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The legendary band are stated to be contemplating heading again out on the highway to rejoice their 60th anniversary.

And a world tour may internet them £300million, business insiders estimate.

Guitarist and founder Pete Townshend, who famously didn’t like touring, has discovered a brand new enjoyment of being on stage – and doesn’t need his live performance life to finish.

The 78-year-old has confirmed he’s assembly lead singer Roger Daltrey to debate plans for 2024.

Roger, who his 80 in March, has mirrored on the powerful nature of stay work as he ages, each on his voice and physique.

However business insiders say “a 60th anniversary tour can be a milestone second to rejoice one of the influential and biggest UK bands of all time”.

The Who loved an acclaimed run of performances over the summer time, which noticed Pete and Roger accompanied by a full orchestra. The quick run resulted in August with the band going quiet on the longer term, as Pete can also be busy with an opera mission.

The Londoner admitted: “I believe it’s time for Roger and I to go to lunch and have a chat about what occurs subsequent.”

He stated final summer time’s tour “shouldn’t really feel like the tip of something”.

The Grammy and Brit award winner added: “It’s a query of, actually, what is possible, what can be profitable, what can be enjoyable? So I wrote to Roger and stated, ‘Come on, let’s have a chat and see what’s there’. I’ve by no means actually loved touring in any respect, however this final couple of bashes – the UK tour, the exhibits in Europe and the American tour in 2022 – I admit I began to get an actual feeling of fulfilment.”

In an interview with File Collector journal, Pete added: “I really feel very fortunate to nonetheless be doing this at my age, to nonetheless have the ability to carry out.”

The rock opera the songwriter is creating relies on his 2019 novel The Age of Anxiousness.

He describes the mission as “my actually huge magnum-opus piece,” including he hoped to have it completed this yr.

The rocker has additionally revisited Life-house, an idea album that he deserted in 1970, which has now been re-imagined as a graphic novel.

Discuss of the enduring group touring once more has the business excited.

A supply stated: “The Who going out on the highway for a 60th tour can be an enormous occasion for the enterprise.

“Venues and followers world wide can be clamouring for them to cease at their cities.

“It really can be a novel expertise and maybe the final probability for them to tour the world. Clearly that’s all right down to what the 2 males need to do, however the presents can be there.

“It’s no underestimation to say they may earn properly over £300million from a sequence of massive stadia exhibits, and double that in the event that they went out into 2025.”