his trademarked windmill guitar motion.”

Produced by Live Nation, The Who’s North
American MOVING ON! TOUR brought the band’s iconic
brand of incomparable rock through 29 cities, including a rollicking sold-out
barn-burner in Boston’s famed Fenway Park, and a memorable Seattle show where
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder joined them onstage for a rousing version of
“The Punk And the Godfather,” with Eddie’s wife and daughter in
attendance. The tour also wound down in
grand style, with a series of October shows at LA’s historic Hollywood Bowl,
the first time the band played three dates at the landmark venue during one
touring cycle.

For more information about The Who’s 2020
dates, visit LiveNation.com or
thewho.com.

$1 from each ticket sold for the MOVING ON! TOUR will
benefit Teen Cancer America .

ABOUT THE WHO

The Who are one of the top
three greatest rock legacies in music history. Their music provoked
explosive change and spanned what many critics declare is rock’s most elastic
creative spectrum, with Pete Townshend’s songwriting moving between raw,
prosaic, conceptual, and expressively literate. Their visionary sense of
stagecraft headed by Roger Daltrey’s soaring vocal prowess is topped off by the
band’s blistering rhythm section. With both Roger and Pete delivering
their memoirs in recent years (Pete’s Who I Am was released to
much acclaim in 2012, and Roger’s autobiography, Thanks A Lot Mr.
Kibblewhite; My Story, was embraced by critics in 2018) it’s fitting
that the two remaining WHO members have shared their
incredible legacy in literary fashion, for few bands have had a more lasting impact
on the rock era and the reverberating pop culture than The Who.

Emerging in the mid-1960s as a new and
incendiary force in rock n’ roll, their brash style and poignant storytelling
garnered them one of music’s most passionate followings, with the legendary
foursome blazing a searing new template for rock, punk, and everything
after. Inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990, the band has
sold more than 100 million records worldwide, placing 27 top-forty singles
in the United States and United Kingdom and earning 17 Top Ten albums,
including the 1969 groundbreaking rock opera Tommy, 1971’s
pummeling Live At Leeds, 1973’s Quadrophenia and
1978’s Who Are You. The Who debuted in 1964
with a trio of anthems “I Can’t Explain,” “The Kids Are Alright” and “My
Generation.” Since then they have delivered to the world hits such as “Baba
O’Riley,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “Pinball Wizard,” Who Are You,” and,” You
Better You Bet.”

In 2008, they became the first rock band
ever to be awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors. The Who has
performed all over the world including global music events for the Super Bowl
XLIV Halftime Show in 2010 and closing the London 2012 Summer Olympics. The
Who continued their charity work by playing a concert in January 2011
to raise money for trials of a new cancer treatment called PDT. In December
2012 they performed at the Hurricane Sandy Benefit in New York. In January 2014
they played a set on the U.S. television special to support the charity Stand
Up To Cancer. In November 2012 Daltrey, with Townshend at his side, launched
Teen Cancer America. The charity is now established in the USA, with offices in
Los Angeles and devoted Teen Cancer units being opened in hospitals all over
the U.S. TCA’s work has impacted over 5,000 young people and their families
nationwide during the last six years.

MOVING ON! TOUR U.S. DATES 2020

April 21 / Hard Rock Live / Hollywood, FL

April 23 / BB&T Arena Northern Kentucky
University / Highland Heights, KY

April 27 / American Airlines Center / Dallas,
TX (Rescheduled)

April 30 / Toyota Center / Houston,
TX (Rescheduled)

May 2 / Pepsi Center / Denver,
CO (Rescheduled)

May 5 / The Colosseum at Caesars Palace / Las
Vegas, NV

May 7 / The Colosseum at Caesars Palace / Las
Vegas, NV

May 9 / The Colosseum at Caesars Palace / Las
Vegas, NV

May 12 / The Colosseum at Caesars Palace / Las
Vegas, NV

May 14 / The Colosseum at Caesars Palace / Las
Vegas, NV

May 16 / The Colosseum at Caesars Palace / Las
Vegas, NV