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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's 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 Apr–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Difficult rock[1]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • viii:32 (album version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Track (Britain)
  • Decca (US)
Songwriter(southward) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Meet Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Allow's See Action"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is a song past the English stone band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. It was released equally a single in June 1971, reaching the acme 10 in the UK, while the full 8-and-a-half-minute version appears as the final track on the band's 1971 album Who's Next, released that August.

Townshend wrote the song as a endmost number of the Lifehouse project, and the lyrics criticise revolution and power. To symbolise the spiritual connectedness he had plant 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 musical instrument throughout the vocal. The Who tried recording the song in New York in March 1971, but re-recorded a superior accept at Stargroves the next month using the synthesizer from Townshend'due south original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse as a project was abandoned in favour of Who'due south Next, a straightforward album, where information technology besides became the endmost rail. It has been performed every bit a staple of the band's setlist since 1971, often as the fix closer, and was the last song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

Also as being a striking, the song has accomplished critical praise, appearing as ane of Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It has been covered by several artists, such as Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Anthology Rock Tracks chart. Information technology has been used for several Tv set shows and films (most 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 do 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 end of the opera, later the main character, 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.[iv] Townshend described the vocal as ane "that screams disobedience at those who feel any cause is better than no cause".[5] He afterward said that the vocal was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could exist unpredictable, calculation, "Don't wait to run across what y'all wait to meet. Expect nix and you might gain everything."[6] Bassist John Entwistle afterwards said that the song showed Townshend "saying things that really mattered to him, and maxim them for the starting time 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 audience.[8] He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing human personality within music. Townshend interviewed several people with general practitioner-mode questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the effect into a series of sound pulses. For the demo of "Won't Get Fooled Once again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an Ems VCS 3 filter that played dorsum the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[8] He subsequently upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play any sounds straight as information technology was monophonic; instead information technology 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 start attempt to record the vocal was at the Record Institute on Due west 44 Street, New York City, on xvi March 1971. Director Kit Lambert had recommended the studio to the group, which led to his producer credit, though the de facto work was done by Felix Pappalardi. This have featured Pappalardi's Mount bandmate, Leslie West, on atomic number 82 guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to exist unable to mix the track, and a fresh attempt at recording was made at the start of Apr at Mick Jagger's firm, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to help with product, and he decided to re-use the synthesized organ rail from Townshend'south original demo, equally 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 electric guitar and bass.[fourteen]

Townshend played a 1959 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins hollow torso 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 primary electric guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[15] Although intended as a demo recording, the end outcome sounded so good to the ring and Johns, they decided to employ it as the last take.[xiv] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar function played past Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the terminate of Apr.[xiii] [xiv] The track was mixed at Island Studios by Johns on 28 May.[xiii] Later Lifehouse was abandoned as a projection, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Over again", forth with other songs, were so skilful that they could simply exist released as a standalone single album, which became Who'southward Adjacent.[16] This song is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Once again" was first released in the Uk equally a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited downwards to iii:35. It replaced "Behind Bluish Eyes", which the group felt did non fit the Who's established musical style, as the pick of unmarried. It was released in July in the United states of america. 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. ix in the Great britain charts and No. 15 in the US. Initial publicity textile showed an abandoned encompass of Who's Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip.[xviii]

The full-length version of the song appeared as the closing track of Who'south Next, 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 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 vocalist Roger Daltrey's scream near the finish of the rail as "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".[21] Cash Box said of information technology that the vocal has "rousing magic with the Who'southward trademark instrumental and vocal strength" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the grouping'due south performance 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 Time.[23] As of March 2018 it was certified Silverish for 200,000 sold copies in the Uk.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who offset performed the vocal live at the opening appointment of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Immature Vic theatre, London on 14 February 1971. It has later been role of every Who concert since,[25] [26] often as the gear up closer and sometimes extended slightly to let Townshend to nail his guitar or Moon to kick over his drumkit. The group performed alive over the synthesizer function being played on a backing tape, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click rail, allowing him to play in sync. It was the terminal rail 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 picture show The Kids Are Alright.[28] The song was function of the Who'due south set at Alive Aid in 1985, Live eight in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Majuscule FM's 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 Metropolis to assist raise funds for the families of firemen and law officers killed during the 9/xi attacks. They finished their set with "Won't Get Fooled Again" to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-up aerial video footage of the Globe Merchandise Centre buildings playing backside them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group closed their gear up during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[30] While the Who have continued to play the song alive, 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'due south Next track just not necessarily the best."[32]

Several live and alternative versions of the vocal take been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a deluxe version of Who's Adjacent was reissued to include the Record Plant recording of the track from March 1971 and a alive version recorded at the Young Vic on 26 April 1971.[33] The song is also included on the anthology Alive at the Royal Albert Hall, from a 2000 bear witness with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend have each performed the song at solo concerts. Townshend has re-arranged the vocal 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 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 – electrical guitar, audio-visual guitar, Ems VCS 3, Lowrey organ, vocals
  • John Entwistle – bass guitar
  • Keith Moon – drums, percussion

Cover versions [edit]

The vocal was showtime 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-bundled the rails so that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A alive recording was released on Live: Right Here, Right Now,[50] and made it to number 1 on the Billboard Anthology 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 metallic 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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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Record: A Disquisitional History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-8.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who's Side by side (Palatial Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-ii.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Get Old : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyway Anyway Anywhere – The Consummate Chronicle of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-3.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Press. ISBN978-1-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

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