Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison

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Hollywood, California - May 5, 2009 - Capitol/EMI confirms the tracklist for George Harrison's first-ever career-spanning solo hits collection, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison. To be released June 16 (June 15 internationally), the CD's special packaging 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, and will be available in CD and digital formats.

"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 was born in Liverpool, England on February 25, 1943. He passed away on November 29, 2001.

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.

Factoid: Harrison's pseudonym on the first Wilburys' album was "Nelson Wilbury"; he would use the name "Spike Wilbury" for the Traveling Wilburys' second album.

In addition to being a muscian and composer, he produced motion pictures. Two of those films are Time Bandits and Monty Python's Life Of Brian.

He was also an accomplished gardener! (Wow! something I have in common with him--although, I might be stretching it a bit to put "accomplished" in front of gardener for myself. You be the judge by visiting one of my lenses about gardening: My 'Recovery' Vegetable Garden.) The background photo for All Things Must Pass was photographed in his garden at his home, Friar Park.

The illustration by Espinola of Friar Park can be found here.

On April 14, 2009 Harrison was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.