George Harrison (album)
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Released | 14 February 1979 | |||
Recorded | April–October 1978 | |||
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Length | 39:58 | |||
Label | Dark Horse | |||
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George Harrison is the eighth studio album by the English rock musician
Harrison co-produced the album with
Issued on Dark Horse Records, George Harrison was well-received by music critics on release. Commentators regularly cite it among the artist's best works after his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass. The album was remastered in 2004 as part of Harrison's Dark Horse Years 1976–1992 reissues.
Background
In February 1977,
Before resuming songwriting for the new album, Harrison had not written a song since 1976.
Harrison said the project was informed by his contentment with how his life had progressed since Thirty Three & ⅓.[20] In June 1977, he was granted a divorce from Pattie Boyd, who had left him for his friend Eric Clapton in 1974.[21] Boyd's solicitor, a partner at the London firm Theodore Goddard, later remarked on the sensitivity shown by each party towards the other, and how rare this was in his experience of high-stakes divorces.[22] Among other "profound changes" that influenced the album's creation, according to author Ian Inglis, Harrison became a father for the first time when Arias gave birth to their son, Dhani, in August 1978, three months after the death of his father, Harry Harrison.[23]
Songs
Harrison began writing "Love Comes to Everyone" in September 1977.[24] It was one of several new compositions that reflected his contentment with Arias and with life generally.[25] Author Simon Leng comments that while familiar Harrison lyrical references to Krishna and Hindu spirituality appear to be absent on George Harrison, these themes are "rife" but stated subtly; he adds, "Hence, the 'love' that comes to everyone ... is, of course, God's."[26] "Blow Away" was initially inspired by rain damage to a roof at Harrison's Friar Park estate in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. He turned the experience into one of positive thinking, reasoning that if he sought to be optimistic by expressing love, the problem would diminish in importance. He later said that he wrote "Blow Away" as a song that Niki Lauda, Jody Scheckter, Emerson Fittipaldi and others in the F1 "gang" might enjoy.[27] He also wrote "Faster" in late 1977,[24] drawing inspiration from Lauda's successful comeback from a near-fatal crash at the Nürburgring the previous year.[28] The album credits listed former driver Jackie Stewart, whose autobiography was titled Faster, as the other source of inspiration.[29][30]
Harrison listened to his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass for inspiration.[31][32] He wrote "If You Believe", incorporating musical and lyrical elements familiar from All Things Must Pass,[33] with American musician Gary Wright on New Year's Day 1978 at Friar Park.[34] Harrison then met with Warner's staff producers Lenny Waronker, Russ Titelman and Ted Templeman in Los Angeles to discuss the new album and play them demos of his latest songs.[35][36] He recalled that Templeman's appreciation of his 1971 B-side "Deep Blue" inspired him to begin writing what became "Soft-Hearted Hana".[37]
Harrison wrote or finished writing the album's songs while holidaying on the Hawaiian island of Maui in February 1978,[24] soon after he and Arias learned of Arias's pregnancy.[38] The holiday was a highly creative time for Harrison[39] and influenced the mood of the album.[40] He wrote "Dark Sweet Lady" there as a Spanish-style love song for Arias.[41][nb 1] "Your Love Is Forever" started as a guitar instrumental to which Harrison added lyrics[43] that, furthering a common trait in his songwriting, expressed love to both a woman and his deity.[44]
In addition to revisiting "
Recording
I think what happened between this album and the last album is that everything has been happening nice for me. My life is getting better all the time, and I'm happy, and I think that it's reflected in the music.[53]
– George Harrison, 1979
Harrison decided to work with Titelman as his co-producer on George Harrison. The project marked the first time that Harrison had shared the producer's role on one of his albums since working with
Among the first songs recorded at FPSHOT, on 11 April, was "
In Leng's description, the album departs further from Harrison's recent works through its preference for both warm acoustic-based guitar arrangements and using electric guitars as "smooth, ringing purveyors of elegance".
