Extra Texture (Read All About It)
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Released | 22 September 1975 | |||
Recorded | 21 April – 9 June 1975, August–September 1974, 2–3 February 1971 | |||
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Genre | Rock, soul | |||
Length | 41:53 | |||
Label | Apple | |||
Producer | George Harrison | |||
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Extra Texture (Read All About It) is the sixth studio album by English musician George Harrison, released on 22 September 1975. It was Harrison's final album under his contract with Apple Records and EMI, and the last studio album issued by Apple. The release came nine months after his troubled 1974 North American tour with Ravi Shankar and the poorly received Dark Horse album.
Among Harrison's post-
Although critical reception to the album was largely unfavourable, Extra Texture was certified
Background
When I got off the plane and back home, I went into the garden and I was so relieved. That was the nearest I got to a nervous breakdown. I couldn't even go into the house.[1]
– George Harrison, discussing his return to Friar Park after the 1974 North American tour
In its 13 February 1975 issue,
Despite Harrison's claims during the tour that the negative press only made him more determined,
The album came about while Harrison was in Los Angeles overseeing projects by some of his Dark Horse signings,
Songs
Writing for Rolling Stone in 2002,
With this new album of mine, all I want is to be able to sing the tunes I have and to do them as warm and as simple as possible ... You know, I don't see my music anymore as being top 20 somehow ... It matters more to me that I can simply sing it better, play it better and, with less orchestration, get over more feeling.[41][42]
– Harrison to WNEW-FM, April 1975
Lyrically, "The Answer's at the End", "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)", "World of Stone" and "Grey Cloudy Lies" all steer clear of his usual subject matter – Hindu spirituality – and instead appear to ask the listener for compassion.[43][44] According to author and theologian Dale Allison, Extra Texture is "the sole Harrison album that fails to make any positive theological statements".[39] Allison adds that its "confused melancholy" provides a sharp contrast with the "confident religious advocacy" of the artist's previous successes All Things Must Pass (1970) and Living in the Material World (1973).[45] Harrison's wavering from his Krishna-conscious path was most evident in "World of Stone", writes author Gary Tillery: "'Such a long way from home,' he says, but in his autobiography he renders it, 'Such a long way from OM' – confessing inner turmoil at having strayed from his faith."[46] The same despair was evident in "Grey Cloudy Lies",[35][47] a track that Harrison described to Paul Gambaccini in September 1975[48] as "one of those depressing, 4 o'clock in the morning sort of songs".[49][nb 2]
Harrison had begun writing "World of Stone", "Grey Cloudy Lies" and the soul-pop love song
Harrison wrote "
In addition to these compositions, Harrison revisited two unused recordings: the
Production
Recording
Alone among the studio albums that Harrison released between the
With Norman Kinney as engineer, Harrison recorded the basic tracks for the new songs between 21 April and 7 May 1975, beginning with "Tired of Midnight Blue" and "The Answer's at the End".
