{"id":145563,"date":"2025-09-10T02:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145563\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:58:13","slug":"the-who-says-farewell-to-chicago-with-united-center-performance-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145563\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Who\u2019 says farewell to Chicago with United Center performance \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday night, The Who bid farewell to Chicago in what\u2019s being billed as their final tour of the U.S. and Canada. A bittersweet grand finale of their illustrious six-decade career. <\/p>\n

The tour, aptly titled “The Song Is Over North America Farewell Tour,” named after The Who\u2019s 1971 classic song, began in August. <\/p>\n

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Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were in fine form and genuinely seemed to still be having fun as they performed in Chicago, their command of the stage undiminished.<\/p>\n

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The joyous farewell to Chicago was befitting of a band whose nearly six decades of performing and a vast repertoire of timeless classics have touched many. Blues titan Joe Bonamassa opened the show with a commanding display of guitar prowess and showmanship.<\/p>\n

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The set list was as follows:<\/p>\n

I Can’t Explain<\/a><\/p>\n

Substitute<\/a><\/p>\n

Who Are You<\/a><\/p>\n

The Seeker<\/a><\/p>\n

Long Live Rock<\/a><\/p>\n

Pinball Wizard<\/a><\/p>\n

See Me, Feel Me<\/a>\u00a0(with “Listening to You” refrain)<\/p>\n

Love Ain’t for Keepin’<\/a><\/p>\n

Behind Blue Eyes<\/a><\/p>\n

Eminence Front<\/a><\/p>\n

My Generation<\/p>\n

Cry If You Want<\/a><\/p>\n

You Better You Bet<\/a><\/p>\n

Going Mobile<\/a>\u00a0(Simon Townshend on vocals)<\/p>\n

The Real Me<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m One<\/a><\/p>\n

5:15<\/a><\/p>\n

Love, Reign O’er Me<\/a><\/p>\n

Won’t Get Fooled Again<\/a><\/p>\n

Baba O’Riley<\/a><\/p>\n

The Song Is Over<\/a><\/p>\n

Tea & Theatre<\/a>\u00a0(acoustic; Roger & Pete only)<\/p>\n

Here Comes the Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday night, The Who bid farewell to Chicago in what\u2019s being billed as their final tour of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,43566],"class_list":["post-145563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-music-musicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}