The new album was originally titled Faster after Harrison's F1 tribute song.[24] The album was scheduled for release in December but an issue with the artwork delayed the process.[61] On 7 December, Harrison joined Clapton and Elton John on stage at Guildford Civic Hall to play the encore at the final show of Clapton's UK tour.[78] That same month, he performed with Bad Company's Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell, and Deep Purple members Jon Lord and Ian Paice – as the Pisshole Artists – in the Oxfordshire village of Pishill, near Henley.[79][nb 7]
Artwork and music videos
The album design was by Mike Salisbury, who also took the front and back cover photos of Harrison[82] in the gardens at Friar Park.[83] The setting emphasised Harrison's connection with nature, as conveyed in "Blow Away" and further to his self-identification as a "gardener" more than a musician.[83] The LP's inner sleeve highlighted his affinity with Formula 1.[17][84] One side contained the lyrics of "Faster", along with the album credits,[82] beside a photo of Harrison and Stewart taken in July 1978 at the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch.[17] In addition to acknowledging Stewart and Lauda's inspiration,[85] a caption under the song's lyrics gave "special thanks" to Scheckter and dedicated "Faster" to the memory of Ronnie Peterson,[82] who had died as a result of an accident at the start of the 1978 Italian Grand Prix.[86][nb 8]
Harrison filmed a music video for the album's lead single, "Blow Away". It shows him miming to the song while interacting with giant replica animals such as a red duck and a swan. He also rides atop a large replica dog, who nods its head along with the music.[89]
In May 1979, three months after the release of the album, Harrison filmed a video for "Faster". Having attended the Monaco Grand Prix with Starr at this time, Harrison filmed part of the clip on the Monaco street circuit.[90] These portions show Stewart chauffeuring a road car around the racetrack as Harrison sings and plays guitar in the back seat.[91][92]
Release
The album was previewed by the single "Blow Away", which was released on 14 February 1979 in the United States and two days later in the United Kingdom.[93] George Harrison was issued on Dark Horse Records on 14 February in the US, with the UK release following on 23 February.[94] Shortly before its release, he, Arias and Wright attended the Brazilian Grand Prix in São Paulo.[95] As the first Beatle to have visited Brazil, Harrison was the subject of considerable media attention. He corrected a journalist's assumption that the whole LP was about motor racing, saying that only "Faster" was, although he added that the lyrics were suitably "abstract" and "could be about anyone ... not just about cars and engines".[96]
Promotion
Harrison did minimal promotion for the album.
Following an accident at Friar Park when a tractor drove over his foot, Harrison required a walking stick during his brief promotional visit to the US. He made fun of his predicament by using a wheelchair when departing from Heathrow.[102] On 8 March,[103] at the Dark Horse Records offices in Los Angeles, Harrison gave his first US press conference since the start of his 1974 tour.[104] In journalist Rip Rense's later description, he was "promptly surrounded – and almost suffocated" by the reporters[105] as microphones were thrust in his face.[104][nb 9] Harrison's lightheartedness extended to the usual questions about when the Beatles might re-form;[31] the Associated Press photo from the event showed him holding his hands up to his ears in response.[103] Dismissing the recent multi-million-dollar offers for a reunion concert, he said, "The Beatles can't save the world. I mean, we'll be lucky if we can save ourselves."[105][106] When a reporter asked whether "something less than a full reunion" was likely, Harrison suggested they could meet for a cup of tea and televise the proceedings via satellite.[107] He added that he and his former bandmates would have a "great time" together, and "the only thing that would spoil it would be all of you with the cameras and microphones!"[108]
Commercial performance and aftermath
In the US, "Blow Away" peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart,[109] while George Harrison reached number 14 on the magazine's Top LPs & Tape chart[110][111] and number 12 on Cash Box's Top 100 Albums.[112] The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.[113] Harrison's unwillingness to actively promote the record hindered its commercial performance in the UK.[113] There, "Blow Away" peaked at number 51 and George Harrison reached number 39. As a further impediment, according to author Elliot Huntley, the UK's fascination with new wave music meant that "interest in Beatle product was probably at an all time low".[114] "Blow Away" was especially successful in Canada, where it peaked at number 7 on the singles chart.[62]
Following the album's release, Harrison's efforts were increasingly directed towards the film industry,[115][116][117] after he had formed HandMade Films in order to help Idle and the other members of Monty Python complete Life of Brian.[118][119] In April, "Love Comes to Everyone" was issued as the album's second single. It failed to chart in the UK[120] and, despite having been a popular choice on radio as an album track, in the US.[121] The following month, Harrison, Starr and Paul McCartney performed together on stage at Clapton and Boyd's wedding reception in Surrey. In Huntley's description, it was a historic moment and "the closest the former Beatles had come to a live performance since the break-up".[122]
Harrison participated in two fundraising weekends to benefit the cancer research project set up by former F1 driver
