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1971 single by the Who

"Won't Get Fooled Over again"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Single by The Who
from the album Who's Next
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
  • Hard rock[1]
  • progressive stone[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • iii:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Track (UK)
  • Decca (U.s.a.)
Songwriter(due south) 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 See Action"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Once again" is a song past the English stone band the Who, written past Pete Townshend. It was released as a unmarried in June 1971, reaching the meridian 10 in the Britain, while the full 8-and-a-half-minute version appears equally the final rail on the band's 1971 album Who's Next, released that August.

Townshend wrote the vocal every bit a closing number of the Lifehouse project, and the lyrics criticise revolution and ability. To symbolise the spiritual connection he had found in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of man traits into a synthesizer and used it every bit the main bankroll musical instrument throughout the song. 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's original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse equally a project was abased in favour of Who's Next, a straightforward album, where it as well became the closing track. It has been performed every bit a staple of the band'due south setlist since 1971, ofttimes as the set closer, and was the last vocal drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

Equally well as being a hitting, the song has achieved critical praise, actualization as one of Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension. Information technology has been covered past several artists, such as 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 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 be obtained via a combination of band and audience.[3] The song was written for the end of the opera, subsequently the chief character, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving backside the government and regular army, who are left to bully each other.[4] Townshend described the song as one "that screams defiance at those who experience whatsoever cause is amend than no cause".[5] He later said that the vocal was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", simply stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to run into what you lot expect to see. Expect nothing and you might gain everything."[6] Bassist John Entwistle after said that the vocal showed Townshend "proverb things that really 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 audience.[eight] 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 upshot into a series of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Get Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an European monetary system VCS three filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[viii] He afterwards upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did non play any sounds directly as information technology was monophonic; instead it modified the block chords on the organ as 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.[eleven]

Recording [edit]

The Who'southward beginning attempt to record the song was at the Record Found on Due 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 done by Felix Pappalardi. This take featured Pappalardi'southward 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 get-go of April at Mick Jagger's house, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to help with production, and he decided to re-utilise the synthesized organ track from Townshend's 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 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 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 result sounded and then good to the ring and Johns, they decided to use information technology as the terminal take.[xiv] Overdubs, including an audio-visual guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the end of April.[13] [fourteen] The track was mixed at Isle Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abandoned equally a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Once more", along with other songs, were so practiced that they could merely exist released as a standalone unmarried album, which became Who's Adjacent.[16] This song is written in the cardinal of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Become Fooled Again" was offset released in the UK every bit a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to 3:35. It replaced "Behind Blue Optics", which the group felt did not fit the Who's established musical style, as the pick of unmarried. Information technology 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 unmarried reached No. 9 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland charts and No. 15 in the U.s.. Initial publicity material showed an abandoned cover of Who'due south Next featuring Moon dressed in elevate and brandishing a whip.[18]

The full-length version of the song appeared as the closing track of Who's Adjacent, released in August in the United states and 27 August in the UK, where it topped the album charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Once again" drew stiff praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated and so successfully inside a rock 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] 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 group's performance fervor brand this a monster on its manner."[22] In 2021, the vocal was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension.[23] Equally of March 2018 it was certified Silver for 200,000 sold copies in the Great britain.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who first performed the song live at the opening engagement of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on 14 February 1971. It has later on been part of every Who concert since,[25] [26] ofttimes every bit the set up closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow 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 rails, assuasive him to play in sync. It was the terminal runway Moon played live in front end of a paying audience on 21 October 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 part of the Who'southward set at Live Aid in 1985, Alive 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Capital FM'southward 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 police officers killed during the 9/eleven attacks. They finished their prepare with "Won't Go Fooled Again" to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-up aerial video footage of the World Trade Heart buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In Feb 2010, the group closed their set up during the halftime evidence of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[xxx] 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 track every bit "the quintessential Who'south Adjacent track 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'southward 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 also included on the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, from a 2000 evidence with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend accept each performed the song at solo concerts. Townshend has re-arranged the vocal for solo functioning on acoustic guitar.[34] [35] On thirty June 1979, he performed a duet of the song with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Amnesty International do good The Hole-and-corner Policeman's Brawl.[36]

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

Chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

  • Roger Daltrey – lead vocals
  • Pete Townshend – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, Ems VCS 3, Lowrey organ, vocals
  • John Entwistle – bass guitar
  • Keith Moon – drums, percussion

Cover versions [edit]

The song 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-arranged the runway and then that the synthesizer office was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Live: Right Hither, Right Now,[l] and made it to number one 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 metal and bluegrass respectively.[52] [53] Richie Havens covered the track on his 2008 album, Nobody Left to Crown, playing the vocal 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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  9. ^ Neill & Kent 2002, p. 250.
  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's Adjacent (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-two.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Get Old : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyway Anyhow Anywhere – The Consummate Chronicle of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-3.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Become Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Printing. ISBN978-1-906002-75-vi.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

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