![]() ![]() ![]() “I wrote ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ as a reaction to all that – ‘Leave me out of it: I don’t think you lot would be any better than the other lot!'” Townshend told Creem. During the band’s set at Woodstock, activist Abbie Hoffman interrupted them and Townshend responded by hitting him over the head with his guitar. At one point there was an amazing scene where the commune was really working, but then the acid started flowing and I got on the end of some psychotic conversations.” 7. “They dug me because I was like a figurehead in a group, and I dug them because I could see what was going on over there. “There was like a love affair going on between me and them,” he recalled. Townshend drew inspiration from an active commune on Eel Pie Island in Richmond, London where he was staying at the time. “It’s interesting it’s been taken up in an anthemic sense,” Townshend told Rolling Stone magazine, “when in fact it’s such a cautionary piece.” 6. It was the last track on the album and for many years, they used the song to close their concerts. The Who began to lose interest in singles because of the way the song had to be cut down.ĭaltrey explained, “We thought, ‘What’s the point? Our music’s evolved past the three-minute barrier and if they can’t accommodate that we’re just gonna have to live on albums.'” 5. “I used to say ‘F–k it, put it out as eight minutes’, but there’d always be some excuse about not fitting it on or some technical thing at the pressing plant.” 4. “I hated it when they chopped it down,” he said. Daltrey wasn’t happy that they shortened it to 3 minutes just so radio stations would play it. The most important songs from this album are Baba O’Riley and Won’t Get Fooled Again. It got 4th place on the list of the best publishing houses in the USA and 1st place in Great Britain. Townshend explained that although it’s antiestablishment, “revolution is not going to change anything in the long run, and people are going to get hurt.” 3. However, the greatest fame for the band was brought by the album Who’s Next from 1971. When he didn’t get enough support for it, most of the material ended up on their “Who’s Next” album. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Won't Get Fooled Again The Who Who's Next 1971 Polydor Ltd. It was supposed to be for the end of the rock opera. Guitarist Pete Townshend initially wrote this for their abandoned Lifehouse project. ![]()
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