Following the success of The Concert of Bangla Desh and it's accompanying studio album, George Harrison decided to rest and take a semi-hiatus from recording, something normally off for him. People were used to new music from him all the time because of the Beatles, but now that he was out, he could record whenever he wanted. During this time off, he would produce and record here and there for other artists such as Badfinger, Lon & Derrek Van Eaton and Harry Nilsson. This streak would end after he went on a tour of North American with close friend Ravi Shankar from February to March of 1974. Fresh off his streak as a Beatle, the tour would be received fairly positively, but would pale in comparison to the Beatles' Spiders from Mars tour, which would happen at the same time. Afterwards, Harrison would hit the studio to make his second studio album, using songs he had written over his hiatus.
The resulting album was It Is He!, and it released on June 3, 1974. The album was filled with religious undertones, as well as songs about loving one another and, of course, Harrison himself. Contrary to Harrison's first album, critics didn't take to it, and it was a commercial failure. Almost overnight, it seemed that Harrison's solo career had fallen flat. It seemed that, since the Bangla Desh concert, people hadn't taken an interest to him anymore, especially with his old band still topping charts and making masterpieces. After some deep thinking on where he would take his career, he decided to go to his phone and make a call to an old friend of his.
All tracks are from Living in the Material World and Dark Horse, with the exception of "You" and "You (Reprise)" (A Bit More of You) from Extra Texture (Read All About It).
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