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Disc: 1
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2. That's What It Takes	Listen
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Disc: 2
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2. That's The Way It Goes	Listen
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Disc: 3
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Disc: 4
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Disc: 5
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Disc: 6
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Disc: 7
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2. Here Comes The Sun	Listen
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Disc: 8
1. Dark Horse Feature
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Shedding new light on The Dark Horse, 27 Feb 2004

By	Touring Mars (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This magnificent box set has been a long time coming, delayed by contractual red tape, and then by Harrison's untimely demise. But, at last, a definitive retrospective of Harrison's latter career (1976-1992) is available. At last, justice is done to this huge part of the Harrison back-catalogue that has been overlooked for too long.

5 discs? 7 discs? Who's telling the truth? The truth is that this great collection comprises the 5 individual studio albums from the era, 'Thirty Three & 1/3', 'George Harrison', 'Somewhere In England', 'Gone Troppo' and 'Cloud Nine', and the double live album 'Live In Japan' on SACD (hence the 7 disc synopsis). All are newly (and very well) remastered, and contain a bonus track or two each. There is also an exclusive DVD which is available only as part of this set, and includes a Dark Horse Feature, promo videos and some previously unreleased live footage, so in actual fact, it's not 5 or 7, but an 8-disc feast of George Harrison.

For the casual listener, there may not be much in the way of familiar songs on here (with the exception of 'Cloud Nine' perhaps), and is hardly the definitive George Harrison collection - and it's not supposed to be either. There's no 'All Things Must Pass' or 'Concert for Bangladesh' (both well before 1976), and this collection will probably not appeal to many people other than hardcore fans or collectors.

But even for those who are unfamiliar with this particular era of George Harrison's back-catalogue, there is much to explore and many musical highlights that prove that Harrison was a major songwriting talent and prodigious talent in his own right. This box-set leaves nothing out, and as such, you do have to take the rough with the smooth, but on balance, the highlights easily out-number the lighter-weight tracks.

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A Collection from the Quiet Beatle, 5 Mar 2004

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Poor George had he been a member of any other 60s/70s rock band he may well have managed to get more of his songs recorded and he may well have had 2 or 3 years at the top as opposed to his time with the Beatles as 3rd Man.
Was he as good as Lennon and McCartney ? No- But that is true of 99% of all other songwriters and George did out do his peers on Abbey Road. This set proves, however, that George sat somewhere between the lyrical twisting ,but more rhythmical ,one-note ,Lennon and the wonderfully melodic but sometimes lyrical wasteland of McCartney. He was also the best 'musician' on the band.

This box set covers his Dark Horse Years 1976 -1991 and has a few gems like 'Shanghai Surprise' added for good measure (Crap film , but George composed a wonderful theme song). "All Things Must Pass" was George's BEST album but didn't he have a library of stuff ignored by the Beatles to draw on ? Then he lost the plot a little with "Living in the Material World" and "Dark Horse". Note also McCartney had struggled until "Band on the Run" and Lennon (god rest his soul) had really done nothing since "Imagine" until his 1980s swansongs.But for the fact that he was brutally murdered would his post Beatles stuff really be considered on the same level ? (Think about it!)

Back to George though. This box set starts with more confident but perhaps bitter George and "33 and a Third" and then "George Harrison" and "Somewhere in England" from his 1970s excursions. George refused to follow trends and so punk rock sort of passed him by. But now in 21st Century we can re-appraise them all. George did stuff that he liked and these albums are all 'nice' inoffensive 'Beatle' pop."Blow Away","Faster","Teardrops","Got My Mind Set on You","When We Was Fab" and the whole album "Cloud 9" represent George at hi