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Mark Mayhew
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject: George Harrison-My Sweet Lord |
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Richard Allinson played this song today 27/01-a truly fantastic song.
I have always wondered though, did George Harrison have this song in waiting so as to speak as it was released very shortly after the Beatles broke up or did he just write it as soon as he became a solo artist. |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3608 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Err, he nicked it didn't he? |
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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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I love it too but my favourite of his and in fact my favourite song EVER is 'Here comes the sun'
does anyone else have a desert island disk? |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Ian Robinson wrote: | Err, he nicked it didn't he? |
Yes, he should have called it 'he's so fine' |
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MIKERAPHONE
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 301 Location: Bury..home of the World famous Black Pudding!!
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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Yes My Sweet Lord is a classic.
It was originally written for Billy Preston who was on Apple at the time and appeared on his album.
Eric Clapton played guitar on this Phil Spector produced track.
Criket i've gone all Allinson!!!!!! _________________ The Voice of reason in a MAD MAD world |
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Shaky Fan
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 628
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Shakin' Stevens has covered another of George's big hit singles - Got My Mind Set On You - for his forthcoming album. It may even be released as a single later in the year! |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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I like 'When we was fab' because it's so different, great lyrics too. |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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Ian Robinson wrote:
Err, he nicked it didn't he?
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Yes, he should have called it 'he's so fine'
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Yes, he should as the resultant court case meant that he got no royalties for the song.
Ian. |
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AndyAndy2 RAJARed Member
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 548 Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Toggy tea slurper wrote: | I like 'When we was fab' because it's so different, great lyrics too. |
Liked the piano on that - you can really tell the production was done by Jeff Lynne.
I also liked Wreck of the Hesperus. _________________ Some say he once threw a microwave oven at a tramp and that all his potted plants are called 'Steve'.....all we know is, he's called 'The Stig!'. |
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Natasha Little Miss Lovely Smile
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 790
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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I quite like 'Unconsciousness Rules' from his 'Somewhere In England' album _________________ Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. |
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childprufe
Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 212 Location: lincolnshire
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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I like "All those years ago". One of the best tribute songs written. _________________ Standing on Ray Moore's shoulders |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3608 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Shaky Fan wrote: | Shakin' Stevens has covered another of George's big hit singles - Got My Mind Set On You - for his forthcoming album. It may even be released as a single later in the year! |
"Weird Al" Yankovic did a great parody of that called (This Song Is Just) 6 Words Long |
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The_Oracle
Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 12 Location: London
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:22 am Post subject: |
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Love this track, along with "I've Got My Mind set On You" from 1987. |
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Ella Sailyour
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:36 am Post subject: |
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"All Things Must Pass", Harrison's box-set album which he recorded at the tail-end of the Beatles falling-out, is a masterpiece imho. I still have a first edition copy, although I play the CD set now. The jam-session (featuring just about everybody who was anybody on the alternative circuit at the time) is great. I didn't much like it at the time - maybe I was too young to appreciate it - but it's great listening.
My fave track on the set is "Isn't It Pity", both versions. Not as cute as My Sweet Lord (which I always thought was a bit sickly though still listenable) but lovely words. One of my favourite songs ever.
Johnie Walker's favourite, I believe, is "Awaiting On You All". Brilliant performance and production (by Phil Spector).
Ella _________________ This week's $64,000 question: Why am I so gorgeous, possums? |
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pickle
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 252 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:47 am Post subject: George Harrison - My Sweet Lord |
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Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy and Randy George did a beautiful version of 'What Is Life' on the 'Cover To Cover' CD! They also do Badfinger's 'Day After Day', which George produced.
Morse's old band Spock's Beard covered 'Beware Of Darkness' on their second album.
I used to think George wrote 'If Not For You' when Olivia Newton-John covered it, because it had this Harrison-esque slide guitar. When my sister got All Things Must Pass, I noticed it was Bob Dylan's song. _________________ We made a land where crap is king and the good don't last for long.
'The Good Don't Last', Spock's Beard |
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Peter de Meteor
Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Bristol
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject: "What I feel, I can't say . . ." |
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I like "My Sweet Lord" too, but I think I prefer "What Is Life".
The Beatles were / are my favourite band, but my all-time favourite 'Desert Island Disc' is Kirsty MacColl's version of Billy Bragg's "A New England".
_________________ . . . From The Asteroid Belt, Peter de Meteor |
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Mark Mayhew
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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I tend to agree that if push comes to shove that "What is Life?" is the best song/record produced by George Harrrison from his entire solo output. |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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Richard played it (My Sweet Lord) again this morning, just after the long joke about the Norwegian lady.
It's a common assumption that George had several songs that he held back from The Beatles, although since two of his very best, Something and Here Comes The Sun, were among the last they recorded, for Abbey Road (much of Let It Be having been recorded earlier), it's debatable. He did, however, record a demo of All Things Must Pass in February 1969 which did get left until the break-up.
Agree about What Is Life, though. Been covered a few times as well - can't think of any cover of MSL (probably wouldn't get permission). _________________ Ron |
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mcl
Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 127 Location: Somewhere in the South
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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Jonathan King did a cover version of 'He's So Fine' which borrowed the arrangement of 'My Sweet Lord' to show just how similar the songs were - if you can ignore the illicit activities of the person who did it, it's quite amusing.
I remember the JY prog once played 'My Sweet Lord' in one hour, and 'He's So Fine' the next - I wonder whether the producer was feeling a bit mischievous that day?
Despite the plagiarism, I think George was a superb songwriter - it's just a shame he was rather in the shadow of Lemon and Meccano, as he was producing some brilliant stuff. _________________ "....you're wearing a plywood bow tie with Dundee United on it?" |
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