With the lack of true rarities found on the recent George Harrison
box set, The Apple Years: 1968-75, fans were pleasantly surprised when
Olivia Harrison took time out to air a song never heard before on
British radio. On Monday (October 20th), Olivia appeared on good friend
Jools Holland’s BBC Radio 2 show and premiered a demo of Harrison
singing a tune called “Fear Of Flying” by an obscure female
singer/songwriter Charlie Dore, which he recorded when Dore visited the
Harrison's in 1979 or 1980.
Around the time of the 2012 documentary, Living In The Material
World, Olivia first spoke of the recording, telling The Chicago-Tribune,
that she had originally wanted the movie’s soundtrack, Early Takes Vol.
1, to be far more inclusive than it came to be: “Initially I thought it
could be a two-disc thing, but some things don’t go together. He sang a
lot of songs during this time, some very obscure, by people like Nina
Simone and this local girl Charlie Dore. But they didn’t really mesh,
didn’t fit. We didn’t want a nine-CD set. We settled on these very
intimate songs, that were so important to him at the beginning of his
solo career, his emergence as a solo artist. That’s what we’re trying to
present here, that particular period of his life.”
George felt that he was best serving his audience by
constantly changing and refining his recorded output: "Not just 'George
Harrison,' but I think most people change all the time. If you listen to
me in '65, it's different in '67, it's different in '69, and then
through my solo albums. I did the big one at the beginning with all the
string players, the choirs, the 10 drummers and Phil Spector. And after I
did that one, I just presumed -- I like to give the public the benefit
of having some sort of sense; thinking, 'Well just 'cause I've done
that, everything shouldn't have to be like that.' So they know I can do
that, this one I'd like to do with pianos, bass, drums (and) guitars."
As of now, there seems to be no plans to release George's version
of "Fear Of Flying" but the one minute-three second clip is HERE:
Check this out on Chirbit
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