George Harrison

George Harrison didn't play live too often, but you wouldn't know that from listening to this superb 1991 concert recording. George grabbed his old frenemy Eric Clapton and put together a group of musicians who sound like a real band -- loose and energetic. George mixes in a number of his Beatles classics (including the lacerating oddity "Piggies") with a fair amount of hits from his solo catalog. While Harrison's solo career was spottier than John or Paul's, he still came up with the best live set. As a bonus, George's voice is actually stronger here than it is on some of his studio albums.

It was during the heady days of punk and New Wave, as 1979 was dissolving into 1980, that
Joe Strummer of the Clash spat out the line "Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust" in
"London Calling," his band's anthem to the new insurgence. That sentiment proved to be as
comically unprophetic as Jimi Hendrix's grand psychedelic pronouncement "You'll never
hear surf music again." Fast-forward to 1992: Capitol releases a fifteen-CD box of... More >