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1971 single by the Who

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"Won't Get Fooled Again"
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Single past The Who
from the album Who'southward Adjacent
B-side "I Don't Even Know Myself"
Released 25 June 1971 (1971-06-25) (UK)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (The states)
Recorded April–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Hard rock[1]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • eight:32 (album version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Characterization
  • Track (Uk)
  • Decca (US)
Songwriter(s) Pete Townshend
Producer(south)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Meet Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Let's See Action"
(1971)

"Won't Go Fooled Once again" is a song by the English stone ring the Who, written by Pete Townshend. It was released as a single in June 1971, reaching the summit 10 in the UK, while the full eight-and-a-half-infinitesimal version appears every bit the final track on the ring's 1971 album Who's Next, released that August.

Townshend wrote the song every bit a endmost number of the Lifehouse project, and the lyrics criticise revolution and power. To symbolise the spiritual connection he had institute in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of human traits into a synthesizer and used it as the principal bankroll musical instrument throughout the song. The Who tried recording the vocal in New York in March 1971, but re-recorded a superior take at Stargroves the next month using the synthesizer from Townshend's original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse as a projection was abandoned in favour of Who's Next, a straightforward anthology, where it besides became the closing runway. It has been performed as a staple of the band'south setlist since 1971, often every bit the set closer, and was the final song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

As well equally beingness a striking, the song has accomplished critical praise, appearing equally one of Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension. Information technology has been covered by several artists, such as Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Album Stone Tracks chart. It has been used for several TV shows and films (about notably CSI: Miami), and in some political campaigns.

Background [edit]

The vocal was originally intended for a rock opera Townshend had been working on, Lifehouse, which was a multi-media exercise based on his followings of the Indian religious avatar Meher Baba, showing how spiritual enlightenment could be obtained via a combination of band and audition.[3] The song was written for the cease of the opera, after the master character, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving behind the government and regular army, who are left to peachy each other.[4] Townshend described the vocal every bit ane "that screams disobedience at those who feel any cause is better than no cause".[5] He later said that the song was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, calculation, "Don't expect to see what you expect to encounter. Expect nothing and you might gain everything."[6] Bassist John Entwistle later said that the song showed Townshend "saying things that really mattered to him, and saying them for the first fourth dimension."[7]

Townshend had been reading Universal Sufism founder Inayat Khan'southward The Mysticism of Audio and Music, which referred to spiritual harmony and the universal chord, which would restore harmony to humanity when sounded. Townshend realised that the newly emerging synthesizers would let him to communicate these ideas to a mass audience.[eight] He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing human personality within music. Townshend interviewed several people with general practitioner-style questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the result into a series of sound pulses. For the demo of "Won't Get Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an EMS VCS three filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[8] He subsequently upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play any sounds directly as it was monophonic; instead it modified the block chords on the organ as an input point.[x] The demo, recorded at a slower tempo than the version by the Who, was completed by Townshend overdubbing drums, bass, electric guitar, vocals and handclaps.[11]

Recording [edit]

The Who'south first effort to tape the vocal was at the Record Establish on West 44 Street, New York City, on 16 March 1971. Manager Kit Lambert had recommended the studio to the group, which led to his producer credit, though the de facto work was done by Felix Pappalardi. This take featured Pappalardi'southward Mountain bandmate, Leslie West, on atomic number 82 guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the rail, and a fresh attempt at recording was made at the showtime of Apr at Mick Jagger's house, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to help with production, and he decided to re-apply the synthesized organ track from Townshend's original demo, as the re-recording of the function in New York was felt to be junior to the original. Keith Moon had to carefully synchronise his drum playing with the synthesizer, while Townshend and Entwistle played electric guitar and bass.[fourteen]

