Lifehouse ElementsAmazon. com The story behind Lifehouse is so protracted and convoluted that the shelved Who project has taken on a mythic stature that rivals that of the great, lost Beach Boys' magnum opus, Smile. Suffice to say, Pete Townshend's brainchild was conceived as an ultra ambitious post Tommy pre Quadrophenia concept album, but was shelved in the early '70s. Some of its songs turned up in Who's Next ("Baba O'Riley," "Getting in Tune," "Won't Get Fooled