Brainwashed (album)

Occupation

• George Harrison - vocals, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, dobro, ukulele, keyboards, bass: Percussion
• Jeff Lynne - electric bass, guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion, background vocals
• Dhani Harrison - Guitar, Wurlitzer electric piano, backing vocals
• Jim Keltner - Drums:

Other musicians:

• Mike Moran - keyboards (Title 3)
• Marc Mann - Keyboard ( Title 3), Arrangements for String Instruments ( 6 titles )
• Ray Cooper - percussion (track 6), percussion ( Title 10 )
• Jools Holland - Piano ( Title 10 )
• Mark Flannagan - Acoustic Guitar ( Title 10 )
• Joe Brown - Acoustic Guitar ( Title 10 )
• Herbie Flowers - Electric Bass ( Title 10 ), tuba ( Title 10 )
• Bikram Ghosh - Tabla ( Title 12 )
• Jon Lord - Piano ( Title 12 )
• Sam Brown - backing vocals (track 12)
• Jane Lister - Harp ( Title 12 )
• Isabela Borzymowska - reads from the book How to Know God ( The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali ) before ( Title 12 )

Brainwashed is the sixteenth album; or the tenth solo studio album by George Harrison after the breakup of the Beatles. It was on 18 November 2002 (USA: November 19, 2002) a year after George Harrison's death published. In the U.S., the album ranked number 18 in the UK and reached number 29 on the charts; in Germany it could also charted at number 18.

Genesis

After publication of the last live album Live in Japan in July 1992, it was musically relatively quiet around George Harrison, so he supported between the years 1992 and 2001 only other musicians ( Jimmy Nail, Alvin Lee, Gary Wright, Ringo Starr, Electric Light Orchestra, Bill Wyman 's Rhythm Kings, Rubyhorse, Jim Capaldi and Carl Perkins ) as guitarist and background vocalist. George Harrison was only significantly involved in two musical projects, partly due to the production of the Anthology CDs of the Beatles and the production of the CD Chants of India by Ravi Shankar, he not only produced, but to which he contributed several instruments and background vocals.

George Harrison's film production company HandMade Films was since the late 1980s in financial difficulties and was sold in 1994 to Paragon Entertainment Corporation, it was announced in January 1995, a court action against the manager of Handmade Films and business partner of George Harrison, Denis O'Brien, George Harrison won in 1996.

Otherwise, Harrison had largely withdrawn from public life, he worked sporadically on a new album. George Harrison's cancer disease since 1997 and a violation by an intruder in his estate on 30 December 1999 acted as a driving force for him to finish the album. He worked closely with his son Dhani Harrison and Jeff Lynne producer, who eventually finished put the album after his death. They kept exactly to the schedule the Harrison himself had set, when it was not expected that he would die in 2001. Jon Lord, Sam Brown, Jools Holland and Jim Keltner are listening to the album as a guest musician.

Run so Far was recorded in 1989 by Eric Clapton for his album Journeyman. Harrison added to its version in a Hawaiian guitar. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was recorded in mid-1991 for British television and a cover version of Aida Ward. The composition is by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Any Road was at a video shoot for Cloud Nine album in 1987 and was first recorded in May 1997 for a VH1 special, during this Specials accounted Harrison and acoustic versions of songs All Things Must Pass and the Traveling Wilburys - Items If You Belonged ago. The rest of the songs were recorded in the period between the years 1997 to 2001.

Brainwashed is about the false idols of society and attacked the global players and politicians. Bikram Ghosh plays the tabla in this piece. The song contains excerpts from the text "How to Know God" by Namah Parvarti. Vatican Blues ( Last Saturday Night ) is a humorous religious allusion. Pisces Fish, Looking for My Life and Rising Sun are philosophical perspectives of Harrison about life in general and his own.

His last song Horse to the Water took George Harrison on 2 October 2001 with Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, later recordings are not yet known. The title was released on the album Jools Holland's Big Band Rhythm & Blues. On 29 November 2001, died George Harrison.

" He never flinched. He never felt sorry for himself. He never lost his sense of humor. He was not afraid of death, his own mortality, Although he was very aware of it. He was not even attached to his body, if you know what I mean. We'd be in the kitchen and he'd say, ' Dhan, you know we are not thesis bodies, do not you? ' "

"He's never recoiled before it. He's never melted in self-pity. He never lost his sense of humor. He had no fear of death, of his own mortality, although he was very aware of her. He hung not even particularly on his body, if they understand what I mean. We sat in the kitchen and he said to me, ' Dhan, you know that we are not this body, or '? "

Title list

Publications

The list was published in CD format and as a record and as a limited box, which includes the CD and a DVD featuring a seven- minute documentary can be seen on the making of the album. In May 2003, the CD album was released with a new Pappslipcover (similar to the single cover of Any Road).

More information

The album received much praise from critics and was partly compared to his triple album All Things Must Pass, with which he had begun his solo career.

Marwa Blues won the Grammy Award in the category " Best Pop Instrumental Performance Grammy ."

Singles

In November 2002, the CD - doctoral Single Stuck Inside a Cloud, which was not published as a regular purchase single was released.

Any Road

The only single Any Road / Marwa Blues ( 7 " Vinyl Single ), Enhanced CD single: Any Road / Marwa Blues / Any Road ( video) was released in May 2003 and reached number 37 in the UK, was in the U.S. and Germany the single is not published.