“Join Together” by The Who

The Who put "Join Together" out on its own in June 1972, a single with no album to call home, and it's a survivor of Pete Townshend's grand, abandoned Lifehouse project. When Lifehouse died, the song got shuffled into the working track list for another album that never happened, Rock Is Dead—Long Live Rock!, before the band finally cut it in May 1972, in one session that also produced "Relay", which followed it as a single, and a demo of "Long Live Rock".

Townshend wrote it, the Who produced it with Glyn Johns, and Roger Daltrey blows the mouth harp. Daltrey admits he was wary of the synthesizer at first, but he came around: he liked it as a single and heard real energy in it. It was also the last Who single in the US to carry Decca's color-bar label.

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