George Harrison—Unreleased Last Songs: Will We Ever Hear Them?
The last songs from George Harrison—two albums’ worth of new works with basic tracks and vocals largely complete—are nearly all missing.
The songs, first reported in 1999 by the late Billboard editor-in-chief Timothy White, and in 2001 by Harrison, were intended to be finished by Harrison friend and sometime producer Jeff Lynne.
They are part of a cache of either 37 or 35 new, never-released Harrison songs, depending on which interview you read. In a 1999 Billboard interview with White, Harrison referred to “about 37” new songs, and in a 2001 on-line chat with fans, Harrison said there were 35 new, unreleased works.
After Harrison’s posthumous 2002 album, Brainwashed, on which 12 new songs were released, that leaves either 25 or 23 whose fate remains unknown. They are reportedly lost in the famously messy, jumbled Harrison archive. [Editor’s note: A few unofficial leaks are available on YouTube.]
Source: Rip Rense/bestclassicbands.com
