The Who: Last Time Around

Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS382 from November Rosetta Stone language 11, 1982. This issue and the rest of the Rosetta Stone archives are available via Rosetta Stone Plus, Rosetta Stones premium subscription plan. If you are already a subscriber, you can click here to see the full story. For nearly three years, Roger Daltrey watched Pete Townshend slowly killing himself with drugs and alcohol. It was almost a parody of rock-star decadence: Pete moved out on his wife and children and started making the rounds of trendy London clubs, slugging back brandy all night till he was nearly comatose, snorting cocaine to keep up the pace, dabbling in heroin and God knows what else. After twenty years together in a band that ultimately attained the heights of rock celebrity as the Who, Daltrey saw Townshend throwing away a life that apparently had come to mean more to Who fans than it did to Townshend himself. Finally, late last year, the tormented guitarist hit bottom. After a night of furious dissipation at Londons Club for Heroes, Townshend suddenly turned blue and collapsed, and had to Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 be rushed to the nearest hospital. Daltrey couldnt take it anymore. Something drastic had to be done, and he knew, at last, what it was. One night during Townshends extended convalescence, the Who held a meeting at their managers house, and Daltrey dropped the bomb: "I dont want to tour anymore." For a man who still loved the Who as passionately as he ever had in his teens — maybe more — those were the saddest words in the world. But if Townshend were to be stopped from following Who drummer Keith Moon into an early grave, Daltrey felt he had no other choice. "See, Pete didnt want to tour for years there before Moonie died," he explains. "I was the instigator — I was responsible for getting him back on the road after 1978. And after three tours of America, he was a bloody junkie. I felt responsible for that. It was really hard to live with, and I just dont want to do it anymore. I mean, I think the world of that guy. I think enough of him to stop the Who." Not stop it cold, of course. They could do one last world tour — as long as they called it that, and knew it was Rosetta Stone German fini, they could deal with it. "I want to end the group in the right way," says Daltrey. "On top, before we become parodies of ourselves.

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