New York Daily News

The Who going back on the road in spring

- BY BRIAN NIEMIETZ

Anyone who thought they’d seen the last of the Who just got fooled again.

The “My Generation” performers announced Monday a “The Who Hits Back!” tour that includes a May 26 concert at Madison Square Garden.

Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend will be joined by drummer Zak Starkey and bassist Jon Button.

The shows will also feature an orchestra. “I don’t lose myself the way I did when I used to jump around, have a big adrenaline rush, and then come off the stage and someone would say, ‘Great show,’ or someone would say, ‘Terrible show,’ and I wouldn’t really know what I had done, to be honest, since I was like someone running a marathon,” he said.

The tour includes more than two dozen gigs in the U.S. and an October show in Toronto.

Another significan­t stop on the tour is a May 15 gig in Cincinnati, where the band last played in 1979. That infamous show resulted in 11 concertgoe­rs dying as excited fans rushed into Riverfront Coliseum.

“I’m very excited about the fact that we leave behind a legacy for Cincinnati that that goes forward for you — and that’s really important,” Daltrey, who turns 78 in March, told Ohio station WCPO.

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