Wonderwall Music

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Wonderwall Music
Soundtrack by George Harrison

Publication
(s)

1st November 1968

Label (s) Apple Records , EMI Group

Format (s)

LP , CD , MC

Genre (s)

Rock music , Indian

Title (number)

19th

running time

45 min 43 s

occupation Great Britain (December 1967):

India (January 1968):

  • Hanuman Jadev - Shehnai
  • Indril Bhattacharya - Sitar

production

George Harrison

chronology
- Wonderwall Music Electronic Sound
(1969)

Wonderwall Music is the first solo album of George Harrison . It was released on November 1, 1968 and is the first solo album by a member of the Beatles .

History of origin

The album is the soundtrack to the feature film Wonderwall . Some of the songs (2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 14, 17 and 18) were recorded in the UK in 1967, the others (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 19) 1968 in India . Some of the musicians named on the record jacket are pseudonyms of George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr . Harrison is named as the producer, arranger and composer of the album. Peter Tork of the Monkees played the banjo , an instrument he borrowed from Paul McCartney , but was not performed as a musician.

Harrison explains in the CD booklet how the recordings were made in England:

“I had a regular wind-up stopwatch and I watched the film to 'spot-in' the music with the watch. I wrote the timings down in my book, then I'd go to Abbey Road, make up a piece, record it. "

“I had a normal wind-up stopwatch and watched the film so that I could precisely adjust the music with the stopwatch. I wrote it down in a notebook, then went to Abbey Road Studios , made up a piece and recorded it. "

- George Harrison

In Great Britain, the pieces could be recorded and mixed on a four-track recorder . The EMI studio in India was technically not so well equipped and the recordings were made there live in two-track stereo.

Cover design

The cover was designed by Bob Gill, John Kelly and Alan Aldridge, the photo by Terry O'Neill .

Track list

page 1

  1. Microbes (Harrison) - 3:42
  2. Red Lady Too (Harrison) - 1:56
  3. Tabla and Pakavaj (Harrison) - 1:05
  4. In the Park (Harrison) - 4:08
  5. Drilling a Home (Harrison) - 3:08
  6. Guru Vandana (Harrison) - 1:05
  7. Greasy Legs (Harrison) - 1:28
  8. Ski-ing (Harrison) - 1:50
  9. Gat Kirwani (Harrison) - 1:15
  10. Dream Scene (Harrison) - 5:26

Page 2

  1. Party Seacombe (Harrison) - 4:35
  2. Love Scene (Harrison) - 4:17
  3. Crying (Harrison) - 1:15
  4. Cowboy Music (Harrison) - 1:29
  5. Fantasy Sequins (Harrison) - 1:50
  6. On the Bed (Harrison) - 2:23
  7. Glass Box (Harrison) - 1:07
  8. Wonderwall to Be Here (Harrison) - 1:25
  9. Singing Om (Harrison) - 1:54

Re-releases

  • The first release in the remastered CD format took place in June 1992 without bonus tracks. The remastering took place in December 1991 by Ron Furmarek in the Capitol Recording Studios in Hollywood. A twelve-page illustrated booklet is enclosed with the album , which contains information from Derek Taylor about the album.
  • On September 19, 2014 the CD, remastered again, was re-released with the following bonus tracks:
    • In the First Place (by The Remo Four) - 3:17
    • Almost Shankara - 5:00
    • The Inner Light (Alternate Take Instrumental) - 3:43

The remastering was done by Paul Hicks, Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen in the Lurssen Mastering Studios . The CD album has a cardboard cover that can be opened and is accompanied by a sixteen-page illustrated booklet containing information from Kevin Howlett about the album. The CD is in an inner cover that is based on the original inner cover of the vinyl album. The design is by Darren Evans.

Cultural influence

Britpop group Oasis , known for their Beatles-influenced music, had the hit Wonderwall in the 1990s referring to the film title.

Chart placements

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 22nd (4 weeks) 4th
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 49 (16 weeks) 16

literature

  • Neville Stannard: Working Class Heroes. Virgin, London 1983, ISBN 0-907080-92-8 .
  • CD booklet for re-publication in 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The sitar is wrongly stated
  2. ^ All about Wonder and Guitar. (No longer available online.) In: planetofrock.com. Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 14, 2017 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / planetofrock.com
  3. ^ George Harrison in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
  4. ↑ George Harrison in the US American charts of Billboard magazine