Voormann, a close friend of Harrison's since 1960, found the atmosphere at the sessions unpleasant; he later cited the heavy drug use typical of the LA music scene,
Where on previous records George was living at home in Friar Park, in LA he was staying in a hotel and he was a big deal. Too many people wanted to get to him, too many bad things were available. He should never have made a record outside Friar Park.[110]
– Jim Keltner, commenting on the Los Angeles recording sessions
Overdubbing and mixing
After a few weeks' break, the overdubbing phase began at A&M on 31 May. That day, instruments were added to the 1971 basic track for "You", including a saxophone solo (played by Horn), extra keyboards and a second drum part.[28] Over 2–3 June, Scott and Findley overdubbed horns on "Ooh Baby" and "His Name Is Legs".[54] The Foster-arranged strings for "This Guitar", "The Answer's at the End" and "Can't Stop Thinking About You" were recorded between 6 and 9 June.[28] Final mixing of the album's ten songs lasted through July and possibly into August.[29]
Between June and October 1975, Preston's It's My Pleasure album, Peter Skellern's Hard Times and Splinter's Harder to Live were released,[114] and sessions took place in August for Scott's New York Connection.[115] All of these albums include guitar cameos from Harrison (often credited to his pseudonym "Hari Georgeson"),[116][117] yet his playing on Extra Texture was surprisingly minimal.[118][119] Harrison's signature instrument since 1970,[120] the slide guitar, appeared significantly on "Tired of Midnight Blue" only,[121] and in his extended solo on "This Guitar",[122] on which he shared the lead guitarist's role with Jesse Ed Davis.[123]
Harrison's voice had fully recovered from the effects of laryngitis,[124] allowing him to reach falsetto[125] and indulge in gospel-style scat singing.[126] In author Alan Clayson's estimation, with Harrison adopting a new, "close-miked" soft vocal style, much of Extra Texture reflected "the more feathery emanations from Philadelphia by the likes of The Stylistics and Jerry Butler".[127][nb 7] Leng considers that Harrison "was clearly targeting the mainstream U.S. audience" and adds: "There were few spiritual lyrics and absolutely no references to Krishna, while his much-criticized vocals were stronger, but recorded at a low level, as if the goal was to create a Harrison soul album for lovers."[106]
Album artwork and title
The album's art design was credited to Capitol's in-house designer, Roy Kohara.[78] Harrison supplied sketches for each item of the artwork,[130] which adopted a humorous, "wacky" theme throughout the packaging.[29] The vivid-orange front cover featured a die-cut design around the words "EXTRA TEXTURE", through which an inner-sleeve, blue-tinted picture of Harrison was visible.[131] Some vinyl editions presented the words as simple blue text on an orange background, however, doing away with the expensive cut-out detail.[132] In keeping with the album title, the thin cardboard used for the LP cover was similar in texture to the "animal skin used on a football", according to Beatles author Bruce Spizer.[78] The front cover included an Om symbol, positioned below the angled title text and also coloured blue.[131] On the back of the inner sleeve, there was a second Henry Grossman tour photo of Harrison, enjoying himself on stage.[133][134]
Seen as a joke referencing the demise of the Beatles' record label,[135] the Apple logo was styled on Extra Texture as an eaten-away apple core.[136] In addition, the blue inner-sleeve photo of Harrison – "grinning like a Monty Python choirboy", in the words of music critic Robert Christgau[137] – was captioned "OHNOTHIMAGEN" ("Oh not him again"), which was Harrison's self-deprecating take on his dwindling popularity in 1974–75.[35][101] The album's full title referenced the media outcry during and immediately after his US tour;[138] it was a pun on the slogan that street-corner paperboys would yell out to sell late-breaking news editions of their newspapers: "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"[28][39] Harrison had intended to call the album Ohnothimagen,[139] until a studio discussion with Paul Stallworth suggested an alternative.[28] According to Harrison, just as he himself was talking about an overdub needing something "extra", Stallworth happened to say the word "texture".[105]
As on Dark Horse, Harrison listed contributing musicians for each song, on the LP's back cover,[140] but this time with an additional list for those not appearing.[101] The first of these is guitarist Danny Kortchmar, the fourth member of Attitudes; others include Derek Taylor, Eric Idle, Peter Sellers and Dark Horse executive Dino Airali.[92]
Release
Appearing nine months after Dark Horse,[84] Extra Texture (Read All About It) was completed more quickly than any of Harrison's previous post-Beatles solo albums.[136] The haste with which it was made was out of character for Harrison,[136] and apparently symbolic of a wish to redeem himself with his audience before he left EMI for A&M Records.[81] Preceded by its advance single, "You" backed with "World of Stone",[134] the album was issued on 22 September 1975 in America (as Apple SW 3420) and on 3 October in Britain (Apple PAS 10009).[141][142] Coinciding with the release of Extra Texture, Harrison's interview with Herman was broadcast on many stations around the US.[143][nb 8]
In another departure from past form, Harrison undertook promotion for his new album in Britain.
Extra Texture peaked at number 8 on the
Reissue
Extra Texture (Read All About It) was remastered for CD release in January 1992.
