Post by B on Mar 14, 2019 13:01:52 GMT -5
George Harrison - The Making Of "Brainwashed"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE33f6NkTdM
"DrSalvadoctopus
Published on Aug 22, 2014
"Brainwashed" is the twelfth and final studio album by George Harrison, released on November 18, 2002, almost a year after his death at age 58. As Harrison's first posthumous release,
"Brainwashed" garnered much attention upon its unveiling.
Harrison began recording the tracks that eventually saw issue on "Brainwashed" as early as 1988 (with "Any Road" being written during the making of a video for "This Is Love" from the
"Cloud Nine" album) and continued to do so in a sporadic manner over the next decade and a half. Progress was delayed due to business problems with Harrison's former manager, Denis O'Brien,
as well as his work with the Travelling Wilburys, Ravi Shankar, and his work on the Beatles' Anthology. In an interview in 1999, Harrison announced the title of his next album to be
"Portrait Of A Leg End", and played songs entitled "Valentine", "Pisces Fish" and "Brainwashed". During the promotion for the 2001 re-release of "All Things Must Pass", Harrison joked
that the name of the album would be "Your Planet Is Doomed – Volume One". After recuperating from being attacked in his home by Michael Abram on 30 December 1999, Harrison focused on
finishing the album, simultaneously sharing his ideas for all its details (from the sound of the finished songs to the album's artwork) with his son Dhani – information that ultimately
proved very valuable.
Harrison successfully battled throat cancer in 1997; in 2001 he underwent surgery to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs, and radiotherapy for lung cancer which had
metastasised to his brain. Once he realised it was an irreversible situation, he worked further on the album's songs – in conjunction with Dhani and his old collaborator Jeff Lynne –
until he was unable to do more. Harrison's final work on the album was carried out at a recording studio in Switzerland shortly before his trip to the United States for cancer treatment.
On 29 November 2001, Harrison died, leaving "Brainwashed" not quite finished, but with a guide to completing it in the hands of his son and Lynne.
After a few months away from the project, both the younger Harrison and Lynne returned to working on George's final songs and added the appropriate instruments, as per their
composer's specifications, to the recordings. So close to completion was the project that the two used the exact timetable and session bookings that George had booked.
After 14 years of indefinite delays and some difficult but rewarding sessions, the work was done and George Harrison's final album was completed.
"Brainwashed" was released on 18 November 2002 to mostly favourable reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics,
the album scores 77, based on 16 reviews, which means "generally favorable". The album sold respectably, reaching number 18 in the US and going gold, and number 29 in the UK,
where "Any Road" became a top 40 hit single in spring 2003. A live tribute to Harrison by an assembly of his musical contemporaries, entitled "Concert For George", took place
at the Royal Albert Hall simultaneously with the release of the album.
In 2004, Brainwashed's "Marwa Blues" won the Best Pop Instrumental Performance Grammy; Also that year, Harrison's former bandmate Paul McCartney named the song as one of his
all-time favourites. The album itself had also been nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album, as well as Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (for the track "Any Road")."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE33f6NkTdM
"DrSalvadoctopus
Published on Aug 22, 2014
"Brainwashed" is the twelfth and final studio album by George Harrison, released on November 18, 2002, almost a year after his death at age 58. As Harrison's first posthumous release,
"Brainwashed" garnered much attention upon its unveiling.
Harrison began recording the tracks that eventually saw issue on "Brainwashed" as early as 1988 (with "Any Road" being written during the making of a video for "This Is Love" from the
"Cloud Nine" album) and continued to do so in a sporadic manner over the next decade and a half. Progress was delayed due to business problems with Harrison's former manager, Denis O'Brien,
as well as his work with the Travelling Wilburys, Ravi Shankar, and his work on the Beatles' Anthology. In an interview in 1999, Harrison announced the title of his next album to be
"Portrait Of A Leg End", and played songs entitled "Valentine", "Pisces Fish" and "Brainwashed". During the promotion for the 2001 re-release of "All Things Must Pass", Harrison joked
that the name of the album would be "Your Planet Is Doomed – Volume One". After recuperating from being attacked in his home by Michael Abram on 30 December 1999, Harrison focused on
finishing the album, simultaneously sharing his ideas for all its details (from the sound of the finished songs to the album's artwork) with his son Dhani – information that ultimately
proved very valuable.
Harrison successfully battled throat cancer in 1997; in 2001 he underwent surgery to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs, and radiotherapy for lung cancer which had
metastasised to his brain. Once he realised it was an irreversible situation, he worked further on the album's songs – in conjunction with Dhani and his old collaborator Jeff Lynne –
until he was unable to do more. Harrison's final work on the album was carried out at a recording studio in Switzerland shortly before his trip to the United States for cancer treatment.
On 29 November 2001, Harrison died, leaving "Brainwashed" not quite finished, but with a guide to completing it in the hands of his son and Lynne.
After a few months away from the project, both the younger Harrison and Lynne returned to working on George's final songs and added the appropriate instruments, as per their
composer's specifications, to the recordings. So close to completion was the project that the two used the exact timetable and session bookings that George had booked.
After 14 years of indefinite delays and some difficult but rewarding sessions, the work was done and George Harrison's final album was completed.
"Brainwashed" was released on 18 November 2002 to mostly favourable reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics,
the album scores 77, based on 16 reviews, which means "generally favorable". The album sold respectably, reaching number 18 in the US and going gold, and number 29 in the UK,
where "Any Road" became a top 40 hit single in spring 2003. A live tribute to Harrison by an assembly of his musical contemporaries, entitled "Concert For George", took place
at the Royal Albert Hall simultaneously with the release of the album.
In 2004, Brainwashed's "Marwa Blues" won the Best Pop Instrumental Performance Grammy; Also that year, Harrison's former bandmate Paul McCartney named the song as one of his
all-time favourites. The album itself had also been nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album, as well as Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (for the track "Any Road")."
