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Living in the Material World
Studio album by George Harrison
Released	22 June 1973
Recorded	October 1972 - January 1973, except the backing track for "Try Some Buy Some": February 1971
Genre	Rock
Length	43:55
Label	EMI, Apple Records
Producer(s)	George Harrison and Phil Spector (co-production on "Try Some Buy Some")
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Being There Magazine link Rolling Stone link
George Harrison chronology
The Concert for Bangla Desh (1971)	Living in the Material World (1973)	Dark Horse (1974)

Living in the Material World is an album by George Harrison and was released in 1973. As a follow-up to 1970's greatly-received All Things Must Pass and his mammoth charity project, The Concert for Bangladesh, Living in the Material World was among the most highly anticipated releases of 1973.

Due to the enormity of the Bangla Desh experience (one that left Harrison exhausted and frustrated), he was not able to record a new album until the latter part of 1972, which he undertook alone – without Phil Spector – at The Beatles' Apple Recording Studios in London. Once again, Harrison engaged the aid of his musician friends, including Ringo Starr, Jim Keltner, Nicky Hopkins, Gary Wright and Klaus Voormann. The backing track for "Try Some Buy Some" had been recorded with Phil Spector back in 1971 in Harrison's efforts to give Ronnie Spector a hit single. Liking the track, he decided to use the same music track for his own rendition.

Preceded by the uplifting acoustic number "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" – Harrison's second U.S. #1 hit, Living in the Material World appeared in June 1973 to brisk initial sales, reaching #2 in the UK and spending five weeks atop the US charts (having knocked off Paul McCartney and Wings' Red Rose Speedway in the process). But the critical reaction was less euphoric than what had greeted All Things Must Pass. More somber in tone, Living in the Material World was distinguished by Harrison's philosophical and religious ruminations - making it clear he was in distress with the state of the world and where it was headed. Subsequently, sales soon fell off, and the feeling was that Harrison had suddenly lost much of the enormous momentum he had going for him since The Beatles' 1970 break-up. In hindsight, most contemporary reviewers now consider Living in the Material World to be a very worthwhile Harrison album with many fine moments.

On September 26, 2006, Living in the Material World was reissued on CD and in a deluxe CD/DVD package by Capitol Records and EMI. The remastered album features two additional tracks, the B-side "Deep Blue" from the 1971 single "Bangla-Desh" and "Miss O'Dell," the B-side for "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)."

The DVD rounds up rare performance footage of "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" from Harrison's 1991 Japanese tour with Eric Clapton, behind-the-scenes film clips shot during the 1973 sessions for "Living in the Material World" and previously unreleased versions of "Miss O'Dell" and "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" set to archival film clips.^[1]

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Bonus DVD 2 Notes & references 3 External links

All songs written by George Harrison.

1. "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" – 3:36
2. "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" – 4:48
   • A wry commentary by Harrison on the court case involving The Beatles' dissolution
3. "The Light That Has Lighted the World" – 3:31
4. "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" – 2:57
5. "Who Can See It" – 3:52
6. "Living in the Material World" – 5:31
7. "The Lord Loves the One (That Loves the Lord)" – 4:34
8. "Be Here Now" – 4:09
9. "Try Some, Buy Some" – 4:08
   • Initially recorded by Ronnie Spector in 1971 and co-produced by Phil Spector, Harrison re-used the same backing track for his own version.
   • David Bowie recorded a cover of "Try Some, Buy Some" for his 2003 album Reality.
10. "The Day the World Gets 'Round" – 2:53
11. "That Is All" – 3:43
12. "Deep Blue" (2006 remastered edition bonus track)
    • Originally released as a B-side for the single "Bangla-Desh".
13. "Miss O'Dell" (2006 remastered edition bonus track)
    • Originally released as a B-side for the single "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)".

• "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" (Recorded at Tokyo Dome December 15th 1991)
  • Audio:
    • PCM Stereo
    • Dolby Digital 5.1
    • DTS 5.1
• "Miss O'Dell" (alternative version)
• "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" (acoustic demo version)
• "Living in the Material World"
• "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" (rough instrumental take)

• Living in the Material World microsite at GeorgeHarrison.com
• Living In The Material World at Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages.

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Discography
Studio albums: All Things Must Pass · Living in the Material World · Dark Horse · Extra Texture (Read All About It) · Thirty Three & 1/3 · George Harrison · Somewhere in England · Gone Troppo · Cloud Nine · Brainwashed With Traveling Wilburys: Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 · Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 Live albums: The Concert for Bangla Desh · Live in Japan Compilations: The Best of George Harrison · Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989 Soundtracks: Wonderwall Music · Concert for George Experimental albums: Electronic Sound Box sets: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992
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