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1971 single by The Who

"Won't Get Fooled Over again"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Single by The Who
from the album Who's Next
B-side "I Don't Fifty-fifty Know Myself"
Released 25 June 1971 (1971-06-25) (United kingdom)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (United states)
Recorded April–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Difficult stone[1]
  • progressive stone[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • 3:36 (unmarried edit)
Label
  • Track (United kingdom)
  • Decca (US)
Songwriter(s) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Meet Me, Experience Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Go Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Let's Come across Activeness"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is a song by the English rock band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. Information technology was released as a single in June 1971, reaching the top 10 in the U.k., while the full eight-and-a-half-minute version appears as the final track on the ring's 1971 album Who's Next, released that August.

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

As well every bit being a hit, the song has accomplished disquisitional praise, actualization every bit one of Rolling Rock 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension. Information technology has been covered past several artists, such as Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. It has been used for several Idiot box shows and films (about notably CSI: Miami), and in some political campaigns.

Background [edit]

The song was originally intended for a stone 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 audience.[3] The song was written for the end of the opera, later on the main grapheme, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving behind the government and regular army, who are left to bully each other.[4] Townshend described the song as i "that screams defiance at those who experience whatsoever cause is meliorate than no cause".[v] He later said that the song was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "Nosotros'll be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to see what you expect to encounter. Expect nothing and you might gain everything."[vi] 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's The Mysticism of Sound 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.[8] He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing homo personality inside music. Townshend interviewed several people with general practitioner-style questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the result into a serial of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Go Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an European monetary system VCS iii filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[8] He subsequently upgraded to an ARP 2500.[ix] The synthesizer did not play any sounds directly every bit it was monophonic; instead it modified the cake chords on the organ as an input signal.[10] The demo, recorded at a slower tempo than the version by the Who, was completed by Townshend overdubbing drums, bass, electrical guitar, vocals and handclaps.[11]

Recording [edit]

The Who's first endeavour to record the vocal was at the Record Plant on W 44 Street, New York City, on 16 March 1971. Director 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 have featured Pappalardi'due south Mount bandmate, Leslie West, on pb guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the rail, and a fresh try at recording was made at the start of April at Mick Jagger's business firm, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to help with production, and he decided to re-use the synthesized organ track from Townshend's original demo, every bit the re-recording of the part in New York was felt to be junior to the original. Keith Moon had to carefully synchronise his pulsate playing with the synthesizer, while Townshend and Entwistle played electric guitar and bass.[14]

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 main electric guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[15] Although intended as a demo recording, the end outcome sounded so good to the band and Johns, they decided to utilize it as the last take.[14] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar function played past Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the end of April.[13] [14] The runway was mixed at Isle Studios by Johns on 28 May.[thirteen] After Lifehouse was abased equally a projection, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Once more", along with other songs, were then skillful that they could but be released every bit a standalone single album, which became Who's Adjacent.[16] This song is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Go Fooled Again" was starting time released in the UK as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to iii:35. It replaced "Behind Bluish Eyes", which the group felt didn't fit the Who's established musical mode, every bit the choice of single. It was released in July in the US. The B-side, "I Don't Fifty-fifty Know Myself" was recorded at Eel Pie Studios in 1970 for a planned EP that was never released. The single reached No. 9 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland charts and No. 15 in the US. Initial publicity material showed an abandoned cover of Who's Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [18]

The full-length version of the vocal appeared as the closing track of Who's Adjacent, released in August in the US and 27 August in the U.k., where it topped the album charts.[nineteen] "Won't Get Fooled Again" drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to exist integrated and then successfully within a stone vocal.[20] Who writer Dave Marsh described vocalizer Roger Daltrey's scream near the end of the track as "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".[21] Cash Box said of it that the song has "rousing magic with the Who'southward trademark instrumental and vocal strength" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the group'southward performance fervor make this a monster on its way."[22] In 2021, the song was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 'south 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.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who first performed the song live at the opening date of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on 14 February 1971. Information technology has afterwards been part of every Who concert since,[25] [26] ofttimes as the set closer and sometimes extended slightly to let Townshend to boom his guitar or Moon to kick over his drumkit. The group performed live over the synthesizer office existence played on a backing tape, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click runway, allowing him to play in sync. Information technology was the terminal track Moon played live in front of a paying audience on 21 October 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 part of the Who'due south ready at Live Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Capital FM'due south Summertime Brawl concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station'southward 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 assistance raise funds for the families of firemen and constabulary officers killed during the 9/11 attacks. They finished their ready with 'Won't Get Fooled Again' to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-upwards aeriform video footage of the World Trade Center buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group closed their prepare during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[xxx] While the Who take continued to play the song live, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for it, alternating between pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the rails as "the quintessential Who's Side by side rail merely not necessarily the all-time."[32]

Several live and culling versions of the song have been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a deluxe version of Who'south Next was reissued to include the Tape Plant recording of the rails from March 1971 and a alive version recorded at the Young Vic on 26 April 1971.[33] The song is likewise included on the anthology Alive at the Majestic Albert Hall, from a 2000 show with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend take each performed the song at solo concerts. Townshend has re-bundled the song for solo functioning on audio-visual guitar.[34] [35] On xxx June 1979, he performed a duet of the vocal with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Amnesty International do good The Hush-hush Policeman's Ball.[36]

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

Chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

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

Encompass versions [edit]

The vocal was get-go covered in a distinctive soul fashion by Labelle on their 1972 album Moon Shadow.[49] Van Halen covered the vocal in concert in 1992. Eddie Van Halen re-arranged the rail then that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A alive recording was released on Alive: Right Here, Correct Now,[fifty] and made it to number i on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks 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 track on his 2008 album, Nobody Left to Crown, playing the song at a slower tempo than the original.[54]

References [edit]

Citations

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  3. ^ Neill & Kent 2002, p. 273.
  4. ^ Marsh 1983, p. 371.
  5. ^ Atkins 2000, p. 157.
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  10. ^ Unterberger 2011, p. 28.
  11. ^ Unterberger 2011, p. 51.
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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Tape: A Critical History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-viii.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who'south Next (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-2.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Get Sometime : 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-iii.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Go Fooled Once more: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Printing. ISBN978-one-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

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