Man: A lot of the top groups now are pretending
to try and get away from doing tours
and just concentrating on recording.
And I understand that you want to do the reverse of this.
Daltrey: Yeah, we think this is pretty stupid
because when you're in a hall,
you know where your audience is.
You can see the expressions on their faces.
There's no doubt about what is actually happening.
♪ It's smooth sailing with the highly successful sound ♪
♪ Of wonderful radio London ♪
♪ Run, run, run ♪
♪ run, run, run ♪
Townshend: In London, there's a general
kind of sense of warmth
that the who are part of this city.
There's the mayor, Boris, and then there's the who,
and then there's the prime minister
and the queen.
♪ You better run, run, run ♪
♪ run, run, run ♪
Daltrey: London had a big affect on us
because London suffered immensely
from the bombing and the war,
which gave us that blank canvas to work on.
The stage for us used to be a war zone,
and we used to be determined
to drive our music through the people to the back wall.
♪ You better run, run, run ♪
Townshend: We started to watch our audience.
That's what defined the who.
We have always watched our audience.
We were part of the synergy of an event,
rather than, "look at us. We're on the stage.
And look at you. You're down there looking up at us."
Daltrey: And I've looked at early photos.
You can look at the clothes,
you can look at all those things,
but it's more to do with what's in the eyes.
There's an attitude there,
and I kind of maintain that today.
I hope the who have never become complacent
in the way we play and present our music.
The best creative stuff that's gonna come out of a group
comes out of friction,
and it doesn't come out of going,
"oh, let's go for a jolly up the pub."
♪ Now here's a surprise ♪
Townshend: It's probably well known by now
that I didn't want to be in the who at all
and still don't.
Daltrey: You push and you pull,
and slowly but surely, things sharpen up.
It keeps everybody on their toes.
♪ I can see for miles and miles ♪
♪ and miles and miles and miles ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
Townshend: We play to our audience,
and I think there's that connection.
And it's what the songs are about.
They're not just happy-go-lucky, ooh, I love you, baby.
I want to get in your knickers.
There's a lot more depth.
And that can only be more moving.
You know, it just has to be about what we do together,
not about what we do as individuals.
♪ I can see for miles and miles ♪
♪ and miles and miles and miles ♪
You are a long way away.
But we will fucking reach you.
♪ I've got a feeling inside ♪
♪ can't explain ♪
♪ it's a certain kind ♪
♪ can't explain ♪
♪ I feel hot and cold ♪
♪ can't explain ♪
♪ yeah, down in my soul ♪
♪ can't explain ♪
♪ I said ♪
♪ can't explain ♪
♪ I'm feeling good now, yeah, but ♪
♪ can't explain ♪
♪ dizzy in the head and I'm feeling bad ♪
♪ the things you've said have got me real mad ♪
♪ I'm gettin' funny dreams again and again ♪
♪ I know what it means but ♪
♪ I can't explain ♪
♪ I think it's love, try to say it to you ♪
♪ when I feel blue ♪
♪ but I can't explain ♪
♪ can't explain ♪
♪ yeah, you hear what I'm saying, girl ♪
♪ can't explain ♪
♪ dizzy in the head and I'm feeling blue ♪
♪ the things you've said, yeah, well, maybe they're true ♪
♪ I'm gettin' funny dreams again and again ♪
♪ I know what it means but ♪
♪ I can't explain ♪
♪ I think it's love, try to say it to you ♪
♪ when I feel blue ♪
♪ but I can't explain ♪
♪ can't explain ♪
♪ you give me one more time, now ♪
♪ can't explain ♪
♪ ooh, can't explain ♪
♪ you drive me out of my mind ♪
♪ ooh, can't explain ♪
♪ yeah, I'm the worrying kind, yeah ♪
♪ I said I can't explain ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ I woke up in a Soho doorway, a policeman knew my name ♪
♪ he said, "you can go sleep at home tonight ♪
♪ if you can get up and walk away" ♪
♪ I staggered back to the underground ♪
♪ and the breeze blew back my hair ♪
♪ I remember throwin' punches around ♪
♪ and I was preachin' from my chair ♪
♪ well, who are you? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Tell me, who are you? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ I really wanna know ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Whoa, tell me, who are you? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Took the tube back out of town ♪
♪ I went back to the rollin' pin ♪
♪ I felt a little like a dying clown ♪
♪ with a streak of rin tin tin ♪
♪ I stretched back and I hiccuped ♪
♪ and looked back on my busy day ♪
♪ 11 hours in the tin pan, god ♪
