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Re: Join Together



Snippets of the 'Join Together' thread: 

>> 	Someone mentioned they thought the Who held this song back to
>> release as a single.  Was this just to make more money (which you can't
>> blame anyone for that, really).  I always thought the Who, especially PT,
>> tried to move away from singles.  Didn't albums like The Who Sellout and
>> Tommy lead the way for bands to go to albums over singles?
>> 
>
>I think it was actually the fact that Who singles never fared very well 
>that made PT more and more cynical about singles.  The lack of sales for 
>I Can See for Miles was especially discouraging for him, at least 
>according to CC.
>
>

I remember PT interviews from this period where he said that he thought the
shift from singles to albums had been a mistake, and that The Who were
deliberately releasing a series of non-album singles - Let's See Action,
Join Together, Relay (when did it become 'The' Relay BTW ?), in an attempt
to re-emphasise the importance of singles. Another Townshend whim...

English Mike