Wont Get Fooled Again Tina Turner
| "The Acid Queen" | |
|---|---|
| Vocal by The Who | |
| from the album Tommy | |
| Released | 23 May 1969 |
| Recorded | 19 September 1968 to 7 March 1969 |
| Length | iii:34 |
| Characterization | Polydor |
| Songwriter(s) | Pete Townshend |
| Producer(s) | Kit Lambert |
"The Acid Queen" is a song written by Pete Townshend and is the ninth vocal on the Who's rock opera album Tommy. Townshend also sings the pb vocal. The song tells the attempts of Tommy'due south parents to try to cure him. They leave him with an eccentric gypsy, a self-proclaimed "Acrid Queen", who feeds Tommy diverse hallucinogenic drugs and performs sexually in an endeavour to gratis him from isolation.
Several notable singers have performed the song including Merry Clayton, Patti LaBelle, Bette Midler and Tina Turner.
Background [edit]
"The Acid Queen" is frequently grouped with the album'southward adjacent track, "Underture", a lengthy instrumental which deals with Tommy's hallucinations and his experience with acid. The one comprehend song on Tommy, "Eyesight to the Blind", may take been included to introduce the character of the acid queen.[1] Tommy'due south parents accept Tommy to the Acid Queen to see if her "lascivious attentions" can cure Tommy of his ills.[ii] However, she is unsuccessful in awakening him.[2]
Pete Townshend used Tommy'due south incomprehension to represent our "...blindness to reality." The Acid Queen symbolized mindless self-indulgence, and attempted to use drugs to cure Tommy'due south ailments: deafness, muteness and incomprehension." Townshend has too said that "The song'south not just about acid: it's the whole drug affair, the drink thing, the sexual practice thing wrapped into one large ball. It's about how you get it laid on you that if you oasis't fucked 40 birds, taken 60 trips, boozer fourteen pints or any...gild – people – force it on yous. She represents this force."[3] [2]
Who biographer John Atkins describes the song as "a distinctive and fully matured song in which Pete's vocals give a fine sense of urgency, suggesting that a sexual besides as drug initiation is being offered by the character.[one] Chris Charlesworth calls information technology "1 of the best songs on Tommy".[3]
Personnel [edit]
- Pete Townshend – pb vocals, acoustic guitar, electrical guitar, electric pianoforte
- John Entwistle – bass guitar
- Keith Moon – drums
Tina Turner version [edit]
| "Acid Queen" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 1978 German motion-picture show sleeve | ||||
| Unmarried by Tina Turner | ||||
| from the anthology Acid Queen | ||||
| B-side | "Let's Spend The Night Together" | |||
| Released | January 1976 (Uk) 1978 (Germany) | |||
| Studio | Bolic Sound (Inglewood, California) | |||
| Genre | Hard stone, soul | |||
| Length | iii:01 | |||
| Label | United Artists, EMI | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Pete Townshend | |||
| Producer(s) | Danny Diante, Spencer Proffer | |||
| Tina Turner singles chronology | ||||
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"Acid Queen" is the third single released from the Tina Turner album Acid Queen, post-obit "Baby, Go It On" and "Whole Lotta Love". The unmarried was released in the Uk in January 1976.[4] The record was produced by Danny Diante and Spencer Proffer.[5] "Acrid Queen" was Turner'southward last unmarried before her divergence from the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1976.
A different recording of the song is as well included on the soundtrack album to the 1975 moving picture Tommy in which Turner stars as the Acrid Queen. The original soundtrack version of the song has been featured in the Tina Turner compilation albums The Nerveless Recordings - Sixties to Nineties (1994), Tina! (2008) and The Platinum Collection (2009). It has also been included in some Ike & Tina Turner compilations, including Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner (1991).
The song was besides featured on Turner'south 50th Anniversary Bout in 2008 with added elements of "Won't Go Fooled Again" and was included on the DVD of the live album Tina Alive.
Track list [edit]
- "Acid Queen" – 3:01
- "Let'southward Spend the Night Together" – 2:58
Official versions [edit]
- Original soundtrack version – 3:50
- Album version – 3:01
References in other media [edit]
Bob Dylan'south song "Murder Virtually Foul"—released in March 2020, but recorded at an unknown, earlier date—references both "The Acid Queen" and "Tommy Can You Hear Me?"[6] [seven]
References [edit]
- ^ a b Atkins, John (2000). The Who on Tape: A Critical History, 1963-1998. MacFarland. pp. 118, 122. ISBN9781476606576.
- ^ a b c Grantley, S.; Parker, A.G. (2010). The Who by Numbers. Helter Skelter Publishing. p. 65. ISBN9781905139262.
- ^ a b Charlesworth, C. (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of the Who. Charabanc Printing. p. 26. ISBN0711943060.
- ^ "Singles Reviews". Blues & Soul. January 27, 1976.
- ^ "Billboard's Top Anthology Picks" (PDF). Billboard: 52. August xxx, 1975.
- ^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (March 27, 2020). "Bob Dylan releases first original song in eight years, 17-minute runway about JFK". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
- ^ Willman, Chris (March 27, 202). "Bob Dylan Releases 17-Infinitesimal Song About JFK Assassination". Diversity.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Acid_Queen
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