♪ there's got to be a better way ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Tell me, who are you? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ I really wanna know ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Oh, who the fuck are you? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ who? ♪
♪ Ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh-wa ♪
♪ ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh-wa ♪
♪ ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh ♪
♪ who are you in the back? ♪
♪ Ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh-wa ♪
♪ ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh ♪
♪ ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh-wa ♪
♪ ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh ♪
♪ who are you in the middle? ♪
♪ Ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh-wa ♪
♪ ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh ♪
♪ you ♪
♪ ooh-wa, ooh-wa, ooh-wa ♪
♪ you ♪
♪ ohh ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Oh, who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Yeah, I really wanna know ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Oh, tell me, who are you? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Yeah, I really wanna know ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Oh, who the fuck are you? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ I know there's a place you walked ♪
♪ where love falls from the trees ♪
♪ m-my heart is like a broken cup ♪
♪ I only feel right on my knees ♪
♪ I spit out like a sewer hole ♪
♪ yet still receive your kiss ♪
♪ how can I measure up to anyone now ♪
♪ after such a love as this? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Oh, tell me, who are you? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Yeah, I really wanna know ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Oh, tell me, who are you? ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Come on, tell me, tell me, tell me ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Oh, I really wanna know ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Come on, tell me, tell me, tell me ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ who, who, who, who? ♪
♪ Well, I really wanna know ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
♪ Who? ♪
♪ I really wanna know ♪
♪ come on, tell me, who are you, you, you, you? ♪
♪ Oh, you ♪
Daltrey: I look out at that audience now,
and I see almost a dream coming to fruition
because I always felt that music had the ability
to knit old people, young people together.
We care about the music so much,
but we also care about the fact
that the music has to be relevant.
I think if we were playing the music
and we got nothing back at all,
I think both of us -- we'd just have to stop.
It would be soul-destroying.
Rock, in a big, big way,
has been incredibly cohesive to society.
Townshend: The truth of live entertainment
is that at Hyde park or at Glastonbury,
at any big festival,
the band is the least important thing there.
You know, really.
This one belongs to you, Roger --
"The Kids Are Alright."
♪ I don't mind ♪
♪ other guys dancing with my girl ♪
♪ that's fine ♪
♪ I know them all pretty well ♪
♪ but I know sometimes I must get out in the light ♪
♪ better leave her behind ♪
♪ with the kids, they're all right ♪
♪ the kids are all right ♪
♪ sometimes ♪
♪ I feel I gotta get away ♪
♪ bells chime ♪
♪ I know I gotta get away ♪
♪ 'cause I know if I don't ♪
♪ I'll go out of my mind ♪
♪ better leave her behind ♪
♪ with the kids, they're all right ♪
♪ the kids are all right ♪
♪ I know if I go ♪
♪ things would be a lot better for her ♪
♪ I had things planned ♪
♪ but her folks wouldn't let her ♪
♪ sometimes ♪
♪ I feel I gotta get away ♪
♪ bells chime ♪
♪ I know I gotta get away ♪
♪ 'cause I know if I don't ♪
♪ I'll go out of my fuckin' mind ♪
♪ better leave her behind ♪
♪ with the kids, they're all right ♪
♪ the kids are all right ♪
♪ I know if I go ♪
♪ things would be a lot better for her ♪
♪ I had things planned ♪
♪ but her folks wouldn't let her ♪
♪ I don't mind ♪
♪ other guys dancing with my girl ♪
♪ that's fine ♪
♪ I know them all pretty well ♪
♪ but I know sometimes I must get out in the light ♪
♪ better leave her behind ♪
♪ with the kids, they're all right ♪
♪ the kids are all right ♪
If you want to know, we are obviously --
you're too old to be the mods.
We were the mods. You were the mods.
But you keep saying we weren't the mods.
Anyway...
Paul Weller was a very, very important part of our career.
With the jam, he brought back the whole interest in the mods.
He brought back the whole interest in the band as a band.
And since he left the jam,
he's done the most amazing work as a solo artist.
He stuck to his principles.
But this song he requested via e-mail.
