The Who
English rock band
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| 2025 | Zak Starkey was announced to no longer be touring with the band following a dispute about playing style during a Royal Albert Hall performance earlier that year. |
| August 28 2023 | The Who concluded their 'The Who Hits Back' tour in Sandringham, England. |
| June 14 2023 | The Who resumed their 'The Who Hits Back' tour in Barcelona, Spain. |
| 2022 | Randy Landau joins The Who as a contrabass player. |
| November 5 2022 | The Who concluded their 'The Who Hits Back' North American tour in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| November 5 2022 | The Who concluded the first leg of their 'The Who Hits Back' North American tour in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| June 25 2022 | The band reunited to play PravdaFest, marking the 38th anniversary of the founding of Pravda Records. |
| April 22 2022 | The Who began their 'The Who Hits Back' North American tour in Hollywood, Florida. |
| February 2022 | The Who announced their North American tour 'The Who Hits Back', scheduled to begin in April 2022 in Hollywood, Florida. |
| 2020 | The album ranked #81 on the German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) year-end chart. |
| 2020 | The album ranked #49 on the US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) year-end chart. |
| October 30 2020 | Released a deluxe edition of 'Who' featuring an updated version of 'Beads on One String' and a bonus CD of live acoustic tracks from their only two live shows of 2020. |
| February 14 2020 | Recorded extra songs for the deluxe version of 'Who' in Kingston-on-Thames, exactly 50 years after their Leeds University show that resulted in the live album Live at Leeds. |
| 2019 | Rachel Fuller returns to provide keyboards and orchestrations for the 'Who' album, and Andrew Synowiec contributes acoustic guitar. |
| 2019 | The album charted at #64 on the Australian Albums (ARIA) chart. |
| 2019 | The album reached #51 on the Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan) chart. |
| 2019 | The album ranked #82 on the UK Albums (OCC) year-end chart. |
| 2019 | Billy Nicholls returns to the band, and several new musicians join, including Keith Levenson as music coordinator, Katie Jacoby as lead violinist, Audrey Q. Snyder as lead cellist, and Emily Marshall as keyboards and associate conductor. |
| December 21 2019 | Album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 album chart. |
| December 6 2019 | The Who released their first studio album in thirteen years, titled 'Who', to critical and commercial success. |
| November 2019 | Released third single 'I Don't Wanna Get Wise' on Spotify and iTunes. |
| October 3 2019 | Released second single 'All This Music Must Fade'. |
| September 26 2019 | The Moving On! Tour was interrupted during a show in Houston, Texas after Roger Daltrey lost his voice. |
| September 13 2019 | Released first single 'Ball and Chain', a re-recording of Pete Townshend's solo song 'Guantanamo' from his 2015 compilation Truancy. |
| May 7 2019 | The Moving On! Tour began in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| January 2019 | The Who confirmed they were working on their first album of new material in 13 years since Endless Wire. |
| January 2019 | The band announced the Moving On! Tour. |
| 2017 | Jon Button becomes the band's bass guitarist |
| 2017 | Performed 'Tommy & More' tour and additional tour dates. |
| 2017 | John Corey and Frank Simes conclude their tenure with The Who. |
| 2017 | Jon Button begins playing bass guitar for The Who. |
| April 1 2017 | Second preliminary concert at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust featuring a full performance of Tommy. |
| March 30 2017 | The Who performed at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust, featuring a full performance of Tommy. |
| March 1 2017 | The Who performed at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust, featuring a full performance of Tommy. |
| 2016 | Pino Palladino concludes his tenure as bass guitarist with The Who. |
| October 16 2016 | The Back to the Who Tour 51! concluded with a performance at the Desert Trip festival in Indio, California. |
| June 11 2016 | The Who began the Back to the Who Tour 51! with an opening date at the Isle of Wight Festival in Newport. |
| 2015 | Pete Townshend confirmed that he and Roger Daltrey had developed a close, compassionate friendship, describing their relationship as 'love' after years of previous tensions. |
| September 2015 | All remaining US tour dates were cancelled after Roger Daltrey contracted viral meningitis. |
| June 2015 | The Who headlined the Hyde Park Festival and two days later performed at the Glastonbury Festival, with Townshend suggesting it could be their last UK gig. |
| May 20 2015 | During a Who concert at Nassau Coliseum, Roger Daltrey confronted a fan smoking marijuana, demanding they put out the joint or the show would end, demonstrating his intolerance for marijuana smoke due to its negative effect on his voice. |
| 2014 | Mick Talbot contributes keyboards to the single 'Be Lucky'. |
| November 2014 | The band released a virtual reality app co-designed by Roger Daltrey's son Jamie, featuring events and images from the band's history. |
| September 2014 | The Who released the song 'Be Lucky', which was included on the compilation The Who Hits 50! in October. |
| June 2014 | John Entwistle reunited with the Who at a charity gig for Prostate Cancer UK at Hurtwood Polo Club, alongside other musicians. |
| December 12 2013 | Loren Gold performs at '12-12-12 The Concert for Sandy Relief', marking his first recorded release with the band. |
| October 2013 | Pete Townshend announced the Who would stage their final tour in 2015, planning to perform in locations they had never played before. |
| July 2013 | The Quadrophenia and More tour concluded at the Wembley Arena after touring through Europe and the UK. |
| February 2013 | During the Quadrophenia and More tour, drummer Zak Starkey pulled a tendon and was replaced by Scott Devours, who performed with less than four hours' notice. |
| 2012 | The Who performs at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony. |
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