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1971 single by the Who

"Won't Get Fooled Once more"
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 April–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Hard rock[1]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • iii:36 (single edit)
Characterization
  • Track (UK)
  • Decca (US)
Songwriter(south) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"See Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Go Fooled Over again"
(1971) 		"Let's See Action"
(1971)

"Won't Become Fooled Once again" is a vocal past the English language rock ring the Who, written past Pete Townshend. Information technology was released every bit a single in June 1971, reaching the top 10 in the UK, while the total 8-and-a-half-minute version appears equally the final track on the band'due south 1971 album Who's Next, released that August.

Townshend wrote the song as a closing number of the Lifehouse project, and the lyrics criticise revolution and power. To symbolise the spiritual connexion 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 principal bankroll instrument throughout the song. The Who tried recording the song in New York in March 1971, just re-recorded a superior have at Stargroves the next month using the synthesizer from Townshend'south original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse every bit a project was abased in favour of Who's Next, a straightforward album, where it also became the closing track. Information technology has been performed every bit a staple of the band's setlist since 1971, often as the fix closer, and was the terminal song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

As well every bit beingness a hit, the vocal has achieved critical praise, appearing equally ane of Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension. It has been covered by 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 stop of the opera, after 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 bang-up each other.[4] Townshend described the song as i "that screams disobedience at those who feel any cause is improve than no crusade".[5] He afterward said that the song was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", simply stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, calculation, "Don't look to come across what you await to run into. Await nothing and you might gain everything."[half-dozen] Bassist John Entwistle later said that the vocal showed Townshend "saying things that really mattered to him, and saying them for the first time."[7]

Townshend had been reading Universal Sufism founder Inayat Khan's The Mysticism of Audio 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 let him to communicate these ideas to a mass audition.[eight] He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing human personality within music. Townshend interviewed several people with full 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 Go Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an EMS VCS 3 filter that played dorsum the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[eight] He subsequently upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play whatever sounds directly as it was monophonic; instead information technology modified the cake chords on the organ as an input betoken.[ten] 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's first attempt to record the song was at the Record Plant on W 44 Street, New York City, on sixteen 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 take featured Pappalardi's Mountain bandmate, Leslie West, on lead guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to exist unable to mix the track, and a fresh try at recording was fabricated at the start of April at Mick Jagger's firm, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[xiii] Glyn Johns was invited to help with production, and he decided to re-use 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 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 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 equally a demo recording, the terminate event sounded so good to the band and Johns, they decided to use it as the concluding take.[14] Overdubs, including an audio-visual guitar part played past Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the end of Apr.[13] [xiv] The rails was mixed at Island Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abandoned every bit a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", along with other songs, were then good that they could but be released as a standalone single album, which became Who's Adjacent.[16] This song is written in the primal of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Go Fooled Again" was commencement released in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited downwards to 3:35. It replaced "Behind Blue Eyes", which the group felt did not fit the Who's established musical mode, as the choice of single. It was released in July in the U.s.a.. 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 U.k. charts and No. xv in the The states. 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 every bit the closing track of Who's Adjacent, released in August in the US and 27 August in the U.k., where it topped the anthology charts.[xix] "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 stone song.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey'south scream most the end of the track as "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".[21] Cash Box said of information technology that the song has "rousing magic with the Who's trademark instrumental and vocal forcefulness" and that "revolutionary lyric matched past the group'southward performance fervor make this a monster on its way."[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 Silver for 200,000 sold copies in the UK.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who first performed the vocal live at the opening engagement of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on 14 February 1971. It has subsequently been part of every Who concert since,[25] [26] often every bit the set closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow Townshend to nail his guitar or Moon to kick over his drumkit. The grouping performed live over the synthesizer function beingness played on a backing tape, which required Moon to vesture headphones to hear a click runway, allowing him to play in sync. It was the last track Moon played live in front end 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 motion picture The Kids Are Alright.[28] The song was part of the Who's set up at Live Assist in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Uppercase FM's Summertime Brawl concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station'southward Jingle Bell Ball concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In October 2001, The Who performed the song at The Concert for New York Urban center to assistance raise funds for the families of firemen and police officers killed during the 9/11 attacks. They finished their set with "Won't Become Fooled Again" to a responsive and emotional audition, with close-up aerial video footage of the World Trade Center buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the grouping closed their set during the halftime testify of Super Bowl XLIV with this vocal.[30] While the Who have continued to play the song live, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for it, alternate between pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the track as "the quintessential Who's Next runway but not necessarily the best."[32]

Several alive and alternative versions of the song take been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a palatial version of Who's Adjacent was reissued to include the Tape Found 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 prove with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend accept each performed the song 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 song with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Amnesty International do good The Secret Policeman's Ball.[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 Prove.[37] [38]

Nautical 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 commencement 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 so that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A alive recording was released on Live: Right Here, Right Now,[50] and made information technology to number ane on the Billboard Album Stone 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 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.
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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. 113-056-2.
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  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyway Anyway Anywhere – The Consummate Chronicle of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-iii.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Go Fooled Once again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Press. ISBN978-1-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

daltonolstoord.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Won%27t_Get_Fooled_Again

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