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George Harrison - Dark Horse
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Artist...............: George Harrison
Album................: Dark Horse
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: NMR
Year.................: 1974
Ripper...............: NMR
Codec................: LAME 3.92
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........:
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:04:45) George Harrison - Hari's On Tour (Express)
2. (00:04:39) George Harrison - Simply Shady
3. (00:05:02) George Harrison - So Sad
4. (00:04:09) George Harrison - Bye Bye Love
5. (00:04:24) George Harrison - Maya Love
6. (00:03:42) George Harrison - Ding Dong, Ding Dong
7. (00:03:55) George Harrison - Dark Horse
8. (00:05:54) George Harrison - Far East Man
9. (00:04:51) George Harrison - It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna)
Playing Time.........: 00:41:21
Total Size...........: 94.65 MB
NFO generated on.....: 7/23/2008 8:01:24 PM
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Dark Horse is an album by George Harrison, released as the follow-up to
Living in the Material World in 1974. Dark Horse is notable for the
well-attended, but ultimately infamous North American tour that supported it,
which would turn out to be Harrison's only set of performances there as a
solo artist.
1974 saw a separation from first wife Pattie Boyd (who left Harrison for
friend Eric Clapton) with the situation later being uncomfortably parodied on
Dark Horse with a cover of "Bye Bye Love", featuring both subjects' input.
That year also saw Harrison planning for his future. With a new love interest,
Olivia Arias, and with the end of his Apple Records contract in sight, he
founded Dark Horse Records - initially to be distributed through A&M Records
- and spent much of the year signing acts and guiding their development.
When his Apple contract finally expired in January 1976, Harrison would
move onto the Dark Horse label himself and switch distribution of the label to
Warner Bros. Records.
With the impending tour pencilled in for the last two months of the year,
Harrison was only able to start recording his own album - which he was also
dubbing Dark Horse - in September, leaving him little time to complete it.
Aiding Harrison were Ringo Starr, Jim Keltner, Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston and
the aforementioned Eric Clapton. The sessions, which were held at his home
studio in Henley-on-Thames, were compounded by Harrison's unfortunate
development of laryngitis. When it was time to leave for the US in
mid-October to begin rehearsing for the tour - with the album still unfinished -
Harrison's voice was completely raw. Ringo Starr confirmed this with
Beatlefan Magazine when he stated that Harrison was hoarse before he left
England to complete the album and start tour rehearsals.
After quickly recording the title track (a future US Top 20 hit), Dark Horse
was quickly pressed and rushed into shops that December. Although the
music was much more uplifting than Living in the Material World's and
featured some excellent guitar work, critics soon began calling the album
"Dark Hoarse", in reference to Harrison's suffering vocals. With no time to let
his throat heal, he performed the entire tour in a sandpaper voice, much to
the disapproval of reviewers and fans. The negative press Harrison received
also stemmed from his unpopular decision to include an Indian music portion
to the concert, as well as performing The Beatles' "In My Life" with
philosophically-modified lyrics. After the tour's conclusion, Harrison was so
averse to touring that he would hardly ever appear live again, save for a
brief Japanese tour in 1991 at Clapton's insistence.
Surprisingly, Dark Horse failed to chart at all in the UK, while it reached #4 in
the US during a brief chart stay, going gold.
