Dark Horse (George Harrison Song)

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Dark Horse
George Harrison
publication November 18, 1974 ( US ) ,
February 28, 1975 ( UK )
length 3 min 54 s
Genre (s) Folk rock , jazz radio
Author (s) George Harrison
album Dark Horse

Dark Horse ( English Dark Horse [literally]; The Surprise Winner or The Unknown Size [analogously]) is a song by the British musician George Harrison , which was released in 1974 as the title track of his album of the same name on Apple Records . The piece was released in North America in November 1974 as the pre-single of the album and reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 . In the UK, Dark Horse was Harrison's first single that did not enter the UK singles chartcould achieve. Harrison also used the name for his record label Dark Horse Records, founded in May 1974 , and his 1974 North American tour with Ravi Shankar was called the Dark Horse Tour .

An early recording, made in 1973 with Ringo Starr on drums, did not make it on the album. The officially released version was recorded during rehearsals for the 1974 North American tour. At the time, overwork caused exhaustion, and Harrison developed laryngitis and lost his voice. Both during the recording and at the concerts Harrison was severely restricted vocal. A number of music critics rank Dark Horse as one of Harrison's best compositions after the Beatles split and believe that the single would have been far more successful had Harrison been able to call up a better vocal performance. The recording reflects the influence of the jazz radio genre on Harrison at the time, which is also illustrated by the participation of musicians such as Tom Scott , Jim Horn , Billy Preston , Willie Weeks and Andy Newmark.

Harrison played Dark Horse both in his concerts during the 1974 tour and in his 1991 appearances on the joint tour of Japan with Eric Clapton - Harrison's only other concert series as a solo artist. A live version was released in 1992 on the album Live in Japan . There are also recordings from the 1970s that were made during Harrison's radio and television appearances, but which have not yet been officially released and are only available on bootlegs .

Background and origin

George Harrison's 1973 album Living in the Material World had received divided opinions from critics. Stephen Holden of the music magazine Rolling Stone praised it as a "pop religious ceremony for all seasons" and an "object of faith, marvelous in its splendor". In contrast, the critic of the New Musical Express scoffed at the pious content of the songs and concluded : "So damn holy that I could scream". Although the album was again a commercial success for Harrison, and the general view continued that he was the most capable of the four ex-Beatles, criticism of his open stance on Vishnuism and spirituality in his music did not leave Harrison unaffected. Harrison's purchase of Bhaktivedanta Manor earlier in the year to host ISKCON - better known as the Hare Krishna movement - had sparked ridicule in the UK press. Author Joshua Greene, a former ISKCON devotee, described a visit Harrison made to the property in August 1973 when the musician shared his concern with Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , the movement's international leader: “I am causing a harmful one Reaction. The stronger my commitment, the stronger the hostility. "

At the same time, the end of his marriage to Pattie Boyd loomed , who finally left him in July 1974 to live with his friend Eric Clapton . In response, Harrison recorded a cover version of the 1975 hit Bye Bye Love by the Everly Brothers , which he provided with new lyrics - in which he referred to the affair. He later called this "just a joke" and described his behavior during the final years of their marriage as his "naughty time, 1973-74".

Commenting on Harrison's dismay at the rather negative reviews for Living in the Material World, biographer Ian Inglis wrote : “It intersected with a period of extreme disorder and frequent fling in his personal life, and the combination of these two sources of disappointment created a mood of melancholy and cynicism which constantly paved its way into his next musical projects. "

Harrison wrote Dark Horse in 1973, apparently to refute those who criticized him for Living in the Material World . Like a number of reviewers of the Dark Horse album, Inglis sees the composition as a defiant reaction by George Harrison to the breakup with Pattie Boyd. Harrison's comments on "Dark Horse" in his 1980 autobiography I, Me, Mine are as "obscure as the lyrics of the song," wrote theologian Dale Allison. While the term dark horse usually denotes an unlikely winner or surprise winner, Harrison claims in I, Me, Mine that he was unaware of that meaning at the time. The lyrics of the song are instead about someone who has secret sexual relations - according to the meaning of dark horse as it is used in Liverpool .

