Posters outside the Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, proclaimed the Who as "The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the world". At the end of the night nobody in the audience could disagree.

After a good set by the excellent Steve Gibbons Band, the crowd waited expectantly for the main event. Then the audience erupted when the Who came on stage and powered straight into "My Generation". The crowd rose to its feet — and stayed there for the rest of the concert.

Roger Daltrey was his usual self, swinging the microphone like a lariat and shouting out the well known words.

Pete Townsend was the epitome of the rock guitarist — leaping around the stage and crashing out those unmistakable chords.

Surprisingly, John Entwhistle did not try to avoid the spotlight as he usually does, but actually seemed to seek it out. Perhaps his solo venture with his own band, Ox, has given him more self-confidence.

Keith Moon, as "madman" of show business, was — as usual — looming about the drums in his time honoured manner.

It was a concert designed to let the Scottish fans hear their best known numbers after a long absence. Songs like "Substitute", "Magic Bus", "Baba O'Reilly" and a medley from their now massively famous "Tommy" album were greedily absorbed by the fans.

Surprisingly they only played two numbers from their latest album "Who by Numbers", but nobody was complaining.

The concert ended with the Who belting out "Won't Get Fooled Again" and despite pleas they stuck rigidly to their principle of never doing an encore.