We're doing it especially for him.
We haven't played it for a few shows,
so it will probably be crap.
But we're gonna give it a try. It's "pictures of Lily."
♪ Ooooh ♪
♪ I used to wake up in the morning ♪
♪ I used to feel so bad ♪
♪ I got so sick of having sleepless nights ♪
♪ I went and told my dad ♪
♪ he said "son, now here's some little somethings" ♪
♪ and stuck them on my wall ♪
♪ now my nights ain't quite so lonely ♪
♪ in fact I, I don't feel bad at all ♪
♪ I don't feel bad at all ♪
♪ pictures of Lily ♪
♪ made my life so wonderful ♪
♪ pictures of Lily ♪
♪ helped me sleep at night ♪
♪ pictures of Lily ♪
♪ solved my childhood problem ♪
♪ pictures of Lily ♪
♪ made me feel all right ♪
♪ pictures of Lily ♪
♪ Lily, oh, Lily ♪
♪ pictures of Lily ♪
♪ Lily, oh, Lily ♪
♪ pictures of Lily ♪
♪ and then one day, things weren't quite so fine ♪
♪ I fell in love with Lily ♪
♪ I asked my dad where Lily I could find ♪
♪ he said, "son, now don't be silly ♪
♪ she's been dead since 1929" ♪
♪ oh, how I cried that night ♪
♪ if only I'd been born in Lily's time ♪
♪ it would have been all right ♪
♪ pictures of Lily ♪
♪ made my life so wonderful ♪
♪ pictures of Lily ♪
♪ helped me sleep at night ♪
♪ now me and Lily are together in my dreams ♪
♪ and I ask you ♪ ♪ pictures of Lily ♪
♪ hey, mister have you ever seen ♪
♪ pictures of Lily? ♪
Most people out there probably weren't even born
when a lot of these songs that we're playing now
were written and first recorded.
This next song came from 1967,
so we've still probably got quite a few people
who weren't even conceived.
So we hope that you'll know them anyway.
And this one is "I can see for miles."
♪ I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise ♪
♪ I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes ♪
♪ I can see for miles and miles ♪
♪ and miles and miles and miles ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
♪ if you think that I don't know ♪
♪ about the little tricks you've played ♪
♪ and never see you ♪
♪ when deliberately you put things in my way ♪
♪ well, here's a poke at you ♪
♪ you're gonna choke on it, too ♪
♪ you're gonna lose that smile ♪
♪ because all the while ♪
♪ I can see for miles and miles ♪
♪ and miles and miles and miles ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
♪ you took advantage of my trust in you ♪
♪ when I was so far away ♪
♪ I saw you holding lots of other guys ♪
♪ and now you've got the nerve to say ♪
♪ that you still want me ♪
♪ well, that's as may be ♪
♪ but you gotta stand trial ♪
♪ because all the while ♪
♪ I can see for miles and miles ♪
♪ and miles and miles and miles ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
♪ I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise ♪
♪ I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes ♪
♪ I can see for miles and miles ♪
♪ and miles and miles and miles ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
♪ the Eiffel Tower and Taj Mahal ♪
♪ are mine to see on clear days ♪
♪ you thought that I would need a crystal ball ♪
♪ to see right through the haze ♪
♪ well, here's a poke at you ♪
♪ you're gonna choke on it, too ♪
♪ you're gonna lose that smile ♪
♪ because all the while ♪
♪ I can see for miles and miles ♪
♪ and miles and miles and miles ♪
♪ I can see for miles and miles ♪
♪ and miles and miles and miles ♪
Marr: I think there's a reason why the punks like the who.
And mostly, it was the music, then it was the attitude,
but I think there's an underlying thing,
that they live it -- all of them.
The violence and aggression in the music --
I loved all that.
Massive influence.
We just wanted to get louder and louder and louder.
It was all done with aggression.
The insistence and aggression on "my generation"...
It was just a jump beat,
but it wasn't "shout" by the Isley brothers anymore.
They play songs that they can still play as older guys.
And you believe it.
You believe that they believe in it.
Townshend: So Roger and I today
don't feel right about a concert,
however good or bad it is,
unless we're completely exhausted
when we walk off the stage,
which isn't particularly hard to achieve today.
This next one's for people of any age,
any place, any time, anywhere.
