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1971 single by the Who

1971 single by The Who

"Won't Get Fooled Again"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Single past The Who
from the anthology Who's Next
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[1]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • eight:32 (album version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Rails (Great britain)
  • Decca (US)
Songwriter(southward) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (acquaintance producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Encounter Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Become Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Let's See Action"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Over again" is a song by the English rock band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. It was released equally a single in June 1971, reaching the top ten in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, while the total viii-and-a-half-minute version appears as the final track on the band'southward 1971 anthology Who'due south Next, released that August.

Townshend wrote the vocal as a closing number of the Lifehouse project, and the lyrics criticise revolution and power. To symbolise the spiritual connection he had found 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 master bankroll instrument throughout the song. The Who tried recording the song in New York in March 1971, but re-recorded a superior take at Stargroves the side by side month using the synthesizer from Townshend's original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse equally a project was abandoned in favour of Who's Next, a straightforward album, where it as well became the closing track. It has been performed equally a staple of the band'southward setlist since 1971, frequently every bit the gear up closer, and was the last vocal drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

As well as existence a hit, the song has achieved critical praise, appearing equally one of Rolling Rock 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. 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 Boob tube shows and films (most notably CSI: Miami), and in some political campaigns.

Groundwork [edit]

The song 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 audience.[iii] The vocal was written for the end of the opera, later on the main character, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving behind the government and army, who are left to bully each other.[4] Townshend described the song as i "that screams defiance at those who feel any cause is better than no cause".[5] He later said that the vocal was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", merely stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to come across what you expect to see. Wait nothing and y'all might gain everything."[half-dozen] Bassist John Entwistle afterwards said that the song showed Townshend "saying things that actually 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 allow 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 within 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 Get Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an European monetary system VCS 3 filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[eight] He subsequently upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play any sounds straight as it was monophonic; instead information technology modified the cake chords on the organ as an input point.[ten] The demo, recorded at a slower tempo than the version past the Who, was completed by Townshend overdubbing drums, bass, electric guitar, vocals and handclaps.[xi]

Recording [edit]

The Who's first attempt to record the song was at the Record Plant on W 44 Street, New York City, on 16 March 1971. Managing director Kit Lambert had recommended the studio to the group, which led to his producer credit, though the de facto piece of work was done past Felix Pappalardi. This have featured Pappalardi's Mountain bandmate, Leslie West, on pb guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the rails, and a fresh endeavour at recording was fabricated at the starting time of April 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-use the synthesized organ runway from Townshend's original demo, as the re-recording of the role in New York was felt to exist 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.[fourteen]

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 main electric guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[15] Although intended as a demo recording, the end result sounded so skillful to the ring and Johns, they decided to use it as the final take.[fourteen] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar role played past Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the cease of April.[13] [14] The track was mixed at Isle Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] Subsequently Lifehouse was abandoned every bit a projection, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", along with other songs, were so good that they could only be released every bit a standalone single album, which became Who'southward Next.[sixteen] This song is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Go Fooled Again" was beginning released in the UK as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited downward to 3:35. Information technology replaced "Backside Blueish Eyes", which the group felt didn't fit the Who's established musical style, as the choice of unmarried. 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. 9 in the UK charts and No. 15 in the U.s.a.. Initial publicity material showed an abandoned encompass of Who's Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [18]

The total-length version of the vocal appeared as the closing track of Who's Next, released in August in the US and 27 August in the Great britain, where information technology topped the album charts.[19] "Won't Go Fooled Again" drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to exist integrated and so successfully inside a stone vocal.[20] Who writer Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey'southward scream near the terminate 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 vocal strength" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the grouping'southward performance fervor make this a monster on its mode."[22] In 2021, the song was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 'southward The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[23] As of March 2022 information technology was certified Silver for 200,000 sold copies in the UK.[24]

Alive performances [edit]

The Who first performed the song live at the opening engagement of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on 14 Feb 1971. It has later been part of every Who concert since,[25] [26] oftentimes as the fix closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow Townshend to smash his guitar or Moon to kicking over his drumkit. The group performed alive over the synthesizer part being played on a bankroll tape, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click runway, allowing him to play in sync. Information technology was the concluding track Moon played live in front of a paying audience on 21 October 1976[27] and the last vocal 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 prepare at Alive Help in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Capital FM's Summertime Ball concert in 2009, 2010 and 2022 and the radio station'south Jingle Bell Ball concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In October 2001, The Who performed the vocal at The Concert for New York City to help raise funds for the families of firemen and police officers killed during the 9/eleven attacks. They finished their set with 'Won't Get Fooled Over again' to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-up aerial video footage of the World Merchandise Center buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In Feb 2010, the grouping closed their set during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[30] While the Who accept continued to play the song alive, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for information technology, alternating betwixt pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the track equally "the quintessential Who's Adjacent runway but not necessarily the all-time."[32]

Several live and alternative 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 Institute recording of the track from March 1971 and a alive version recorded at the Immature Vic on 26 April 1971.[33] The song is also included on the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, from a 2000 evidence with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend have each performed the vocal at solo concerts. Townshend has re-arranged the vocal for solo operation on acoustic guitar.[34] [35] On thirty June 1979, he performed a duet of the vocal with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Immunity International do good 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 ring the Roots for the Tonight Show.[37] [38]

Chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

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

Cover versions [edit]

The song was first covered in a distinctive soul style by Labelle on their 1972 anthology 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: Correct Here, Right Now,[50] and fabricated it to number one on the Billboard Anthology Rock Tracks 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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  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.
  12. ^ Neill & Kent 2002, p. 279.
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  20. ^ Marsh 1983, p. 389.
  21. ^ Marsh 1983, p. 388.
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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Tape: A Disquisitional History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-8.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who's Next (Palatial Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-two.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Get Old : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyway Anyhow Anywhere – The Complete Relate of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-3.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Get Fooled Once again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Press. ISBN978-i-906002-75-vi.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

thomashappone.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Won%27t_Get_Fooled_Again

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