News The Album that The Artist George Harrison Never Revisited
Extra Texture – George Harrison
For the first half of the 1970s, it looked like George Harrison was going to be the most famous ex-Beatle. He had already turned in a mammoth triple album to start with, and Living in the Material World set everything off in the right direction as Paul McCartney and John Lennon still struggled to find their footing. For every high, there has to be a low, and Harrison first had to admit that he overdid it on Extra Texture.
Venturing to California to cut most of the album, the kind of spiritual whimsy of Harrison’s last few records is nowhere to be found here. Outside of the pop song ‘You’ that he wrote for Ronnie Spector, the majority of the album is centred around plodding soul songs that are a lot more pedestrian than any of Harrison’s earlier songs, including a massively disappointing follow-up to ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ called ‘This Guitar (Can’t Keep From Crying)’.
Compared to the other Beatles, who were slowly building themselves back up again, this was Harrison going through one of the worst periods of his life, later describing the album as “grubby” when he looked back on his discography. Harrison had a real knack for writing songs at this point, but this is where the wise guru behind the Fab Four started to lose his passion for making music.
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