The Who storm the Glastonbury mud generation

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.

The Who, as British a cultural icon as tea and scones, the Queen, and Glastonbury in the mud.