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 - Living In The Material World + insert - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.95, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 02-Dec-2021 09:18)on December 3, 2021 at 5:13 am
GEORGE HARRISON Living In The Material World (Original 1973 UK Apple label 11-track LP, housed in a fully laminated gatefold sleeve complete with die-cut brown inner & fold-out lyric insert. The sleeve has some light ringwear, the inner showing a small seam split and a name annotation, whilst the vinyl shows only light signs of play leaving it EX-/EX PAS10006)
- George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You - Injection + Sleeve - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.64, €9.36 (New Item) (arrived 29-Oct-2021 15:45)on December 3, 2021 at 5:13 am
GEORGE HARRISON Got My Mind Set On You (1987 UK injection moulded 7" vinyl single, also including Lay His Head. The picture sleeve has some faint ringwear while the vinyl remains in excellent condition W8178)
- George Harrison - Cloud Nine - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $26.60, €23.40 (New Item) (arrived 17-Sep-2021 09:03)on December 3, 2021 at 5:13 am
GEORGE HARRISON Cloud Nine (1987 UK German-pressed 11-track vinyl LP featuring guest appearances from Jeff Lynne, Eric Clapton, Elton John and Ringo Starr and including the classic Got My Mind Set On You. The picture sleeve comes with its illustrated credits inner and the vinyl remains near 'as new' with few signs of play WX123)
- George Harrison - Living In The Material World + insert - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $66.50, €58.50 (New Item) (arrived 23-Sep-2021 10:44)on December 3, 2021 at 5:13 am
GEORGE HARRISON Living In The Material World (1973 UK picture label 11-track LP, with 'Hare Krsna' & 'Hare Rama' etchings in the run-outs, complete with fold-out lyric insert & brown die-cut inner, fully laminated gatefold picture sleeve. Thesleeve shows only the lightest storage wear and the vinyl remains in near as new condition PAS10006)
- George Harrison - Dark Horse - Complete - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $33.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 23-Sep-2021 12:26)on December 3, 2021 at 5:13 am
GEORGE HARRISON Dark Horse (1974 UK 9-track vinyl LP, gatefold picture sleeve complete with illustrated credits inner & picture/ lyric insert. The sleeve displays some light general wear with a small split to the inner, whilst the vinyl remains Excellent with only light signs of play PAS10008)
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