History: While George was writing songs as soon as during post production of Cloud Nine, various circumstances kept him from recording a full album. When he was attacked in his home in 1999 he spoke with his son Dhani about his eventual plans for an album, and in 2001 when it began to become clear […]
History: Ringo and Mark Hudson wrote a couple original Christmas songs together, and eventually decided to make a full album that was a mix of originals and traditional Christmas songs with the help of family and friends. It was critically well regarded but not promoted very much by the label at all, which led to […]
History: EMI asked Paul to delay release of his next album after Off the Ground so as to not essentially compete with himself while the Beatles Anthology discs were released. As such Paul took his time putting this album together, working with Jeff Lynne, Ringo, George Martin and Steve Miller of Steve Miller Band on […]
History: While work was happening on the Beatles Anthology documentary and associated album releases, there was debate on whether the surviving Beatles should record new music. With a strong desire to not do anything called The Beatles without John, they reached out to Yoko for any unreleased recordings, and she provided them with some demos. […]
History: Ringo started working with a few different producers on tracks to see who he might want to record his next album with, but in the end he decided to keep all of them to put the best songs together on one album. Perhaps most interesting is that these sessions included one song he co-wrote […]
History: George, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty all gathered together again in 1990 to make another album, this time without the late Roy Orbison. It was once again a project of collaboration with all of them sharing writing credits and George and Jeff producing. It was George’s idea to title it volume 3 […]
History: While recording Cloud Nine George and Jeff Lynne kicked around the idea of forming a band together. George initially chose Bob Dylan as someone he would want to work with, and Lynne chose Roy Orbison who was his musical idol. Tom Petty also ended up joining because he was touring with Dylan around that […]
History: After taking the time off to work with his film production company, George was ready to make music again in 1987. He asked his friend Jeff Lynne to help him with production. Jeff also performs on the album, adding both instrumentation and backing vocals. Ringo, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Jim Keltner and Gary Wright […]
After The End 