My Top 1000 Songs #130: Won't Get Fooled Again

As the bookends for 1971's Who's Next, "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" were the twin powerhouses that pretty much ended my childhood love affair with the Top 40 radio that had first hooked me on music; the album, and these two songs in particular, showed me that rock & roll was much bigger, more powerful, and more musically interesting than I'd surmised from my childhood fixation with pop music.

Here's what I had to say about it in my book:
 

Live in the studio, 1978 (Keith's last stand):
Pete acoustic in '79:

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