“To Discover Yourself,” was co-written by Gary Wright and George Harrison in 1971 and recorded by Wright
on the day of George’s death in 2001. “He was over at my apartment,”
Wright remembers. “I wrote most of the lyrics; he did the music. I put
it in the back of my mind. The actual day that George passed, I was in
the studio [and] I decided to memorialize that day by recording the
song. That was the version that I’ve just put
out.”
“Never Give Up,” which like “To Discover Yourself” was included in an expanded edition of Connected,
was recorded in 1989 and features George Harrison on guitar. But, even
more than those musical remembrances, Wright says a relationship with
Harrison that was always based on something deeper, and more spiritual,
has continued beyond death.
“George was, and is, one of my dearest friends — and I always admired
his creativity and sincerity,” Wright tells us. “He was a true genius,
and probably one of the most creative people I’d ever met.”
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