Let It Roll

George Harrison
 
Let It Roll - Front Cover Let It Roll - Rear Cover
Let It Roll - Front Cover Let It Roll - Rear Cover

Label Dark Horse/Parlophone/Apple
Catalogue No. 965 0192 (Barcode: 50999 965019 2 4)
Release date 15th June 2009
Total time 77:35
U.K. Album Chart Detail :
Entry Date :21st June 2009
Highest Position :4
Weeks in Chart :5
Detail : George's third "greatest hits" or "best of" collection, but the first to span his entire solo recording career.
The collection's 19 tracks have been digitally remastered by Giles Martin at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, and is available in CD and digital download formats.
Let It Roll, of course, includes George's smash two-times number 1 single "My Sweet Lord", plus also features live recordings of three timeless Harrison-penned Beatles songs, "Something," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and "Here Comes The Sun," from his 1971 all-star Concert For Bangla Desh benefit at Madison Square Garden.
There is also one surprise track, "I Don't Want To Do It" which was performed by George on the Porky's Revenge soundtrack.
George Harrison is a twice-inducted member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a solo artist and as a member of The Beatles - an 11-time Grammy Award winner for his recordings with The Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, and as a solo artist. Plus on April 14 George was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

"Give me plenty of that guitar" ...

Tracks re-mastered by Giles Martin
Engineered by Paul Hicks at Abbey Road Studios
Mastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering
Package Design: Olivia Harrison and Drew Lorimer
Artwork all from the George Harrison Estate.

The compact disc comes in a digipack sleeve, with a stiff card inner sleeve.
Plus a 28-page booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos, and newly-written liner notes by Warren Zanes.
"The keyhole into the world of George Harrison is the music itself. Yet his songs and the accomplishments for which he's remembered are inextricably bound-and those accomplishments are, without question, eclectic in scope," Zanes writes.

The album entered the U.K. album chart on 21st June 2009 at no.4
28th June 2009 - Second week in the chart and this album dropped eight places to no.12
5th July 2009 - With the death of Michael Jackson (25.06.2009) affecting all other album sales, this L.P. dropped to no 35.
12th July 2009 - Fourth week in the album chart and another drop from 35 down to number 47.
19th July 2009 - Fifth week in the album chart and another drop from 47 down to number 68.
26th July 2009 - Sixth week in chart, but leaves the top 75 and doesn't count for chart longevity puposes, down from 68 to 85.
2nd August 2009 - Last mention of chart position, down from 85 to the final position of number 100.

"There never was a time when you or I did not exist.
Nor will there be any future when we shall cease to be.


The C.D.

No. Track Composer Time
1 Got My Mind Set On You Rudy Clark 3:50
2 Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)   Harrison 3:33
3 Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Harrison 3:46
4 My Sweet Lord Harrison 4:38
5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Live) Harrison 4:46
6 All Things Must Pass Harrison 3:44
7 Any Road Harrison 3:50
8 This Is Love Harrison/Lynne 3:45
9 All Those Years Ago Harrison 3:43
10 Marwa Blues Harrison 3:40
11 What Is Life Harrison 4:21
12 Rising Sun Harrison 5:25
13 When We Was Fab Harrison 3:49
14 Something (Live) Harrison 3:12
15 Blow Away Harrison 3:58
16 Cheer Down Harrison/Petty 4:05
17 Here Comes The Sun (Live) Harrison 2:54
18 I Don't Want To Do It Dylan 2:51
19 Isn't It A Pity Harrison 7:07

Namah Parvati Pataye Hara Hara Mahadeva
(Salutations to Parvati (The Divine Consort) of the God of Gods, who removes all afflictions)

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