FABI! GEAR! The George Harrison Interview
In a plush Warner Bros, office, Bill Holdship and I listened to George Harrison’s first album in over five years, Cloud Nine. “I wracked my brains for a title, trying to think of something that didn’t have one of the song titles in it, ” Harrison said later.
FABI! GEAR! The George Harrison Interview
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In a plush Warner Bros, office, Bill Holdship and I listened to George Harrison’s first album in over five years, Cloud Nine. “I wracked my brains for a title, trying to think of something that didn’t have one of the song titles in it, ” Harrison said later. (He didn’t succeed; the title song kicks off the album.) “It was called Fab for about half an hour, ” he added. Since the record was still being mastered, there were only a few cassette copies available, and those strictly for listening within the confines of Warner Bros., who distribute Harrison’s Dark Horse label.
Cloud Nine may well be Harrison’s best album since 1971 ’s All Things Must Pass, his first and most successful post-Beatles offering. It’s peppered with uptempo rockers (“Devil’s Radio, ” with a vocal line