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Who is ready to rock? The Who will headline the Super Bowl XLIV halftime show, according to Sports Illustrated .

Do you love The Who? The News-Press wants to know all about it. The rock band's singer, Roger Daltrey, performs Nov.

The band, the movement, the album, the movie. There's conceivably a good story somewhere in The Who, the Mods and the Quadrophenia Connection , but the problem is that the documentary A) doesn't know what it is and B) doesn't know how to tell it.

When the Who is on - it's really on. Maybe it hasn't always been as consistently ferocious or tuneful a live act as it once was.

Released in 1967, the album is mostly an homage - and perhaps a bit of a parody - of the pirate radio stations that broadcast the hottest rock 'n' roll to a voracious, largely teenage audience.

The 1960s soundtrack can almost float this boat all by itself. And when the DJs on board the British pirate radio ship aren't doing needle drops on vinyl by The Who, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Martha and the Vandellas and other rock 'n' roll legends, the exuberant performances of the cast keep the comedy by writer-director Richard Curtis upbeat.

Who is ready to rock? The Who will headline the Super Bowl XLIV halftime show, according to Sports Illustrated .

Landshark Stadium is quickly becoming the football field where music legends go to die.

But, as movies like this are sometimes wont to do, it sexes up the facts of the phenomenon by a fair bit.

Roger Daltrey isn't on a solo tour to support an album or accomplish something without The Who, his longtime band.

The Super Bowl will continue its recent run of classic-rock halftime shows in February when The Who -- its two surviving original members, anyway -- take the stage in Miami.

SI.com is reporting that, according to a "source," legendary rock group The Who will be performing the halftime show on Feb.

Quadrophenia just may be my favorite album of all-time. Created by Pete Townsend and released by The Who in 1973, it was conceived by Townsend as a complex rock opera that focused on the personalities of the band's original band members explains it all so much better.

Super Bowl XLIV will be played in South Florida next year, and football will not be the only entertainment.

DISMISSING Pirate Radio as a bad film made by bad people is shirking responsibility.

From left: Hoffman, Rhys Ifans and director Curtis share a laugh on the set of 'Pirate Radio.' Courtesy Focus Features Sure, it's only rock n' roll, but Richard Curtis likes it - " so much that he wrote and directed Pirate Radio , a joyous ode to the irrepressible spirit of rock, put to the severest of tests in the '60s by closed-minded British ...

Last night at the House of Blues, when he sang "My Generation," he reworked it as a slow blues song, the back end of Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man." But he stopped short of the killer line, "Hope I die before I get old." Hey, you can only deal with so much irony.

The Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey is out on a rare solo tour dubbed "Use It or Lose It," a reference to the need for keeping his 65-year-old voice in top-notch shape.

With three stops in New Jersey, Roger Daltrey is keeping his vocal cords in shape for a possible reunion with his legendary bandmates Major rock tours often are named after the artist's new album.

He rose to superstardom via his decades as the frontman of the pioneering rock band The Who, but Roger Daltrey has finally stepped out on his first solo tour in 25 years.