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Who We Wont Get Fooled Again Lyrics

1971 single by the Who

"Won't Go Fooled Over again"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Single by The Who
from the album Who's Adjacent
B-side "I Don't Even Know Myself"
Released 25 June 1971 (1971-06-25) (UK)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (The states)
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
  • Rails (UK)
  • Decca (The states)
Songwriter(south) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Encounter Me, Experience Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Permit's See Activity"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is a vocal by the English stone band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. It was released as a unmarried in June 1971, reaching the superlative 10 in the Uk, while the full eight-and-a-half-minute version appears as the terminal rail on the band'south 1971 album Who's Side by side, released that Baronial.

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 found in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of human being traits into a synthesizer and used it as the principal bankroll instrument throughout the song. The Who tried recording the song in New York in March 1971, but re-recorded a superior take at Stargroves the next calendar 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 information technology also became the closing track. It has been performed equally a staple of the band'south setlist since 1971, often as the set up closer, and was the terminal song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

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

Groundwork [edit]

The song 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 exist obtained via a combination of band and audience.[three] The song was written for the finish of the opera, later the primary character, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving backside the government and army, who are left to bully each other.[4] Townshend described the song every bit one "that screams defiance at those who feel any cause is better than no cause".[5] He later said that the song was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "Nosotros'll be fighting in the streets", just stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, calculation, "Don't expect to see what yous expect to see. Await zilch and yous might proceeds everything."[vi] Bassist John Entwistle later said that the song 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'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 audition.[viii] He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing human personality within music. Townshend interviewed several people with general practitioner-manner questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the result into a series of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Become Fooled Over again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an European monetary system 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 whatsoever sounds directly every bit it was monophonic; instead it modified the block 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, electrical guitar, vocals and handclaps.[11]

Recording [edit]

The Who'south starting time endeavour to record the song was at the Record Plant on W 44 Street, New York City, on sixteen March 1971. Manager 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 take featured Pappalardi'southward Mountain bandmate, Leslie Due west, on lead guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the rail, and a fresh attempt at recording was made at the get-go of Apr at Mick Jagger's house, 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 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 every bit a demo recording, the terminate upshot sounded so good to the band and Johns, they decided to employ it equally the final take.[fourteen] Overdubs, including an audio-visual guitar office played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the end of April.[13] [14] The track was mixed at Island Studios past Johns on 28 May.[13] After Lifehouse was abandoned as a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", forth with other songs, were so good that they could simply be released as a standalone single album, which became Who's Adjacent.[16] This song is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Become Fooled Again" was beginning released in the Great britain as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited downward to 3:35. It replaced "Behind Blue Eyes", which the group felt did non fit the Who's established musical style, as the choice of unmarried. Information technology 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 UK charts and No. 15 in the U.s.a.. Initial publicity material showed an abandoned cover of Who's Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip.[18]

The total-length version of the vocal appeared as the closing track of Who'southward Next, released in August in the United states and 27 August in the Uk, 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 and then successfully inside a stone song.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described vocalist Roger Daltrey'south scream most the end 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's trademark instrumental and vocal strength" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the group'south performance fervor make this a monster on its fashion."[22] In 2021, the song was ranked number 295 on Rolling Stone 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension.[23] Equally of March 2018 it was certified Silvery for 200,000 sold copies in the Britain.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who first performed the vocal alive at the opening date of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on fourteen Feb 1971. It has subsequently been role of every Who concert since,[25] [26] oftentimes as the set closer and sometimes extended slightly to let Townshend to smash his guitar or Moon to kick over his drumkit. The group performed alive over the synthesizer office existence played on a backing tape, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click rail, allowing him to play in sync. It was the terminal runway Moon played live in front of a paying audience on 21 October 1976[27] and the final 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 office of the Who's set at Live Aid in 1985, Live 8 in 2005, T4 on the Embankment in 2008 and Capital FM's Summertime Ball concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station'due south Jingle Bell Brawl concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In October 2001, The Who performed the song at The Concert for New York City to help raise funds for the families of firemen and law officers killed during the 9/11 attacks. They finished their prepare with "Won't Go Fooled Again" to a responsive and emotional audition, with close-up aeriform video footage of the Earth Trade Center buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group closed their set during the halftime show of Super Basin XLIV with this song.[30] While the Who have continued to play the song live, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for it, alternate betwixt pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the track as "the quintessential Who's Next track but not necessarily the best."[32]

Several alive and alternative 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 track from March 1971 and a live version recorded at the Young Vic on 26 April 1971.[33] The song is also included on the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, from a 2000 show 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 thirty June 1979, he performed a duet of the vocal with classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Amnesty International benefit The Surreptitious Policeman'due south Brawl.[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 – electrical guitar, acoustic guitar, Ems VCS iii, Lowrey organ, vocals
  • John Entwistle – bass guitar
  • Keith Moon – drums, percussion

Encompass 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-bundled the track and then that the synthesizer role was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Alive: Right Hither, Correct Now,[50] and made it to number 1 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 metallic and bluegrass respectively.[52] [53] Richie Havens covered the rail 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's Next (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-ii.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Get Old : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyhow Anyhow Anywhere – The Consummate Chronicle of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-3.
  • 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 song

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