George Harrison released his tribute to
John Lennon, called “All Those Years Ago.” The song is notable for being the first record since the
Beatles 1970 breakup to feature all three surviving group members, George Harrison,
Paul McCartney, and
Ringo Starr.
According to several sources, the song was originally taped the year before for inclusion on Ringo s 1981
Stop And Smell The Roses album. Harrison had written the song with different lyrics for him to sing, with the song s basic track featuring himself on guitar and Ringo on drums. The song was left off the album, and after Lennon s murder in 1980, Harrison revamped the song into a tribute to his late bandmate.
July 7th, 2015
The advent of streaming music services has been a godsend for anyone whose appetite for music exceeds the contents of their wallet. No longer are those obscure 12” Throbbing Gristle LPs doomed to spend their life in the dehumidified basement of Paul Morley. Instead, the likes of Spotify and Tidal act as a sort of benevolent cultural democratiser, dredging entire back catalogues to the surface and granting instant muso status to anyone with a spare tenner a month. But whilst the likes of
Stereogum chew over the classics again and again, there’s whole swathes of digital flotsam that go largely ignored. These are the barnacles caught in the net, records that made their peace with the sea-bed long ago but now squirm uncomfortably in the glare of our retina-display screens.