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Item 59: All Things Must Pass -- George Harrison (1943-2001)

Entered by bruin on Fri Nov 30 19:47:14 2001:

This item is for discussion and rememberance of Beatle George Harrison, 
who died yesterday after a valiant battle with cancer at age 58.
17 responses total.
#1 of 17 by jor on Fri Nov 30 22:57:11 2001:

        Each day just goes so fast
        I turn around, it's past
        You don't get time to hang a sign on me

        Love me while you can
        Before I'm a dead old man

        A lifetime is so short
        A new one can't be bought
        But what you've got means such a lot to me

Harrison: multi-tracked vocal, acoustic guitar, 
        electric guitar, sitar (?)
McCartney: harmony vocal (?)
Starr: tambourine
Anil Bhagwat: tabla
other unnamed Indian musicians: sitar, tambura

Rec.: 11th/13th April 1966

#2 of 17 by jor on Fri Nov 30 23:00:13 2001:

        NPR just had Sir Michael Palin say
        a few words about his friend Sir George.

        Nice.

#3 of 17 by tpryan on Sat Dec 1 03:43:01 2001:

re:  discussion in item:57 :
        I think Capital was on track to re-leasing George Harrison's
work.  The masterfull re-work of the 'All things Must Pass" was 
first in the set.  Concert for Bangladesh may already have a 
release date.  May be the idea was to get one done a year.  However
they would be wise to speed that up.

        That concert for Bangladesh was the first of the rock
superstar event to help a world event/cause.  Paul McCartney
was in Madison Square Garden some 30 years later, as a participant
this year.

#4 of 17 by bruin on Sat Dec 1 15:20:46 2001:

What I find ironic about this is that Paul McCartney, who was reported 
to have died in 1969, could conceivably become the last surviving 
Beatle.

#5 of 17 by tpryan on Sat Dec 1 16:00:04 2001:

        I watched a lot of TV last night, news shows thru A&E
biography.  Then caught the last half hour of videos played at 
midnight.  His video for "When I was Fab" stands up well in 
humor, even to a "Weird Al" video.

#6 of 17 by albaugh on Sat Dec 1 22:19:25 2001:

Flags flown at half staff in Liverpool

#7 of 17 by krj on Sun Dec 2 06:08:20 2001:

NP: a punched up set of songs from the BEST OF HARRISON album.

Leslie says George was her favorite Beatle.

#8 of 17 by orinoco on Fri Dec 7 20:24:50 2001:

Mine too.  He was the best musician out of the four of them, and not a
half-bad songwriter either.

#9 of 17 by bruin on Sat Dec 8 03:06:30 2001:

Just heard that there are plans to re-release George Harrison's "My 
Sweet Lord" as a charity single.  If the re-release reaches #1 on 
Billboard's Hot 100, it would only be the third single to reach the top 
of the charts after being off for at least one year.

BTW, the two songs that reached #1, dropped off the charts, and 
reappeared were "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby and "The Twist" by 
Chubby Checker.

#10 of 17 by cyklone on Sat Dec 8 04:43:16 2001:

Will Motown be getting a cut for the "He's So Fine" contribution?

#11 of 17 by tpryan on Sat Dec 8 12:48:17 2001:

        Did Motown get the rights to that Goffin-King song?
        Anyway, they could use the version from the 2001 re-release
of "All Things must Past" that does not contain "Those three
troublesome notes".

#12 of 17 by cyklone on Sat Dec 8 13:44:39 2001:

They removed the chorus? Or was it redone? BTW, Motown must have gotten the
rights, because the Chiffons case was mentioned in the article I read.

#13 of 17 by tpryan on Sat Dec 8 16:55:15 2001:

        It was redone.  The original version is also on the CD.

#14 of 17 by jor on Sun Dec 9 00:45:24 2001:

        The Lansing station 97.5 is playing all Beatles
        today, causing various mental aberrations.

        I'm not the biggest Elton John fan, I'm very 
        disappointed with most of his stuff. Not this.
        A little off topic. Can't omit Mr. Taupin's name.


What happened here
As the New York sunset disappeared
I found an empty garden among the flagstones there
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And now it all looks strange
It's funny how one insect can damage so much grain

And what's it for
This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And we are so amazed we're crippled and we're dazed
A gardener like that one no one can replace

And I've been knocking but no one answers
And I've been knocking most all the day
Oh and I've been calling oh hey hey Johnny
Can't you come out to play

And through their tears
Some say he farmed his best in younger years
But he'd have said that roots grow stronger if only he could hear
Who lived there
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls
We hear, we hear your name

Johnny can't you come out to play in your empty garden
   
 

 1981 Big Pig Music Limited

#15 of 17 by jor on Sun Dec 9 02:08:35 2001:

        They just played While My Guitar Gently Weeps,
        and I was compelled to jump up and go out in
        the garage and put it on the big stereo and
        play drums along with it. Hey all the news
        that fits. 

        At the corner store they had on the same station.
        We did an instant age check. We didn't actually
        say Ohbladi Oblada or anything.

        But hey. Now they're playin' Abbey Road.

#16 of 17 by jor on Sun Dec 9 02:24:35 2001:

        Now Your Mother Should Know.

#17 of 17 by sironi on Thu Dec 13 14:20:27 2001:

yesterday i was re-listening to "beatles for sale".
it made me smile hearing in a couple of song some sort of
"go George, go" before the guitar solos :-)

luca_

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