The Who 50th Anniversary Tour To Launch In December

Iconic rock act The Who will launch a World Tour to celebrate their 50th Anniversary around Christmas according to a new interview with Pete Townshend posted on Billboard.com. Townshend says the band will play U.K. dates in December followed by North American dates in 2015.

“It will be a world tour. I’m not crazy about going on the road, but I’m in good shape and once I start doing it –and I’m still very good at it –I’ll take some pleasure from it,” Townshend told Billboard. Pete is also combing through his archives to find material for a potential new Who album, “I’m trying to [look] through my 20,000 hours of complete and utter disorganized music [to find possible songs]. I’ll be pulling some songs out of [his long-gestating project] ‘Floss’ to give to Roger [Daltrey] to see if we’ve got enough to make an album. It might be a big waste of time, but I’m hoping there will be an album.”

In other The Who news, the band will release The Who -Quadrophenia: Live in London in a variety of video formats on June 10. The new live release was filmed on July 8, 2013 during one of the band’s full performances of their legendary Quadrophenia album.

Here’s more info on The Who -Quadrophenia: Live In London:

Track List – Blu-ray Quadrophenia (1973) Album 5.1 Mix

I Am The Sea
The Real Me
Quadrophenia
Cut My Hair
The Punk And The Godfather
I’m One
The Dirty Jobs
Helpless Dancer
Is It In My Head?
I’ve Had Enough
5:15
Sea And Sand
Drowned
Bell Boy
Doctor Jimmy
The Rock
Love Reign O’er Me

DELUXE METAL BOX

10-inch Round Metal Mod Headlight Container
1 Blu-ray Disc: Concert Film
1 Standard DVD: Concert Film
1 Blu-ray Audio Disc Format: Quadrophenia (1973) 5.1 Album Mix – First Time Ever
2-CD Soundtrack: Concert Audio
Mod Headlight Button
6″ Mod Headlight Sticker
Booklet with photos and liner notes

SINGLE-DISC HIGH DEFINITION BLU-RAY DISC

• Quadrophenia: Live In London – Concert Film

SINGLE-DISC BLU-RAY PURE AUDIO DISC

• First time ever 5.1 mix of the entire album Quadrophenia(1973)

2-CD SOUNDTRACK

• Quadrophenia: Live In London – Concert Audio

Track List – All Formats Except 1973 Version

I Am The Sea
The Real Me
Quadrophenia
Cut My Hair
The Punk And The Godfather
I’m One
The Dirty Jobs
Helpless Dancer
Is It In My Head?
I’ve Had Enough
5:15
Sea And Sand
Drowned
Bell Boy
Doctor Jimmy
The Rock
Love Reign O’er Me

Bonus Performances:

Who Are You
You Better You Bet
Pinball Wizard
Baba O’Riley
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Tea & Theatre

[via Billboard.com]