Video: The Who Rock With Jeff Beck, Debbie Harry and Bryan Adams At Benefit Gig

The Who played their first gig in nearly a year last night at London Hammermsith's Odeon. The headlining set, which raised money for the charity Killing Cancer , also featured performances by Jeff Beck, Bryan Adams and Debbie Harry. All of the performers took the stage at the end to play The Who's 1972 classic "Join Together," which you can see above in stunningly high-quality video for an audience tape. It was the first time that The Who performed the song in 22 years. Earlier in the night they played "Baba O'Riley," "Who Are You" and "Won't Get Fooled Again."

Photos: The Who, Jeff Beck, Debbie Harry and more from the Concert for Killing Cancer

The Who have no other gigs booked at the moment, though Daltrey recently revealed that there are discussions about them launching a tour later this year. "We have an incredible catalog of songs that we can never plan in one tour," The Who frontman said. "We're trying to work out something where we play a good size chunk of it, but we'll see."

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He has also discussed the possibility of multiple night stands in cities featuring complete live performances of Tommy and Quadrophenia, but it remains to be seen whether the band will hit the road at all.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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