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Read the original blog post3.30pm
31 March 2008
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‘Simply Shady’ is the second song on George Harrison’s fifth solo album Dark Horse. See more…
There was a bad domestic year, 1974. All that splitting up around the house. ‘Simply Shady’ that song is about it. At the same time I was doing a Splinter album and a Ravi Shankar album and my own album and then during rehearsals, I was trying to finish my album and in the end [business manager] Denis O’Brien carried me out of the studio to my first concert (in Canada) because I was trying to finish the album in time to get it out to coincide with the tour, which is the way the ‘business’ needs it.
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3.04pm
12 August 2016
Offline Quite possibly my favorite Harrisong, the lyrics depict a sort of fall from grace. The mellow, yet sorrowful melody add dimension to the track. This song stands out to me on the Dark Horse album as a transparent look into the darker side of a beautiful man. It is to my knowledge that he sang this song with laryngitis. That apparently caused alot of bad comments towards this track, but I think it just adds to the real, confessional tone of the song. Maybe my personal experiences with the subject matter in the song makes me a little biased, but I think it’s absolutely brilliant and undeservingly overlooked.
What do you think of this track?
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4.00pm
26 January 2017
Offline I haven’t listened to Dark Horse . I very much like the song, and your analysis. I’ll have to check out the rest of the album.
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5.49pm
12 August 2016
Offline sir walter raleigh said
I haven’t listened to Dark Horse . I very much like the song, and your analysis. I’ll have to check out the rest of the album.
It was the last George album I listened to in it’s entirety. I recommend “Far East Man” and “It Is He (Jai Sri Krishna)” 
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