The story of George Harrison's album Somewhere in England 

It’s interesting to note that Flying Hour when released in the book and later on iTunes was a very different mix with count-in and is of a longer length and runs at normal speed. Lay His Head as the B-side of Got My Mind 7” and 12” is also an updated mix with an alternate vocal on the last line and a different fade. Tears of the World was eventually released on the remaster of 33 & 1/3 and is most definitely a different mix than the original aborted LP. Sat Singing remained unchanged but as stated in your video only released on the Genesis book. Also....many of the songs from the original LP have slightly different mixes than what ended up on the released album. Great channel and videos!

This is one of my favorite GH albums. Clone and Teardrops were outstanding. I did not know about the history of the album. Good video.

I am new to this channel…so glad to have found it. Digging into the back catalog tonight!

Thanks Andrew, for the info......!!!......🍁

I remember the hype about this album, before release. Lennon even mentioned it in a 1980 interview. A very hard listen. Much of his solo material is if truth be told. He was bewildered and completely lost his footing here. I find Gone Troppo a much better piece of work, but with no promotional help from Harrison it went nowhere in the charts, which he really didn't care about as he was done with the business for a few years.

Great informative video, Andrew. Yours and John Heaton's channels are my favorite Beatles related channels on RU-vid.

It seems that the Harrison estate thinks all we're interested in is remixes/outtakes of ATMP material. I would like people to know that George did much more post-Beatles than ATMP and Bangladesh. Early Takes Volume 1 was nice; where is volume 2? If Olivia and Dhani don't have the time or patience to deal with projects like this, they should turn them over to someone else. If Flaming Pine Tree is worthy of a lavish box set, then certainly Somewhere in England or George Harrison (1979) deserve similar treatment.

Thank you for the video. Nice piece of information there. I bought SIE back in July 1981, when it had just been released. Track "Tears of the world" was added to a CD issue of "33 & 1/3" I bought in the US some years ago.

love your review of Somewhere in England. I prefer the the first version because it flows all the way through while released album feels like 2 different time periods. I don't understand why they left Flying Hour on the album. It would have made a great single and it is the best track on the album.

Great video! Would definitely like to see more George and some Ringo!

Excellent video Andrew, really interesting stuff. Thanks...

Thanks Andrew - love the video. Great that you actually got to meet George. Maybe its time for you and perhaps John Heaton to produce a video covering when you met the various Beatles. All the best.

Great video ! I just want to point out that in 2011/2 they relesed George Harrison - Early Takes Vol.1......why they don't release a Vol.2.....there's lots of songs for it. All the Best !

Hello Andrew! Thanks for the interesting video! I've learned a lot more about this cool George album!

One reason why this album is special is because it’s the first solo Beatle album after Lennon’s death. i always wonderd how fans took to it when it first came out.

Excellent Andrew, well researched. Great to see those Songs of GH books! I think you may have got the chart positions mixed up for All Those Years Ago as it was a much bigger hit in the US (No 2), No.9 in the UK according to the Neville Stannard book. You can tell 'Flying Hour' is a GH out-take by Steve Winwood's synthesizer alone! My favourite of the four 'lost' tracks.

Thanks again, Andrew! Awesome job. I have a Bootleg of SIE's 1st version on CD. The mixes are different and "Unconsciousness Rules" is Longer. So, In my humble opinion, (I'm being a bit picky here) "Save The World" on the Greenpeace album is one of the worst mixes I've heard of Geroge's songs. I love the version but the new vocals are too loud (Odd because so much of Harrison's work seems to have his vocals down in the mix, all though not all). Basically, the backing track seems too low. Especially the drums. This version would be nice to have a good re-mix, IMHO. Just my two pence worth. :)

An excellent video and hot on the heels of John Heatons reappraisal earlier this week. It would be great if you an John did a George discussion video a la Press to Play....... It beggars belief a record company could interfere with an ex-Beatles art but i guess they wanted something commercial for a single.... As much as i agree with you that an archive release would be great i think we'll be extremly lucky if we even get a 40th anniversay release. As a minimum they should put out a 40th vinyl release on record store day with original tracks and artwork. Great vid Andrew and please more George videos would be great. Maybe a what might be in an George archive collection style videos would be cool.