♪ Yeah, people try to put us d-down ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ just because we g-get around ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ yeah, things they do look awful c-c-cold ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ but I hope I die before I get old ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ my generation ♪
♪ yeah, my generation, baby ♪
♪ why don't you all f-f-fade away? ♪
♪ Talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ yeah, don't try and dig what we all s-s-say ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ I'm not trying to cause a b-b-big sensation ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ I'm just talkin' 'bout m-m-m-my g-generation ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ this is my generation ♪
♪ my generation, baby ♪
♪ why don't you all f-f-fade away ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ yeah, don't try and dig what we all say ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ I'm n-n-n-n-not trying to cause a big sensation ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout m-m-m-my g-generation ♪
♪ talkin' 'bout my generation ♪
♪ my generation ♪
♪ my generation, yeah ♪
♪ my generation ♪
♪ ain't no way ♪
♪ my generation ♪
♪ still here today ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
♪ I hope it's got something ♪
♪ something left to say ♪
♪ my generation ♪
♪ we got the moves ♪
♪ my generation ♪
♪ soon they're gonna lose ♪
♪ it's getting kind of bad ♪
♪ makin' me mad ♪
♪ all right ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
♪ I want to go up ♪
♪ I don't want to go down ♪
♪ I want to go up ♪
♪ don't want to go down ♪
♪ I want to go up ♪
♪ I don't want to go down ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
♪ m-my, m-my, m-my, m-my, m-my, m-my, m-my, m-my, m-my ♪
♪ don't wanna get ♪
♪ don't wanna get in the way ♪
♪ don't wanna get ♪
♪ don't wanna get in the way ♪
♪ gotta make some room ♪
♪ to let the roses bloom ♪
thank you.
♪ No one knows what it's like ♪
♪ to be the bad man ♪
♪ to be the sad man ♪
♪ behind blue eyes ♪
♪ no one knows what it's like ♪
♪ to be hated ♪
♪ to be fated ♪
♪ to telling only lies ♪
♪ but my dreams, they aren't as empty ♪
♪ as my conscience seems to be ♪
♪ I have hours, only lonely ♪
♪ my love is vengeance ♪
♪ that's never free ♪
♪ no one knows what it's like ♪
♪ to feel these feelings ♪
♪ like I do ♪
♪ and I blame you ♪
♪ no one bites back as hard ♪
♪ on their anger ♪
♪ none of my pain and woe ♪
♪ can show through ♪
♪ but my dreams, they aren't as empty ♪
♪ as my conscience seems to be ♪
♪ I have hours, only lonely ♪
♪ my love is vengeance ♪
♪ that's never free ♪
♪ when my fist clenches, crack it open ♪
♪ before I use it and lose my cool ♪
♪ when I smile, tell me some bad news ♪
♪ before I laugh and act like a fool ♪
♪ and if I swallow anything evil ♪
♪ put your fingers down my throat ♪
♪ and if I shiver, please give me a blanket ♪
♪ keep me warm, let me wear your coat ♪
♪ let me wear your coat ♪
♪ no one knows what it's like ♪
♪ to be the bad man ♪
♪ to be the sad man ♪
♪ behind blue eyes ♪
This next song is a song about doing a deal with god.
Probably not a very good idea.
It's one of the first songs that I wrote, around '70, '71,
for a project called "lifehouse,"
in which, believe it or not,
I foresaw the coming of the Internet.
Anyway, this song is called "bargain."
♪ ooooooh ♪
♪ I'd gladly lose me to find you ♪
♪ I'd gladly give up all I had ♪
♪ to find you, I'd suffer anything and be glad ♪
♪ I'll pay any price just to win you ♪
♪ surrender this good life for bad ♪
♪ to win you I'd stand naked, stoned, and stabbed ♪
♪ I'd call that a bargain ♪
♪ the best I ever had ♪
Let's hear now.
