George Harrison died of cancer November 29th, 2001 at the age of 58. He had not released a studio album since 1987\u2019s Cloud Nine.<\/i> His participation with the Traveling Wilburys, a tour with Eric Clapton and its resultant live album (1992\u2019s Live In Japan<\/i>), plus his work on The Beatles Anthology project had kept him out of the studio for well over a decade.<\/p>\n
He had been working on a new release for a while, but once he realized that his latest cancer diagnosis was not treatable, he began a final push to complete the album. He died before finishing but left notes for his son, Dhani, and longtime friend Jeff Lynne, concerning its completion. It took a number of months to finish the work, but it was finally released just about a year after Harrison\u2019s death in November of 2002. <\/p>\n
Brainwashed<\/i> was a worldwide commercial success and received a gold record award for sales in the United States. While a number of musicians appeared on various tracks, the core band consisted of only four people. Harrison provided the vocals, lead guitar, ukulele, plus some keyboards; Jeff Lynne played bass, keyboards, and guitar, Dhani Harrison was on guitar and piano, and old friend Jim Keltner was the drummer.<\/p>\n
The album had a distinct advantage over most posthumous releases in that it was always intended to be a real album rather than just an assemblage of tracks after the artist\u2019s death. It may not be Harrison\u2019s best work, but it is still very good in its own right, and the poignancy behind its release certainly made it the most emotional.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny Road\u201d has a flowing melody, tight harmonies, and reminds one of his work with the Traveling Wilburys. \u201cLooking For My Life\u201d is an introspective piece which is representative of Harrison facing his mortality. \u201cMarwa Blues\u201d is a beautiful instrumental and may be the album\u2019s best track. The only non-original cut is a cover of the old \u201cBetween The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea,\u201d which he resurrects as an upbeat ukulele driven tune. The album ends appropriately with the title song, which is a criticism of the material world, allowing Harrison to be true to himself right to the end.<\/p>\n
Brainwashed<\/i> is the last musical will and testament of George Harrison. As the final chapter of his life, it is memorable, touching, and ultimately triumphant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":32951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5913],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-44727","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-george-harrison","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44727"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44727"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}