'Dark Horse' is the old story. 'Mr. Penguin's poking Mrs. Johnson from the Co-op . ' 'Oh really! … He's a bit of a dark horse isn't he? ' I didn't know 'til later the other idea of ​​a dark horse ... I'm a bit thick really.

“'Dark Horse' is the old story. 'Mr Penguin has something going on with Mrs Johnson from the Co-op.' ,Oh really? ... he's a little Casanova, isn't he? ' The other meaning of "Dark Horse" in the sense of secret favorite or surprise winner was only recognized later. I'm really a bit dubious. "

- George Harrison, 1979

Harrison music biographer Simon Leng sees Dark Horse as an expression of the composer 's addressing his critics in a newly created character. “This 'George' is a man who is always one step ahead of his blasphemers,” says Leng, “victorious with faster feet and better jokes. Commentators who try to pin something on him do so at their own risk, because he is likely to change and take the least expected course. ”In the chorus of the song, Harrison describes himself as a dark horse running on a dark racetrack (a dark horse / Running on a dark race course) , as a blue moon (a blue moon) and as a cool jerk looking for the source . Leng freely translates this self-portrayal as "a loner" and "an elusive, cheeky loner".

While describing the lyrics as "cringing, if not somewhat defensive," Allmusics Lindsay Planer believes the opening stanza deals with the situation between Harrison and Boyd:

"You thought that you knew where I was and when
Baby, looks like you've been fooling you again
You thought that you had got me all staked out
Baby, looks like I've been breaking out."

"You thought you knew where I was and when,
honey, it looks like you made a fool of yourself once again
You thought you had been monitoring me completely
honey, it looks like I broke out."

Planner sees in the caustic lines You thought you had got me in your grip / Baby, looks like you was not so smart (You thought you had me tight in your grip / darling, it seems like you weren't so smart) in stanza 2 further evidence of his interpretation. Like Planner, Inglis also identifies a third possible target for Harrison's scorn - his former pals John Lennon and Paul McCartney . Inglis notes that in the final stanza, Harrison advises those who have underestimated him in the past that his skills are not only recently:

Leng notes that this Harrison character also appeared in his 1976 composition This Song , written as a light-hearted reflection of his toils in court during the plagiarism lawsuit in the My Sweet Lord case .

admission

Demo version

A first recording of the song was made in November 1973 in Harrison's own recording studio in his Friar Park estate in Oxfordshire . This early version of Dark Horse with Harrison ( acoustic guitar and vocals), Klaus Voormann ( electric bass ) and Ringo Starr (drums) was not complete and had a slower tempo than the later released version. Harrison gave a tape of this demo version of the song along with pieces by Ravi Shankar and Splinter, which he wanted to sign for his own planned record label, to David Geffen , with whom he was negotiating a possible distribution via his label Asylum Records. Inspired by his song, Harrison chose the name Dark Horse Records for his own label, which was officially founded in May 1974 and whose distribution was initially taken over by A&M Records . This was followed by Harrison's announcement of a joint US tour with Ravi Shankar - the first tour in the US by a former member of the Beatles since their tour in 1966.

Official version

When Harrison arrived in Los Angeles in October 1974 to prepare for the upcoming tour, work on his album Dark Horse was due to business commitments, his work for the artists on his label, and a lifestyle that writer Simon Leng says "one drink too many, too frequently", far behind schedule. In the following three weeks Harrison rehearsed with his tour band, which consisted of Tom Scott , Billy Preston , Jim Horn , Robben Ford , Willie Weeks and Andy Newmark, in the Henson Recording Studios of A&M Records on La Brea Avenue in Hollywood . In the evenings he worked on completing the recordings that had been hastily made in his studio in Friar Park, adding missing vocals and other overdubs . The song Dark Horse should also be finished like this, but since the musicians of the tour band had to learn it for the upcoming performances anyway, Harrison decided to record the title from scratch.

Even before his arrival in Los Angeles, Harrison lost his voice and contracted laryngitis during rehearsals. The consequences could be clearly heard on the recordings, especially the singing of the song Dark Horse suffered from Harrison's voice dropping. Harrison and his tour band recorded Dark Horse live in an A&M Records studio in late October 1974, with Norm Kinney as the sound engineer . Lon and Derrek Van Eaton, like Billy Preston, formerly signed to Apple Records and now signed to A&M Records, sang their backing vocals later by overdubbing .

