Wonderwall Music
Occupation
United Kingdom ( December 1967 ):
- John Barham - piano and flugelhorn
- Colin Manley - Guitar and Steel Guitar
- Tony Ashton - Piano and Organ
- Philip Rogers - Bass
- Roy Dyke - drums
- Tommy Reilly - Harmonica
- Eddie Clayton (Eric Clapton ) - guitar
- Richie Snare ( Ringo Starr ) - drums
- Peter Tork - Banjo ( unmentioned )
India ( January 1968 ):
- Aashish Khan - Sarod
- Mahapurush Misra - tabla and Pakavaj
- Sharad Jadev - Shehnai
- Hanuman Jadev - Shehnai
- Shambu - Das - Sitar
- Indril Bhattacharya - sitar
- Shankar Ghosh - sitar
- Chandra Shekhar - Surbahar
- Shivkumar Sharma - Santoor
- S. R. Kenkare - Flute
- Vinaik Vora - thar shehnai
Wonderwall Music is the title of the first solo album by George Harrison. It was released on 1 November 1968, is the first solo album by a member of the Beatles.
Background
The album is the soundtrack to the film Wonderwall. A part of the songs (2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 14, 17 & 18) was taken up in 1967 in the United Kingdom, the other (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16 & 19) in 1968 in India. Some of the musicians that are specified on the record sleeve, are pseudonyms of George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr. Harrison is known as a producer, arranger and composer of the album. Peter Tork of the Monkees played banjo and indeed an instrument which he had borrowed from Paul McCartney, but was not listed as a musician.
Harrison performs in the CD booklet, as the recordings in England expired:
" I had a regular wind -up stopwatch and I watched the movie to ' spot- in ' the music with the watch. I wrote the timings down in my book, then I'd go to Abbey Road, make up a piece, record it. "
"I had a normal stopwatch for drawing and looked at the film to fit the music with a stopwatch to the point accurately. I wrote it in a notebook on, then I went into Abbey Road Studios, thought me a piece and took it on. "
In Britain, the pieces could be recorded on a four track recorder and mixed. The studio of EMI in India was not as technically well equipped and the photographs were taken there to live two-track stereo.
Title list
Page one
Page Two
Chart positions
Wonderwall Music reached in the UK not the charts in the United States came in early 1969 at number 49 on the Billboard charts.
Cultural impact
The Britpop band Oasis, known for its influenced by the Beatles music, had the hit Wonderwall in the 1990s, referring to the movie title ..
Reissues
The first publication in the CD format, newly remastered, took place in June 1992 with no bonus tracks.