Gone Troppo
Album by George Harrison
Released	5 November 1982
Recorded	5 May - 27 August 1982 Except "Dream Away": recording begun 7 December 1980
Genre	Rock
Length	39:07
Label	Dark Horse/Warner Bros.
Producer(s)	George Harrison, Ray Cooper and Phil McDonald
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (1/5) link The Music Box link
George Harrison chronology
Somewhere in England (1981)	Gone Troppo (1982)	Cloud Nine (1987)

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By 1980, Harrison had been finding the current musical climate unrelatable. Not surprisingly, his commercial appeal had continued to dwindle, with 1981's Somewhere in England failing to go gold (despite featuring the John Lennon tribute smash hit, "All Those Years Ago"). With one album left on his current recording contract, Harrison decided to get it over with and recorded Gone Troppo (an expression meaning going mad in the heat of the tropics) and released it without any self-promotion, so disenchanted he was with the state of the music industry. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Somewhere in England is an album by George Harrison released in 1981. ... John Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was best known as a singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist for the British rock band The Beatles. ...

Not surprisingly, Gone Troppo - with its outrageously busy artwork by friend "Legs" Larry Smith (formerly of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) - was an unqualified flop, reaching a paltry #108 in the US and never touching the UK charts. Although Warner Bros. Records were displeased with the album's performance, Harrison himself was hardly bothered. He was now a free agent. The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (more often the Bonzo Dog Band) was the brainchild of the British art-school set of the 1960s. ... Warner Bros. ...

Despite the fact there is some fine music to be found on Gone Troppo, it is clear that Harrison was at odds with the New Wave stylings of the times, and his attempts to add synthesizers to his brand of music (i.e. lead single "Wake Up My Love") is generally considered to sound awkward, as it did on occasion on Somewhere in England. Harrison reasoned that when contemporary music started making sense to him again, he would return. Besides, with his family and greater interest in the film industry, he had plenty to get on with. As he sings in "Mystical One": They say I'm not what I used to be; All the same I'm happier than a willow tree; Shine or rain sitting here by a stream. New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in American, Australian, British, Canadian and European popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ...

In 2004, Gone Troppo was remastered and reissued both separately and as part of the deluxe box set The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992 on Dark Horse Records with new distribution by EMI, adding the bonus track demo version of "Mystical One". 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992 is a box set of albums by George Harrison released in 2004. ... Dark Horse Records is the record label which was started by George Harrison in 1974. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Hammersmith in London, in the United Kingdom. ...

Track listing

All songs by George Harrison, except where noted. George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was a popular British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film producer, best known as a member of The Beatles. ...

1. "Wake Up My Love" - 3:34
2. "That's The Way It Goes" - 3:34
3. "I Really Love You" (Leroy Swearingen) - 2:54
   • A cover of a 1961 doo-wop song
4. "Greece" - 3:58
   • A rare instrumental from Harrison
5. "Gone Troppo" - 4:25
6. "Mystical One" - 3:42
7. "Unknown Delight" - 4:16
8. "Baby Don't Run Away" - 4:01
9. "Dream Away" - 4:29
   • Appeared in the Terry Gilliam film Time Bandits
10. "Circles" - 3:46
    • A song originally composed in 1968

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