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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Asia Pacific World For The Who, it's "right time" to play Super Bowl Reuters - Saturday, February 6 Send IM Story Print Members of the rock group 'The Who', Roger Daltrey (L) and Pete Townshend perform at a media conference in advance of their appearance in the half-time show in the NFL's Super Bowl XLIV football game in Fort Lauderdale, Florida February 4, 2010. REUTERS/Joe Skipper Ray Waddell NASHVILLE - Hey, kids! Those "CSI" theme songs sure are catchy, right? The band that wrote them wants you to know there's a lot more where that came from. In a melding of the quintessential British band and the most American of events, the Who will deliver about 12 minutes of glory Sunday at the halftime show for Super Bowl XLIV on CBS. The band is the latest in a line of mostly boomer-oriented A-list rock stars to play the spectacle, among them Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Prince, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney. But those acts had something to promote -- be it a new album or an upcoming tour. Outside of a greatest-hits album released in December and at least one upcoming high-profile performance, the Who doesn't have much to announce at the moment. "Totally original, as usual," Roger Daltrey says with a laugh. "We've got an event working on material. It's not that we're never going to work again -- it's just at the moment there's nothing in the pipeline." Nothing, of course, except the chance to perform in front of an American TV audience of 100 million people with quick access to the Who's catalog of albums to purchase. History shows that artists who perform at the Super Bowl receive a noticeable bump in sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Last year's performer, Springsteen, sold 102,000 copies of his just-released "Working on a Dream" the week after he played; sales of his "Greatest Hits" album with the E Street Band rose by 66 percent. After performing in 2008, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' "Greatest Hits" album sales rose by 196 percent the week after the game; in 2007, Prince's "The Very Best of Prince" jumped 147 percent. 'IT STANDS ALONE' Townshend says it just "seems like the right time" to play this biggest of stages. "It would be great to be in full touring harness," he says. "But it stands alone. We've often been on the road when the Super Bowl has been on, and I've felt a bit peeved that everybody's talking about the Super Bowl and not talking about the Who's next show. So for once we get the benefit of both." Odd as it may sound to music fans, Who manager Bill Curbishley says that for many viewers, the Super Bowl could be the first time they see the Who perform. "There is a part of the Who audience that don't really know who they are," a circumstance largely due to the omnipresence of CBS' globally popular "CSI" franchise, which uses a trio of Who classics -- "Who Are You," "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley" -- for its theme songs. The magnitude of the halftime audience, both in person and via TV, is more than apparent to Townshend. "When we go out and tour, we don't play stadiums like the Rolling Stones or U2; we play arenas, and we don't always absolutely fill them to the brim. We do pretty well, because we're quite good at what we do," he says. There wasn't a strict blueprint for who would play in front of the packed house at Dolphin Stadium in Miami and a TV audience of more than 1 billion people, but Charles Coplin, vice president of programing for the National Football League and one of the producers of the show, says there are certain criteria. "We stay away from overexposed acts. When was the last time you saw the Who on TV?" he asks. "We like acts whose songs are very familiar to people of all ages, all demographics." Curbishley draws a parallel between the Who at the Super Bowl and the band's memorable set at the Concert for New York City in 2001 at Madison Square Garden. "I was a little unsure about that when we went into it. New York is our second home, and nobody had more empathy for the people who lost loved ones in 9/11 than the band did," Curbishley says. "But the Who don't do short sets; they do two-hour shows, and you gradually move with the band through those shows. But the 9/11 show was phenomenal, and the reaction was brilliant. And I'm hoping that the same thing will happen at the Super Bowl." So is Coplin. "There are other acts who do wonderful things and their music is tremendous, but it's not always as anthemic and explosive, and when you're doing something like the Super Bowl, those two words are really vital parts of making a show come to life." MIAMI SOUND MACHINE The challenge of showcasing a band like the Who is distilling decades of classic material down to minutes. Speculation about the set -- which was conceived by Daltrey along with Simon Townshend, Pete's son and a longtime musical associate of the band; executive producer Ricky Kirschner; and new director Hamish Hamilton -- is always of huge interest to fans, and the NFL guards the information like a state secret. So Coplin and company probably won't be thrilled that Townshend discussed it freely. "We're doing kind of a compact medley, like a mash-up of stuff," he says. "A bit of 'Baba O'Riley,' a bit of 'Pinball Wizard,' a bit of the close of 'Tommy,' a bit of 'Who Are You' and a bit of 'Won't Get Fooled Again.' It works -- it's quite a saga. A lot of the stuff that we do has that kind of celebratory vibe about it -- we've always tried to make music that allows the audience to go a bit wild if they want to. Hopefully it will hit the spot." Curbishley says he has been impressed with the skill and creativity of the NFL Productions team. "I was really surprised at the grasp they have of the Who," he says. "Wait until you see the lighting of it -- stunning stuff. The people who are in control of the different areas of productions, they're really Who fans. They know the music intimately." Super Bowl halftime shows, particularly in recent years, have moved light-years beyond early productions that featured college bands and Carol Channing. This year, the show will include visual techniques never before attempted by the NFL. "What we want to do is have several 'wow' moments visually and musically that complement each other, that people have never seen before," Coplin says. The NFL has taken a few knocks the past several years by not showcasing more contemporary acts, at least at halftime. The Who is no exception. "Music and entertainment are such broad concepts that no matter which direction you go, you're going to get pushback," Coplin says. With Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acts like the Who, he says, "you have a much better chance of feeling very confident the next day when it's over." WHO'S NEXT Largely because of Townshend's licensing efforts, Who music crops up all over the place. "It's absolutely astonishing, and strangely rewarding in a way," Daltrey says. "I always knew the way Townshend wrote was special. There was an energy within the music. The songs were written from a very private place from Pete, but it's the private place that we've all got." The power and continued relevance of Townshend's writing are obvious, but few could argue that Daltrey's supercharged vocals don't play a key role in the longevity of the songs. Daltrey says he always knows "instantly" if he can deliver on the lyrics Townshend produces. "There are things that he brings to the table, I'll say, 'I can't sing this, you would do a better job on this, or this is not one that we should be doing,'" he says. "It's not because I can't sing the notes, it's just about where the song sits and where I come from." Daltrey toured solo as a headliner last year and will tour as support for Eric Clapton in a brief spring tour. Townshend is in full-blown writing mode, and despite his prowess as a guitarist and performer, writing has proved to be his most celebrated gift. "Almost everything about my life as a writer and a performer is about four or five songs that I wrote in 1971," Townshend says. The performance at the Super Bowl will help Daltrey and Townshend "stand together and decide what we are going to do next, what shape that will take and whether we should just try and put out another record, or whether we should do one of the fancy things I do on the side," Townshend says. For Daltrey, it's still about getting onstage, "being able to do the one thing I wanted to do in the first place, which was to get up there and make some noise and just have fun with my friends and hopefully make people happy for a few hours in the audience," he says. "Anything's better than working a bloody steel mill. Or a sheet metal factory. I did years of that, so I know the difference." Curbishley calls the Super Bowl "probably the last thing that we haven't done, when I think about it," he says. "Whenever there has been a crisis of any sort this band has always turned up to be part of that, so it's great that we can now be part of what, to me, is like a national rejoicing. I know that the Super Bowl means a lot in the American psyche, and it's great for us to be on that platform. I think the boys would agree with me that most of what we have in our lives came from America. So we love America." 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