Paul Weller, Kaiser Chiefs and Johnny Marr will support on June 26 dateโ€ฆ

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The Who will perform at Londonโ€™s Hyde Park in June next year.

The band will play as part of next yearโ€™s British Summer Time festival with the hedline set due to be the final performance of The Whoโ€™s Who Hits 50 UK tour. Tickets are on general sale at 9am on Thursday (November 20).

Support on the day will come from Paul Weller, Kaiser Chiefs and Johnny Marr with more names set to be added to the bill in the coming months. June 26 will mark the fourth time that The Who have performed at Hyde Park in their five-decade career, three times as headliners and once during Live 8 in 2005.

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Speaking about the gig, guitarist Pete Townshend said: โ€œItโ€™s a good gig. You draw from all over the country but a London crowd is always a good crowd. Itโ€™s a Royal Park so thank you your majesty, you canโ€™t play it without her permissionโ€

The Who are the second headliner announced for Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park 2015, with Taylor Swift set to play the festival one day later on June 27.

Later this year The Who will embark on their 50th anniversary tour. The nine-date tour will encompass songs dating back to the bandโ€™s early years and has been described as โ€œthe beginning of the endโ€ for the band. Starting at the end of this month, it features hits and songs which Townshend described as โ€œhits, picks, mixes and missesโ€.

The Who will play:

Glasgow SSE Hydro (November 30)

Leeds First Direct Arena (December 2)

Nottingham Capital FM Arena (5)

Birmingham NIA (7)

Newcastle Metro Arena (9)

Liverpool Echo Arena (11)

Manchester Phones 4u Arena (13)

Cardiff Motorpoint (15)

London O2 (17)