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1971 unmarried by The Who

"Won't Get Fooled Again"
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Single by The Who
from the album 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 April–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Hard rock[1]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Track (Britain)
  • Decca (U.s.)
Songwriter(s) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Encounter Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Let'south Encounter Action"
(1971)

"Won't Go Fooled Again" is a vocal past the English language rock band the Who, written past Pete Townshend. It was released as a single in June 1971, reaching the top 10 in the U.k., while the full eight-and-a-half-infinitesimal version appears equally the final rails on the ring'south 1971 album Who'south Next, released that Baronial.

Townshend wrote the vocal as a closing number of the Lifehouse project, and the lyrics criticise revolution and ability. 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 it every bit the main backing instrument throughout the vocal. The Who tried recording the song in New York in March 1971, but re-recorded a superior accept at Stargroves the side by side month using the synthesizer from Townshend's original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse as a project was abandoned in favour of Who's Adjacent, a straightforward album, where it also became the closing track. It has been performed as a staple of the ring's setlist since 1971, often equally the gear up closer, and was the last song drummer Keith Moon played alive with the band.

Every bit well as being a hit, the vocal has achieved critical praise, actualization as i of Rolling Stone 'southward The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It has been covered by several artists, such as Van Halen, who took their version to No. one on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks nautical chart. It has been used for several TV shows and films (almost notably CSI: Miami), and in some political campaigns.

Background [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 exist obtained via a combination of band and audience.[iii] The vocal was written for the stop of the opera, afterward the master character, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The chief characters disappear, leaving backside the regime and regular army, 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 vocal was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", merely stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't await to see what you look to see. Expect nothing and you might gain everything."[6] Bassist John Entwistle later said that the vocal showed Townshend "saying things that really mattered to him, and saying them for the first time."[seven]

Townshend had been reading Universal Sufism founder Inayat Khan'due south 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 audience.[8] He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing human personality inside music. Townshend interviewed several people with full general practitioner-style questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the outcome into a series of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Get Fooled Once more", 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.[ix] The synthesizer did not play any sounds directly equally it was monophonic; instead information technology modified the block chords on the organ as an input signal.[10] 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 first attempt to record the song was at the Record Establish on W 44 Street, New York Urban center, 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 past Felix Pappalardi. This accept featured Pappalardi'southward Mountain bandmate, Leslie West, on lead guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the rail, and a fresh attempt at recording was fabricated at the starting time of April at Mick Jagger's house, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to aid with production, and he decided to re-use the synthesized organ track from Townshend's original demo, as the re-recording of the role in New York was felt to be junior 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 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 main electric guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[15] Although intended every bit a demo recording, the end result sounded then good to the band and Johns, they decided to utilize it as the final take.[fourteen] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the end of April.[xiii] [14] The rails was mixed at Island Studios by Johns on 28 May.[xiii] Later on Lifehouse was abandoned as a projection, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", along with other songs, were so expert that they could simply be released equally a standalone single album, which became Who's Next.[xvi] This song is written in the cardinal of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Again" was first released in the UK equally a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to 3:35. Information technology replaced "Behind Blue Eyes", which the group felt didn't fit the Who'southward established musical style, as the choice of unmarried. 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 single reached No. 9 in the Britain charts and No. 15 in the US. Initial publicity material showed an abandoned cover of Who's Next featuring Moon dressed in elevate and brandishing a whip. [18]

The full-length version of the vocal appeared as the closing track of Who'south Adjacent, released in August in the U.s.a. and 27 August in the Britain, where it topped the album charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Again" drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated then successfully within a rock song.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey's scream near the end of the track as "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's trademark instrumental and vocal force" and that "revolutionary lyric matched past the grouping's operation fervor make this a monster on its style."[22] In 2021, the vocal was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[23] Equally of March 2018 it was certified Silver for 200,000 sold copies in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who first performed the song alive at the opening date of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Immature Vic theatre, London on 14 February 1971. Information technology has subsequently been function 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 kicking over his drumkit. The grouping performed live over the synthesizer office being played on a bankroll tape, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click rails, allowing him to play in sync. It was the last rail Moon played alive in front of a paying audience on 21 October 1976[27] and the last vocal he always played with the Who at Shepperton Studios on 25 May 1978, which was captured on the documentary pic The Kids Are Alright.[28] The song was part of the Who's set at Live Assist in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Uppercase FM's Summertime Brawl concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station'south Jingle Bell Ball 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/xi attacks. They finished their prepare with 'Won't Go Fooled Again' to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-upward aerial video footage of the World Trade Center buildings playing backside them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the grouping airtight their gear up during the halftime evidence of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[xxx] While the Who accept continued to play the song alive, 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 runway but non necessarily the best."[32]

Several live and alternative versions of the song 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 Immature Vic on 26 April 1971.[33] The song is also included on the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, from a 2000 evidence with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend take each performed the vocal at solo concerts. Townshend has re-arranged the song for solo performance on acoustic guitar.[34] [35] On 30 June 1979, he performed a duet of the vocal with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Immunity International do good The Secret Policeman'south Ball.[36]

In May 2019, Daltrey and Townshend performed a version of the vocal on classroom instruments with Jimmy Fallon and his house 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 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 rails so that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A alive recording was released on Live: Correct Here, Correct Now,[50] 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 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 song at a slower tempo than the original.[54]

References [edit]

Citations

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  5. ^ Atkins 2000, p. 157.
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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's Next (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-two.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Get Former : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyway Anyway Anywhere – The Complete 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 Printing. ISBN978-1-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this vocal

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