The Who - Wont Get Fooled Again [HQ]- (Live) 1978

- "Won't Get Fooled Again" is a song by the rock band The Who. Written by Pete Townshend, it combines guitar power chords with heavily processed organ and synthesizer sounds to create a textured, atmospheric introduction that explodes into the verse. It is based upon the idea of revolution, somewhat cynically portraying the hope surrounding the concept -- "I tip my hat to the new constitution/Take a bow for the new revolution" -- and the disappointment that the new regime is the same as the old one -- "Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss".

- The original version of the song appears as the final track on the album Who's Next. The 1971 single release (a drastically edited version at three-and-a-half minutes in length) reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart, #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #14 on the Australian Singles Chart (Go-Set). It is a perennial favorite on classic rock radio stations and concert staple for the band.

- The song originally appeared on the 1971 album Who's Next and has since appeared on various other recordings, including the live compilation soundtrack for The Kids Are Alright and its 1979 documentary film. The film performance of the song, which occurred on 25 May 1978 in Shepperton Studios, was also the last song the original lineup ever performed together, as Keith Moon died four months later.

- The song was performed both at Live Aid and 20 years later at Live 8. Townshend also collaborated on a celebrated, live, acoustic duet version of the song with leading classical guitarist John Williams for the 1979 Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979). The Who's Next deluxe edition (released in 2003) contains an early session tape of this song with a different structure featuring Mountain's Leslie West on lead guitar.

- Numerous live versions of this song have appeared on albums. In addition to The Kids Are Alright soundtrack, the most notable ones are on the Who's Next deluxe edition from the 1971 Young Vic show and on the Live At The Royal Albert Hall album (from a 2000 show with Noel Gallagher guesting). The band's performance of the song at 2001's The Concert for New York City was considered a highlight of that show.

- Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Townshend have each performed the song at solo concerts. Townshend has most radically rearranged the song several times, using instrumentation varying from acoustic to techno.

- The song was covered by Van Halen on their live album Live: Right Here, Right Now in 1993 and made it to number one on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. It was also covered by heavy metal guitarist Axel Rudi Pell and his band for their 2007 album Diamonds Unlocked.

- Townshend stated in 2006 that: "It is not precisely a song that decries revolution -- it suggests that we will indeed fight in the streets -- but that revolution, like all action, can have results we cannot predict. Don't expect to see what you expect to see. Expect nothing and you might gain everything. The song was meant to let politicians and revolutionaries alike know that what lay in the centre of my life was not for sale, and could not be co-opted into any obvious cause. [...] From 1971 -- when I wrote Won't Get Fooled Again -- to 1985, there was a transition in me from refusal to be co-opted by activists, to a refusal to be judged by people I found jaded and compliant in Thatcher's Britain."

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[rjmachin]

Have you enhanced the sound on this? Fantastic... I have a feeling Townsend might have had a couple of strong coffees before he came on...

[TheGoodOldRock]

@rjmachin No i was lucky with this one and found a copy with remastered sound. It's probably a DVD rip or something.

And yeah, Townshend does looks like he had few gallons of coffee before he hit the stage ;D

[sludgefingers]

totally electrifying

[patito2042]

de las mejores canciones de rock del grupo,geniales

[SDCParrot]

7:37 how to finish a song.

[azharmod]

7:50 Yeaaahhhhhhh p o w e r s l i d e !

[thegoviz]

Love The Who

Love this song

Love this Video

Love a free Libya

Love & Peace to all the inhabitants of this planet Earth.

[LesPaulZoso94]

awesome"!!!!

[thomasibrepp]

i'we never seen how awsome this song is before now :D i'we only heard the short bit on CSI