With the news that The Who’s microphone-swinging singer Roger Daltrey, now 81, has handed over the reins of curating the annual week of Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall to the The Cure’s Robert Smith, there was a worrying sense that perhaps, to borrow a line from their old muckers in mid-’60s beat-pop, The Rolling Stones, this could be the last time – was tonight The Who’s final hurrah?
More regularly active than many of their classic-rock peers, Daltrey and his ever-fractious partner Pete Townshend have reconvened their post-millennial line-up most years during Daltrey’s TCT tenture – a reason both useful and charitable to crank out their old hits.
