The Who are currently on their “The Song is Over” farewell tour and it hit NYC on Saturday for a show at Madison Square Garden. “This is the 36th time we’ve performed at Madison Square Garden,” Pete Townshend said, “and it probably won’t happen again.”
Townshend, Roger Daltrey and the rest of the current lineup of the band (including new drummer Scott Devours), delivered a crowd-pleasing set of classics, including “Baba O’Riley,” “The Seeker,” “Pinball Wizard,” “I Can’t Explain,” “Substitute,” “Eminence Front,” “My Generation,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “My Generation,” and more. They also played “Long Live Rock” for the first time since 2014. (Watch video of that below.) You might expect “The Song is Over” to be the final song of the night, but it was second to last, followed by Peter and Roger performing “Tea & Theatre” acoustic as a duo.
Will this really be it? They’ve had farewell tours before and Pete did say probably. Stay tuned.
This tour has surprising and cool openers, and at MSG it was Feist, whose short set included “1234,” “I Feel it All” and “My Moon My Man.
Check out photos of the MSG show by Ellen Qbertplaya, plus The Who and Feist setlists, below.
In other Who news, the band just announced a Super Deluxe Edition box set for their 1978 album Who Are You. It includes new Atmos and stereo mixes of the album by Steven Wilson and features 71 unreleased sessions, including demos, rehearsals, an unused Glyn Johns mix of the album, a 1979 live album, and more. It’s out October 31: preorder here and check out the tracklist and a trailer for it below.
Still more news: Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia: A Rock Ballet will get its NYC premiere at the New York City Center from November 14-16. “QUADROPHENIA is the only Who album that I solely composed and produced, and the movie that followed in 1979 launched the careers of some of the finest young actors of the time,” says Pete Townshend. “In 2016 Rachel Fuller agreed to create an orchestral score of the album. When I first heard a demo of this version, without vocals, my first thought was that it would make a powerfully rhythmic and emotionally engaging ballet.” Tickets go on sale September 11 and you can watch a trailer for it below.
SETLIST: The Who @ Madison Square Garden 8/30/2025
I Can’t Explain
Substitute
Who Are You
The Seeker
Long Live Rock
Pinball Wizard
See Me, Feel Me
Love Ain’t for Keepin’
Behind Blue Eyes
Eminence Front
My Generation
Cry If You Want
You Better You Bet
Going Mobile (Simon Townshend on vocals)
The Real Me
I’m One
5:15
Love, Reign O’er Me
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Baba O’Riley
The Song Is Over
Tea & Theatre
SETLIST: Feist @ Madison Square Garden 8/30/2025
I Feel It All
The Bad in Each Other
How Come You Never Go There
My Moon My Man
Let It Die
Sealion
Borrow Trouble
1234
Who Are You (Super Deluxe Edition):
01 New Song
02 Had Enough
03 905
04 Sister Disco
05 Music Must Change
06 Trick of the Light
07 Guitar And Pen
08 Love Is Coming Down
09 Who Are You
10 New Song (Glyn Johns mix)
11 Had Enough (Glyn Johns mix)
12 905 (Glyn Johns mix)
13 Sister Disco (Glyn Johns mix)
14 Trick of The Light (Glyn Johns mix)
15 Guitar and Pen (Glyn Johns mix)
16 Who Are You (Glyn Johns mix)
17 Trick of The Light (Single Version Edit – Glyn Johns mix)
18 Guitar and Pen (Glyn Johns Alt mix)
19 Who Are You (Glyn Johns Single edit)
20 New Song (Pete Vocal – Steven Wilson mix)
21 Sister Disco (Lost Guitar Mix- Steven Wilson mix)
22 Had Enough (No Orchestra- Steven Wilson mix)
23 Guitar and Pen (Pete Guide Vocal- Steven Wilson mix)
24 Love Is Coming Down (No Orchestra- Steven Wilson mix)
25 Who Are You (Early Run Through -Pete Vox- Steven Wilson mix)
26 Who Are You (Lost Verse Mix)
27 Guitar and Pen (Olympic 78 Mix)
28 Love Is Coming Down (Early Run Through)
29 Empty Glass (Session Out Take)
30 No Road Romance (Session Out Take)
31 Trick of the Light (Unused Olympic Edit)
32 Who Are You (Clean Radio Edit)
33 905 (John Entwistle Demo)
34 Had Enough (John Entwistle Demo)
35 Back On the Road (John Entwistle Demo)
36 Wild Horses (John Entwistle Demo)
37 Trick of the Light (John Entwistle Demo)
38 Good Time Coming (John Entwistle Demo)
39 Who Are You (John and Cyrano’s mix from The Kids Are Alright)
40 Who Are You (Early version recorded live in Toronto, 1976)
41 The Kids Are Alright (Shepperton Studios)
42 Run, Run, Run (Shepperton Studios)
43 Spoonful / Smokestack Lightning (Shepperton Studios)
44 I Saw Her Standing There (Shepperton Studios)
45 Instrumental Jam (Shepperton Studios)
46 Who Are You (Knocking It into Shape 1 – Shepperton Studios)
47 Who Are You (Knocking It into Shape 2 – Shepperton Studios)
48 Baba O’Riley (Shepperton Studios)
49 Shakin’ All Over (Shepperton Studios)
50 Bell Boy (Shepperton Studios)
51 Won’t Get Fooled Again (Shepperton Studios)
52 Barbara Ann (Shepperton Studios)
53 I Saw Her Standing There 2 (Shepperton Studios)
54 Drowned (Shepperton Studios)
55 Baba O’Riley (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978)
56 My Wife (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978)
57 My Generation (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978)
58 Join Together (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978)
59 Who Are You (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978)
60 Won’t Get Fooled Again (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978)
61 Sister Disco (Shepperton Tour Rehearsal 1979)
62 Music Must Change (Shepperton Tour Rehearsal 1979)
63 Won’t Get Fooled Again (Shepperton Tour Rehearsal 1979)
64 Who Are You (Shepperton Tour Rehearsal 1979)
65 Substitute (Live U.S.A. 1979)
66 I Can’t Explain (Live U.S.A. 1979)
67 Baba O’Riley (Live U.S.A. 1979)
68 The Punk and the Godfather (Live U.S.A. 1979)
69 Boris the Spider (Live U.S.A. 1979)
70 Sister Disco (Live U.S.A. 1979)
71 Behind Blue Eyes (Live U.S.A. 1979)
72 Music Must Change (Live U.S.A. 1979)
73 Drowned (Live U.S.A. 1979)
74 Who Are You (Live U.S.A. 1979)
75 5.15 (Live U.S.A. 1979)
76 Pinball Wizard (Live U.S.A. 1979)
77 See Me, Feel Me (Live U.S.A. 1979)
78 Long Live Rock (Live U.S.A. 1979)
79 My Generation (Live U.S.A. 1979)
80 I Can See for Miles (Live U.S.A. 1979)
81 Trick Of the Light (Live U.S.A. 1979)
82 Sparks (Live U.S.A. 1979)
83 Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live U.S.A. 1979)
84 Jam /Take A Fool Like You (Live U.S.A. 1979)
85 How Can You Do It Alone (Live U.S.A. 1979)
86 Magic Bus (Live U.S.A. 1979)
87 Summertime Blues (Live U.S.A. 1979)
88 Dancing in the Street / Dance It Away (Live U.S.A. 1979)
89 The Real Me (Live U.S.A. 1979)