EMI issues official announcement of added demo to iTunes version of new Harrison CD

June 16, 12:38 PMBeatles ExaminerSteve Marinucci

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The cover of "Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison" (Copyright
 EMI/Capitol Records)

A press release from EMI/Capitol issued today:

GEORGE HARRISON’S FIRST-EVER CAREER-SPANNING SOLO HITS COLLECTION, ‘LET IT ROLL: SONGS BY GEORGE HARRISON,’ RELEASED TODAY BY CAPITOL/EMI

iTunes Exclusively Offers Previously Unreleased Bonus Track, "Isn't It A Pity" (Earliest Demo Version), with Digital Album Purchase

Collection Features Harrison’s Solo Hits from 1970’s All Things Must Pass Through 2002’s Brainwashed, Remastered, Plus Live Recordings from 1971 Concert For Bangladesh

Hollywood, California – June 16, 2009 – Today, Capitol/EMI releases George Harrison’s first-ever career-spanning solo hits collection, "Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison", in CD and digital formats. iTunes exclusively offers the digital album with a previously unreleased bonus track, Harrison’s earliest demo version of “Isn’t It A Pity.” The CD version includes a 28-page booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos, and newly-written liner notes by Warren Zanes. The collection’s 19 tracks have been digitally remastered by Giles Martin at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios.

"Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison" is a gathering of material that takes us far into the territory that was ultimately a place unique to George Harrison,” writes Warren Zanes in his liner notes essay for the new collection.

This collection is the first to span Harrison’s entire solo recording career, including the #1 Billboard Pop singles “My Sweet Lord,” “Isn’t It A Pity,” “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth),” and “Got My Mind Set On You." Let It Roll also features live recordings of three timeless Harrison-penned Beatles songs, “Something,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” and “Here Comes The Sun,” from his 1971 all-star Concert For Bangladesh benefit at Madison Square Garden.

“The keyhole into the world of George Harrison is the music itself. Yet his songs and the accomplishments for which he’s remembered are inextricably bound—and those accomplishments are, without question, eclectic in scope,” Zanes writes.

George Harrison is a twice-inducted member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a solo artist and as a member of The Beatles, and an 11-time Grammy Award winner for his recordings with The Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, and as a solo artist. On April 14, Harrison was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

www.georgeharrison.com

Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison (CD, digital)

• 1. Got My Mind Set On You
• 2. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
• 3. The Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
• 4. My Sweet Lord
• 5. While My Guitar Gently Weeps [Live] - Concert For Bangladesh
• 6. All Things Must Pass
• 7. Any Road
• 8. This Is Love
• 9. All Those Years Ago
• 10. Marwa Blues
• 11. What Is Life
• 12. Rising Sun
• 13. When We Was Fab
• 14. Something [Live] - Concert For Bangladesh
• 15. Blow Away
• 16. Cheer Down
• 17. Here Comes The Sun [Live] - Concert For Bangladesh
• 18. I Don’t Want To Do It
• 19. Isn’t It A Pity
• iTunes Bonus Track: Isn’t It A Pity (Earliest Demo Version)