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The Who Song Lyric We Dont Get Fooled Again

1971 single by the Who

"Won't Become Fooled Once more"
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) (Great britain)
17 July 1971 (1971-07-17) (U.s.a.)
Recorded April–May 1971
Studio
  • Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, England
  • Olympic Studios, London
Genre
  • Hard rock[1]
  • progressive rock[2]
Length
  • eight:32 (anthology version)
  • 3:36 (single edit)
Characterization
  • Track (Britain)
  • Decca (US)
Songwriter(south) Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
  • The Who
  • Glyn Johns (associate producer)
The Who singles chronology
"Run into Me, Feel Me"
(1970) 		"Won't Get Fooled Again"
(1971) 		"Let's Run into Activity"
(1971)

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is a vocal by the English stone band the Who, written by Pete Townshend. It was released equally a single in June 1971, reaching the pinnacle 10 in the United kingdom, while the total 8-and-a-half-infinitesimal version appears as the final track on the ring's 1971 album Who'south Next, released that August.

Townshend wrote the song as a closing number of the Lifehouse projection, and the lyrics criticise revolution and ability. To symbolise the spiritual connection he had establish 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 main backing musical instrument throughout the vocal. The Who tried recording the song in New York in March 1971, but re-recorded a superior take at Stargroves the side by side month using the synthesizer from Townshend'south original demo. Ultimately, Lifehouse as a project was abandoned in favour of Who'south Next, a straightforward album, where information technology also became the closing track. It has been performed as a staple of the band'southward setlist since 1971, oftentimes equally the set closer, and was the last vocal drummer Keith Moon played live with the band.

Too as being a hit, the song has achieved critical praise, actualization as 1 of Rolling Rock 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Information technology has been covered by several artists, such as Van Halen, who took their version to No. 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. It has been used for several Tv 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 practise 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 terminate of the opera, later the main character, Bobby, is killed and the "universal chord" is sounded. The chief characters disappear, leaving behind the government and army, who are left to bully each other.[4] Townshend described the song as ane "that screams disobedience 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 be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could exist unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to see what you expect to see. Look nothing and you might proceeds everything."[6] Bassist John Entwistle afterwards 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'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 within music. Townshend interviewed several people with general practitioner-style questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the issue into a serial of audio pulses. For the demo of "Won't Become Fooled Once again", he linked a Lowrey organ into an EMS VCS 3 filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments.[eight] He subsequently upgraded to an ARP 2500.[9] The synthesizer did not play any sounds directly as it was monophonic; instead it modified the cake 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, electric guitar, vocals and handclaps.[11]

Recording [edit]

The Who's get-go attempt to record the song was at the Record Plant on Westward 44 Street, New York City, 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 by Felix Pappalardi. This accept featured Pappalardi's Mountain bandmate, Leslie Westward, on atomic number 82 guitar.[12]

Lambert proved to exist unable to mix the rail, and a fresh try at recording was made at the start of April at Mick Jagger's house, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.[13] Glyn Johns was invited to help with product, and he decided to re-employ the synthesized organ rail from Townshend's original demo, as the re-recording of the office in New York was felt to be inferior to the original. Keith Moon had to advisedly 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 trunk guitar fed through an Edwards book 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.[fifteen] Although intended as a demo recording, the end outcome sounded so skillful to the band and Johns, they decided to use it equally the final accept.[xiv] Overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played past Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the cease of April.[13] [14] The rail was mixed at Island Studios past Johns on 28 May.[13] Subsequently Lifehouse was abased as a project, Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", forth with other songs, were so good that they could merely exist released every bit a standalone single anthology, which became Who's Adjacent.[xvi] This song is written in the key of A Mixolydian.[17]

Release [edit]

"Won't Get Fooled Once again" was first released in the UK as a unmarried A-side on 25 June 1971, edited down to three:35. Information technology replaced "Backside Blue Eyes", which the group felt did not fit the Who's established musical way, as the choice of single. It was released in July in the Usa. 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. nine in the UK charts and No. fifteen in the US. Initial publicity cloth showed an abased cover of Who'south Next featuring Moon dressed in elevate and brandishing a whip.[xviii]

The total-length version of the song appeared every bit the closing runway of Who's Next, released in August in the US and 27 Baronial in the Britain, where it topped the album charts.[19] "Won't Get Fooled Again" drew potent praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated so successfully within a stone vocal.[20] Who author Dave Marsh described singer Roger Daltrey'due south scream virtually 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 group's performance fervor make this a monster on its fashion."[22] In 2021, the song was ranked number 295 on Rolling Rock 's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension.[23] As of March 2018 it was certified Silvery for 200,000 sold copies in the UK.[24]

Live performances [edit]

The Who offset performed the song alive at the opening date of a series of Lifehouse-related concerts in the Young Vic theatre, London on 14 February 1971. It has subsequently been office of every Who concert since,[25] [26] often as the set up closer and sometimes extended slightly to allow Townshend to blast his guitar or Moon to boot over his drumkit. The group performed alive over the synthesizer part beingness played on a backing tape, which required Moon to wear headphones to hear a click runway, assuasive him to play in sync. Information technology was the terminal track Moon played alive in front of a paying audition on 21 Oct 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 vocal was role of the Who'southward set at Alive Aid in 1985, Live viii in 2005, T4 on the Beach in 2008 and Capital FM'south Summertime Ball concert in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and the radio station's Jingle Bong Brawl concerts in 2009 and 2015.[29]

In October 2001, The Who performed the vocal at The Concert for New York City to help heighten funds for the families of firemen and police officers killed during the ix/11 attacks. They finished their set with "Won't Go Fooled Again" to a responsive and emotional audience, with close-up aerial video footage of the World Trade Center buildings playing backside them on a huge digital screen. In February 2010, the grouping closed their ready during the halftime bear witness of Super Bowl XLIV with this song.[xxx] While the Who take continued to play the song live, Townshend has expressed mixed feelings for information technology, alternating betwixt pride and embarrassment in interviews.[31] Who biographer John Atkins described the track as "the quintessential Who's Side by side rail merely not necessarily the best."[32]

Several alive and alternative versions of the song take been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a palatial version of Who'due south Next was reissued to include the Tape 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 Alive at the Imperial 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 song 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 firm band the Roots for the Tonight Evidence.[37] [38]

Nautical chart history [edit]

Personnel [edit]

  • Roger Daltrey – pb 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 fashion by Labelle on their 1972 album Moon Shadow.[49] Van Halen covered the song in concert in 1992. Eddie Van Halen re-arranged the rail and so that the synthesizer function was played on the guitar. A alive recording was released on Alive: Right 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 vocal in their established styles of metallic and bluegrass respectively.[52] [53] Richie Havens covered the track on his 2008 anthology, 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-eight.
  • Atkins, John (2003). Who'south Adjacent (Deluxe Edition) (Media notes). Polydor. 113-056-2.
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  • Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew (2002). Anyhow Anyhow Anywhere – The Complete Relate of The Who. Virgin. ISBN978-0-7535-1217-three.
  • Unterberger, Richie (2011). Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia. Jawbone Press. ISBN978-ane-906002-75-half dozen.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this song

bisdeewart1937.blogspot.com

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