Townshend played a 1959 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins hollow body guitar fed through an Edwards volume pedal to a Fender Bandmaster amp, all of which he had been given by Joe Walsh while in New York. This combination became his primary electrical guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[15] Although intended as a demo recording, the end effect sounded so skillful to the band and Johns, they decided to use it as the final take.[fourteen] Overdubs, including an audio-visual guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the end of April.[13] [fourteen] The track was mixed at Isle Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abandoned as a project, Johns felt "Won't Go Fooled Over again", along with other songs, were and so good that they could merely be released as a standalone unmarried album, which became Who'due south Next.[16] This song is written in the primal of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Again" was first released in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited downwardly to 3:35. It replaced "Behind Bluish Eyes", which the group felt didn't fit the Who's established musical style, as the option of single. It was released in July in the US. The B-side, "I Don't Even Know Myself" was recorded at Eel Pie Studios in 1970 for a planned EP that was never released. The single reached No. nine in the UK charts and No. 15 in the US. Initial publicity cloth showed an abandoned cover of Who'due south Adjacent featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [18]

The full-length version of the vocal appeared every bit the closing rails of Who's Next, released in August in the US and 27 August in the Britain, where it topped the album charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Again" drew stiff praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to exist integrated and so successfully within a rock song.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey'south scream almost the end of the track every bit "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".[21] Cash Box said of it that the vocal has "rousing magic with the Who'south trademark instrumental and vocal force" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the group'due south operation fervor make this a monster on its way."[22] In 2021, the vocal was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[23] As of March 2018 it was certified Silver for 200,000 sold copies in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who start performed the song alive at the opening date of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on 14 Feb 1971. Information technology has subsequently been function of every Who concert since,[25] [26] often every bit the set closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow Townshend to smash his guitar or Moon to kick over his drumkit. The grouping performed alive over the synthesizer part being played on a backing tape, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click track, allowing him to play in sync. Information technology was the last track Moon played live in front of a paying audience on 21 Oct 1976[27] and the last song he ever played with the Who at Shepperton Studios on 25 May 1978, which was captured on the documentary film The Kids Are Alright.[28] The vocal was office of the Who's set at Live Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Majuscule FM'south Summertime Ball concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station's Jingle Bell Ball concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In October 2001, The Who performed the song at The Concert for New York City to help enhance funds for the families of firemen and police officers killed during the 9/xi attacks. They finished their ready with 'Won't Get Fooled Again' to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-up aerial video footage of the Earth Trade Middle buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group closed their set during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[30] While the Who take continued to play the vocal live, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for it, alternating between pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the track as "the quintessential Who's Next track but not necessarily the all-time."[32]

Several live and alternative versions of the vocal have been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a deluxe version of Who's Next was reissued to include the Record Plant recording of the track from March 1971 and a alive version recorded at the Young Vic on 26 Apr 1971.[33] The song is likewise included on the album Live at the Regal Albert Hall, from a 2000 prove with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend have each performed the vocal at solo concerts. Townshend has re-arranged the vocal for solo performance on audio-visual guitar.[34] [35] On 30 June 1979, he performed a duet of the vocal with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Immunity International benefit The Clandestine Policeman's Ball.[36]

In May 2019, Daltrey and Townshend performed a version of the song on classroom instruments with Jimmy Fallon and his house band the Roots for the Tonight Prove.[37] [38]

Nautical chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

  • Roger Daltrey – atomic number 82 vocals
  • Pete Townshend – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, Ems VCS 3, Lowrey organ, vocals
  • John Entwistle – bass guitar
  • Keith Moon – drums, percussion

Encompass versions [edit]

The song was showtime covered in a distinctive soul style by Labelle on their 1972 album Moon Shadow.[49] Van Halen covered the song in concert in 1992. Eddie Van Halen re-arranged the rails so that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Live: Right Hither, Right Now,[fifty] and fabricated information technology to number one on the Billboard Album Stone Tracks nautical chart.[51]

Both Axel Rudi Pell (on Diamonds Unlocked) and Hayseed Dixie (on Killer Grass) covered the song in their established styles of metal and bluegrass respectively.[52] [53] Richie Havens covered the runway on his 2008 anthology, Nobody Left to Crown, playing the song at a slower tempo than the original.[54]

References [edit]

Citations

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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Record: A Critical History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-eight.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who's Next (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-ii.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Go Old : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyway Anyhow Anywhere – The Complete Chronicle of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-3.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Get Fooled Once more: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Press. ISBN978-1-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

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