TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: George Harrison

TITLE: Brainwashed (Retail)

RIPPER: Team RNS

0hr 47min total- 68.8mb

RELEASE DATE: 2002-11-19
RIP DATE: 2002-11-12

02 P2 Vatican Blues (Last         2:38

04 Looking For My Love            3:49

07 Stuck Inside A Cloud           4:04
08 Run So Far                     4:05
09 Never Get Over You             3:25
10 Between The Devil And The Deep 2:34

11 Rocking Chair In Hawaii        3:07

Guitarist George Harrison was born on
February 25, 1943 to a close-knit
working-class family in Liverpool,
England. As a teenager Harrison took up
guitar, and in 1958 joined an
established local skiffle band called
the Quarrymen, which included his older
schoolmate Paul McCartney. By 1961, the
Quarrymen had become the Beatles, with
Harrison on lead guitar. Though
McCartney and John Lennon initially
wrote nearly all of the Beatles'
material, by 1966 Harrison was
contributing a song or two per album,
including hits like "Taxman," "While My
Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes
the Sun." Harrison also became
fascinated with sitar music (inspired by
his interest in Hinduism), and later
received instruction from acclaimed
sitar composer Ravi Shankar, whose
music he helped to popularize in the
West. Harrison contributed some
sitar-based songs to the 1968 film
soundtrack Wonderwall Music, the first
solo outing by a Beatles member.

By the time the Beatles recorded The
Beatles (aka The White Album) in 1968,
Harrison was often at odds with
McCartney and Lennon over whose songs
would be developed and recorded by the
band. The guitarist's personal life was
also troubled: he and close friend Eric
Clapton both loved the same woman,
Patti Boyd, who was married to
Harrison yet spent much of her time
with Clapton. Boyd later switched
husbands, but the three remained eerily
close. Following the release of Abbey
Road in the fall of 1969, Harrison
traveled to Europe to perform with
Delaney and Bonnie and Friends,a group
which included his old friend,
keyboardist Billy Preston. Within
months the Beatles were no more.

Harrison's first post-Beatles album was
All Things Must Pass, released in
late1970. Recorded with Phil Spector and
featuring appearances by old friends
Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Ringo
Starr, the triple album became a No. 1
hit, spawning the No. 1 single "My Sweet
Lord." Unfortunately for Harrison, "My
Sweet Lord" bore a strong resemblance
to the Chiffons 1962 hit "He's So
Fine," and the Chiffons' publishing
company filed suit seeking damages for
the alleged plagiarism. After protracted
negotiations failed, a court finally
heard the case in 1976, and quickly
ruled that Harrison had "subconsciously"
borrowed from "He's So Fine" and owed
$1.6 million in damages. Due to
complicated business and legal issues
involving Apple Music (the Beatles'
label, which also released Harrison's
early solo albums), the Chiffons'
publisher, and former Beatles manager
Allen Klein, the case was not settled

Harrison took a break from recording in
1971, producing an album for Badfinger
(the first band signed to Apple
Records), contributing to John Lennon's
Imagine, and performing at a landmark
1971 benefit for the troubled Asian
nation of Bangladesh (later commemorated
in a triple live album). Harrison
returned to solo work with his 1973
album Living in the Material World,
featuring the No. 1 hit "Give Me Love
(Give Me Peace on Earth)." The hastily
recorded 1974 album Dark Horse was
followed by Harrison's first North
American solo tour, yet his following
was already beginning to diminish. 1975's
Extra Texture was a flop, and ended his
career with EMI, the Beatles' old
label. Harrison rebounded by forming
Dark Horse Records, his own imprint, which
was affiliated with A&M Records. He
released 33 & 1/3, his most praised
album since All Things Must Pass.
Unfortunately this comeback was
short-lived: his 1979 eponymous album
was another artistic disaster. Harrison's
next album, Somewhere In England, was
rejected by Warner Bros. (Dark Horse's
new distributor), but following John
Lennon's 1980 assassination, the album was
reworked to capitalize on a resurgence
of Beatles nostalgia. The new Somewhere
in England contained the hit song "All
Those Years Ago," featuring Paul
McCartney and Ringo Starr, and quickly
rose in the charts.

Though Harrison's solo albums were
often of disputed artistic quality,
throughout the 1970s they sold acceptably.
This came to an end in 1982 with Gone
Troppo, a complete commercial failure.
Harrison wisely decided to take time
off from his musical career to
concentrate on producing movies and
racing his large collection of sports
cars. He founded HandMade Films in 1978,
and used the company to produce such
classics as Monty Python's Life of Brian
and the 1980 adventure Time Bandits.Though
he contributed a few songs to the 1985
Porky's Revenge soundtrack, Harrison's
serious return to music was 1987's
Cloud Nine, the biggest selling album
of his solo career. Produced by former
ELO frontman Jeff Lynne, Cloud Nine was
Harrison's most slick, pop-oriented
album yet; its cover of the Rudy Clark
song "I Got My Mind Set On You" became a
No. 1 radio hit. The following year, along
with Lynne, Harrison formed the
Traveling Wilburys with rock star pals
Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison.
The supergroup released two
platinum-selling albums, 1988's
Traveling Wilburys and 1990's Traveling
Wilburys, Vol. 3 [sic] before going on

Harrison returned to solo touring in 1991,
accompanied by his old friend Eric
Clapton; the world tour was
commemorated in the 1992 album Live in
Japan. Returning to England, Harrison
quickly signed on to a planned BBC
Beatles documentary, which eventually led
to two "new" Beatles songs ("Free as a
Bird" and "Real Love") created by
matching new music performed by
Harrison, McCartney and Starr to late '70s
Lennon home demos.

Harrison remained strangely silent
following the massive commercial
success of the 1995-6 Beatles Anthology
series. Three years later, he was again
in the news under unfortunate
circumstances when a man broke into his
mansion outside of London and attacked
him and his wife. Harrison was stabbed
several times, though he made a full
recovery. The intruder was later found
not guilty by reason of insanity.

In 2000, Harrison began work on a new
album, slated for release in 2001. The
same year, Capitol released a 30th
anniversary edition of the landmark All
Things Must Pass, which included a
re-recorded version of the hit "My Sweet

Harrison died at the age of 58 on Nov.
29, 2001, following a long battle with
cancer. He is survived by his wife,
Olivia Arias Harrison, and his son Dhani.

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