George Harrison

By 1979, rockers could choose to go disco, go punk or just go completely soft rock. George Harrison gathered a group of LA session players and took the soft-rock route on this pleasant set. Like John and Paul, George had enough talent to sound good even when he was coasting, so trifles like "Here Comes the Moon" and "Soft-Hearted Hana" are completely disarming. By the way, check out the far superior version of "Not Guilty" heard on the Beatles' Anthology 3. Melodic, but tense and paranoid, it was another of George's songs that John and Paul were wrong not to bring into the fold.

Time hasn't treated the individual Beatles' solo projects kindly. Probably most of John
Lennon's self-advertisements were never intended to reverberate any longer than the
now-defunct media myths they once exploited. Paul McCartney carries on as a singles
craftsman no heavier than Elton John, and Ringo Starr cranks out stale party jokes. But the
years have been cruelest to George Harrison. Because he insisted on assuming t... More >

In which Harrison returns to good old commercial rock and roll, he says, presumably because he shared songwriting on one track with Gary "Sure Shot" Wright and let Russ Titleman produce. Well, there is a good song here--"Faster," about a kind of stardom. He remembers! (Grade: C)