Robert Plant and Eddie Vedder joined Roger Daltrey onstage Sunday for a rendition of the Who’s “Baba O’Riley” at London’s Royal Albert Corridor, offering a rousing finale to the yearly Teenage Most cancers Accept as true with receive advantages.
You’ll watch video of the efficiency beneath.
Sunday’s “Ovation” live performance marked the tip of the weeklong musical festivities and the tip of Daltrey’s 24-year tenure as curator of the Teenage Most cancers Accept as true with. This yr’s lineup featured Plant (with Saving Grace), Vedder, Squeeze, Noel Gallagher’s Top Flying Birds and the Who, amongst others. Pete Townshend used to be in the beginning scheduled to accomplish at “Ovation” however as a substitute needed to head to New York to advertise the Broadway reopening of Tommy. (Daltrey opened his set with a canopy of Townshend’s “Let My Love Open the Door.”)
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On the finish of the “Baba O’Riley” efficiency — which additionally featured singer-songwriter Glen Hansard and Stereophonics lead singer Kelly Jones — Daltrey saluted the “unsung heroes” of the development and talked in regards to the significance of the Teenage Most cancers Accept as true with.
“I’m no longer going clear of the Teenage Most cancers Accept as true with,” he introduced. “I’ve finished the task I got down to do. We’re gonna get curators to do a yr moderately than attempt to do any other twenty years. Discuss traumatic. However I’ve were given different paintings to do for the charity this is extra essential, as a result of we are living in an afternoon the place our NHS [National Health Service], we all know, may be very questionable — even surviving. We’re a part of that carrier, although we’re a charity. … If the NHS is going down, I wish to be sure that this charity doesn’t cross down with it.”
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