Live in Japan

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For other albums of this name, see Live in Japan (disambiguation).

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Live in Japan

Live album by George Harrison, Eric Clapton & Band
Released	13 July 1992
Recorded	1 - 17 December 1991
Genre	Rock
Length	87:16
Label	Dark Horse/Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s)	Spike and Nelson Wilbury
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
George Harrison, Eric Clapton & Band chronology
Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989 (1989)	Live in Japan (1992)	Brainwashed (2002)

Live in Japan is George Harrison's second official live album release, coming after 1971's Grammy-winning The Concert For Bangla Desh and was released in 1992. Although unbeknown to anyone at the time, Live in Japan would prove to be Harrison's last solo release in his lifetime. It was credited to George Harrison, Eric Clapton & Band.

In 1991, a year after releasing the final Traveling Wilburys album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, Harrison was persuaded by close friend Eric Clapton to come out on tour with him in Japan. Mindful of his unsavory live tour for Dark Horse in 1974, Harrison finally relented and in December 1991 performed extremely well-received shows which not only featured his songs, but Clapton's as well. The experience - his last ever tour - proved to be a joyous one for Harrison, where he could not only treat fans to his Beatles classics but also his treasure trove of solo songs all in one set. It could have been the catalyst for future tours, but with Harrison's imminent and extensive involvement in The Beatles Anthology and the lack of a new album to promote until he began working on Brainwashed in the late 1990's, he would never get the chance.

Released in July 1992 with the amusing production credit of "Spike and Nelson Wilbury" (Harrison's two personas on the two Traveling Wilburys albums), Live in Japan was a no-charter in the UK and only managed #126 in the US. but reached #15 in Japan.

In 2004, Live in Japan was remastered and reissued both separately and as part of the deluxe box set The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992 on Dark Horse with new distribution by EMI, and with an extra SACD remix alongside the original.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by George Harrison, except where noted.

[edit] Disc one

"I Want to Tell You" – 4:33
- Originally heard on The Beatles' 1966 album Revolver
"Old Brown Shoe" – 3:51
- Originally the B-Side to The Beatles' "The Ballad of John and Yoko" in 1969
"Taxman" – 4:16
- Originally heard on The Beatles' 1966 album Revolver
- Begins with a recording of the actual count-in and cough heard on the original studio version
"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" – 3:37
"If I Needed Someone" – 3:50
- Originally heard on The Beatles' 1965 album Rubber Soul
"Something" – 5:21
- Originally heard on The Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road
"What Is Life" – 4:47
"Dark Horse" – 4:20
"Piggies" – 2:56
- Originally heard on The Beatles' 1968 double album The Beatles
"Got My Mind Set On You" (Rudy Clark) – 4:56

[edit] Disc two

"Cloud Nine" – 4:23
"Here Comes the Sun" – 3:31
- Originally heard on The Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road
"My Sweet Lord" – 5:42
"All Those Years Ago" – 4:26
"Cheer Down" (George Harrison/Tom Petty) – 3:53
"Devil's Radio" – 4:25
"Isn't It A Pity" – 6:33
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" – 7:09
- Originally heard on The Beatles' 1968 double album The Beatles
"Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry) – 4:45
- Originally heard on The Beatles' 1963 album With the Beatles