The official version of Dark Horse is noticeable on the one hand by its arrangement, which includes aspects of funk and jazz, on the other hand by Harrison's singing, which he later compared with that of Louis Armstrong . Harrison later said in interviews that he actually liked the result, but according to Andy Newmark Harrison was concerned about how the concertgoers would react to his hoarse voice.

Under the direction of Tom Scott, three flutists can be heard on the recording, Billy Preston played the electric piano and Robben Ford played double Harrison 's acoustic guitar with capo , similar to Pete Ham three years earlier at Here Comes the Sun during the concert for Bangladesh had done. The rhythm section consisting of Weeks and Newmark ensured a more contemporary sound during the recording than on Harrison's last solo releases, where Harrison had resorted to the services of Klaus Voorman, Ringo Starr and / or Jim Keltner . Keltner only played hi-hats at Dark Horse to support Newmark . Emil Richards also played as a percussionist on the recording.

publication

Dark Horse was released on November 18, 1974 in North America as a pre-release from the album Dark Horse . On the B-side of the single (catalog number Apple 1877) was the Harrison composition I Don't Care Anymore . The single was available in a white sleeve with the lyrics of the song on the front. Capitol Records , Apple's US distributor, sent a version shortened by about a minute as a promo single to radio stations in the USA.

Dark Horse easily reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. The best ranking was finally number 15 on January 11, 1975, before the single completely disappeared from the charts two weeks later. In Canada, where the Dark Horse tour began on November 2, 1974, the chart development for Dark Horse with number 26 in the RPM 100 was similarly disappointing. Dark Horse was the second single in Great Britain . It appeared in February 1975 (catalog number Apple R 6001) with the title Hari's on Tour (Express) on the B-side. Surprisingly, the single could not place in the British single charts , which only showed the first 50 places at the time. In Germany, the single was released in February 1975 and reached number 46 in the charts.

Due to the delays in completing the album, Capitol Records was only able to bring the album to market in the second week of December 1974, shortly before the end of the Dark Horse Tour . On the record, Dark Horse was the second track on page 2, after Ding Dong, Ding Dong , the second track available as a single, and before the soul- oriented Far East Man . The album was released in Germany before the single in December 1974.

Dark Horse was part of the compilation The Best of George Harrison in 1976 , but was missing in the 2009 posthumously published retrospective Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison . For the first time since the CD release of the albums Dark Horse and The Best of George Harrison in the early 1990s, the song was remastered in 2014 as part of the release of the box set The Apple Years 1968-75 . The album also includes a previously unreleased acoustic demo version of Dark Horse , which Harrison recorded in 1974 before developing laryngitis later that year.

reception

The song was released as a single in the US, while Harrison was in the middle of his media tour there with Ravi Shankar. The result was that the reviews mainly dealt with Harrison's hoarse voice and the word game Dark Hoarse quickly came into being and found frequent use (hoarse, English for hoarse). In some concert reviews, there were further derogatory descriptions, Harrison “croak” through Beatles classics like Something and In My Life . Almost three decades later, Greg Kot complained about Harrison's strained voice in the music magazine Rolling Stone and saw Dark Horse as a continuation of Harrison's condescending autobiographical pieces from the album Living in the Material World such as The Light That Has Lighted the World .

In his review of the Dark Horse album on the New Musical Express (NME), Bob Woffind also criticized the lyrics of the song and ridiculed Dark Horse as "a degradation of Pattie [Boyd], an affirmation of Harrison's male chauvinism - he always had the upper hand."

Billboard described the song as "a pleasing, acoustically-influenced piece" with an "instantly catchy sound that should please both AM radio listeners and the more 'critical' fans". In addition, the use of the flute was mentioned as a "pep up" element of the recording. The following month, the Billboard review for the Dark Horse albumindicated that Harrison was doing well with his title track and saw a lot of FM radio potential for the songs on the album.

