The Who performed Pete Townshendโ€™s solo track โ€œLet My Love Open The Doorโ€ for the first time in 33 years during a recent show in London.

The group played a special concert at the Royal Albert Hall last Friday night (March 25) in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Frontman Roger Daltrey is a patron of the charity and launched the TCT gig series back in 2000.

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As Stereogum reports, The Who delivered a stripped-back acoustic set that included a sprinkling of deep cuts and rarities from across the bandโ€™s catalogue. They also performed a solo Townshend song from his 1980 album Empty Glass.

โ€œWell, this next song is definitely not a Who hit,โ€ the guitarist told the crowd to introduce โ€œLet My Love Open The Doorโ€, which hadnโ€™t been played by the group since 1989. โ€œItโ€™s a Pete hit.โ€

Townshend went on to talk about how the track featuring in Netflixโ€™s new Ryan Reynolds-starring sci-fi film, The Adam Project, led to it landing at Number 3 on the official Shazam Chart.

Check out fan-shot footage of the performance here:

Elsewhere, The Who offered up a live debut of โ€œBeads On One Stringโ€ from their 2019 album WHO. Townshend and Daltrey recently shared a new video for the โ€œYaggerdang Remixโ€ of the song in support of Ukraine.

โ€œItโ€™s meant to be a song about how all of us with different religions could come together if you believe in something, and stand for one thing,โ€ Townshend told the Royal Albert Hall audience.

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โ€œBut this latest thing [the war in Ukraine] seems to have nothing to do with anybodyโ€™s god. I donโ€™t know what itโ€™s about.โ€