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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
Single by The Who
from the album Who's Side by side
B-side "I Don't Fifty-fifty Know Myself"
Released 25 June 1971 (1971-06-25) (Britain)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (United states)
Recorded April–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Hard stone[1]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • viii:32 (anthology version)
  • three:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Runway (UK)
  • Decca (US)
Songwriter(south) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Run into Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Allow's See Action"
(1971)

"Won't Become Fooled Again" is a song by the English stone ring the Who, written by Pete Townshend. It was released as a single in June 1971, reaching the top 10 in the UK, while the full viii-and-a-half-minute version appears equally the final runway on the band'southward 1971 anthology Who'due south Next, released that Baronial.

Townshend wrote the song equally a closing 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 human traits into a synthesizer and used it as the main bankroll 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 adjacent month using the synthesizer from Townshend's original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse equally a project was abandoned in favour of Who'due south Next, a straightforward album, where it besides became the closing rails. It has been performed as a staple of the band's setlist since 1971, often equally the ready closer, and was the last song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

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

Groundwork [edit]

The song was originally intended for a stone 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.[iii] The song was written for the end of the opera, after the main grapheme, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The chief characters disappear, leaving behind the regime and ground forces, who are left to neat each other.[4] Townshend described the song as i "that screams defiance at those who feel any cause is improve than no crusade".[5] He later said that the song was non strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll exist fighting in the streets", simply stressed that revolution could exist unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to run into what you expect to see. Expect nothing and you might proceeds everything."[vi] Bassist John Entwistle subsequently said that the song showed Townshend "saying things that really mattered to him, and proverb them for the first time."[7]

Townshend had been reading Universal Sufism founder Inayat Khan'southward 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 let 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 result into a serial of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Get Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an EMS VCS 3 filter that played dorsum the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[8] He subsequently upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play any sounds directly every bit it was monophonic; instead it modified the cake chords on the organ as an input point.[ten] The demo, recorded at a slower tempo than the version past the Who, was completed by Townshend overdubbing drums, bass, electrical guitar, vocals and handclaps.[11]

Recording [edit]

The Who's starting time attempt to tape the song was at the Tape Plant on Westward 44 Street, New York City, on 16 March 1971. Director Kit Lambert had recommended the studio to the grouping, 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 atomic number 82 guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the track, and a fresh attempt 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-utilize the synthesized organ rails from Townshend's original demo, every bit 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 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 main electric guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[15] Although intended as a demo recording, the end result sounded so good to the band and Johns, they decided to apply it as the final take.[14] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played past Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the finish of April.[13] [14] The runway was mixed at Isle Studios by Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abased as a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", forth with other songs, were so expert that they could but be released as a standalone single album, which became Who's Next.[16] This song is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Again" was beginning released in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland as a unmarried A-side on 25 June 1971, edited downwards to iii:35. It replaced "Behind Blue Eyes", which the grouping felt didn't fit the Who's established musical style, equally 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 UK charts and No. 15 in the Usa. Initial publicity fabric showed an abandoned comprehend of Who's Side by side featuring Moon dressed in elevate and brandishing a whip. [xviii]

The full-length version of the song appeared as the closing track of Who'south Side by side, released in Baronial in the U.s.a. and 27 August in the Great britain, where it topped the anthology charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Again" drew potent praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated so successfully inside a rock song.[xx] Who author Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey'south scream virtually the end of the track every bit "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".[21] Cash Box said of it that the song has "rousing magic with the Who'southward trademark instrumental and song strength" and that "revolutionary lyric matched past the grouping'south functioning fervor make this a monster on its way."[22] In 2021, the song was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 'due south 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 kickoff performed the vocal alive at the opening date of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on fourteen February 1971. It has afterwards been part of every Who concert since,[25] [26] often as the fix closer and sometimes extended slightly to permit Townshend to smash his guitar or Moon to kick over his drumkit. The group performed alive over the synthesizer function being played on a backing record, which required Moon to article of clothing headphones to hear a click runway, assuasive him to play in sync. Information technology was the last track Moon played alive in front of a paying audience 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 film The Kids Are Alright.[28] The song was part of the Who'south prepare at Live Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Majuscule FM's Summertime Brawl concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station's Jingle Bong Ball concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In Oct 2001, The Who performed the song at The Concert for New York City to assist raise funds for the families of firemen and police officers killed during the nine/eleven attacks. They finished their prepare with 'Won't Get Fooled Again' to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-upwardly aeriform video footage of the Globe Trade Heart buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the grouping closed their set during the halftime show of Super Basin XLIV with this vocal.[thirty] 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 as "the quintessential Who'south Side by side rails simply non 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's Next was reissued to include the Record Plant recording of the rail from March 1971 and a live version recorded at the Young Vic on 26 April 1971.[33] The vocal is also included on the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, from a 2000 prove with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend take 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 Hush-hush Policeman's Ball.[36]

In May 2019, Daltrey and Townshend performed a version of the vocal on classroom instruments with Jimmy Fallon and his firm band the Roots for the Tonight Testify.[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 vocal was first covered in a distinctive soul way past Labelle on their 1972 album Moon Shadow.[49] Van Halen covered the song in concert in 1992. Eddie Van Halen re-arranged the rail 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 ane on the Billboard Album Stone 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 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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  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Record: A Disquisitional History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-viii.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who'southward Next (Palatial Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-2.
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  • 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 Once more: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Printing. ISBN978-i-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

stewartards1937.blogspot.com

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