George Harrison Honored Today with Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Presentation

Hollywood, California – April 14, 2009 – As music legend George Harrison is celebrated today with a new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Capitol/EMI announces Harrison’s first ever career-spanning solo hits collection, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison.  To be released June 16, the new title will feature digitally remastered tracks in deluxe packaging, including an extensive booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos.  The collection will also be available for download from all major digital service providers.

Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison is the first release that will span his entire solo recording career, including the #1 Billboard Pop singles “My Sweet Lord,” “Isn’t It A Pity,” “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth),” and “Got My Mind Set On You."  The new title will also feature live recordings of three Harrison-penned Beatles songs, “Something,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” and “Here Comes The Sun” from his 1971 all-star Concert For Bangladesh benefit at Madison Square Garden.  The complete track list will soon be announced.

George Harrison is a twice-inducted member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a solo artist and as a member of The Beatles, and an 11-time Grammy Award winner for his recordings with The Beatles, Traveling Wilburys and as a solo artist. 

www.georgeharrison.com

Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison Audio Streams:

“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” -

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“Isn’t It A Pity” -

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“Got My Mind Set On You” -

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“My Sweet Lord” –

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 Track Listing:

 1. Got My Mind Set On You (from Cloud Nine, 1987)
 2. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (from Living In The Material World, 1972)
 3. The Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) (from All Things Must Pass, 1970)
 4. My Sweet Lord (from All Things Must Pass, 1970)
 5. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (from Concert For Bangladesh Soundtrack, 1971)
 6. All Things Must Pass (from All Things Must Pass, 1970)
 7. Any Road (from Brainwashed, 2002)
 8. This Is Love (from Cloud Nine, 1987)
 9. All Those Years Ago (from Somewhere In England, 1981)
10. Marwa Blues (from Brainwashed, 2002)
11. What Is Life (from All Things Must Pass, 1970)
12. Rising Sun (from Brainwashed, 2002)
13. When We Was Fab (from Cloud Nine, 1987)
14. Something (from Concert For Bangladesh Soundtrack, 1971)
15. Blow Away (from George Harrison, 1979)
16. Cheer Down (from Lethal Weapon 2)
17. Here Comes The Sun (from Concert For Bangladesh Soundtrack, 1971)
18. I Don't Want To Do It (from Porkys Revenge soundtrack, 1984)
19. Isn't It A Pity (from All Things Must Pass, 1970)

Update, June 16, 2009: 

Today, Capitol/EMI releases George Harrison’s first-ever career-spanning solo hits collection, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison, in CD and digital formats.  iTunes exclusively offers the digital album with a previously unreleased bonus track, Harrison’s earliest demo version of “Isn’t It A Pity.” The CD version includes a 28-page booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos, and newly-written liner notes by Warren Zanes. The collection’s 19 tracks have been digitally remastered by Giles Martin at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios.

“Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison is a gathering of material that takes us far into the territory that was ultimately a place unique to George Harrison,” writes Warren Zanes in his liner notes essay for the new collection.

This collection is the first to span Harrison’s entire solo recording career, including the #1 Billboard Pop singles “My Sweet Lord,” “Isn’t It A Pity,” “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth),” and “Got My Mind Set On You."  Let It Roll also features live recordings of three timeless Harrison-penned Beatles songs, “Something,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” and “Here Comes The Sun,” from his 1971 all-star Concert For Bangladesh benefit at Madison Square Garden. 

“The keyhole into the world of George Harrison is the music itself. Yet his songs and the accomplishments for which he’s remembered are inextricably bound—and those accomplishments are, without question, eclectic in scope,” Zanes writes.

George Harrison is a twice-inducted member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a solo artist and as a member of The Beatles, and an 11-time Grammy Award winner for his recordings with The Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, and as a solo artist.  On April 14, Harrison was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

Let It Roll e-card:

http://georgeharrison2009.com/ecard

Photo and press release are used with permission by Special Ops Media with our sincere thanks, June 12 & June 16, 2009.