♪ The best I ever had ♪
♪ I'd gladly lose me to find you ♪
♪ I'd gladly give up all I got ♪
♪ to catch you, I'm gonna run and never stop ♪
♪ I'd pay any price just to win you ♪
♪ work all my love in a wheel ♪
♪ to win you, I'm gonna drown an unsung man ♪
♪ I'd call that a bargain ♪
♪ the best I ever had ♪
♪ I sit looking 'round ♪
♪ I look at my face in the mirror ♪
♪ I know I'm worth nothing ♪
♪ without you ♪
♪ and, like, one and one don't make two ♪
♪ one and one make one ♪
♪ and I'm looking for ♪
♪ that free ride to me ♪
♪ I'm looking for you ♪
♪ I'd call that a bargain ♪
♪ I'm looking for you ♪
♪ I'd gladly lose me to find you ♪
♪ I'd gladly give up all I got ♪
♪ to catch you, I'm gonna run and never stop ♪
♪ I'd pay any price just to win you ♪
♪ surrender this good life for bad ♪
♪ to win you, I'd stand naked, stoned, and stabbed ♪
♪ I'd call that a bargain ♪
♪ the best I ever had ♪
♪ oh, a bargain ♪
♪ yeah, the best I ever had ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
♪ call you a bargain ♪
♪ ooooooh ♪
♪ the best I ever had ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
♪ that's a bargain ♪
♪ oooooooh ♪
♪ ooooooh ♪
♪ oh, yeah ♪
♪ the best I ever had ♪
I mean, I've never had a brother,
but I mean, we are like family.
He is my brother.
And it's just amazing we're still able to do it.
Still amazing that we're still --
people want to come and see us.
Whenever I say anything on the stage in the moment,
Roger interrupts me, you know?
He disagrees with me on the stage, you know,
even when I'm making stuff up.
Now if we have an argument, we laugh.
We accept the difference,
and we've got great affection for each other.
It was inevitable that it would happen
if we stuck with each other long enough.
Daltrey: We're so in tune
with the way we work and his playing
that we can go completely off the beam,
somewhere way out in space, musically,
and we'll come back and land straight on the right spot
exactly the same time.
You're sounding good tonight.
That's a good note to hit, and you're all there.
So, if you want to sing, we can sing with this one.
♪ When you hear this sound a-comin' ♪
♪ hear the drummers drumming ♪
♪ I want you to join together with the band ♪
♪ we don't move in any particular direction ♪
♪ and we don't make no collections ♪
♪ I want you to join together with the band ♪
♪ do you really think I care ♪
♪ what you read or what you wear? ♪
♪ I want you to join together with the band ♪
♪ there's a million ways to laugh ♪
♪ and everyone's a path ♪
♪ come on and join together with the band ♪
♪ everybody ♪
♪ join together ♪
♪ join together with the band ♪
♪ join together ♪
♪ join together with the band ♪
♪ join together ♪
♪ join together with the band ♪
♪ you don't have to play ♪
♪ you can follow or lead the way ♪
♪ come on and join together with the band ♪
♪ we don't know where we're going ♪
♪ but the season's right for knowing ♪
♪ come on and join together with the band ♪
♪ yeah, it's the singer, not the song ♪
♪ that makes the music move along ♪
♪ come on and join together with the band ♪
♪ this is the biggest band you'll find ♪
♪ it's as deep as it is wide ♪
♪ come on and join together with the band ♪
♪ join together ♪
♪ hey, hey ♪
♪ join together ♪
♪ join together with the band ♪
♪ join together ♪
♪ join together with the band ♪
♪ join together ♪
♪ join together with the band ♪
♪ join together ♪
♪ join together with the band ♪
♪ You better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ oooh ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ oooh ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ oooh ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ oooh ♪
♪ I call you on the telephone ♪
♪ my voice too rough with cigarettes ♪
♪ I sometimes feel I should just go home ♪
♪ but I'm dealing with a memory that never forgets ♪
♪ I love to hear you say my name ♪
♪ especially when you say yes ♪
♪ I got your body right now on my mind ♪
