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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 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 stone[one]
  • progressive rock[two]
Length
  • viii:32 (album version)
  • iii:36 (single edit)
Label
  • Track (U.k.)
  • Decca (U.s.a.)
Songwriter(s) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (acquaintance producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Run across Me, Experience Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Once again"
(1971) 		"Permit's Meet Action"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is a song by the English rock band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. Information technology was released equally a unmarried in June 1971, reaching the height 10 in the UK, while the total eight-and-a-half-minute version appears as the final track 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 ability. To symbolise the spiritual connection he had plant 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 backing musical 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 calendar month using the synthesizer from Townshend'due south original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse every bit a project was abased in favour of Who's Next, a straightforward anthology, where information technology also became the closing rail. Information technology has been performed as a staple of the ring's setlist since 1971, often every bit the prepare closer, and was the final vocal drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

As well as being a hit, the song has achieved critical praise, appearing as one of Rolling Rock 'due south The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It has been covered past several artists, such as Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Album Stone Tracks chart. It has been used for several Telly shows and films (most notably CSI: Miami), and in some political campaigns.

Groundwork [edit]

The vocal was originally intended for a rock opera Townshend had been working on, Lifehouse, which was a multi-media practice 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.[three] The song was written for the cease of the opera, after 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 groovy each other.[iv] Townshend described the vocal equally 1 "that screams disobedience at those who feel any cause is amend than no cause".[5] He afterwards said that the song was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could exist unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to encounter what you expect to run into. Look nix and you might gain everything."[half dozen] Bassist John Entwistle later said that the vocal 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 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 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 within music. Townshend interviewed several people with general practitioner-style questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the issue into a series of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Become Fooled Again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an Ems VCS 3 filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[eight] He afterward upgraded to an ARP 2500.[nine] The synthesizer did not play whatsoever sounds direct as it was monophonic; instead information technology modified the cake chords on the organ as an input betoken.[ten] 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.[11]

Recording [edit]

The Who's offset attempt to record the song was at the Record Plant on West 44 Street, New York Urban center, on 16 March 1971. Manager 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'south Mountain bandmate, Leslie Due west, on pb 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'southward business firm, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to help with production, and he decided to re-use the synthesized organ track from Townshend'south original demo, as the re-recording of the role 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 electrical guitar and bass.[fourteen]

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 past Joe Walsh while in New York. This combination became his primary electrical guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[xv] Although intended as a demo recording, the end result sounded so expert to the band and Johns, they decided to employ it equally the concluding take.[14] Overdubs, including an audio-visual guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the terminate of April.[13] [14] The rail was mixed at Island Studios past Johns on 28 May.[xiii] Subsequently Lifehouse was abased as a project, Johns felt "Won't Go Fooled Once more", along with other songs, were and then good that they could simply exist released every bit a standalone single album, which became Who's Next.[16] This vocal is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Once again" was offset released in the Great britain equally a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to 3:35. It replaced "Backside Blue Eyes", which the group felt didn't fit the Who's established musical style, every bit the option of unmarried. 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 unmarried reached No. nine in the Great britain charts and No. 15 in the Usa. Initial publicity textile showed an abandoned encompass of Who'south Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [eighteen]

The full-length version of the vocal appeared as the closing rail of Who's Adjacent, released in August in the US and 27 August in the Uk, where it topped the album charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Once more" drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated so successfully inside a rock song.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey'due south scream near the terminate 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'south trademark instrumental and vocal strength" and that "revolutionary lyric matched past the group's functioning fervor make this a monster on its way."[22] In 2021, the song was ranked number 295 on Rolling Rock 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[23] As of March 2018 it was certified Silvery for 200,000 sold copies in the UK.[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. It has afterward been role of every Who concert since,[25] [26] often equally the set closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow Townshend to smash his guitar or Moon to kicking over his drumkit. The group performed alive over the synthesizer function beingness 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 track Moon played live in front of a paying audience on 21 October 1976[27] and the last song he always 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 Live Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Capital FM's 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 vocal at The Concert for New York City to help raise funds for the families of firemen and police officers killed during the 9/xi attacks. They finished their ready with 'Won't Become Fooled Again' to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-up aerial video footage of the Earth Trade Eye buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group airtight their prepare during the halftime evidence of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[xxx] While the Who accept 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 rails as "the quintessential Who'south Next rail but non necessarily the all-time."[32]

Several live and alternative versions of the song accept been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a palatial version of Who's Next was reissued to include the Record Plant recording of the rail from March 1971 and a alive version recorded at the Young Vic on 26 April 1971.[33] The song is also included on the album Live at the Purple Albert Hall, from a 2000 show with Noel Gallagher guesting.

Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend have each performed the song at solo concerts. Townshend has re-arranged the vocal for solo operation 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 Secret Policeman'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 This night Evidence.[37] [38]

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 starting time 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-bundled the track so that the synthesizer office was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Live: Right Here, Right Now,[50] and made it to number 1 on the Billboard Anthology 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 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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Sources

  • Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Record: A Disquisitional History, 1963–1998. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-0609-8.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who'south Next (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-2.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Earlier I Get Old : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyway Anyhow Anywhere – The Complete Relate of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-iii.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Get Fooled Once again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Press. ISBN978-1-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this vocal

johnsontrece1938.blogspot.com

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

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