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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: This Rock Band Might Have Set the Record for Longest Span Between ‘Farewell Tours’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Forty three years after their first farewell tour, rock and
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  Speaker 2: Roll Hall of Famers The Who are going on their actual,
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  Speaker 2: genuine farewell run where their upcoming song is over tour,
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  Speaker 2: which might be an unofficial record for longest spans between
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  Speaker 2: farewell tours, but guitarist Pete Townsend defended themselves somewhat to
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  Speaker 2: Rolling Stone, while also admitting the nineteen eighty two farewell
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  Speaker 2: tour was a bit of a cash grab, just not
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  Speaker 2: one designed by the band, saying it wasn't me that
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  Speaker 2: said this is the last tour back then. It was
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  Speaker 2: our manager and he did do it because it was
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  Speaker 2: a kutching moment. We sold out an arena tour, but
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't a very smart thing to do. I should
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  Speaker 2: have really protested, but I didn't. I thought if we
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  Speaker 2: wanted to get back together on tour again, we would,
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  Speaker 2: and we did. The Who's Real Farewell Tour, featuring both
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  Speaker 2: surviving members Townsend and Roger Daltrey, hit the States beginning
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  Speaker 2: August sixteenth in Sunrise, Florida. Tickets once sale of the
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  Speaker 2: general public Friday.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,