Critical reception
Contemporary reviews
Discussing the album's reception in his 1977 book The Beatles Forever, Nicholas Schaffner wrote: "Harrison's worldly critics, who had long found his sermons insufferable, responded like bulls to a red flag to Extra Texture, which contains a number of treatises on how reviewers always 'miss the point.'" Even Harrison's loyal "disciples", Schaffner continued, tended to view the album as "plodding and aimless".[136] Rolling Stone's reviewer, Dave Marsh, highlighted "You" as a return to All Things Must Pass-style grandeur, and "Can't Stop Thinking About You" and "Tired of Midnight Blue" as "the most effective nine minutes of music" the artist had made since 1970. Generally, on an album that was "sketchy at best", however, Marsh bemoaned the over-reliance on "merely competent" keyboards and Harrison's "affectingly feeble voice", before concluding: "Harrison is no longer a Beatle, as he has reminded us more than we have asked. But if he learned nothing else from his experience in that organization, it ought to have been that a good guitar player isn't worth much without a band."[121]
In the NME, Neil Spencer wrote that "Though Extra Texture isn't the Harrison revival that many might have hopes for, it's still several leagues superior to Hari's more recent efforts; and just as All Things Must Pass would have made a great single album, so Extra Texture would make a more than commendable single side." Spencer described the album's content as "the customary mournful and doom-laden Harrison we've come to know and fear, only this time the rigours of love take precedence over matters spiritual", and he advised his readers: "I've played it, I don't mind it ... Hari fans can anticipate purchase with glee. Others approach with cautious optimism."[166][167] Reviewing for Melody Maker, Ray Coleman described it as "splendid" and approved of Harrison's return to his 1960s musical influences. Coleman especially admired the first three songs and said that the album was a "re-statement of the fundamentals we should all cherish".[168]
In the 1977 edition of their book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler described Extra Texture as "another lugubrious offering" and concluded: "the needle of the listener's personal Ecstatograph points sullenly towards zero throughout."[119] Harrison's pleas for tolerance and understanding, like his self-deprecation on the album sleeve, seemed to backfire.[119][169][nb 9] Writing in 1981, Bob Woffinden found that the album showed signs that Harrison was "no longer so scornful of his audience" compared with Dark Horse. Woffinden wrote of the songs that "plead plaintively with critics not to judge too severely": "In this different context, such pleas are more sympathetic. Very well, then, we will not. Extra Texture wasn't really very good musically ... but it did have some appealing qualities, and barely any disagreeable ones."[81]
Retrospective reviews and legacy
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [172] |
Mojo | [122] |
MusicHound | 2/5[173] |
Music Story | [174] |
OndaRock | 6/10[175] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [176] |
Uncut | [177] |
In his book subtitled The Beatles' Solo Years, 1970–1980, Robert Rodriguez features Extra Texture in a chapter dedicated to the worst solo albums released by the four ex-Beatles between 1970 and 1980 – the only one of Harrison's albums to be included there.[178][nb 10] Rodriguez writes: "To be sure, Extra Texture boasted several fine cuts ... but the remainder of the collection was almost entirely weary in tone, amounting to a prolonged buzz kill."[84] Nick DeRiso of the music website Something Else! includes it on his list of the five worst solo albums by either John Lennon, McCartney or Harrison, and describes it as a "grinding, relentlessly downbeat album, where even the name Extra Texture has come to feel like a cruel joke".[180]
