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1971 single by the Who

"Won't Go Fooled Over 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) (UK)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (U.s.a.)
Recorded April–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Hard stone[1]
  • progressive stone[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Track (UK)
  • Decca (U.s.a.)
Songwriter(s) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"See Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Once more"
(1971) 		"Let's Meet Activeness"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Once more" is a song by the English language rock band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. It was released every bit a unmarried in June 1971, reaching the pinnacle ten in the Great britain, while the total 8-and-a-one-half-minute version appears equally the concluding rail on the band'south 1971 album Who's Next, released that August.

Townshend wrote the vocal as a endmost number of the Lifehouse project, and the lyrics criticise revolution and ability. To symbolise the spiritual connectedness he had found in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of homo traits into a synthesizer and used it as 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 next calendar month using the synthesizer from Townshend'southward original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse equally a project was abandoned in favour of Who's Side by side, a straightforward anthology, where it too became the closing track. Information technology has been performed as a staple of the band's setlist since 1971, ofttimes as the ready closer, and was the final song drummer Keith Moon played alive with the band.

Also as being a striking, the song has achieved critical praise, actualization as ane of Rolling Rock 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension. Information technology has been covered by several artists, such equally Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. It has been used for several TV shows and films (most 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 ring and audience.[3] The song was written for the cease of the opera, afterwards the chief grapheme, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving behind the authorities and army, who are left to bully each other.[four] Townshend described the song as ane "that screams defiance at those who feel whatsoever crusade is better than no crusade".[v] He subsequently said that the song was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to see what y'all await to see. Look zip and you might gain everything."[6] Bassist John Entwistle later on said that the song showed Townshend "proverb things that really mattered to him, and maxim them for the first time."[7]

Townshend had been reading Universal Sufism founder Inayat Khan'southward 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.[eight] He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing human personality within music. Townshend interviewed several people with general practitioner-style questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the event into a series of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Get Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an Ems VCS iii filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[8] He later upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play any sounds direct as it was monophonic; instead information technology modified the block chords on the organ as an input signal.[x] The demo, recorded at a slower tempo than the version past the Who, was completed past Townshend overdubbing drums, bass, electrical 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 City, on 16 March 1971. Manager Kit Lambert had recommended the studio to the group, which led to his producer credit, though the de facto piece of work was done by Felix Pappalardi. This take featured Pappalardi'due south Mountain bandmate, Leslie Due west, on lead guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to exist unable to mix the runway, and a fresh attempt at recording was made 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-employ the synthesized organ track 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 carefully synchronise his drum 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 past 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 use it as the final take.[14] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar role played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the end of April.[13] [14] The track was mixed at Island Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abased as a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Over again", along with other songs, were and then adept that they could just exist released as a standalone single album, which became Who's Next.[sixteen] This song is written in the cardinal of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Over again" was first released in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited downward to 3:35. It replaced "Behind Blue Eyes", which the grouping felt didn't fit the Who'south established musical mode, equally the selection 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 United kingdom charts and No. 15 in the Usa. Initial publicity material showed an abandoned cover of Who'south Side by side featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [18]

The full-length version of the song appeared as the endmost track of Who'south Next, released in August in the United states of america and 27 August in the U.k., where it topped the album charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Over again" drew potent praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to exist integrated so successfully within a rock song.[20] Who writer Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey's scream nearly the stop of the runway 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 strength" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the group'due south 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 Argent 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 serial of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Immature Vic theatre, London on xiv Feb 1971. It has subsequently been office of every Who concert since,[25] [26] often every bit the set closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow Townshend to smash his guitar or Moon to kick over his drumkit. The grouping performed live over the synthesizer office beingness played on a backing tape, which required Moon to wearable headphones to hear a click rails, allowing him to play in sync. It was the last track Moon played live in front of a paying audience 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 motion-picture show The Kids Are Alright.[28] The song was role of the Who'south set at Live Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Capital FM'due south Summertime Ball concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station's Jingle Bong Brawl concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In October 2001, The Who performed the vocal at The Concert for New York City to assistance enhance funds for the families of firemen and police 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-up aerial video footage of the World Trade Middle buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In Feb 2010, the grouping closed their set during the halftime testify of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[xxx] While the Who have 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 rail as "the quintessential Who's Next track but non necessarily the all-time."[32]

Several alive and alternative versions of the song take been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a palatial version of Who'southward 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 April 1971.[33] The song is also included on the anthology Live at the Regal Albert Hall, from a 2000 show with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend accept each performed the vocal 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 Surreptitious Policeman's Ball.[36]

In May 2019, Daltrey and Townshend performed a version of the song on classroom instruments with Jimmy Fallon and his business firm band 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 3, Lowrey organ, vocals
  • John Entwistle – bass guitar
  • Keith Moon – drums, percussion

Embrace versions [edit]

The song was first covered in a distinctive soul style by Labelle on their 1972 album Moon Shadow.[49] Van Halen covered the song in concert in 1992. Eddie Van Halen re-arranged the rail so that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A alive recording was released on Alive: Right Here, Right Now,[50] and made it to number 1 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 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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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Record: A Critical History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-8.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who's Next (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-2.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Earlier I Get Onetime : 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 Once again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Press. ISBN978-one-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

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