The Who storm the Glastonbury mud generation

The Who closed this years Glastonbury mud fest by belting out songs from the last 42 years with all the passion and energy of teenagers. They don't ever just turn up for their pay cheques, they strained at the leash, giving everything. Joined on stage by Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey, on drums, Pino Palladino on bass, Rabbit on keys and Townshend's brother Simon, on guitar, Daltrey and Townshend, the two surviving members, played tracks including Baba O'Riley, Won't Get Fooled Again, Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, Pinball Wizard, Behind Blue Eyes, and My Generation, often to a back screen of mod images from their 1979 film Quadrophenia.

Starkey added a neat angle to the band as his father was best friends with the late and original drummer Keith Moon. He provided a watchable drum attack. Daltrey stomped around the stage throwing his mic up and around, singing with everything in the tank, and Townshend windmilled his strumming arm with mesmeric freedom. Surely one of the greatest guitarists, let alone songwriters, this country has ever produced.

The muddy sodden crowd, for an hour and a half, forgot their soggy troubles and allowed true true legends to give the festival a fitting send off.

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