Brainwashed - George Harrison

Brainwashed was the album George Harrison fans had been waiting for since Cloud Nine in 1987. Unfortunately for those fans it proved to be Harrison's last album, being released after his untimely death. That said, Brainwashed is a great epitaph for Harrison, full of uplifting songs and some that now on reflection come across as very poignant. Any Road opens the album and is a catchy number thats full of fun and energy, as is the second P2 Vatican Blues (Saturday Night). This song, and many others on the album just show how creative Harrison was with wordplay and lyrics. Pisces Fish, Marwa Blues and Looking For My Life are the more poignant songs on the ...  Read the complete review

On a cold, windy day, the twenty fifth of February 1943. Mrs Louise Harrison gave birth to the youngest of the clan and named him George. Born at 12 Arnold Grove, Waretree, Liverpool. Harold and Louise had been married thirteen years by now, and it would be almost another fourteen years to the date that George nervously picked up his guitar and went shakely with his close friend Paul McCartney, to see a group at the lesser know Wilson Hall in Garston known as the even lesser know QuarryMen. It was of course here, that he met John Lennon, and after occasionaly 'filling' in for them when they were a guitar short, John finally gave in to both George and Paul's persistance, ...  Read the complete review