The February 28th Who Cares benefit concert in New York City by the Who and Elvis Costello & The Imposters raised over $1.6 million for the Teen Cancer America Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The concert, held at Manhattan's Theater at Madison Square Garden, featured the two bands running through separate sets of their greatest hits, with Costello closing his portion with a roaring version of the Who's own 1966 classic, "Substitute" before the Who hit the stage. The benefit, which featured the Who stretching out from their recent Quadrophenia-filled setlists, was the final show of the band's 2012-2013 North American tour.

Both Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are the driving force behind Teen Cancer America. After more than a decade of working with Teenage Cancer Trust in the UK, they're now committed to making a difference in the lives of teens and young adults with cancer to the United States.

Pete Townshend says that unlike most of their peers, the Who have always aimed to serve their fans rather than view them as faceless consumers: "It's what you guys want us to do that's important. If you don't want us up here, don't buy the tickets. Y'know, when we were kids, we were voted on to the stage by our peers. If they don't want you there, they walk away. You're the reason we're on the stage. We don't have to be cut, censored, we don't have to repent. Meet the new boss -- it's the same as the old boss. And that boss is YOU, not us."

Who drummer Zak Starkey was forced to sit out the band European summer tour. Once again Roger Daltrey's solo drummer Scott Devours filled in for Starkey, who was forced to sit out six gigs during the band's 2013 North American leg due to a pulled tendon.

Out November 11th the Who released their "Super Deluxe" reissue of the 1969 Tommy album. The groundbreaking double album "rock opera" chronicles the rebirth of a severely traumatized "deaf, dumb, and blind" pinball playing messiah figure.

The "Super Deluxe" reissue features both a remastered and 5.1 surround sound version of the album, also features 20 solo Pete Townshend demos. The additional disc -- which literally serves as a one-man band version of the album -- marks the first time all of Townshend's 1968/1969 demos for the album will be officially released.

The limited edition set features a hardback, 80-page full-color book featuring rare period photos and memorabilia, a 20,000-word essay by Townshend confidante and Who biographer Richard Barnes, and a rare facsimile Tommy poster.

In addition to that, despite Townshend ordering longtime Who sound man Bobby Pridden to destroy all the live tapes of the band's 1969 North American gigs back in the day, the set features a full Tommy performance from the band's October 19th, 1969 Ottawa gig -- along with additional tracks from other unspecified shows, The double disc version featuring the remastered album also comes with the Ottawa show.

We caught up with Roger Daltrey and asked him the reasons behind the Who making Tommy their first double album set: "Mostly because when we recorded the record it was going to be a single album. And then we thought: 'We can't make this really gel unless we go into two albums.' When we went into two albums -- in those days, cut vinyl, y'know, you needed to even out the sides for the cutting so you're never over 20 minutes per side of an album. And we were left with a nine-minute slot that was empty (laughs). So we cobbled together loads of bits from 'Sparks' and things like that, bits of jamming and stuff, which became the 'Underture.'"

In October, Pete Townshend revealed that next year he and Roger Daltrey are eying a 50th anniversary Who tour, which might bring an end to the band's career on the road. Townshend spoke to Uncut and explained, "We will probably just tour and it'll probably be the last big tour that we do. I wasn't going to do a tour for the anniversary. I won't say I enjoyed Quadrophenia, but it was a successful tour. It was good for me because Roger did all the creative work. No, seriously, I just showed up and wanged away on the guitar. I enjoyed it. I wasn't particularly crazy about being up on the stage and on the road."

Roger Daltrey said the Who will launch its final world tour in 2015. Daltrey reiterated to Rolling Stone that he and Pete Townshend are far from retiring the brand after the still-unannounced dates wrap up, explaining, "We aren't finishing after that. We intend to go on doing music until we drop, but. . . the touring is incredibly grinding on the body and we have to draw a line in the sand somewhere. This will be the last old-fashioned, big tour. . . Our anniversary is actually right now. We were the Who 50 years ago this month. To us, 2015 is just another year.”