Sixty years after Roger Daltrey sang the classic verse “I hope I die before I get old” in the song My Generation, The Who is coming to Vancouver on The Song Is Over: North American Farewell Tour.

Could it be the last time fans hear those defiant words blaring across arenas? Maybe. Maybe not.

The legendary mod band played its first farewell tour in 1982, and a large contingent of Vancouver fans drove down to Seattle, WA., to see the band with the Clash opening. Then the group reunited for a full tour in 1989. The 50th anniversary tour in 2015 was billed as a goodbye as well. But the 2019 tour in support of the album WHO nixed that.

Whatever the future holds, surviving founding members Daltrey and songwriter/guitarist Pete Townshend — and whoever is in the band backing them — will bring T

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