Several Harrison biographers likewise hold Extra Texture in low esteem, with Alan Clayson describing it as his "artistic nadir" and "a bedsit record rather than a dancing one".[181] Simon Leng writes that Harrison's post-Dark Horse "rehabilitation disc" came way too soon, resulting in an uncharacteristically passionless work, with its singer sounding "punch drunk".[182] Aside from the uplifting "You", both authors identify "Tired of Midnight Blue" as the only saving grace.[154][183] Gary Tillery notes the "darkly sarcastic" album title for a collection full of such "downbeat" tracks, the darkest of which is "Grey Cloudy Lies".[47] Harrison himself rated Extra Texture as his worst solo release of the 1970s.[184] Speaking to Musician magazine in 1987, he dismissed it as "a grubby album"[185] and added: "The production left a lot to be desired, as did my performance ... Some songs I like, but in retrospect I wasn't very happy about it."[135][186]
The album has its admirers. Writing in a Rolling Stone Press tribute book,
Reviewing the Apple Years box set for Blogcritics, Seattle-based critic[189] Chaz Lipp opines of Extra Texture: "Though not without a few notable tracks, it's the least satisfying album of Harrison's entire career ... The essential cut is the grooving 'Tired of Midnight Blue.'"[190] In his review for Classic Rock, Paul Trynka writes that the album "boasts neither the highs nor lows of its predecessors" and is "the work of a man wounded by criticism". In Trynka's assessment, whereas "You" "sounds dull today", "confessional songs" such as "World of Stone", "Tired of Midnight Blue" and "Grey Cloudy Lies" "have worn well".[191] Writing for the website Vintage Rock, Shawn Perry similarly considers "You" to be "out of sync", and he highlights "This Guitar" and "Grey Cloudy Lies" on "a creative and introspective album that's aged well".[192]
In another 2014 review, for the Lexington Herald-Leader, Walter Tunis writes: "[Extra Texture (Read All About It)] is a delight from the start of the brightly orchestrated pop of 'You' to a series of light soul-savvy reveries that culminate in the playful 'His Name is Legs'. The record places the secular and spiritual concerns of Harrison's music in animated balance to close out The Apple Years in a state of hapless harmony."[193] Writing in Mojo, Tom Doyle concedes that, being the final album in the box set, "It's possibly a downbeat note to end on", but welcomes the reissue for "allow[ing] us time to dig for the diamonds in the dirt".[194]
Track listing
All songs written by George Harrison.
Side one
- "You" – 3:41
- "The Answer's at the End" – 5:32
- "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)" – 4:11
- "Ooh Baby (You Know That I Love You)" – 3:59
- "World of Stone" – 4:40
Side two
- "A Bit More of You" – 0:45
- "Can't Stop Thinking About You" – 4:30
- "Tired of Midnight Blue" – 4:51
- "Grey Cloudy Lies" – 3:41
- "His Name Is Legs (Ladies and Gentlemen)" – 5:46
2014 remaster bonus track
- "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)" (Platinum Weird version) – 3:55
Personnel
Track numbering refers to CD and digital releases of the album.
- ARP synthesizer (3, 9), Moog synthesizer(9), piano (10), backing vocals (1, 2, 7–10)
- David Foster – piano (2, 3, 5, 9), organ (1, 6), ARP string synthesizer (1, 5, 6), electric piano (7), tack piano (10), string arrangement (2, 3, 7)
- Gary Wright – organ (2, 5), electric piano (1, 4, 6), ARP synthesizer (3, 7)
- Jim Keltner – drums (1–9), percussion (8)
- Jesse Ed Davis – electric guitar (3–5, 7, 9)
- Klaus Voormann – bass (4–5, 7)
- Paul Stallworth– bass (2, 8), background vocals (7)
- Leon Russell – piano (1, 6, 8)
- Tom Scott – saxophones (4, 10)
- Chuck Findley – trumpet (4, 10), trombone (10)
- Nicky Hopkins – piano (7)
- Jim Horn – saxophone (1, 6)
- Jim Gordon – drums (1, 6), percussion (1, 6)
- Carl Radle – bass (1, 6)
- Billy Preston – electric piano (10)
- Willie Weeks – bass (10)
- Andy Newmark – drums (10)
- "Legs" Larry Smith – vocal (10)
- Ronnie Spector – vocal (1)
- Norm Kinney – percussion (2)
- Supplementary credits for 2014 reissue (track 11)
- George Harrison – vocals, acoustic guitars
- Dave Stewart– electric guitars, bass, organ
- Dhani Harrison – acoustic guitar