♪ and I drunk myself blind to the sound of old t-Rex ♪
♪ ooooh ♪
♪ to the sound ♪
♪ of old t-Rex ♪
♪ ooh ♪
♪ who's next? ♪
♪ But when I say I love you, you say, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ when I say I need you, you say, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ you better ♪
♪ you better bet your life ♪
♪ or love will cut you ♪
♪ will cut you like a knife ♪
♪ I want those feeble-minded axes overthrown ♪
♪ I'm not into your passport picture ♪
♪ I just like your nose ♪
♪ you welcome me with open arms and open legs ♪
♪ I know only fools have needs ♪
♪ but this one never begs ♪
♪ I don't really mind how much you love me ♪
♪ a little is all right ♪
♪ when you say, "come over and spend the night" ♪
♪ tonight ♪
♪ but when I say I love you, you say, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ when I say I need you, you say, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ you better ♪
♪ you better bet your life ♪
♪ or love will cut you ♪
♪ will cut you like a knife ♪
♪ I lay on the bed with you ♪
♪ we could make some book of records ♪
♪ your dog keeps licking my nose ♪
♪ and chewing up all those letters ♪
♪ saying, "you better" ♪
♪ you better bet your life ♪
♪ you better love me all the time now ♪
♪ you better shove me back into line now ♪
♪ you better love me all the time now ♪
♪ you better shove me back into line now ♪
♪ I showed up late one night with a neon light for a visa ♪
♪ but knowing I'm so eager to fight ♪
♪ can't make letting me in any easier ♪
♪ I know I been wearing crazy clothes ♪
♪ and I look pretty crappy sometimes ♪
♪ but my body feels so good ♪
♪ and I still sing a razor line ♪
♪ every time ♪
♪ and when it comes to all-night living ♪
♪ I know what I'm giving ♪
♪ I've got it all down to a "t" ♪
♪ and it's free ♪
♪ but when I say I love you, you say, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ when I say I need you, you scream, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ when I say I love you, you say, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ when I say I need you, you scream, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ when I say I love you, you say, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ when I say I need you ♪
♪ you scream, "you better, ♪ better, better, better"
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ when I say I love you, you say, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ when I say I need you, you scream, "you better" ♪
♪ you better, you better, you bet ♪
♪ you better bet your life ♪
♪ or love will cut you ♪
♪ just like a knife ♪
Thank you.
There's so many people here today.
You know, we're so grateful to you all for coming out,
and I -- you know, I don't mean that in a sniveling way.
I'm just amazed.
And it's so great.
And I don't want you to take any of the things
that I said about you guys
being too young to appreciate this shit,
because you're never too young to appreciate this shit.
And the who were famous for a piece called "quadrophenia,"
which was really all about
what it's like to be maybe 16, 17, 18.
And that's a difficult time for everybody.
And that's really what "quadrophenia" was about.
This song --
we're playing two songs tonight from "quadrophenia."
This is the first one.
♪ every year is the same ♪
♪ I feel it again ♪
♪ I'm a loser ♪
♪ no chance to win ♪
♪ leaves start falling ♪
♪ comedown is calling ♪
♪ loneliness starts sinking in ♪
♪ but I'm one ♪
♪ I am one ♪
♪ and I can see ♪
♪ that this is me ♪
♪ I will be ♪
♪ you'll all see I'm the one ♪
♪ where do you get those blue, blue jeans? ♪
♪ Faded patched secret so tight ♪
♪ where do you get that walk, oh, so lean? ♪
♪ Your shoes and your shirts all just right ♪
♪ but I'm one ♪
♪ I'm one, yes, I am ♪
♪ but I can see ♪
♪ this is me ♪
♪ I will be ♪
♪ you'll all see I'm the one ♪
♪ I got a Gibson ♪
♪ I ain't got a case ♪
♪ and I can't get that even-tanned look on my face ♪