In 2004, George Harrison was remastered and reissued both separately and as part of the deluxe box set The Dark Horse Years 1976–1992.[130] The reissue added a demo version of "Here Comes the Moon" as a bonus track.[131] Following the digital release of much of his catalogue in 2007, Harrison's demo of "Blow Away" became available as an iTunes-exclusive download.[132]
Critical reception
Contemporary reviews
George Harrison received favourable reviews from music critics.[133][134] During his interview with Harrison, Mick Brown said the critical reception had been "exceptionally good" in the UK and suggested that the new album was the artist's best since All Things Must Pass,[135][136] a contention that several critics supported.[24][137][nb 11] Billboard featured George Harrison as its "Spotlight" album (meaning "the most outstanding new product of the week's releases") and highlighted "Love Comes to Everyone", "Here Comes the Moon" and "Not Guilty" among the "best cuts".[138]
Bob Spitz of The Washington Post praised the album for its "sense of structure", a quality he found lacking in Harrison's four "dreadful" LPs since All Things Must Pass, and said that it re-established him as a "first-rate composer".[143] Less impressed, People's reviewer found the music "arch-Harrison: lyrically cheery and thematically uplifting" but "so restrained and subdued that the tunes track through a whole side unnoticed and indistinguishable".[144] Robert Christgau was more critical in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), giving it a "C" grade and singling out "Faster" as the record's only good song.[145]
According to authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter, further to the welcome "lightening up" evident on Thirty Three & ⅓ in 1976, Harrison's self-titled album completed his "musical rehabilitation".[24] Writing in 1981, NME critic Bob Woffinden opined: "George Harrison is his most successful album since All Things Must Pass, and would probably have sold in its millions had it arrived at the beginning rather than the end of the decade." Woffinden praised Harrison's songwriting and the "co-production arrangement" with Titelman, before describing the record as "one of the best Beatle solo efforts".[54] In their review in the 1981 edition of The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler welcomed Harrison's continued avoidance of the "half-baked proselytisation" that they thought had marred his solo work until 1976, saying that it showed he had shed his past insecurities. The authors added: "To detect this pleasing phenomenon here, the trick is to back away from the musical and lyrical detail (not that this is by any means incompetent or jarring) and allow the totality of the sound ... to wash over one in a series of charmed ripples."[146][nb 13]
Retrospective assessments and legacy
George Harrison actually signaled the start of the musician's retreat into an internal musical dialogue, set amid the woods and gardens of Friar Park. It was the return to nature predicted by "All Things Must Pass" and "Let It Roll" ... The album was also his growing-up set ... from a period in which he'd rediscovered life away from the business for the first time in nearly twenty years.[148]
– Author Simon Leng, 2006
Following Harrison's death in November 2001, Carol Clerk of Uncut referred to his 1979 LP as the "acclaimed George Harrison album",[5] while Greg Kot's assessment for Rolling Stone read in part: "'Here Comes the Moon' is a dreamy little wonder, the kind of incantation that underscores the [album's] romantic subtlety … Harrison is breezingly ingratiating on 'Blow Away' and 'Faster.'"[149] Writing for Goldmine magazine in 2002, Dave Thompson deemed it Harrison's "most natural-sounding album" since All Things Must Pass and an "exquisite" work that reflected changes in the artist's life as profound as those in John Lennon's during the latter's five-year hiatus from recording between 1975 and 1980.[49]
Among reviews of the 2004 reissue, Kit Aiken of Uncut gave George Harrison a rating of four stars out of five, and described it as "a freshly enthused, minor treat – a fulsome acoustic rocker replete with sunshine melodies and gorgeous slide guitar".[150] PopMatters' Jason Korenkiewicz similarly welcomed the reissue, saying that the album's "languid and addictive" mood conveyed Harrison's humour and a "new found sense of calm and peace that speaks through his ever-emotive guitar".[151] Writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide that same year, Mac Randall highlighted "Not Guilty" and the "understated gem" "Your Love Is Forever" as the album's best songs, but considered that "elsewhere mellowness overwhelms musicality".[152] An unimpressed Richard Ginell of AllMusic gives the album two-and-a-half stars, describing it as "a painstakingly polished L.A.-made product" and "an ordinary album from an extraordinary talent". Ginell writes of the preponderance of "halfhearted songs lurking here, although some are salvaged by a nice instrumental touch", and while he considers "Blow Away" the album's "most attractive" song, he finds Harrison's new reading of "Not Guilty" "an easy listening trifle".[153]
Reviewing Harrison's solo releases for
On the occasion of the LP's 40th anniversary in 2019, Morgan Enos of Billboard described it as Harrison's "most peaceful album", with songs that showed him "happier than he'd been in years", and where "inner tranquility and outer splendor were one and the same". Enos added that "The results don't get as much play as agreed-upon classics, such as All Things Must Pass or Cloud Nine, but George Harrison conjures an intoxicating world all its own."[156]
Track listing
All songs written by George Harrison, except where noted.
