George Harrison’s Triumphant Return To Pop

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There were five times between the discharge of George Harrison‘s 1982 song, Gone Troppo, and Cloud Nine, his song that was released on November 2, 1987. Cloud Nine was co-produced with ELO’s Jeff Lynne– who likewise co-wrote three of the songs – and is a significant return to form, including as it does,” Got My Mind Fixed On You” that became George’s next No. 1 second in the US, it reached No. 2 in the UK.

Talk to George Harrison’s Cloud Nine on Apple Music and Spotify.

I’m sure many of you are aware that George wrote the song” Got My Mind Set On You,” which George fully separates himself from James Ray, despite the fact that it was first released by him. In 1962, his first recording of the Rudy Clark structure was released on the Dynamic Sound tag. The tune became George’s second No. 1 for 15 times, but stalled at No. 2 in the UK, saving 4 week kept from No. 1 by T’Pau’s” China In Your Hand”.

Recruiting some prominent companions

The final trail on George’s eleventh solo album, Cloud Nine, was his rendition of” Got My Mind Set On You.” The song came out a week after the second. George had begun recording the song in January 1987 and, along with Jeff Lynne, it features many of the original Beatle’s companions, most of whom had played on some of George’s earlier albums.

There’s Eric Clapton on the title track, as well as” That’s What It Takes”,” Devil’s Radio” and” Wreck of the Hesperus”. Elton John plays music on the latter two monitors, as well as” Cloud Nine”. Gary Wright, who had been in Spooky Tooth, and had a really successful solo career in America, plays music on” Really For Now” and” When We Was Fab”, as well as co-writing,” That’s What It Takes” with George and Jeff Lynne. Drums include Ringo Starr and another of Harrison’s long-time companions, Jim Keltner, along with Ray Cooper helping out on drums.

The other major hit one from the album,” When We Was Fab,” was a song title that, when used with a Liverpudlian accent, can only ever mean The Beatles, no matter what voice it is.

When he was fantastic

It’s the epitome of those heinous weeks of Beatlemania, when those lovable Mop-Tops, the Fab Four, ruled the world and we all believed they would endure forever. Before the two of them formed The Traveling Wilburys with Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, and Roy Orbison, George and Jeff Lynne co-wrote the music.

According to George,” …until I finalized the song on it, it was always called’ Aussie Fab’. That was its working name. I was n’t sure what the song was going to say or what the lyrics would be, but I knew it was a fantastic song. It was based on the Fabs, and as it was done up in Australia that, away in Queensland, then that’s what we called it. As we developed the lyrics, it became’ When We Was Fab ‘. Due to all the little overdubs, all the cellos, the odd sounds, and the support voices, it’s a challenging one to survive.

Nobody really care that Cloud Nine is a collection of only two strikes and a ton of binder; the overall quality of the songs is excellent. Standouts include,” Someplace Else”, which could easily have come from All Things Must Pass, the same of which could be said of” Just For Today” a beautiful song that is made even more so by an exquisite, trademark, Harrison slide guitar solo.

Jeff Lynne’s aces producing

Jeff Lynne deserves praise for his generation prowess. Lynne had been, but certainly, inspired by the Beatles during his day with Electric Light Orchestra– only as Get That were inspired by ELO on their” return” album, Beautiful World. How decades of players pass on to the next, items that will continue to make us feel better about the world in which we live, is a part of what makes songs so powerful.

Cloud Nine made the top 10 in America, Britain, Australia, Canada, Norway, and Sweden. The support of the song features the second American-made harp that George owned, a 1957 Gretsch 6128″ Duo Jet” that he bought in Liverpool in 1961, Harrison called it his “old dark Gretsch”. He had given it to his long-time friend, Klaus Voormann who kept it for 20 years, having left it in Los Angeles where it had been modified, Harrison asked for its return, had it restored, and used it for the cover shoot for both the album and single ( photographed by Gered Mankowitz ).

There are some extra lines on the printed song, including” Zig Zag,” the B-side of” When We Was Fab,” which George and Jeff Lynne wrote for the movie Shanghai Surprise. The film’s name monitor, which features Vicki Brown on singers and George, is also included. Vicki, formerly, Haseman was actually one of The Vernons Girls, a England team that had been friends of the Beatles, she eventually married English song and guitar, Joe Brown– another lovely ( and local ) friend of George’s. Vicki painfully passed away in 1990 from breast cancer.

If you have n’t seen Cloud Nine in a while, you’ll feel like you’ve reconnected with an old friend, which could also be the case if you have n’t really listened to it at all. No one but George could have produced an song like this. Attentive, music, humorous, and fantastic.

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