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1971 single by The Who

"Won't Get Fooled Again"
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Single by The Who
from the album Who'south Next
B-side "I Don't Fifty-fifty Know Myself"
Released 25 June 1971 (1971-06-25) (U.k.)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (United states)
Recorded Apr–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Hard rock[1]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • three:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Track (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland)
  • Decca (The states)
Songwriter(due south) Pete Townshend
Producer(southward)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Come across Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Once more"
(1971) 		"Let's Encounter Activity"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is a vocal by the English rock band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. It was released as a single in June 1971, reaching the height x in the UK, while the total eight-and-a-half-minute version appears as the last rail on the band's 1971 anthology Who's Next, released that August.

Townshend wrote the vocal as a endmost number of the Lifehouse project, and the lyrics criticise revolution and power. To symbolise the spiritual connection he had institute 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 chief backing musical instrument throughout the song. The Who tried recording the vocal in New York in March 1971, but re-recorded a superior accept at Stargroves the next month using the synthesizer from Townshend's original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse as a projection was abased in favour of Who'south Next, a straightforward anthology, where information technology also became the endmost rails. It has been performed as a staple of the band's setlist since 1971, oft every bit the set closer, and was the last vocal drummer Keith Moon played alive with the band.

Besides as existence a hit, the song has achieved disquisitional praise, appearing as i of Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Information technology has been covered past several artists, such every bit Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. Information technology has been used for several Television receiver shows and films (almost 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 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.[three] The vocal was written for the finish of the opera, later on the main character, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving behind the regime and regular army, who are left to bully each other.[4] Townshend described the vocal as 1 "that screams defiance 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 "We'll exist fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to encounter what you look to see. Await nothing and y'all might gain everything."[half dozen] Bassist John Entwistle after said that the song showed Townshend "maxim things that really mattered to him, and maxim them for the outset 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.[viii] 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 upshot into a series of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Get Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an Ems VCS 3 filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[eight] He after upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play any sounds directly as information technology was monophonic; instead it modified the cake 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 first try to record the song was at the Tape 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 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 track, and a fresh attempt at recording was made at the start of April at Mick Jagger'southward house, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[xiii] Glyn Johns was invited to assistance with production, and he decided to re-use the synthesized organ rail from Townshend's original demo, every bit the re-recording of the part 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 main electrical guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[fifteen] Although intended as a demo recording, the end result sounded so good to the band and Johns, they decided to use it as the final take.[14] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the stop of April.[13] [fourteen] The track was mixed at Isle Studios past Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abandoned as a projection, Johns felt "Won't Become Fooled Again", along with other songs, were and then skillful that they could simply exist released as a standalone single album, which became Who'south Side by side.[xvi] This song is written in the cardinal of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Again" was first released in the Great britain as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to 3:35. Information technology replaced "Behind Blue Optics", which the group felt didn't fit the Who's established musical fashion, equally the choice 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 material showed an abandoned cover of Who'due south Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [18]

The full-length version of the song appeared as the endmost rail of Who's Next, released in August in the US and 27 August in the UK, where it topped the album charts.[nineteen] "Won't Get Fooled Once more" drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to exist integrated so successfully within a rock song.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described vocaliser Roger Daltrey'southward scream near the end of the track every bit "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".[21] Greenbacks Box said of it that the vocal has "rousing magic with the Who'south trademark instrumental and song strength" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the group'south performance fervor brand 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 Fourth dimension.[23] As of March 2018 it was certified Argent for 200,000 sold copies in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who showtime performed the song live at the opening appointment of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on 14 Feb 1971. It has subsequently been role of every Who concert since,[25] [26] often as 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 role being played on a backing record, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click track, allowing him to play in sync. It was the last track Moon played live in forepart of a paying audition 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 pic The Kids Are Alright.[28] The vocal was function of the Who's ready at Live Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Capital FM's 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 Urban center to assist heighten funds for the families of firemen and police officers killed during the 9/eleven attacks. They finished their prepare with 'Won't Go Fooled Once more' to a responsive and emotional audition, with shut-up aerial video footage of the World Trade Centre buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group closed their prepare during the halftime testify of Super Bowl XLIV with this vocal.[xxx] While the Who take continued to play the vocal alive, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for it, alternating between pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the track equally "the quintessential Who's Next track just not 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'due south Next was reissued to include the Tape Institute 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 Imperial Albert Hall, from a 2000 bear witness with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend take each performed the vocal at solo concerts. Townshend has re-bundled the song for solo performance on acoustic guitar.[34] [35] On 30 June 1979, he performed a duet of the vocal with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Amnesty International benefit The Hush-hush 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, EMS VCS iii, Lowrey organ, vocals
  • John Entwistle – bass guitar
  • Keith Moon – drums, percussion

Cover versions [edit]

The song was first covered in a distinctive soul style past Labelle on their 1972 album Moon Shadow.[49] Van Halen covered the song in concert in 1992. Eddie Van Halen re-arranged the track and so that the synthesizer office was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Alive: Right Hither, 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 runway 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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  4. ^ Marsh 1983, p. 371.
  5. ^ Atkins 2000, p. 157.
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  10. ^ Unterberger 2011, p. 28.
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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 Next (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-two.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Earlier I Get Quondam : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyhow Anyway Anywhere – The Complete Chronicle of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-3.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Get Fooled Once more: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Press. ISBN978-1-906002-75-vi.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this vocal

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