‘That Which I Have Lost’ is the seventh song on George Harrison’s ninth solo album Somewhere In England.
The album was the first by a former Beatle to be rejected by a record company. Warner Bros decided Somewhere In England was not commercial enough, and asked Harrison to rework it.
I think he felt sidelined by everything that was going on. It was the rise of the machine, and there was a real sea change in popular music. Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, he felt that was all at the opposite end of the spectrum and he was railing against it. I don’t think he was disillusioned, I just think he was sad about what was going on around him. ‘What am I doing? I don’t feel a part of contemporary music.’
Dave Mattacks, drummer
Behind The Locked Door, Graeme Thomson
Behind The Locked Door, Graeme Thomson
To placate the label, Harrison reworked ‘All Those Years Ago’ and wrote recorded three new songs: ‘Blood From A Clone’, ‘Teardrops’, and the country-style ‘That Which I Have Lost’.
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