A Half-Who Play Super Bowl XLIV Half Time!

Just 15 minutes to squeeze in a lifetime of work. The Who, or what`s left of them, have a chance to bring their music back in the limelight, when they perform for the halftime at Super Bowl XLIV. Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry are still with us, but the original drummer Keith Moon died in 1978, and the bassist John Entwistle left us in 2002.

So what do The Who have in mind? “We`re kinda doing a mashup,” Pete Townsend says. “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.” (The Wall Street Journal)

Well, and this is impressive, Bruce Springsteen got 98.7 million viewers last year. This was the second most watched program in television history. Number one is the series finale of Mash in 1983, with 106 million viewers. That`s a little surprising? I thought it was Who Shot JR? Oh well…

Millions will be recording the Bowl and will replay The Who`s performance over and over again. That includes me. I am playing the Tommy epic Rock-Opera this morning in order to get warmed up for the Bowl. I have lots of friends who are big Who fans, who are gettin` excited right about now…Their glory days are gone (not my friends), but…Fiddle about, Fiddle about…Braggin` Rights: Saw Tommy in its entirety live in Houston, Texas (1969)….TGIF...A history of Bowl half-times.