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1971 single by the Who

1971 single by The Who

"Won't Get Fooled Once again"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Single by The Who
from the album Who's Next
B-side "I Don't Fifty-fifty 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[ane]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Characterization
  • Track (United kingdom)
  • Decca (U.s.)
Songwriter(s) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (acquaintance producer)
The Who singles chronology
"See Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Once more"
(1971) 		"Permit'south See Action"
(1971)

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

Townshend wrote the song equally a closing number of the Lifehouse project, and the lyrics criticise revolution and power. To symbolise the spiritual connexion he had found in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of human traits into a synthesizer and used information technology equally the main backing instrument throughout the song. The Who tried recording the vocal in New York in March 1971, merely re-recorded a superior take at Stargroves the next month using the synthesizer from Townshend's original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse equally a project was abandoned in favour of Who's Adjacent, a straightforward album, where information technology also became the endmost track. Information technology has been performed every bit a staple of the ring's setlist since 1971, oft equally the set closer, and was the final song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

As well as existence a hit, the song has achieved critical praise, appearing equally i 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. ane on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. It has been used for several Boob tube shows and films (most notably CSI: Miami), and in some political campaigns.

Background [edit]

The vocal 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 ring and audience.[iii] The vocal was written for the finish of the opera, after 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 neat each other.[4] Townshend described the vocal as one "that screams defiance at those who experience any cause is better than no cause".[five] He later said that the song was non strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "Nosotros'll be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could exist unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to see what you expect to see. Wait aught and you lot might gain everything."[6] Bassist John Entwistle afterwards said that the song showed Townshend "proverb things that really mattered to him, and saying them for the beginning fourth dimension."[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 audition.[8] 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 result into a serial of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Become Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an EMS VCS 3 filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[8] He subsequently upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play any sounds directly as it was monophonic; instead it modified the block chords on the organ every bit an input signal.[10] The demo, recorded at a slower tempo than the version by the Who, was completed past Townshend overdubbing drums, bass, electric guitar, vocals and handclaps.[eleven]

Recording [edit]

The Who's first endeavor to record the vocal 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 grouping, which led to his producer credit, though the de facto piece of work was done by Felix Pappalardi. This accept featured Pappalardi's Mount bandmate, Leslie West, on lead guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to exist unable to mix the rail, and a fresh attempt at recording was fabricated at the start of April at Mick Jagger's firm, 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'due south original demo, equally 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 electrical guitar and bass.[14]

Townshend played a 1959 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins hollow trunk 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 main electrical guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[xv] Although intended every bit a demo recording, the stop effect sounded so good to the band and Johns, they decided to use it every bit the final take.[14] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the terminate of April.[13] [14] The track was mixed at Isle Studios by Johns on 28 May.[thirteen] Later on Lifehouse was abased equally a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", forth with other songs, were then good that they could simply exist released as a standalone single album, which became Who'southward Next.[16] This song is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Again" was first released in the U.k. as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to three:35. It replaced "Backside Blue Eyes", which the group felt didn't fit the Who'south established musical style, as 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 U.k. charts and No. 15 in the US. Initial publicity material showed an abandoned cover of Who's Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [18]

The full-length version of the song appeared as the closing runway of Who's Adjacent, released in August in the US and 27 August in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, where it topped the anthology charts.[xix] "Won't Go Fooled Again" drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to exist integrated so successfully inside a stone song.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described vocalizer Roger Daltrey'southward scream virtually the cease of the track every bit "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'south trademark instrumental and vocal forcefulness" and that "revolutionary lyric matched past the group'due south performance fervor make this a monster on its way."[22] In 2021, the vocal was ranked number 295 on Rolling Rock '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 song live at the opening date 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 as the ready closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow Townshend to smash his guitar or Moon to kicking over his drumkit. The group performed live over the synthesizer office being played on a backing record, which required Moon to vesture headphones to hear a click track, allowing him to play in sync. It was the final track Moon played live in front 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 song was part of the Who'due south set at Live Aid in 1985, Live viii in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Majuscule FM's Summertime Ball concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station's Jingle Bell Ball concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In Oct 2001, The Who performed the song at The Concert for New York Urban center to help raise funds for the families of firemen and police officers killed during the 9/11 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 World Merchandise Center buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group airtight their set during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[30] While the Who take continued to play the song live, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for it, alternating betwixt pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the track as "the quintessential Who's Next track but not necessarily the best."[32]

Several live and culling versions of the song have been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a deluxe version of Who'due south Next 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 vocal is too included on the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, from a 2000 show with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend have each performed the song at solo concerts. Townshend has re-bundled the song for solo performance on audio-visual 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 Undercover Policeman's Ball.[36]

In May 2019, Daltrey and Townshend performed a version of the vocal on classroom instruments with Jimmy Fallon and his business firm ring the Roots for the Tonight Show.[37] [38]

Chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

  • Roger Daltrey – lead vocals
  • Pete Townshend – electric guitar, audio-visual guitar, European monetary system VCS 3, Lowrey organ, vocals
  • John Entwistle – bass guitar
  • Keith Moon – drums, percussion

Cover 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 track and so that the synthesizer office was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Live: Right Here, Correct At present,[l] and made it to number one on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.[51]

Both Axel Rudi Pell (on Diamonds Unlocked) and Hayseed Dixie (on Killer Grass) covered the vocal in their established styles of metallic and bluegrass respectively.[52] [53] Richie Havens covered the rails 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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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Record: A Critical History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-8.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who'south Next (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-2.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Go 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 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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