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1971 single by the Who

1971 single by The Who

"Won't Get Fooled Again"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Unmarried by The Who
from the album Who'south Side by side
B-side "I Don't Even Know Myself"
Released 25 June 1971 (1971-06-25) (Great britain)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (The states)
Recorded Apr–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Difficult rock[i]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Characterization
  • Track (United kingdom)
  • Decca (The states)
Songwriter(due south) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (acquaintance producer)
The Who singles chronology
"See Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Permit's See Action"
(1971)

"Won't Go Fooled Over again" is a song past the English rock band the Who, written past Pete Townshend. It was released every bit a single in June 1971, reaching the top 10 in the United kingdom, while the full eight-and-a-half-minute version appears as the terminal 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 connection he had institute in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of homo traits into a synthesizer and used information technology as the main bankroll instrument throughout the vocal. The Who tried recording the vocal in New York in March 1971, but re-recorded a superior take at Stargroves the next month using the synthesizer from Townshend's original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse as a project was abased in favour of Who's Side by side, a straightforward album, where information technology also became the closing runway. It has been performed every bit a staple of the band'south setlist since 1971, often as the set closer, and was the last song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

As well as existence a striking, the song has achieved critical praise, appearing as one of Rolling Stone 'southward The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Information technology has been covered by several artists, such as Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks nautical chart. It has been used for several TV shows and films (well-nigh 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 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 audience.[three] The vocal was written for the end of the opera, later on the main grapheme, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The primary characters disappear, leaving behind the authorities and army, who are left to not bad each other.[4] Townshend described the song as one "that screams defiance at those who feel whatsoever cause is improve than no crusade".[five] He later said that the song was non strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to see what you lot expect to see. Expect zip and you might gain everything."[6] Bassist John Entwistle later said that the song showed Townshend "saying things that really mattered to him, and proverb them for the kickoff time."[7]

Townshend had been reading Universal Sufism founder Inayat Khan'southward 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 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-style questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the issue into a serial of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Get Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an EMS VCS three filter that played dorsum the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[8] He subsequently upgraded to an ARP 2500.[ix] The synthesizer did non play any sounds straight as information technology was monophonic; instead information technology modified the cake chords on the organ as 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.[11]

Recording [edit]

The Who'southward first attempt to record the song was at the Tape Establish on W 44 Street, New York City, on xvi March 1971. Manager Kit Lambert had recommended the studio to the grouping, which led to his producer credit, though the de facto work was washed past Felix Pappalardi. This take featured Pappalardi'due south Mount bandmate, Leslie West, on lead guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the track, and a fresh endeavor at recording was made at the starting time of April at Mick Jagger's house, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to assist with production, and he decided to re-employ the synthesized organ runway from Townshend's original demo, as 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 electric 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 electric guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[xv] Although intended as a demo recording, the end result sounded and so good to the band and Johns, they decided to use it as the final take.[fourteen] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the cease of April.[xiii] [14] The rails was mixed at Island Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] Afterwards Lifehouse was abased as a project, Johns felt "Won't Go Fooled Again", along with other songs, were and then proficient that they could simply be released as a standalone single anthology, which became Who'southward Next.[16] This song is written in the cardinal of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Become Fooled Again" was first released in the UK as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited downward to 3:35. It replaced "Behind Blueish Eyes", which the group felt didn't fit the Who's established musical mode, as the choice of single. It was released in July in the US. 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 unmarried reached No. 9 in the U.k. charts and No. xv in the Usa. Initial publicity material showed an abandoned cover of Who's Adjacent featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [18]

The total-length version of the song appeared as the closing track of Who's Next, released in Baronial in the US and 27 Baronial in the Britain, where it topped the album charts.[xix] "Won't Become Fooled Again" drew stiff praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated and then successfully within a rock song.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey's scream nigh the end 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 forcefulness" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the group'southward performance fervor brand 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 Great britain.[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 set closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow Townshend to nail 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 clothing headphones to hear a click track, 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 movie The Kids Are Alright.[28] The song was function of the Who's prepare at Live Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Embankment in 2008 and Capital FM's Summer Ball concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station's Jingle Bong Brawl concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In October 2001, The Who performed the song at The Concert for New York City to help heighten funds for the families of firemen and police officers killed during the 9/xi attacks. They finished their gear up with 'Won't Get Fooled Again' to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-up aeriform video footage of the Globe Trade Heart buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In Feb 2010, the grouping closed their set during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[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 Adjacent rails but not necessarily the best."[32]

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

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend take 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 song with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Amnesty International benefit The Surreptitious Policeman's Brawl.[36]

In May 2019, Daltrey and Townshend performed a version of the song on classroom instruments with Jimmy Fallon and his firm band the Roots for the Tonight Show.[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 starting time covered in a distinctive soul style 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 so that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Live: Right Here, Right At present,[50] and made it to number one 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 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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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-ii.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Get Quondam : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyway Anyhow Anywhere – The Complete Chronicle of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-3.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Get Fooled Once more: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Printing. ISBN978-i-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

whitehouseentioncesay.blogspot.com

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

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