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ON TOUR ‘82 WHO’S LAST?

December 1, 1982

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The Who — Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Kenney Jones — are back in the states for what is reportedly their last full-scale concert tour ever. The second most famous rock band in the world warmed-up for their North American (aunt by performing a show for 30,000 at the National Exhibition Centre Arena in Birmingham, England. Once in the U.S.A., the band concentrated mainly on huge stadiums, playing to 80,000 in Michigan and utilizing the legendary Shea Stadium in New York. Surprisingly, the band has been performing a large selection from their latest LP, It's Hard, in addition to shots of nostalgia \ with tunes like "Substitute" and "Won't Get Fooled Again." (At presstime, however, the band still hadn't performed "My Generation.") For the group's Buffalo show (ironically scheduled a year to the ^ day after the Rolling Stones' concert there), Mick Jagger €SjpL flew in with daughter Jade and his secretary, and was spotted backstage drinking Schlitz with the Clash's Joe Strummer ... • , and watching the 'iX8SSnHrv Who drive the crowd nuts with Townshend's super leaps and Daltrey's twirling "lasso" microphone. For those who missed if, here's some evidence of the magnificence of the Who in concert!