I've seen them come and go and everything ends up the same. I was writing in a sense to say, 'Don't f**k around with revolution for my benefit. Townshend continues: "The song is from a position of a secure family: 'I'll move myself and my family aside.' That's the whole thing. Townshend, in Giuliano's 1996 biography Behind Blue Eyes, says, "The hero of the piece warns, 'Don't be fooled, don't be taken in.' It's interesting it's been taken up in an anthemic sense when in fact it's such a cautionary piece." The closing line, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss," sums up Townshend's point, which is that the new leaders may have longer beards and different-colored flags, but nothing ever changes. Like Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth," "Won't Get Fooled Again" is less an encouragement for revolution than a disillusioned behind-the-scenes critique of uprising. At Mick Jagger's country house Stargroves, where the Who recorded Who's Next, Townshend unveiled a backing track he'd created with the then-new ARP 2600 synthesizer and a guitar "envelope follower." "This definitive classic '70s rock song actually came from an indulgent experiment in electronic music," Townshend told biographer Geoffrey Giuliano.
It was the first Who song–and, some would say, the first successful rock song–to use a synthesizer. Instead, it gave singer-guitarist Pete Townshend a nervous breakdown. The song was the centerpiece of Lifehouse, which was supposed to be a major rock opera spiritually uniting band and fans. Who's Nextwas the band's sole album to hit Number One In England, and made it to Number Four on the Billboard album chart in the U.S. The single, cut in half for radio airplay, hit Number Nine in the U.K. The group usually used the original synthesizer tape in concert. "Won't Get Fooled Again" served as the Who's standard concert finale (before the encore), even as late as the band’s 1982, 1989, and 1996 tours. Pete Townshend–guitars, synthesizer, vocals, organ Recorded: 1971, Stargroves, Berkshire, England
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