This cube-style box set, designed to complement 2004’s Dark Horse
Years 1976-1992 collection, includes new, beautifully-remastered digipak
editions of Harrison’s six Apple LPs beginning with 1968’s Wonderwall
Music – the very first solo album by any Beatle – and continuing with
the even more experimental Electronic Sound as issued on the Zapple
label (1969), the acclaimed triple-LP All Things Must Pass (1970),
Living in the Material World (1973), Dark Horse (1974) and Harrison’s
Apple swansong Extra Texture (Read All About It) (1975). The all-star
Concert for Bangla Desh is not included; it last saw a deluxe reissue in
2005.
The Beatles established Apple Records with lofty goals, envisioning a kind of musical utopia for the band and for talented newcomers whom they would shepherd to success. Though the Apple story didn’t turn out quite as planned, Harrison thrived both as a solo artist and as the most prolific producer in the Fab Four. At Apple, he lent his talent to records by Badfinger, Jackie Lomax, Lon and Derrek Von Eaton, Radha Krsna Temple, Doris Troy, Billy Preston and others. As a solo artist, he inaugurated the label’s LP series with 1968’s Wonderwall Music soundtrack and nearly closed it out with the final Apple album of original material (Extra Texture).
Producers Olivia Harrison and Jonathan Clyde, and executive producer Dhani Harrison, are to be applauded for this box set that’s beautiful inside and out. All The Apple Years lacks is a comprehensive release of the many Harrisongs that remain in the vaults; hopefully such a set will follow – and will be created with the same hallmarks of care as this set and not the seemingly-stopgap release Early Takes, Volume One. (The rare U.K. mono mix of Wonderwall would have been another, well, wondrous inclusion.) The Apple Years presents George Harrison in his many contradictions, but one thing that’s crystal-clear is that the music he left behind is music to cherish.
The Beatles established Apple Records with lofty goals, envisioning a kind of musical utopia for the band and for talented newcomers whom they would shepherd to success. Though the Apple story didn’t turn out quite as planned, Harrison thrived both as a solo artist and as the most prolific producer in the Fab Four. At Apple, he lent his talent to records by Badfinger, Jackie Lomax, Lon and Derrek Von Eaton, Radha Krsna Temple, Doris Troy, Billy Preston and others. As a solo artist, he inaugurated the label’s LP series with 1968’s Wonderwall Music soundtrack and nearly closed it out with the final Apple album of original material (Extra Texture).
Producers Olivia Harrison and Jonathan Clyde, and executive producer Dhani Harrison, are to be applauded for this box set that’s beautiful inside and out. All The Apple Years lacks is a comprehensive release of the many Harrisongs that remain in the vaults; hopefully such a set will follow – and will be created with the same hallmarks of care as this set and not the seemingly-stopgap release Early Takes, Volume One. (The rare U.K. mono mix of Wonderwall would have been another, well, wondrous inclusion.) The Apple Years presents George Harrison in his many contradictions, but one thing that’s crystal-clear is that the music he left behind is music to cherish.
1968 - Wonderwall Music
01. Microbes 3:44
02. Red Lady Too 1:56
03. Tabla And Pakavaj 1:05
04. In The Park 4:10
05. Drilling A Home 3:08
06. Guru Vandana 1:08
07. Greasy Legs 1:28
08. Ski-ing 1:50
09. Gat Kirwani 1:15
10. Dream Scene 5:27
11. Party Seacombe 4:34
12. Love Scene 4:16
13. Crying 1:17
14. Cowboy Music 1:30
15. Fantasy Sequins 1:50
16. On The Bed 2:22
17. Glass Box 1:07
18. Wonderwall To Be Here 1:27
19. Singing Om 1:57
Additional Tracks
20. In The First Place (by The Remo Four) 3:17
21. Almost Shankara 5:00
22. The Inner Light (Alternative Take Instrumental) 3:43
1969 - Electronic Sound
01. Under The Mersey Wall 18:44
02. No Time Or Space 25:08
1970 - All Things Must Pass
Disc 1
01. I'd Have You Anytime 2:57
02. My Sweet Lord 4:41
03. Wah-Wah 5:38
04. Isn't It A Pity 7:11
05. What Is Life 4:24
06. If Not For You 3:31
07. Behind That Locked Door 3:07
08. Let It Down 4:58
09. Run Of The Mill 2:52
Additional Tracks
10. I Live For You 3:38
11. Beware Of Darkness 3:22
12. Let It Down 3:56
13. What Is Life 4:28
14. My Sweet Lord (2000) 4:55
Disc 2
01. Beware Of Darkness 3:51
02. Apple Scruffs 3:07
03. Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let it Roll) 3:48
04. Awaiting On You All 2:48
05. All Things Must Pass 3:47
06. I Dig Love 4:57
07. Art Of Dying 3:39
08. Isn.t It A Pity (Version Two) 4:48
09. Hear Me Lord 5:50
10. Its Johnny's Birthday 0:49
11. Plug Me In 3:20
12. I Remember Jeep 8:08
13. Thanks For The Pepperoni 5:32
14. Out Of The Blue 11:14
1973 - Living In The Material World
01. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) 3:36
02. Sue Me, Sue You Blues 4:46
03. The Light That Has Lighted The World 3:31
04. Don't Let Me Wait Too Long 2:57
05. Who Can See It 3:51
06. Living In The Material World 5:30
07. The Lord Loves The One (That Loves The Lord) 4:34
08. Be Here Now 4:10
09. Try Some Buy Some 4:08
10. The Day the World Gets Round 2:53
11. That Is All 3:44
Additional Tracks
12. Deep Blue 3:45
13. Miss O'Dell 2:32
14. Bangla Desh (Single Version) 3:57
1974 - Dark Horse
01. Hari's On Tour (Express) 4:43
02. Simply Shady 4:38
03. So Sad 5:00
04. Bye Bye Love 4:07
05. Maya Love 4:23
06. Ding Dong, Ding Dong 3:41
07. Dark Horse 3:54
08. Far East Man 5:52
09. It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna) 4:52
Additional Tracks
10. I Don't Care Anymore 2:44
11. Dark Horse (Early Take) 4:25
1975 - Extra Texture
01. You 3:43
02. The Answer's At The End 5:33
03. This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying) 4:13
04. Ooh Baby (You Know That I Love You) 4:00
05. World Of Stone 4:44
06. A Bit More Of You 0:45
07. Can't Stop Thinking About You 4:33
08. Tired Of Midnight Blue 4:53
09. Grey Cloudy Lies 3:43
10. His Name Is Legs (Ladies And Gentlemen) 5:51
Additional Track
11. This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying) [Platinum Weird Version] 3:55
