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1971 unmarried by the Who

1971 single by The Who

"Won't Become Fooled Again"
Won't get fooled again.jpg
Single past The Who
from the album Who's Next
B-side "I Don't Fifty-fifty Know Myself"
Released 25 June 1971 (1971-06-25) (United kingdom)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (Usa)
Recorded Apr–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Hard stone[1]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • 8:32 (album version)
  • iii:36 (unmarried edit)
Label
  • Track (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland)
  • Decca (U.s.)
Songwriter(southward) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"See Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Let'southward See Activity"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is a song past the English rock band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. Information technology was released every bit a single in June 1971, reaching the top 10 in the UK, while the total viii-and-a-half-infinitesimal version appears as the final track on the band'south 1971 album Who's 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 information technology as the primary backing instrument throughout the vocal. The Who tried recording the song in New York in March 1971, only re-recorded a superior take at Stargroves the next month using the synthesizer from Townshend'south original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse as a project was abandoned in favour of Who's Side by side, a straightforward album, where information technology likewise became the closing rail. Information technology has been performed as a staple of the band's setlist since 1971, oftentimes as the set closer, and was the terminal song drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

As well as being a hit, the song has achieved critical praise, appearing every bit one 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. 1 on the Billboard Album Stone Tracks chart. It has been used for several Goggle box shows and films (about notably CSI: Miami), and in some political campaigns.

Background [edit]

The vocal 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 ring and audience.[three] The song was written for the end of the opera, after the primary graphic symbol, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The primary characters disappear, leaving backside the government and regular 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 amend than no crusade".[5] He later said that the song was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", simply stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to see what you lot expect to see. Expect naught and you might gain everything."[half dozen] Bassist John Entwistle later said that the song showed Townshend "proverb things that really mattered to him, and maxim them for the first time."[vii]

Townshend had been reading Universal Sufism founder Inayat Khan's 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.[eight] 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 Become 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.[9] The synthesizer did not play any sounds directly as it was monophonic; instead it modified the block chords on the organ as an input betoken.[x] The demo, recorded at a slower tempo than the version past the Who, was completed by Townshend overdubbing drums, bass, electric guitar, vocals and handclaps.[eleven]

Recording [edit]

The Who's first endeavour to record the song was at the Tape Found on Due west 44 Street, New York City, on 16 March 1971. Manager Kit Lambert had recommended the studio to the group, which led to his producer credit, though the de facto work was done past Felix Pappalardi. This take featured Pappalardi'south Mountain bandmate, Leslie West, on pb guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to be unable to mix the track, and a fresh attempt at recording was fabricated at the start of April at Mick Jagger's house, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[xiii] Glyn Johns was invited to help with product, and he decided to re-use the synthesized organ rail from Townshend'south original demo, equally the re-recording of the function 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 torso 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 electrical guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.[15] Although intended every bit a demo recording, the end result sounded and then good to the band and Johns, they decided to employ information technology as the concluding take.[14] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the end of April.[13] [xiv] The rails was mixed at Island Studios past Johns on 28 May.[xiii] Later Lifehouse was abandoned as a project, Johns felt "Won't Become Fooled Once more", along with other songs, were so adept that they could simply be released as a standalone unmarried album, which became Who's Next.[16] This vocal is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Become Fooled Again" was starting time released in the UK as a single A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to 3:35. It replaced "Behind Blue Eyes", which the group felt didn't fit the Who's established musical way, as the choice of single. 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 United kingdom charts and No. 15 in the US. Initial publicity textile showed an abandoned cover of Who's Side by side featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip. [18]

The total-length version of the vocal appeared as the endmost track of Who'due south Next, released in August in the The states and 27 August in the UK, where information technology topped the anthology charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Again" drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated so successfully within a rock song.[xx] Who author Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey's scream nearly the stop of the track as "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".[21] Cash Box said of it that the song has "rousing magic with the Who's trademark instrumental and vocal strength" and that "revolutionary lyric matched by the group's performance fervor brand 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 2022 information technology was certified Silver for 200,000 sold copies in the Great britain.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who commencement performed the song live at the opening date of a serial of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on 14 February 1971. It has subsequently been part 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 group performed alive over the synthesizer part being played on a backing tape, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click track, assuasive him to play in sync. It was the concluding track Moon played live in front of a paying audition 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 flick The Kids Are Alright.[28] The song was part of the Who's prepare 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 2022 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 Metropolis to help enhance funds for the families of firemen and police officers killed during the 9/11 attacks. They finished their set with 'Won't Get Fooled Over again' to a responsive and emotional audition, with close-up aerial video footage of the World Trade Eye buildings playing behind them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the group airtight their set during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIV with this vocal.[30] 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 track as "the quintessential Who'due south Next track only not necessarily the best."[32]

Several live and alternative versions of the vocal take 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 alive 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 have each performed the song at solo concerts. Townshend has re-bundled the song for solo performance 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 do good The Cloak-and-dagger Policeman's Ball.[36]

In May 2019, Daltrey and Townshend performed a version of the vocal on classroom instruments with Jimmy Fallon and his business firm ring the Roots for the This evening Bear witness.[37] [38]

Chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

  • Roger Daltrey – lead vocals
  • Pete Townshend – electrical guitar, acoustic guitar, European monetary system VCS 3, 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 vocal in concert in 1992. Eddie Van Halen re-arranged the track so that the synthesizer part was played on the guitar. A live recording was released on Live: Right Here, Correct At present,[50] and fabricated information technology 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 vocal in their established styles of metal and bluegrass respectively.[52] [53] Richie Havens covered the rails 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 Adjacent (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-two.
  • Marsh, Dave (1983). Before I Go Erstwhile : The Story of The Who. Plexus. ISBN978-0-85965-083-0.
  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyway Anyhow Anywhere – The Complete Chronicle of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-3.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Get Fooled Over again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Printing. ISBN978-1-906002-75-6.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

fieldswhistry.blogspot.com

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

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