In a positive review of the Dark Horse album in the American music magazine Circus Raves, Michael Gross defended the Harrison Shankar tour, which he believed was wrongly struggling with bad press. A new, limitless music would be created there, which would overcome musical borders just as easily as the musicians involved had overcome national borders. Gross further wrote that the song Dark Horse would evoke memories of the White Album through the flute playing of Chuck Findlay, Jim Horn and Scott .

Brian Harrigan from Melody Maker found Harrison's rough vocal performance advantageous and said that it improved Harrison's otherwise unimpressive voice considerably and that he sang particularly well on the title track. Harrigan saw Dark Horse as by far the best track on the album and highlighted the performance of Newmark and Preston on the recording. NME music critics Roy Carr and Tony Tyler shared this opinion in their 1975 book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, recommending it as a vocal style that should definitely be pursued. Alan Clayson attributed the song to a "gritty charm" and saw in the singing a very attractive mixture of McCartney and Rod Stewart .

A number of critics rank Dark Horse among Harrison's best solo compositions. In his 1977 book The Beatles Forever , Nicholas Schaffner suggested that Dark Horse could have become one of Harrison's most successful singles if he had only waited until his voice was restored to record. Seven years after his negative review in the NME , Bob Woffind admitted that the song could have sounded really good if the singing had been good and it had been released in a different context. Simon Leng described Dark Horse as a quick and pleasing hit, but regretted that Harrison hadn't combined the vocal track of the earlier demo version with the backing track that was later recorded in Los Angeles . Leng is convinced that the single would have been more successful had the singer not sounded like the "torture of a man who swallows razor blades". Dale Allison is another proponent of this view, while Harrison biographer Elliot Huntley thought that with So Sad as the b-side , Dark Horse could have been an excellent non-album single. Such a single would have given Harrison a sufficient product to promote his tour without completely throwing his career off track, as did the album Dark Horse , which was produced in too great a hurry and weighed down by Harrison's voice .

occupation

Charts

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 46 (2 weeks) 2
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 15th (10 weeks) 10

literature

  • Dale C. Allison Jr .: The Love There That's Sleeping. The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison , Continuum, New York, NY, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8264-1917-0 .
  • Keith Badman: The Beatles Diary Volume 2. After the Break-Up 1970-2001 , Omnibus Press, London 2001, ISBN 0-7119-8307-0 .
  • Roy Carr & Tony Tyler: The Beatles. An Illustrated Record , Trewin Copplestone Publishing, London 1978, ISBN 0-450-04170-0 .
  • Harry Castleman & Walter J. Podrazik: All Together Now. The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961-1975 , Ballantine Books, New York, NY, 1976, ISBN 0-345-25680-8 .
  • Alan Clayson: George Harrison . Sanctuary, London 2003, ISBN 1-86074-489-3 .
  • The Editors of Rolling Stone : Harrison . Rolling Stone Press / Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 2002, ISBN 0-7432-3581-9 .
  • Joshua M. Greene: Here Comes the Sun. The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison . John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2006, ISBN 978-0-470-12780-3 .
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  • George Harrison: I Me Mine. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 2002, ISBN 0-8118-3793-9 .
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  • Chris Hunt (ed.): NME Originals. Beatles - The Solo Years 1970–1980 . IPC Ignite !, London 2005.
  • Elliot J. Huntley: Mystical One. George Harrison - After the Break-up of the Beatles . Guernica Editions, Toronto, ON, 2006, ISBN 1-55071-197-0 .
  • Ian Inglis: The Words and Music of George Harrison . Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA, 2010, ISBN 978-0-313-37532-3 .
  • Peter Lavezzoli: The Dawn of Indian Music in the West . Continuum, New York, NY, 2006, ISBN 0-8264-2819-3 .
  • Simon Leng: While My Guitar Gently Weeps. The Music of George Harrison . Hal Leonard, Milwaukee, WI, 2006, ISBN 1-4234-0609-5 .
  • Chip Madinger & Mark Easter: Eight Arms to Hold You. The Solo Beatles Compendium , 44.1 Productions, Chesterfield, MO, 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 .
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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Stephen Holden, "George Harrison Living in the Material World " , Rolling Stone , July 19, 1973 (accessed on 23 December 2012).
  3. ↑ Kevin Howlett: Booklet for the 2006 re-release of the album Living in the Material World (EMI Records, 2006).
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