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 annual Teenage Most cancers Belief profit.
You may watch video of the efficiency beneath.
Sunday’s “Ovation” live performance marked the top of the weeklong musical festivities and the top of Daltrey’s 24-year tenure as curator of the Teenage Most cancers Belief. This 12 months’s lineup featured Plant (with Saving Grace), Vedder, Squeeze, Noel Gallagher’s Excessive Flying Birds and the Who, amongst others. Pete Townshend was initially scheduled to carry out at “Ovation” however as an alternative 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 occasion and talked in regards to the significance of the Teenage Most cancers Belief.
“I’m not going away from the Teenage Most cancers Belief,” he introduced. “I’ve accomplished the job I got down to do. We’re gonna get curators to do a 12 months somewhat than try to do one other 20 years. Discuss nerve-racking. However I’ve obtained different work to do for the charity that’s extra essential, as a result of we dwell in a day the place our NHS [National Health Service], everybody is aware of, may be very questionable — even surviving. We’re a part of that service, although we’re a charity. … If the NHS goes down, I wish to ensure that this charity doesn’t go down with it.”
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