Watch The Who play ‘This Song Is Over’ live for first time as band close TCT gigs with Bill Murray in crowd

The Who performed ‘This Song Is Over’ live for the first time at the 2025 edition of the Teenage Cancer Trust gig series. Check out footage from the set below.

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The gig took place last night (March 30) at the Royal Albert Hall in London, as the last of the scheduled gigs planned for this year’s concert series.

The event kicked off last week with a show from Sex Pistols and Frank Carter, and was followed up with a night of comedy starring Micky Flanagan, Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, a set from James Arthur, a line-up curated by the founder of the East London label Erased Tapes and a show from The Corrs.

Roger Daltrey and co. were set to play two shows, with the first one held on Thursday (March 27), which saw their first performance of ‘Love Ain’t For Keepin” in over two decades.

The second took place last night and saw them close out the gig by performing ‘This Song Is Over’ live for the first time. The song featured on their classic 1971 album ‘Who’s Next’ and has never been played in the 54 years since, until last night.

Among those in the crowd were Bill Murray, Sadie Frost, Paul McKenna and Tracy-Ann Oberman, and other highlights of the set came as the band broke out renditions of classics like ‘Baba O’Riley’, ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’, ‘My Generation’, ‘The Seeker’ and more.

“Many of you will know this is not my chosen career – I would have preferred to have been a dustman, to be honest,” guitarist Pete Townshend joked during the gig. “But it’s glorious to be here with people like you tonight. Thank you so much.”

Singer and bassist Mark King added: “Thank you for coming along and supporting this incredible charity, Teenage Cancer Trust… look at the money you’re raising for these guys, thank you so much. They do an incredible job.”

“In this incredible venue, too. What an incredible treat! It always blows my mind when I come and stand here. I don’t stand here very often, as you can imagine!”

Check out the footage and the setlist below.

The Who’s setlist was:

‘I Can’t Explain’
‘Substitute’
‘Who Are You’
‘The Kids Are Alright’
‘Bargain’
‘Pinball Wizard’
‘Love Ain’t for Keepin”
‘The Seeker’
‘Behind Blue Eyes’
‘The Real Me’
‘5:15’
‘I’m One’
‘Love, Reign O’er Me’
‘My Generation’
‘Cry If You Want’
‘See Me, Feel Me’
‘Eminence Front’
‘You Better You Bet’
‘Baba O’Riley’
‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’
‘The Song Is Over’ (Live debut)

The Teenage Cancer Trust concert series was launched by the band’s frontman Roger Daltrey in 2000 and has gone on to raise over £34million for the charity. The musician confirmed that he would be ending his time as the curator last year, although he will remain as the charity’s patron.

It was recently announced that next year’s TCT gig series will be curated by The Cure’s Robert Smith.

As for the future of The Who, Daltrey gave an interview about the band’s plans last year, in which he said he was “happy” that “that part of my life is over”.

Soon after, Townshend then told NME that he was “pretty sure” there would be more shows by The Who in the future. “I can’t really see the point of making a big deal of [last Who shows], apart from the fact that it might help sell a few tickets,” he said. “The story of the end of The Who is gonna be when either Roger or I drop dead or can’t function anymore on the stage.”

Going into 2025 however, Daltrey turned 81 earlier this month, and told The Times last year that he “has to be realistic” about his age as he is “on the way out”. More recently, he said on stage last week that he was informed by a doctor that he was losing his sight.

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