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1971 single by the Who

1971 single by The Who

"Won't Get Fooled Once more"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Unmarried past The Who
from the anthology 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[ane]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Rail (United kingdom)
  • Decca (US)
Songwriter(southward) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Run across Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Become Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Allow's See Action"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Once more" is a song by the English rock ring the Who, written by Pete Townshend. It was released every bit a unmarried in June 1971, reaching the top 10 in the Great britain, while the full eight-and-a-one-half-infinitesimal version appears as the concluding rail on the band's 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 connectedness 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 it as the chief backing instrument throughout the vocal. The Who tried recording the song in New York in March 1971, only re-recorded a superior accept at Stargroves the next calendar month using the synthesizer from Townshend's original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse as a projection was abandoned in favour of Who'due south Side by side, a straightforward album, where it too became the closing track. It has been performed as a staple of the band'southward setlist since 1971, often as the fix closer, and was the last song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

Likewise as beingness a hit, the song has achieved critical praise, appearing as one of Rolling Stone 'southward The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It has been covered by several artists, such every bit Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Anthology Stone Tracks chart. It has been used for several Idiot box shows and films (almost notably CSI: Miami), and in some political campaigns.

Groundwork [edit]

The song was originally intended for a rock opera Townshend had been working on, Lifehouse, which was a multi-media practise based on his followings of the Indian religious avatar Meher Baba, showing how spiritual enlightenment could be obtained via a combination of band and audition.[3] The song was written for the end of the opera, afterwards the main character, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving behind the government and regular army, who are left to bully each other.[4] Townshend described the song every bit 1 "that screams disobedience at those who feel any cause is better than no crusade".[5] He later on said that the vocal was non strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "Nosotros'll be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, calculation, "Don't look to see what you lot expect to encounter. Await nothing and yous might proceeds everything."[half-dozen] Bassist John Entwistle later said that the song 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 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 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 series of sound pulses. For the demo of "Won't Get Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an European monetary system VCS 3 filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[eight] He subsequently upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play whatever sounds straight as it was monophonic; instead information technology modified the block chords on the organ as an input betoken.[x] The demo, recorded at a slower tempo than the version past the Who, was completed by Townshend overdubbing drums, bass, electric guitar, vocals and handclaps.[11]

Recording [edit]

The Who's showtime attempt to tape the song was at the Record Plant on Due west 44 Street, New York City, on sixteen 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 accept featured Pappalardi'southward Mount bandmate, Leslie Due west, on pb guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the rail, and a fresh effort at recording was made at the start of April at Mick Jagger's house, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[thirteen] Glyn Johns was invited to help with production, and he decided to re-employ the synthesized organ runway from Townshend'southward original demo, as the re-recording of the function in New York was felt to be inferior to the original. Keith Moon had to carefully synchronise his pulsate playing with the synthesizer, while Townshend and Entwistle played electrical guitar and bass.[14]

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 master electric guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[15] Although intended as a demo recording, the terminate result sounded so good to the band and Johns, they decided to apply information technology every bit the concluding take.[fourteen] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the end of April.[xiii] [14] The rail was mixed at Isle Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abandoned as a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Once again", along with other songs, were so practiced that they could simply be released as a standalone single album, which became Who's Next.[16] This vocal is written in the central of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Over again" was commencement released in the U.k. equally a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to 3:35. It replaced "Behind Blue Eyes", which the grouping felt didn't fit the Who'southward established musical manner, as the choice of single. Information technology was released in July in the United states. 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. nine in the UK charts and No. fifteen in the United states of america. Initial publicity material showed an abased cover of Who's Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [eighteen]

The full-length version of the song appeared as the closing rail of Who'southward Side by side, released in Baronial in the The states and 27 August in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, where it topped the album charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Over again" drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated so successfully within a rock song.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described vocaliser Roger Daltrey's scream virtually the terminate of the runway equally "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'due south trademark instrumental and song forcefulness" and that "revolutionary lyric matched past the group'southward performance fervor make this a monster on its mode."[22] In 2021, the song was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[23] Every bit of March 2018 it was certified Silver for 200,000 sold copies in the UK.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who get-go performed the vocal alive at the opening date of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on 14 February 1971. Information technology has later been part of every Who concert since,[25] [26] ofttimes equally the gear up closer and sometimes extended slightly to permit Townshend to blast his guitar or Moon to boot over his drumkit. The group performed live over the synthesizer part being played on a bankroll tape, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click rail, assuasive him to play in sync. Information technology was the last runway Moon played live in front of a paying audition 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 office of the Who's set at Alive Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Upper-case letter FM's Summertime Ball concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station'south Jingle Bell Brawl concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In Oct 2001, The Who performed the song at The Concert for New York City 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 Once more' to a responsive and emotional audition, with close-up aerial video footage of the World Merchandise Center buildings playing backside them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group closed their set 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, alternate between pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the track equally "the quintessential Who'south Next rail only non necessarily the all-time."[32]

Several alive and alternative versions of the song have been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a deluxe version of Who'south Side by side 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 Regal Albert Hall, from a 2000 prove with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend have each performed the song at solo concerts. Townshend has re-bundled the vocal 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 benefit The Cloak-and-dagger Policeman'due south 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 Bear witness.[37] [38]

Nautical chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

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

Comprehend versions [edit]

The vocal was first covered in a distinctive soul fashion 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 then that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Alive: Right Here, Right Now,[50] and fabricated it to number one on the Billboard Anthology Rock Tracks nautical 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 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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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Tape: A Disquisitional History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-8.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who's Side by side (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-2.
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  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyway Anyway Anywhere – The Consummate Relate 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-half dozen.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

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

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