♪ ill-fitted clothes ♪
♪ I just blend in the crowd ♪
♪ fingers so clumsy ♪
♪ my voice too loud ♪
♪ but I'm one ♪
♪ yeah, I'm one ♪
♪ and I can see ♪
♪ this is me ♪
♪ I will be ♪
♪ you'll see I'm the one ♪
♪ I'm the one ♪
♪ only love can make it rain ♪
♪ the way the beach is kissed by the sea ♪
♪ only love can make it rain ♪
♪ like the sweat of lovers layin' in the fields ♪
♪ love ♪
♪ reign o'er me ♪
♪ love ♪
♪ won't you please ♪
♪ won't you please reign o'er me? ♪
♪ Rain on me ♪
♪ only love can bring the rain ♪
♪ that makes you yearn to the sky ♪
♪ only love can bring the rain ♪
♪ that falls like tears from on high ♪
♪ love ♪
♪ won't you please ♪
♪ won't you please reign o'er me? ♪
♪ Love ♪
♪ please, please, please reign o'er me ♪
♪ rain on me ♪
♪ on the dry and dusty road ♪
♪ the nights we spend apart alone ♪
♪ I need to get back home ♪
♪ to cool, cool rain ♪
♪ the night is hot and black as ink ♪
♪ I can't see anything ♪
♪ oh, god, I need a drink of cool, cool rain ♪
♪ love ♪
♪ won't you please, please, please reign o'er me? ♪
♪ Oh, love ♪
♪ won't you please, please, please ♪
♪ won't you reign, reign o'er me? ♪
♪ Reign o'er me ♪
♪ love ♪
♪ won't you please, won't you please ♪
♪ reign, reign ♪
♪ reign ♪
♪ reign, reign, reign ♪
♪ o'er me? ♪
♪ Love ♪
♪ won't you reign, won't you reign ♪
♪ o'er me? ♪
♪ the sun shines ♪
♪ people forget ♪
♪ spray flies ♪
♪ speedboat glides ♪
♪ people forget ♪
♪ you forget they're hiding ♪
♪ the girls smile ♪
♪ people forget ♪
♪ the snow packs ♪
♪ a skier tracks ♪
♪ people forget ♪
♪ forget they're hiding ♪
♪ eminence front ♪
♪ it's a put-on ♪
♪ eminence front ♪
♪ it's a put-on ♪
♪ eminence front ♪
♪ it's an eminence front ♪
♪ it's a put-on ♪
♪ eminence front ♪
♪ it's an eminence front ♪
♪ it's a put-on ♪
♪ won't you come and join the party? ♪
♪ Dress yourself to kill ♪
♪ won't you come and join the party? ♪
♪ Dress yourself to kill ♪
♪ dress yourself to kill ♪
♪ drinks flow ♪
♪ the drinks flow ♪
♪ people forget ♪
♪ we forget we're hiding ♪
♪ the big wheel spins, and the hair thins ♪
♪ we forget we're hiding ♪
♪ people forget ♪
♪ shares crash, hopes are dashed ♪
♪ people forget ♪
♪ we forget we're hiding ♪
♪ behind an eminence front ♪
♪ it's an eminence front ♪
♪ it's a put-on ♪
♪ eminence front ♪
♪ it's an eminence front ♪
♪ it's a put-on ♪
♪ eminence front ♪
♪ it's an eminence front ♪
♪ it's a put-on ♪
♪ eminence front ♪
♪ it's an eminence front ♪
♪ it's a put-on ♪
♪ come and join the party ♪
♪ dress yourself to kill ♪
♪ won't you come and join the party? ♪
♪ Dress yourself to kill ♪
♪ dress yourself to kill ♪
♪ you got to dress yourself ♪
♪ you got to dress yourself to kill ♪
Thank you.
♪ deaf, dumb, and blind boy ♪
♪ he's in a quiet vibration land ♪
♪ strange as it seems ♪
♪ his musical dreams ain't quite so bad ♪
♪ 10 years old ♪
♪ with thoughts as bold as thoughts can be ♪
♪ loving life and becoming wise in simplicity ♪
♪ sickness can surely take the mind ♪
♪ where minds can't usually go ♪
♪ come on the amazing journey ♪
♪ and learn all you should know ♪
♪ a vague haze of delirium creeps up on me ♪
♪ all at once, a tall stranger I suddenly see ♪
♪ he's dressed in a silver-sparked glittering gown ♪
♪ and his golden beard flows nearly down to the ground ♪
♪ nothing to say, and nothing to hear ♪
♪ and nothing to see ♪
♪ each sensation makes a note in life's symphony ♪
♪ sickness can surely take the mind ♪
♪ where minds can't usually go ♪
♪ come on the amazing journey ♪
♪ and learn all you should know ♪
♪ his eyes are the eyes that transmit all they know ♪
♪ sparkle warm crystalline glances to show ♪
♪ that he is your leader, he is your guide ♪
♪ on the amazing journey together we'll ride ♪
♪ yeah, catch him walkin', didn't come home ♪
♪ this unborn child is never known again ♪
♪ believe an emotion with another armband ♪
♪ don't expect to see him again ♪
♪ no, he didn't come home ♪
♪ too many ♪
♪ they'll never come home ♪
♪ far too many ♪
