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"Won't Get Fooled Over again"
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Single by The Who
from the album Who'due south Adjacent
B-side "I Don't Fifty-fifty Know Myself"
Released 25 June 1971 (1971-06-25) (UK)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (US)
Recorded April–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Hard rock[ane]
  • progressive rock[ii]
Length
  • viii:32 (anthology version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Rails (UK)
  • Decca (US)
Songwriter(s) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (acquaintance producer)
The Who singles chronology
"See Me, Experience Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Go Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Let's See Action"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is a song by the English rock band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. It was released every bit a single in June 1971, reaching the top 10 in the UK, while the total eight-and-a-half-minute version appears as the last track on the band'southward 1971 album Who'south Next, released that Baronial.

Townshend wrote the song as a closing number of the Lifehouse projection, and the lyrics criticise revolution and power. To symbolise the spiritual connectedness he had found in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of man traits into a synthesizer and used information technology every bit the main backing 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 adjacent month using the synthesizer from Townshend's original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse as a projection was abandoned in favour of Who's Next, a straightforward album, where information technology also became the closing track. Information technology has been performed every bit a staple of the ring'due south setlist since 1971, frequently as the set closer, and was the last song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

Besides as beingness a striking, the song has achieved disquisitional praise, actualization equally 1 of Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It has been covered past several artists, such as Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks nautical chart. It has been used for several Idiot box shows and films (most notably CSI: Miami), and in some political campaigns.

Background [edit]

The song was originally intended for a rock opera Townshend had been working on, Lifehouse, which was a multi-media do based on his followings of the Indian religious avatar Meher Baba, showing how spiritual enlightenment could exist obtained via a combination of band and audience.[3] The song was written for the end of the opera, afterward the main graphic symbol, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving backside the government and army, who are left to bully each other.[4] Townshend described the song as one "that screams disobedience at those who feel any cause is better than no cause".[5] He later said that the song was non strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "Nosotros'll exist fighting in the streets", just stressed that revolution could exist unpredictable, adding, "Don't look to see what you wait to see. Expect aught and you might proceeds everything."[6] Bassist John Entwistle subsequently said that the vocal showed Townshend "maxim things that really mattered to him, and proverb them for the get-go time."[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 allow him to communicate these ideas to a mass audience.[8] He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing human personality inside music. Townshend interviewed several people with general practitioner-style questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the outcome 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 dorsum 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 signal.[10] 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'southward first attempt to record the song was at the Record Plant on Due west 44 Street, New York Urban center, on xvi 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 past Felix Pappalardi. This take featured Pappalardi's Mountain bandmate, Leslie Westward, on atomic number 82 guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the rails, and a fresh attempt at recording was fabricated at the start of April at Mick Jagger's house, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to help with product, and he decided to re-use the synthesized organ track from Townshend's original demo, as the re-recording of the office in New York was felt to be inferior to the original. Keith Moon had to carefully synchronise his drum 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 book pedal to a Fender Bandmaster amp, all of which he had been given by Joe Walsh while in New York. This combination became his principal electric guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[15] Although intended as a demo recording, the end result sounded and so skilful to the band and Johns, they decided to apply it as the final have.[xiv] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played past Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the finish of April.[13] [14] The rails was mixed at Isle Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abandoned as a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", forth with other songs, were and then proficient that they could simply exist released as a standalone single album, which became Who'south Side by side.[sixteen] This vocal is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Over again" was outset released in the Britain as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited downwardly to 3:35. It replaced "Backside Blue Optics", which the group felt didn't fit the Who'south established musical way, every bit the selection 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 UK charts and No. 15 in the US. Initial publicity textile showed an abandoned encompass of Who'south Adjacent featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [18]

The full-length version of the song appeared equally the closing track of Who's Adjacent, released in Baronial in the The states and 27 Baronial in the United kingdom, 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 be integrated so successfully within a rock song.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described singer 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's trademark instrumental and song force" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the group's performance fervor brand this a monster on its mode."[22] In 2021, the song was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[23] Equally of March 2018 it was certified Silvery 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 live at the opening date of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on 14 February 1971. It has subsequently been part of every Who concert since,[25] [26] ofttimes as the gear up closer and sometimes extended slightly to let Townshend to nail his guitar or Moon to kick over his drumkit. The grouping performed live over the synthesizer part being played on a backing record, which required Moon to clothing headphones to hear a click rails, allowing him to play in sync. It was the last rails Moon played live in front end of a paying audition on 21 October 1976[27] and the final 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 song was part of the Who's set at Live Assistance in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Capital FM'south Summertime Ball concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station'south Jingle Bell Ball concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In Oct 2001, The Who performed the vocal at The Concert for New York City to aid raise funds for the families of firemen and police force officers killed during the 9/11 attacks. They finished their prepare with 'Won't Become Fooled Again' to a responsive and emotional audition, with shut-up aerial video footage of the World Merchandise Eye buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the grouping closed their set during the halftime testify of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[xxx] While the Who accept continued to play the song alive, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for it, alternating betwixt pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the track as "the quintessential Who'south Adjacent track but non necessarily the best."[32]

Several live and alternative versions of the song take 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 runway from March 1971 and a live version recorded at the Young Vic on 26 Apr 1971.[33] The song is also included on the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, from a 2000 show with Noel Gallagher guesting.

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

In May 2019, Daltrey and Townshend performed a version of the vocal on classroom instruments with Jimmy Fallon and his firm ring the Roots for the Tonight Bear witness.[37] [38]

Chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

  • Roger Daltrey – lead vocals
  • Pete Townshend – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, European monetary system VCS 3, Lowrey organ, vocals
  • John Entwistle – bass guitar
  • Keith Moon – drums, percussion

Encompass versions [edit]

The song was kickoff covered in a distinctive soul style by Labelle on their 1972 album Moon Shadow.[49] Van Halen covered the vocal in concert in 1992. Eddie Van Halen re-arranged the track then that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Live: Correct Here, Correct At present,[fifty] and made it to number one on the Billboard Anthology Rock Tracks nautical chart.[51]

Both Axel Rudi Pell (on Diamonds Unlocked) and Hayseed Dixie (on Killer Grass) covered the vocal 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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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Record: A Critical History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-viii.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who's Next (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-2.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Earlier I Get Former : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyhow Anyhow Anywhere – The Complete Chronicle of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-3.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Press. ISBN978-i-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this vocal

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