GEORGE HARRISON Somewhere In England ORIGINAL 1980 Rare 1st Pressing DHK #3492

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   Hey,Tom here and I have been Collecting/Buying and Selling Vinyl Records for about 40 years,and use to co-run a Record store back in the mid 1980's with over 9,000 records in my collection as well as an extensive Beatles collection and has been a year and a half since I last sold here on eBay. So,let's get started !!!

Up for Auction is  the  GEORGE  HARRISON  --Original ---   VERY     First Pressing  of  " Somewhere In England "  on  DARK  HORSE  Records # DHK 3492 released in 1980 !! Remember this is the COPY way  Before the Official copy released  on June 1,1981 in the USA !

 ---------THE,    Following Information  Explains the History of Georges' 8th  Studio Album Release taken from Wikipedia !! Hope This Helps potential Buyers !! Peace,Tommy

Content to move at his own speed, Harrison began recording Somewhere in England in the autumn of 1979 and continued sporadically, finally delivering the album to Warner Bros. Records in September 1980. However, the executives at Warner Bros. rejected it, ordering Harrison to drop four of its songs ("Tears of the World", "Sat Singing", "Lay His Head", and "Flying Hour"), finding them too downbeat. Harrison's original cover art, featuring his profile against a map of Great Britain was also vetoed by Warner Bros. With Harrison already feeling unable to relate to the current post-punk and new wave musical climate, he acceded to their requests.

Picking up the project again in November, Harrison was joined in his home studio at Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames by Ringo Starr, who arrived specifically to have Harrison produce some songs for him. They recorded two Harrison originals "Wrack My Brain" and "All Those Years Ago" plus a cover of "You Belong to Me" for Starr's impending album Can't Fight Lightning (which was later released as Stop and Smell the Roses). The two other songs were finished but "All Those Years Ago" went unadorned. Starr later admitted that the key was too high for him to sing. During this period, Harrison had received word that John Lennon was slightly hurt over his autobiography I, Me, Mine, which, in Lennon's estimation, praised every musician Harrison had worked with except him. Harrison was never able to make amends, as on 8 December 1980 Lennon was gunned down outside his apartment building, the Dakota.

After the shock and devastation of Lennon's murder, Harrison decided to utilise the unfinished recording of "All Those Years Ago". He changed the lyrics of the song to reflect the Lennon tragedy. With Starr's pre-recorded drum track in place, Harrison invited Paul and Linda McCartney, and their fellow Wings band-mate Denny Laine, to record backing vocals in early 1981. "Blood from a Clone" (a searing indictment of the music scene at the time), "Teardrops" and "That Which I Have Lost" were added to replace the four discarded songs, and after a new cover was shot in the Tate Gallery in London, Somewhere in England was resubmitted  and accepted.

1. "Hong Kong Blues" (Carmichael) – 2:53
2. "Writing's on the Wall" – 3:58
3. "Flying Hour" (Harrison/Mick Ralphs) – 4:04
4. "Lay His Head" – 3:43.                                                                                                                                                                          Remixed and issued as the b-side of Got My Mind Set On You
5. "Unconsciousness Rules" – 3:36                                                                                                                                                                   SIDE 2                                                                                                                                                                  
   
6. Sat Singing 4:31                                                                                                                                                                                                   
   
7. "Life Itself" – 4:24
8. "Tears of the World" – 4:00
9. "Baltimore Oriole" (Carmichael) – 3:57
10. "Save the World" – 4:56'

  So      TRACKS      #3, 4, 6 and 8 WERE    Not    on   the  Final Official Copy released World Wide !! -------This is the Very Original Copy !! Some GREAT   Very  RARE  Songs  in THEIR  TRUE  Form !!!!

                                                 I bought this Back Then when I was 17 years old in 1980 !! A True RARITY  !!.......

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