- Ringo Starr – drums
- Kara DioGuardi – backing vocals
Chart positions
Chart (1975–76) | Position |
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Australian Kent Music Report[195] | 36 |
Canadian RPM Top Albums[196] | 63 |
French SNEP Albums Chart[197] | 19 |
Japanese Oricon LP Chart[198] | 9 |
Norwegian VG-Lista Albums[199] | 8 |
UK Albums Chart[15] | 16 |
US Billboard Top LPs & Tape[200] | 8 |
US Cashbox Top 100 Albums[201] | 9 |
US Record World Album Chart[202] | 9 |
Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA)[203] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Notes
- ^ By contrast, all of Harrison's album releases over 1970–73 – All Things Must Pass, The Concert for Bangladesh and Living in the Material World – had either topped or peaked at number 2 on both the UK's official albums chart[14][15] and the US chart compiled by Billboard magazine.[16][17]
- ^ The lyrics to "Grey Cloudy Lies" include the lines "Now I only want to be / With no pistol at my brain",[50] a statement that Allison and author Ian Inglis interpret as a reference to Harrison's possibly suicidal frame of mind.[51][52]
- ^ After Splinter and Ravi Shankar had inaugurated the label, in May 1974,[62][63] Harrison had signed the US-based acts Jiva, Stairsteps, Henry McCullough and Attitudes to Dark Horse.[64][65]
- ^ The second Robinson tribute was "Pure Smokey", which Harrison went on to record for his 1976 album Thirty Three & 1/3.[70]
- ^ The posthumously issued Brainwashed (2002) was finished at producer Jeff Lynne's studio in Los Angeles in 2002,[85][86] after the main recording had taken place at FPSHOT and in Switzerland.[87] Otherwise, except for this 1975 release, the majority of the work on all Harrison albums since 1970 took place at either FPSHOT or other studios in England.[88]
- ^ Recalling the Extra Texture sessions in 2014, Voormann told music journalist Mat Snow: "In LA I was not happy about the way George was developing, and I think he felt embarrassed about that. When they do too much cocaine, people lose their reliability ... It was not the old George."[110]
- ^ During this period, Harrison cited Smokey Robinson as a major influence, and Stevie Wonder and Bob Marley as other examples of his preferred listening.[128][129]
- ^ The interview was sufficiently popular to gain release as a bootleg record, titled A Conversation with George Harrison (Hear All About It).[143]
- ^ Harrison himself acknowledged in a January 1976 BBC interview: "People who were never really keen on me just really hate my guts right now. It has become complete opposites, completely black and white."[170]
- ^ By comparison, Rodriguez includes four albums by McCartney and two each by John Lennon and Starr.[179]
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- ^ Tillery, pp. 114–15.
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- ^ Lavezzoli, p. 195.
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- ^ Clayson, pp. 348–50.
- ^ a b c Rodriguez, p. 184.
- ^ Tillery, pp. 150, 168.
- ^ Nick Hasted, "From Here to Eternity: George Harrison Brainwashed", Uncut, December 2002, p. 134.
- ^ Leng, pp. 289, 291, 293.
- ^ Leng, pp. 75, 124, 147, 190, 199, 211, 229, 245.
- ^ Kevin Howlett's liner notes, Extra Texture (Read All About It) CD booklet (Apple Records, 2014; produced by George Harrison), p. 4.
- ^ Leng, pp. 166, 178.
- ^ a b Olivia Harrison, "The History of Dark Horse Records", The Dark Horse Years 1976–1992 DVD booklet (EMI, 2004), pp. 2, 5.
- ^ a b c d Leng, p. 179.
- ^ Sounes, p. 320.
- ^ Badman, p. 156.
- ^ Rodriguez, pp. 247, 424.
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- ^ Kevin Howlett's liner notes, Extra Texture (Read All About It) CD booklet (Apple Records, 2014; produced by George Harrison), p. 6.
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- ^ Badman, pp. 163, 164.
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- ^ a b Huntley, p. 122.
- ^ Inglis, p. 50.
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- ^ a b c Carr & Tyler, p. 117.
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