Side one
- "Love Comes to Everyone" – 4:36
- "Not Guilty" – 3:35
- "Here Comes the Moon" – 4:48
- "Soft-Hearted Hana" – 4:03
- "Blow Away" – 4:00
Side two
- "Faster" – 4:46
- "Dark Sweet Lady" – 3:22
- "Your Love Is Forever" – 3:45
- "Soft Touch" – 3:59
- "If You Believe" (Harrison, Gary Wright) – 2:55
Bonus tracks
The 2004
- "Here Comes the Moon" (demo version) – 3:37
One more bonus track appeared when Harrison's catalogue became available on iTunes:
- "Blow Away" (demo version) – 3:04
Personnel
According to the album credits (except where noted):[157]
- George Harrison – lead and backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, dobro, mandolin,[158] sitar,[159] bass on "Faster"
- Neil Larsen – Fender Rhodes, piano,[158] Minimoog
- harmonium, backing vocals
- Willie Weeks – bass
- Andy Newmark – drums
- Ray Cooper – percussion
- Emil Richards – marimba
- Gayle Levant – harp
- Eric Clapton – guitar intro on "Love Comes to Everyone"
- Oberheimon "If You Believe"
- Del Newman – string and horn arrangements
Charts
Weekly charts
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Weekly charts (reissue)
Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification |
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United States (RIAA)[168] | Gold |
Notes
- ^ Harrison said "Dark Sweet Lady" best summed up the positive effect Arias had had after the waywardness that characterised his personal life around the time of Dark Horse and his separation with Boyd.[42]
- glove puppet character from British television.[49]
- ^ On Thirty Three & 1/3, he received production "assistance" from Tom Scott,[55] but Scott had been unable to commit to a full co-producer's role.[56]
- ^ Wright thereby became the only musician to have appeared on all of Harrison's post-Beatles solo albums.[1]
- ^ Harrison later joked that "It's the first time I've done a birth, a marriage and a death during making a record."[5]
- ^ Leng recognises "the culmination of the Pythonization of Harrison's music" as the 1981 track "Save the World",[75] a song that Harrison wrote in Hana in February 1978.[76]
- ^ These performances followed a year after Harrison played an impromptu set at The Row Barge. The latter was Harrison's first live performance in three years[80] and his first in the UK since 1969, when he played with John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band.[81]
- ^ As with the songs' lyrical content, the overt Hindu imagery familiar from most of Harrison's 1970s albums was minimal in the LP design.[87] The words "Hare Krishna" were printed under the inner-sleeve photo of the Brands Hatch infield.[88]
- ^ Rense recalled Harrison being more interested in why the reporters were not enjoying the free scones and expressed a wish that someone would help him quit smoking.[105]
- ^ At the end of July, Harrison and Stewart appeared on the cover of Motor magazine.[127] In the accompanying article about the Donington Park event, Harrison rued that he had become "too well known at motor races now"[128] and that it was "getting like work again", since he was regularly besieged by autograph hunters.[129]
- ^ Harrison replied: "Well, I hope it does as well as All Things Must Pass. I think this album is very pleasant."[135]
- ^ While also approving of Harrison's lightheartedness on the album, Thribb concluded that he had "brought both sunshine and moonshine into our lives".[141]
- ^ By the early 1980s, according to Alan Clayson, "[George Harrison] was coming to be regarded as the Serious Beatle's most compelling solo collection."[147]
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- ISBN 978-0-7535-0822-0).
- ISBN 0-330-33891-9.
- Elliot J. Huntley, Mystical One: George Harrison – After the Break-up of the Beatles, Guernica Editions (Toronto, ON, 2006; ISBN 1-55071-197-0).
- Ian Inglis, The Words and Music of George Harrison, Praeger (Santa Barbara, CA, 2010; ISBN 978-0-313-37532-3).
- ISBN 978-1-64160-051-4).
- Simon Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison, Hal Leonard (Milwaukee, WI, 2006; ISBN 1-4234-0609-5).
- Thomas MacFarlane, The Music of George Harrison, Routledge (Abingdon, UK, 2019; ISBN 978-1-138-59910-9).
- Chip Madinger & Mark Easter, Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium, 44.1 Productions (Chesterfield, MO, 2000; ISBN 0-615-11724-4).
- Jörg Pieper, The Solo Beatles Film & TV Chronicle 1971–1980, Premium Förlag (Stockholm, 2012; ISBN 978-1-4092-8301-0).
- Robert Rodriguez, Fab Four FAQ 2.0: The Beatles' Solo Years, 1970–1980, Backbeat Books (Milwaukee, WI, 2010; ISBN 978-1-4165-9093-4).
- ISBN 978-1-937994-26-6).
- ISBN 978-0-8356-0900-5).
- ISBN 0-906071-89-5).
- ISBN 978-0-313-39171-2).
Further reading
- Salon, 29 March 2019 (retrieved 17 May 2021).
External links
- George Harrison page at georgeharrison.com
- George Harrison at Discogs (list of releases)