I really enjoyed your clip Andrew, very through & fascinating facts. You have some wonderful collectables. Macca & Lennon are putting stax of stuff out these days, the Harrison camp seem to holding on their stuff & when they do release things, they charge like a wonded bull. I look forward to checking out more clips.

I really enjoyed this video thanks Andrew. I think u should do similar for the other “dark horse” era albums (76-87 plus the 3 1989 tracks). Just sayin….😉

You know this Album sure has ben such a big Mystery to me and Y they did change it ??. But threw this video it now is clear . I do have the fist one that you did show and mine is not a boot but wild to see that there is one out there and a CD of the same thing . It the George box set !!!!! I do like your nice George Autograph !!! . + it was great to see the books as well and yes over here they were $$$ and I never got them . So thank you for showing them as well . O and you are talking about Got to Save the World I do have a promo video of that as well . But they do need to but out a nice big box set of this .:) This video was just great and you know I did learn some good info about this one so thank you and I do hope you are doing well and take care !!!!!!

Andrew thanks for your in depth breakdown and history of Somewhere In England. Other than the cd, I have a flac download of George Harrison rarities that has all 4 songs not included on Somewhere In England. It's not a physical copy but the music is excellent quality. Obviously I am not record or cd collector (although I have thousands of cds) - music is my primary thing. Peace!!

Sadly the original Somewhere in England 1980 version Is Lost forever. No longer available on YT. Baltimore Oriole was better arranged in earlier version.

Greetings Andrew, Its disconcerting that the Harrison Estate has Not done anything good or caring for ALL of us George Harrison fans in releasing Deluxe issues or Box sets of his albums which The Lennon Estate and McCartney have done Great work in their collections and Reissues.-In regard to Somewhere in England I think the original version of this album with the four tracks of Sat Singing, Lay his Head, Flying Hour, and Tears of the World is by far superior than the final released version, Warner Brothers made a BIG mistake in deciding to reject 1st version of this album -My favorites on this album are Writings on the Wall, Life itself, That Which I Have Lost, and the tribute to John (and in someways a Beatle reunion of sorts with Paul and Ringo) All Those Years Ago.

I'm very curious to see what the original lyrics to "All Those Years Ago" were. Seems unlikely I ever will.

Hi Andrew ,Its amazing the record company could refuse 4 tracks from an exBeatle .I like all the 4 dropped tracks originally getting them on the disc that came with Genesis Lyric book of Georges lyrics and then again when i purchased the Bootleg of the original album that you showed. I got Georges autograph in the early 80s too. It was much easier to do such things in those days.Regards

Has there been any rumblings of a 50th Anniversary ATMP box set?

Somewhere in England on iTunes (bonus track version) has Flying Hour and the cover photograph is the blue head/England map version.

Thanks

Where can you buy the delux box set of some in england

I think Dahni said that as working musician himself he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life curating and vetoing his fathers past work for our consumption , which is understandable really?

You’ve got the chart positions for “All Those Years Ago” wrong. In the UK, it reached #13 and #2 in the USA. The LP also hit #13 in the UK and #11 in America. The stupidly edited US single of “Teardrops” reached #102 in the US. I really wish the powers that be would release a nice 2-3 CD set of “Somewhere In England” with both versions of the album plus a bunch of bonus tracks. Note: The version of “Flying Hour” intended for the 1980 LP is far superior to the 1988 remix. Harrison deliberately sped up and edited it for the album. Even though it plays at the correct speed, the unedited 1988 remix drags, lacks and adds a guitar riff here and there and, most annoyingly, fades at the end. To me, the 1980 version of “Flying Hour” is the greatest song of all time. Bar none.

Why on earth do you wish you had the inferior 7” single version of the Genesis songs? CD much better sound than any lousy 7”

Merch much ?