From Cosmic Magazine.
Talking with Rolling Stone, George Harrison‘s wife Olivia and son, Dhani have revealed they are working on a 50th anniversary edition of All Things Must Pass.
The conversation arrives as part of a new feature by Rolling Stone on George Harrison‘s Dark Horse Record Label.
Both provide several interesting insights about he labels past and Harrison’s solo career in the 1970s.
But perhaps most exciting of all is the revelation of the wealth of material they have uncovered sifting through the record label’s archives.
“We have people digging through mountains of tapes, and they keep coming,” Dhani enthuses. “Boxes and boxes of them.”
With George Harrison‘s solo debut All Things Must Pass turning 50 this November, Olivia has also confirmed that the Harrison family is working on something special for the release.
“A lot of it has been bootlegged,” Olivia says referring specifically to material from All Things Must Pass era, “but we have better versions. We have all the 24-tracks of All Things Must Pass, and we found lots of different takes and talking in the studio.”
A number of Bob Dylan covers as well as ‘Window, Window’, a song written by Harrison and Dylan, were also recorded around this time but never formally released.
Rolling Stone also reported that expanded versions of George Harrison‘s Concert for Bangladesh, 1973 album Living in the Material World and the former Beatle’s controversial 1974 US tour were also being considered.
“His voice is pretty tired, but in my opinion, it sounds great,” Dhani shares of the 1974 tour.
“It’s raspy, and it has grit to it,” Olivia concurs. “You can hear the fragility in all the songs. It’s a different take on a lot of his music.”
Harrison’s wife then suggests that the amount of video footage capture backstage during the tour “could make a great tour movie.”
“The backstage footage is amazing and hysterical,” she states. “Things went on backstage that don’t happen now. Now everything is so cut and dried, the opposite of spontaneous.”
The full feature here.
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- George Harrison - Dark Horse - Complete - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.05, €18.00 (Back In Stock) (arrived 21-Nov-2024 09:03)on November 21, 2024 at 3:00 pm
GEORGE HARRISON Dark Horse (1974 UK 9-track vinyl LP on Apple with picture labels, housed in a matte gatefold picture sleeve complete with the illustrated credits inner & picture/ lyric insert. The sleeve is Very Good with some edge scuffing &lightdiscolouration throughout & the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with very little play PAS10008)
- George Harrison - Cloud Nine - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.05, €18.00 (New Item) (arrived 05-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 21, 2024 at 3:00 pm
GEORGE HARRISON Cloud Nine (1987 UK/German-pressed 11-track vinyl LP, featuring guest appearances from Jeff Lynne, Eric Clapton, Elton John & Ringo Starr, glossy picture sleeve with illustrated inner. The sleeve shows some edgewear and minor scuffing. The vinyl is in Excellent condition with only light signs of play and handling. WX123)
- George Harrison - Living In The Material World + insert - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.75, €30.00 (New Item) (arrived 14-Oct-2024 13:17)on November 21, 2024 at 3:00 pm
GEORGE HARRISON Living In The Material World (Original 1973 UK Apple label 11-track LP, housed in a fully laminated gatefold picture sleeve complete with die-cut brown inner & fold-out lyric insert. The sleeve shows mild shelf wear & the vinylis excellent displaying minimal signs of play PAS10006)
- George Harrison - Living In The Material World - Deluxe Edition - UK - box set - £39.99, $50.79, €47.99 (New Item) (arrived 15-Oct-2024 14:49)on November 21, 2024 at 3:00 pm
GEORGE HARRISON Living In The Material World (2011 UK Limited Deluxe Edition box set for the double-feature-length film featuring a wealth of previously unreleased material. Contains two Region 2 PAL DVDs, a Blu-ray disc and a 10-track CD of never-before-heard tracks [available exclusively in this edition]. Also includes a 96-page book to accompany the film, all beautifully packaged within a collectable 10" x 11" picture-frame box with printed plastic outer slipcase. This collector's set remains in unplayed 'as new' condition)
- George Harrison - Living In The Material World - Deluxe Edition - EX - UK - box set - £29.99, $38.09, €35.99 (New Item) (arrived 22-Oct-2024 16:07)on November 21, 2024 at 3:00 pm
GEORGE HARRISON Living In The Material World (2011 UK Limited Deluxe Edition box set for the double-feature-length film featuring a wealth of previously unreleased material. Contains two Region 2 PAL DVDs, a Blu-ray disc and a 10-track CD of never-before-heard tracks [available exclusively in this edition]. Also includes a 96-page book to accompany the film, all beautifully packaged within a collectable 10" x 11" picture-frame box with printed plastic outer slipcase. The case showsa few dinks to corners with tiny traces of foxing, whilst all contents show only the lightest signs of wear)
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