The Who setlist 2025 included everything from ‘Baba O\u2019Riley’ to ‘Pinball Wizard’<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nFrontman Roger Daltrey, Townshend and the rest of the band sounded like a well-oiled machine starting off with two of its early classics, \u201cI Can\u2019t Explain\u201d and \u201cSubstitute,\u201d followed by the 1978 hard rock tune \u201cWho Are You,\u201d and going right into \u201cThe Seeker\u201d and \u201cI Can See For Miles.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were thinking (the tour) could be a disaster, but it\u2019s been quite the opposite,\u201d Townshend told the crowd early in the set.<\/p>\n
Halfway through the set, Townshend reflected on Shakespeare and the phrase \u201cLong live the King\u201d and how it\u2019s struck him since childhood. He also said, Our king hasn\u2019t been very well, but he\u2019s a nice man,\u201d referencing King Charles III, but this was a prelude to the song \u201cLong Live Rock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nThe Who takes the stage as they perform at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, Calif., Oct. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A highlight of this part of the set was \u201cPinball Wizard\u201d and \u201cSee Me, Feel Me\u201d from the band\u2019s \u201cTommy\u201d era, which included stunning animated visuals incorporating the album cover art.<\/p>\n
Before playing \u201cAnother Tricky Day,\u201d Daltrey said trying to get to Palm Desert from Los Angeles was difficult because of traffic and joked that Townshend had a recent knee replacement, which is why they didn\u2019t have much of a soundcheck earlier in the day. Townshend said \u201cOne of these knees was replaced, but I can\u2019t remember which one, I\u2019ll have to look for the scar\u201d and asked the audience if they wanted to see before he started hopping around.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with (my knee). I just didn\u2019t want to come to soundcheck,\u201d Townshend said, to laughter and applause.<\/p>\n\n\nRoger Daltrey, left, and Pete Townshend of The Who perform their last song of the evening \u201cTea & Theatre\u201d at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, Calif., Oct. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
One surprise in the later portion of the setlist was the song \u201cGoing Mobile\u201d from the 1971 album \u201cWho\u2019s Next,\u201d which was sung by Townshend\u2019s brother and live guitarist, Simon. The \u201cQuadrophenia\u201d era followed, with \u201cThe Real Me,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m One,\u201d \u201c5:15,\u201d and a vocally outstanding performance of \u201cLove Reign O\u2019er Me\u201d by Daltrey, which brought the entire audience to its feet for a standing ovation.<\/p>\n
As The Who performed \u201cWon\u2019t Get Fooled Again\u201d and \u201cBaba O\u2019Riley,\u201d the show\u2019s end felt close, and when the volume and energy were brought down with \u201cThe Song Is Over,\u201d that set the stage for \u201cTea & Theatre,\u201d a reflective and personal song between Daltrey and Townshend reflecting on late band members, drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle.<\/p>\n
Many bands and legacy acts have done retirement or \u201cfarewell\u201d tours only to announce they changed their minds a couple of years later. It\u2019s hard to say if that\u2019s the case with The Who.<\/p>\n
If that was The Who\u2019s last performance, both Daltrey and Townshend went out strong on an excellent performance with a setlist that wasn\u2019t just hits, but a journey through the band\u2019s legacy. The setlist was a nod to the fans they inspired: the \u201860s rockers, the mods, the punks, and the arena rockers.<\/p>\n
Brian Blueskye covers arts\u00a0and entertainment for the Desert Sun. He\u00a0can be reached at brian.blueskye@desertsun.com<\/em>.<\/p>\nThis article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: The Who The Song is Over Tour ends on simple yet legendary note<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Who chose Palm Desert for its final performance. But is the band really done? The renowned British rockers wrapped The Song is Over North American Farewell Tour on Oct. 1 at Acrisure Arena, and it was everything a great rock \u2018n\u2019 roll show should be, but the musicians didn\u2019t do anything special to mark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2065108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[311867,349471,313711],"class_list":["post-2065107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-acrisure-arena","tag-pete-townshend","tag-roger-daltrey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Who-bid-farewell-at-Acrisure-Arena-with-no-special.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065109,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065107\/revisions\/2065109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}