Live in Japan (George Harrison album)

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Live in Japan is George Harrison's second official live album release, coming after 1971's Grammy-winning The Concert for Bangladesh and was released in 1992. Although unknown 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 with Eric Clapton and Band.

History

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 treated fans to both a variety of Beatles songs as well as several solo hits all in one set.

Release

Released in July 1992 with the production credit of "Spike and Nelson Wilbury" (Harrison's two personæ on the two Traveling Wilburys albums), Live in Japan was a no-charter in the United Kingdom and only managed number 126 in the United States, but reached number 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.

Track listing

All songs by George Harrison, except where noted.

Disc one

1. "I Want to Tell You" – 4:33
2. "Old Brown Shoe" – 3:51
3. "Taxman" – 4:16
4. "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" – 3:37
5. "If I Needed Someone" – 3:50
6. "Something" – 5:21
7. "What Is Life" – 4:47
8. "Dark Horse" – 4:20
9. "Piggies" – 2:56
10. "Got My Mind Set on You" (Rudy Clark) – 4:56

Disc two

1. "Cloud 9" – 4:23
2. "Here Comes the Sun" – 3:31
3. "My Sweet Lord" – 5:42
4. "All Those Years Ago" – 4:26
5. "Cheer Down" (George Harrison/Tom Petty) – 3:53
6. "Devil's Radio" – 4:25
7. "Isn't It a Pity" – 6:33
8. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" – 7:09
9. "Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry) – 4:45

Personnel

• George Harrison – Rhythm, lead and slide guitars, acoustic guitar, lead vocals
• Eric Clapton – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Andy Fairweather-Low – guitar, backing vocals
• Nathan East – bass, backing vocals
• Greg Phillinganes – keyboards, Hammond organ, backing vocals
• Chuck Leavell – piano, keyboards
• Steve Ferrone – drums
• Ray Cooper – percussion
• Katie Kissoon – background vocals
• Tessa Niles – background vocals

Chart positions

Chart (1992)	Peak position
Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)	15
US Billboard 200	126

Sales

Country	Provider	Sales
Japan	Oricon	34,000+