According to stereogum.com rock band The Who released their album The Who With Orchestra: Live At Wembley back in 2019 and during recent interview with USA Today, The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey mentioned how it is unlikely the band will ever tour North America again.
The Who toured North America last year and in the following statement Daltrey discussed how the tour was a big economic risk.
“I don’t know if we’ll ever come back to tour America. There is only one tour we could do, an orchestrated Quadrophenia to round out the catalog. But that’s one tall order to sing that piece of music, as I’ll be 80 next year. I never say never, but at the moment it’s very doubtful.”
The singer adds: Touring has become very difficult since COVID. We cannot get insured and most of the big bands doing arena shows, by the time they do their first show and rehearsals and get the staging and crew together, all the buses and hotels, you’re upwards $600,000 to a million in the hole.”
Daltrey continues with: “To earn that back, if you’re doing a 12-show run, you don’t start to earn it back until the seventh or eighth show. That’s just how the business works. The trouble now is if you get COVID after the first show, you’ve (lost) that money.”
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