♪ no, they never come home ♪
♪ ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball ♪
♪ from Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all ♪
♪ but I ain't seen nothing like him in any amusement hall ♪
♪ that deaf, dumb, and blind kid ♪
♪ sure plays a mean pinball ♪
♪ he stands like a statue, becomes part of the machine ♪
♪ feeling all the bumpers, always playing clean ♪
♪ he plays by intuition, the digit counters fall ♪
♪ that deaf, dumb, and blind kid ♪
♪ sure plays a mean pinball ♪
♪ he's a pinball wizard, has to be a twist ♪
♪ a pinball wizard's got such a supple wrist ♪
♪ how do you think he does it? ♪
♪ I don't know ♪
♪ what makes him so good? ♪
♪ Well, he ain't got no distractions ♪
♪ can't hear no buzzers and bells ♪
♪ don't see no lights a-flashin' ♪
♪ plays by sense of smell ♪
♪ he always gets a replay, never tilts at all ♪
♪ that deaf, dumb, and blind kid ♪
♪ sure plays a mean pinball ♪
♪ I thought I was the bally table king ♪
♪ but I just handed my pinball crown to him ♪
♪ even on my favorite table, he can beat my best ♪
♪ his disciples lead him in and he just does the rest ♪
♪ he's got crazy flipper fingers ♪
♪ never seen him fall ♪
♪ that deaf, dumb, and blind kid ♪
♪ sure plays a mean pinball ♪
♪ see me ♪
♪ feel me ♪
♪ touch me ♪
♪ heal me ♪
♪ see me ♪
♪ feel me ♪
♪ touch me ♪
♪ heal me ♪
♪ see me ♪
♪ feel me ♪
♪ touch me ♪
♪ heal me ♪
♪ listening to you, I get the music ♪
♪ gazing at you, I get the heat ♪
♪ following you, I climb the mountain ♪
♪ I get excitement at your feet ♪
♪ yeah, right behind you, I see the millions ♪
♪ on you, I see the glory ♪
♪ from you, I get opinions ♪
♪ from you, I get the story ♪
♪ listening to you, I get the music ♪
♪ gazing at you, I get the heat ♪
♪ following you, I climb the mountain ♪
♪ I get excitement at your feet ♪
♪ yeah, right behind you, I see the millions ♪
♪ on you, I see the glory ♪
♪ from you, I get opinions ♪
♪ from you, I get the story ♪
everybody!
♪ Yeah, listening to you ♪
♪ I get the music ♪
♪ gazing at you ♪
♪ I get the heat ♪
♪ yeah, following you ♪
♪ I climb the mountain ♪
♪ I get excitement at your feet ♪
♪ oh, right behind you, I see the millions ♪
♪ on you, I see the glory ♪
♪ from you, I get opinions ♪
♪ from you, I get the story ♪
♪ always listening ♪
♪ always listening to you ♪
♪ and you ♪
♪ and you, and you, and you, and you, and you ♪
♪ and you ♪
Townshend: This was a bit of a shock this year, you know.
"Let's celebrate our 50th anniversary."
"Okay, well, let's --
you know, the way that we'll celebrate
is we'll fucking work you to death."
And you think, "oh, thank you."
Daltrey: I really do feel we're on top of our game now.
It's as good as it's ever been.
And it's coming time to close that chapter.
That's why I say it's the long goodbye.
And it is a long goodbye.
And hopefully it's a really long goodbye.
But equally, it might be at the end of the year.
I don't think anybody's calling it the last tour.
I just -- you know, I --
you know, I've stopped touring with the who many times.
I intend to stop touring next year.
You know, but that doesn't mean that I won't come back to it.
Daltrey: There's so many opportunities there for us.
We might set ourselves up in a theater somewhere,
play to a small audience.
Townshend: I hear a lot of people say, "you know, you could go out
and you could play at small theaters and tell stories."
And I think, "oh, my god." You know.
Daltrey: What I'd like to be remembered for is just being --
just being a really --
a band that's given people a lot of pleasure.
Never cheated.
Given quite a bit back to society,
as much as we've taken out.
Nothing more than that.
Not a bad rock band.
Townshend: You know, this wasn't on the schedule.
None of this was on the schedule.
The schedule was that I'd be in a band for 18 months,
and then I'd go back to art college.
So, you know, being around for 50 years has been extraordinary.
And I think I'm learning something new every day.