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(off 1971 album “who’s next”)
(“won’t get fooled again” is a ‘song’ by the english rock band ‘the who’)
(written by ‘pete townshend’)
(it was released as a single in ‘june 1971’, reaching the ‘top 10’ in the ‘UK’, while the ‘full 8:30 version’ appears as the final track on the band’s 1971 album who’s next, released that ‘august’)
(‘townshend’ wrote the song as a closing number of the ‘lifehouse’ project, and the lyrics criticize ‘revolution’ and ‘power’)
(to symbolize the ‘spiritual connection’ 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 it as the ‘main backing 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 month using the ‘synthesizer’ from townshend’s original ‘demo’)
(ultimately, ‘lifehouse’ as a project was abandoned in favor of who’s next, a ‘straightforward album’, where it also became the ‘closing track’)
(the ‘song’ has been performed as a staple of the band’s ‘setlist’ since ‘1971’, often as the ‘set closer’, and was the last track drummer ‘keith moon’ played live with the band)
(as well as a ‘hit’, the song has achieved ‘critical praise’, appearing as one of Rolling Stone‘s “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”)
(it has been covered by several artists, such as ‘van halen’ who took their version to ‘#1’ on the Billboard ‘Album Rock Tracks’ chart)
(it has been used for several ‘TV shows’ and ‘films’, and in some ‘political campaigns’)
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