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"Won't Become Fooled Again"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Unmarried past The Who
from the album Who's Adjacent
B-side "I Don't Even Know Myself"
Released 25 June 1971 (1971-06-25) (U.k.)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (United states)
Recorded April–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Hard rock[1]
  • progressive stone[2]
Length
  • eight:32 (album version)
  • iii:36 (single edit)
Characterization
  • Runway (UK)
  • Decca (U.s.a.)
Songwriter(due south) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Run into Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Over again"
(1971) 		"Let's Come across 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 as a single in June 1971, reaching the top ten in the UK, while the full viii-and-a-half-infinitesimal version appears as the last track on the band'due south 1971 anthology Who'south 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 found in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of human traits into a synthesizer and used information technology as the primary backing musical instrument throughout the vocal. The Who tried recording the song 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'southward Side by side, a straightforward anthology, where information technology besides became the closing track. It has been performed every bit a staple of the band's setlist since 1971, oft every bit the set closer, and was the last song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

As well every bit existence a hit, the vocal has achieved critical praise, actualization as 1 of Rolling Stone 'south 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 chart. Information technology has been used for several Tv shows and films (near 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 practice 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 cease of the opera, subsequently the main character, 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.[four] Townshend described the song as one "that screams defiance at those who feel any cause is ameliorate than no cause".[5] He later said that the song was non strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't wait to run into what you expect to see. Expect nil and you might gain everything."[6] Bassist John Entwistle afterwards said that the song showed Townshend "saying things that actually mattered to him, and proverb them for the first 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 audition.[8] He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing human personality inside music. Townshend interviewed several people with full 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 European monetary system VCS 3 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 whatever sounds directly as it was monophonic; instead it modified the block chords on the organ equally 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's starting time endeavour to record the song was at the Record Plant on W 44 Street, New York Urban center, on xvi 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 past Felix Pappalardi. This have featured Pappalardi's Mount bandmate, Leslie West, on lead guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the rail, 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 assist with product, and he decided to re-use the synthesized organ rails from Townshend'southward original demo, as the re-recording of the part in New York was felt to be junior to the original. Keith Moon had to advisedly synchronise his pulsate playing with the synthesizer, while Townshend and Entwistle played electric guitar and bass.[xiv]

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 equally a demo recording, the end result sounded and so good to the band and Johns, they decided to employ it as the last take.[fourteen] Overdubs, including an audio-visual guitar office played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the terminate of April.[13] [xiv] The runway was mixed at Isle Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abandoned every bit a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", along with other songs, were so good that they could simply be released every bit a standalone unmarried album, which became Who's Next.[16] This song is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Once more" was first released in the United kingdom every bit a unmarried A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to three:35. Information technology replaced "Behind Blueish Optics", which the group felt didn't fit the Who's established musical style, as the choice 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. 9 in the UK charts and No. 15 in the US. Initial publicity material showed an abased cover of Who's Side by side featuring Moon dressed in elevate and brandishing a whip. [18]

The total-length version of the song appeared as the closing track of Who'southward Side by side, released in August in the Us and 27 August in the UK, where it topped the album charts.[xix] "Won't Get Fooled Again" drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated and so successfully within a rock song.[20] Who writer Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey's scream about the end of the rail as "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".[21] Greenbacks Box said of it that the song has "rousing magic with the Who's trademark instrumental and vocal force" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the grouping's performance fervor make this a monster on its way."[22] In 2021, the song was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 's 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]

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. It has subsequently been part of every Who concert since,[25] [26] ofttimes equally the prepare closer and sometimes extended slightly to permit Townshend to smash his guitar or Moon to kick over his drumkit. The group performed live over the synthesizer part being 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 last 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 function of the Who'due south ready at Alive Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Embankment in 2008 and Capital FM's Summertime Brawl concert in 2009, 2010 and 2022 and the radio station's Jingle Bell Brawl concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In October 2001, The Who performed the song at The Concert for New York Metropolis to assist raise funds for the families of firemen and law officers killed during the ix/11 attacks. They finished their ready with 'Won't Go Fooled Again' to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-upward aerial video footage of the World Trade Heart buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group airtight their prepare during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIV with this vocal.[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 rails as "the quintessential Who's Next track but not necessarily the best."[32]

Several live and alternative versions of the song have been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a deluxe version of Who'due south Next was reissued to include the Record Plant recording of the track from March 1971 and a live version recorded at the Young Vic on 26 April 1971.[33] The song is too included on the anthology Live at the Royal Albert Hall, from a 2000 show with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend have each performed the song at solo concerts. Townshend has re-arranged the vocal for solo functioning on acoustic guitar.[34] [35] On xxx June 1979, he performed a duet of the vocal with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Immunity International benefit The Cloak-and-dagger Policeman's Brawl.[36]

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

Chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

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

Cover versions [edit]

The song was start covered in a distinctive soul mode by Labelle on their 1972 album Moon Shadow.[49] Van Halen covered the song in concert in 1992. Eddie Van Halen re-arranged the track so that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Alive: Right Hither, Right At present,[50] and fabricated it to number i on the Billboard Album Stone 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 rails 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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  5. ^ Atkins 2000, p. 157.
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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Record: A Critical History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-8.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who'due south Adjacent (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-2.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Earlier I Get 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-three.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Press. ISBN978-ane-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this vocal

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

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