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1971 single by the Who

"Won't Get Fooled Once more"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Unmarried past The Who
from the album Who'south Adjacent
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 stone[one]
  • progressive rock[two]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Track (Great britain)
  • Decca (US)
Songwriter(due south) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Run across Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Permit's Run into Action"
(1971)

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

Townshend wrote the vocal equally a closing number of the Lifehouse project, and the lyrics criticise revolution and power. To symbolise the spiritual connection he had found in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of homo traits into a synthesizer and used it every bit the main backing instrument throughout the song. 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 abandoned in favour of Who'due south Next, a straightforward album, where it also became the closing runway. It has been performed every bit a staple of the band'due south setlist since 1971, often equally the set closer, and was the last song drummer Keith Moon played alive with the band.

Too as being a hit, the song has accomplished critical praise, actualization as one 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 Telly 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 end of the opera, after the chief character, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving backside the government and ground forces, who are left to cracking each other.[4] Townshend described the song as one "that screams defiance at those who feel any cause is better than no cause".[5] He later said that the song was non strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll exist fighting in the streets", just stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to see what you expect to see. Expect nothing and yous might gain everything."[half dozen] Bassist John Entwistle after said that the song showed Townshend "maxim things that actually mattered to him, and proverb them for the start time."[seven]

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 allow him to communicate these ideas to a mass audience.[viii] He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing human personality inside music. Townshend interviewed several people with general practitioner-style questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the outcome into a series of sound pulses. For the demo of "Won't Go 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 later upgraded to an ARP 2500.[nine] The synthesizer did not play whatever sounds directly as it was monophonic; instead it modified the cake chords on the organ as an input indicate.[10] 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.[xi]

Recording [edit]

The Who'southward starting time attempt to record the vocal was at the Record Plant on W 44 Street, New York Metropolis, on xvi March 1971. Director Kit Lambert had recommended the studio to the group, which led to his producer credit, though the de facto work was washed by Felix Pappalardi. This accept featured Pappalardi'southward Mount bandmate, Leslie West, on pb guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the track, and a fresh attempt at recording was made at the get-go of April at Mick Jagger's firm, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to assistance with production, and he decided to re-use the synthesized organ rail 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 advisedly synchronise his pulsate playing with the synthesizer, while Townshend and Entwistle played electric 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 past Joe Walsh while in New York. This combination became his chief electric guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[xv] Although intended as a demo recording, the end outcome sounded and then good to the ring and Johns, they decided to use information technology every bit the last take.[14] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the stop of April.[xiii] [14] The track was mixed at Isle Studios by Johns on 28 May.[xiii] After Lifehouse was abandoned equally a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Once more", forth with other songs, were and then good that they could but exist released as a standalone single album, which became Who's Next.[xvi] This song is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Go Fooled Again" was first released in the UK as a unmarried A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to three:35. Information technology replaced "Behind Blue Eyes", which the group felt did non fit the Who's established musical style, as the choice of single. It was released in July in the United states of america. 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 Britain charts and No. fifteen in the US. Initial publicity material showed an abased embrace of Who'due south Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip.[eighteen]

The total-length version of the vocal appeared equally the closing track of Who's Next, released in August in the US and 27 Baronial in the UK, where it topped the album charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Over again" drew stiff praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to exist integrated then successfully within a stone song.[xx] Who author Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey'due south scream near the finish of the track as "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".[21] Cash Box said of it that the vocal has "rousing magic with the Who'due south trademark instrumental and song forcefulness" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the group'due south performance fervor make this a monster on its way."[22] In 2021, the vocal was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[23] As of March 2018 it was certified Argent for 200,000 sold copies in the Great britain.[24]

Alive performances [edit]

The Who offset performed the song live 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 set up closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow Townshend to smash his guitar or Moon to kick over his drumkit. The group performed live over the synthesizer function being played on a backing tape, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click track, allowing him to play in sync. It was the last track Moon played alive 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's gear up at Alive Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Capital FM'due south Summertime Ball concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station's 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 assist raise funds for the families of firemen and police force officers killed during the nine/11 attacks. They finished their set with "Won't Go Fooled Once more" to a responsive and emotional audience, 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 up during the halftime bear witness of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[xxx] While the Who have continued to play the song live, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for it, alternating between pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the rail as "the quintessential Who'due south Side by side track but non necessarily the best."[32]

Several live and alternative versions of the vocal have been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a deluxe version of Who's Adjacent 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 vocal is also included on the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, from a 2000 bear witness with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend accept each performed the song at solo concerts. Townshend has re-arranged the song for solo operation on acoustic guitar.[34] [35] On thirty June 1979, he performed a duet of the song with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Immunity 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 This evening Show.[37] [38]

Nautical chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

  • Roger Daltrey – atomic number 82 vocals
  • Pete Townshend – electrical guitar, acoustic guitar, EMS 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 style by Labelle on their 1972 album Moon Shadow.[49] Van Halen covered the vocal in concert in 1992. Eddie Van Halen re-arranged the track and then that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A alive recording was released on Alive: Right Here, Right Now,[50] and made it to number one on the Billboard Anthology 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 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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  3. ^ Neill & Kent 2002, p. 273.
  4. ^ Marsh 1983, p. 371.
  5. ^ Atkins 2000, p. 157.
  6. ^ "Pete's Diaries – Won't Get Judged Once more". petetownshend.co.uk. 27 May 2006. Archived from the original on v December 2006. Retrieved eight January 2012.
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  9. ^ Neill & Kent 2002, p. 250.
  10. ^ Unterberger 2011, p. 28.
  11. ^ Unterberger 2011, p. 51.
  12. ^ Neill & Kent 2002, p. 279.
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  19. ^ Neill & Kent 2002, p. 288.
  20. ^ Marsh 1983, p. 389.
  21. ^ Marsh 1983, p. 388.
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  52. ^ "Diamonds Unlocked – Axel Rudi Pell". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Tape: A Critical History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-8.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who's Adjacent (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-ii.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Get Erstwhile : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyhow Anyhow Anywhere – The Complete 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

wilsonmell1971.blogspot.com

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

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