Somewhere In England
	Produced by George Harrison & Ray Cooper
	Released on June 1, 1981
	UK CHART POSITION #13 . . . US CHART POSITION #11
	Find it at GEMM
DHK 3492 cover

I wouldn’t give my address out either after this one. The record executives allegedly rejected George’s initial offerings for the new album (so much for having your own label), so he put together a new batch that included the tribute to John Lennon, “All Those Years Ago.” (That song had originally been written for Ringo, but after John’s death George decided to rewrite the lyrics and release it himself.) Honestly, it’s hard to believe that the original songs were much worse than what he cobbled together for Somewhere in England. The opening “Blood from a Clone” takes a pot shot at record companies (presumably with his own in mind), and equates the album-making process to “beating my head on a brick wall.” Maybe the track was cathartic, but it still doesn’t get George off the hook for putting his name on this half-hearted effort. Loyal fans might take some consolation in “That Which I Have Lost” and “Save the World,” which recall the lighthearted sound of earlier successes, but the record in general is best forgotten. George, never a prolific songwriter, also adds two Hoagy Carmichael tunes to flesh out the affair: “Hong Kong Blues” and “Baltimore Oriole.” I’ll concede that Somewhere In England sounds like his last few albums in a number of spots (“Life Itself,” “Writing’s On The Wall”), but he needs to be more engaged than this if he wants to be taken seriously.

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TRACK LISTING

1. BLOOD FROM A CLONE    (George Harrison)    3:58
2. UNCONSCIOUSNESS RULES    (George Harrison)    3:04
3. LIFE ITSELF    (George Harrison)    4:24
4. ALL THOSE YEARS AGO    (George Harrison)    3:43
5. BALTIMORE ORIOLE    (Paul Francis Webster/Hoagy Carmichael)    3:57
6. TEARDROPS    (George Harrison)    4:04
7. THAT WHICH I HAVE LOST    (George Harrison)    3:42
8. WRITING'S ON THE WALL    (George Harrison)    3:57
9. HONG KONG BLUES    (Hoagy Carmichael)    2:54
10. SAVE THE WORLD    (George Harrison)    4:56
    
    CD reissue bonus track
    
11. SAVE THE WORLD (DEMO VERSION)

CREDITS

GEORGE HARRISON -- guitars, vocals, keyboards, synthesizers
RAY COOPER -- drums, percussion, keyboards, synthesizers, cover concept
Gary Brooker -- keyboards & synthesizers
Herbie Flowers -- bass, tuba
Jim Keltner -- drums
Al Kooper -- keyboards & synthesizers
Denny Lane (Laine) -- guitar
Neil Larsen -- keyboards & synthesizers
Dave Mattacks -- drums
Mike Moran -- keyboards & synthesizers
Alla Rakha -- tabla
Tom Scott -- lyricon & horns
Ringo Starr -- drums
Willie Weeks - bass
Phil McDonald -- engineer
Caroline Irwin -- photography
Anthony Cohen -- typography

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