In a recent interview with Billboard.com, Pete Townshend, guitarist of The Who, announced the band's plan regarding the set list for the Super Bowl XLIV Halftime show on February 7th in Miami.
"We're kinda doing a mashup of stuff," the guitarist told Billboard. "A bit of 'Baba O'Riley', a bit of 'Pinball Wizard' a bit of the close of 'Tommy', a bit of 'Who Are You' and a bit of 'Won't Get Fooled Again'. It works - it's quite a saga. A lot of the stuff we do has that kind of celebratory vibe about it - we've always tried to make music that allows the audience to go a bit wild if they want to. Hopefully it will hit the spot."
The medley approach makes sense considering the band's extensive catalog. Other halftime acts such as Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney have done the same thing. It's quite a task to cram a career's worth of material into a microscopic 12 minute time slot.
2010 looks to be the year of The Who as the band are said to be hard at work on another album, plan to tour the U.S. later this year and are rumored to have their own version of the Rock Band video game franchise in the works.
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