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"Won't Go Fooled Again"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Single by The Who
from the album Who'south Adjacent
B-side "I Don't Even 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
  • Difficult rock[1]
  • progressive stone[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • three:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Runway (UK)
  • Decca (Us)
Songwriter(s) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Run into Me, Experience Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Let's Come across Action"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is a song by the English language rock band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. Information technology was released as a single in June 1971, reaching the pinnacle 10 in the UK, while the full eight-and-a-half-minute version appears equally the final track on the band'southward 1971 album Who'south Adjacent, released that August.

Townshend wrote the song as a endmost number of the Lifehouse projection, and the lyrics criticise revolution and ability. To symbolise the spiritual connection he had establish 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 main backing instrument throughout the song. The Who tried recording the song in New York in March 1971, only re-recorded a superior take at Stargroves the adjacent month using the synthesizer from Townshend'southward original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse as a project was abandoned in favour of Who's Next, a straightforward album, where it also became the closing rail. It has been performed as a staple of the band's setlist since 1971, often as the prepare closer, and was the final song drummer Keith Moon played alive with the ring.

Likewise as being a hit, the vocal has accomplished critical praise, appearing as one of Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Information technology has been covered past several artists, such equally Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Album Stone Tracks nautical chart. It has been used for several TV shows and films (nigh 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 exercise 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 terminate of the opera, after the primary graphic symbol, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The principal characters disappear, leaving behind the government and ground forces, who are left to bully each other.[4] Townshend described the song equally ane "that screams defiance at those who feel any cause is improve than no cause".[five] He later on said that the song was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", just stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to see what yous expect to come across. Wait nothing and yous might gain everything."[vi] Bassist John Entwistle later said that the song showed Townshend "saying things that actually mattered to him, and saying 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 permit 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 audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Go Fooled Over again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an European monetary system VCS three filter that played dorsum the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[8] He after upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play any sounds straight every bit it was monophonic; instead information technology modified the cake chords on the organ as an input signal.[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.[xi]

Recording [edit]

The Who'due south first attempt to record the song was at the Tape Institute on West 44 Street, New York Metropolis, 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 washed by Felix Pappalardi. This take featured Pappalardi's Mountain 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'due south house, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to help with production, and he decided to re-utilize the synthesized organ rails 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 advisedly synchronise his pulsate playing with the synthesizer, while Townshend and Entwistle played electrical 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 chief electric guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[15] Although intended every bit a demo recording, the end event sounded so good to the ring and Johns, they decided to utilise it equally the terminal take.[14] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar office played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the terminate of April.[xiii] [14] The rails was mixed at Island Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abandoned as a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", along with other songs, were then expert that they could merely be released every bit a standalone single anthology, which became Who's Next.[16] This song is written in the central of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Again" was starting time released in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland every bit a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to three:35. Information technology replaced "Behind Blue Eyes", which the grouping felt did not fit the Who's established musical fashion, 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 unmarried reached No. ix in the Uk charts and No. 15 in the US. Initial publicity material showed an abandoned encompass of Who's Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip.[18]

The full-length version of the song appeared as the closing rails of Who'due south Adjacent, released in August in the US and 27 August in the Uk, where it topped the album charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Again" drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated so successfully within a stone song.[20] Who writer Dave Marsh described vocaliser Roger Daltrey'south 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'southward trademark instrumental and song force" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the group's functioning fervor make this a monster on its manner."[22] In 2021, the song was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension.[23] As of March 2018 it was certified Silver for 200,000 sold copies in the U.k..[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who outset performed the vocal live at the opening date of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Immature Vic theatre, London on xiv February 1971. It has subsequently been part of every Who concert since,[25] [26] oft as the fix closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow Townshend to blast his guitar or Moon to boot over his drumkit. The group performed alive over the synthesizer role 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 concluding track Moon played live in front of a paying audition 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 function of the Who'south set at Alive Aid in 1985, Live eight in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Capital FM'south Summertime Brawl 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 raise funds for the families of firemen and constabulary officers killed during the 9/11 attacks. They finished their set with "Won't Go Fooled Once more" to a responsive and emotional audience, with shut-upward aerial video footage of the World Trade Center buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group airtight their set during the halftime show of Super Basin XLIV with this song.[30] While the Who have continued to play the song live, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for information technology, alternating betwixt pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the track as "the quintessential Who's Next runway just 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's Next was reissued to include the Tape Plant recording of the rail from March 1971 and a live version recorded at the Young Vic on 26 April 1971.[33] The vocal is also included on the anthology Live at the Purple Albert Hall, from a 2000 prove 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 do good The Surreptitious Policeman's Ball.[36]

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

Chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

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

Encompass versions [edit]

The vocal was showtime 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 track and then that the synthesizer function was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Live: Right Here, Right At present,[l] and made it to number one on the Billboard Album Stone 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 anthology, 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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  19. ^ Neill & Kent 2002, p. 288.
  20. ^ Marsh 1983, p. 389.
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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Tape: A Critical History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-8.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who's Next (Palatial Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-2.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Get Quondam : 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 Press. ISBN978-1-906002-75-6.

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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