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"Won't Get Fooled Again" is a song by the English rock band the Who, written by guitarist and primary songwriter Pete Townshend. It was released as a single in June 1971, reaching the top 10 in the UK, while the full eight-and-a-half-minute version appears as the final track on the band's 1971 album Who's Next , released that August.
"I Can't Explain" was the A-side of the group's first single as the Who; its predecessor, "Zoot Suit"/"I'm the Face," was released under the name the High Numbers. In the album's liner notes, Townshend noted the song's similarity to the contemporaneous hit "All Day and All of the Night" by the Kinks: "It can't be beat for straightforward Kink copying.
It was ranked number 262 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2010. [12] In 2012, Paste ranked the song number four on their list of the 20 greatest The Who songs, [13] and in 2022, Rolling Stone ranked the song number two on their list of the 50 greatest The Who songs, behind only "Won't Get Fooled Again". [14]
[35] The closing track, "Won't Get Fooled Again", was critical of revolutions. Townshend explained: "a revolution is only a revolution in the long run and a lot of people are going to get hurt". [34] The song features the Lowrey organ fed through an ARP synthesizer, which came from Townshend's original demo and was re-used for the finished ...
"Won't Get Fooled Again" (with Noel Gallagher) "Substitute" (with Kelly Jones) "Let's See Action" (with Eddie Vedder) "My Generation" "See Me, Feel Me/Listening to You" (with Eddie Vedder and Bryan Adams) Note: "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" and "Getting in Tune" (with Eddie Vedder) were also performed, but were not released on the DVD.
Won't Get Fooled Again" (Pete Townshend) Produced by The Who; Associate producer: Glyn Johns; Recorded at the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio and Olympic Studios, 1971 "Bony Moronie" (Larry Williams) Produced by John Williams; Recorded at the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio live at the Young Vic, 1971 "Dancing in the Street" (William Stevenson and ...
Most of Who's Last album was taken from the band's 14 December 1982 show at Richfield Coliseum outside of Cleveland, Ohio, which was their "last concert in the USA" (as Pete Townshend can be heard saying after "Won't Get Fooled Again") this time around. Four songs come from different sources (verified by meticulous comparison with soundboard ...
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