Today I Started Loving You Again Lethal Weapon

1989 single by George Harrison

"Cheer Downward"
U.s.a. picture sleeve
Single by George Harrison
from the album Lethal Weapon 2
B-side	"That'due south What It Takes" (US) "Poor Little Girl" (UK)
Released	22 August 1989 (US) 27 November 1989 (UK)
Recorded	1987, March 1989, FPSHOT, Oxfordshire
Genre	Rock
Length	iv:08
Label	Warner Bros. (United states), Dark Equus caballus (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland)
Songwriter(s)	George Harrison, Tom Petty
Producer(southward)	George Harrison, Jeff Lynne
George Harrison singles chronology
"This Is Love" (1988) "Cheer Down" (1989) "My Sweetness Lord" (2002)

"Cheer Down" is a song by English musician George Harrison that was commencement released in 1989. The track was his contribution to the soundtrack of the film Lethal Weapon 2 and was also issued as a unmarried. Harrison wrote the song with Tom Niggling and co-produced the recording with Jeff Lynne.

The song has appeared on the Harrison compilation albums All-time of Dark Horse and Let Information technology Roll. A live version recorded with Eric Clapton was included on Harrison'southward 1992 anthology Alive in Japan.

Composition and recording [edit]

The title of the song is attributed to Harrison's wife Olivia, who would tell her married man, "Okay, cheer down, big swain" when he became likewise enthusiastic.^[1] Harrison first recorded a rhythm rails for the song during the sessions for his 1987 album Cloud Nine.^{[two] [3]} He subsequently finished the lyrics with assistance from Tom Trivial. The post-obit twelvemonth, forth with "Run So Far" and "That Kind of Woman",^[iv] "Cheer Downwardly" was amid the four compositions that Harrison offered to Eric Clapton for inclusion on the latter's album Journeyman.^[v] Clapton instead decided to use it for the soundtrack to the picture show Lethal Weapon two, which he had been commissioned to supply, but he persuaded Harrison to contribute his ain recording for inclusion in the film.^[half-dozen]

Harrison completed "Cheer Down" at his dwelling house studio, FPSHOT, in March 1989.^[7] The song was once again co-produced by Jeff Lynne,^[8] who had served the same office on Cloud Nine, in improver to forming the Traveling Wilburys with Harrison and Petty. The completed recording features a long closing slide guitar solo that author Simon Leng admires for its fluency and variation. In Leng'due south clarification, during this department, Harrison'southward playing "runs the gamut from Indian dejection chops to 2-office countermelodies and sweeping Pete Drake jaunts through the octaves".^[9]

Release [edit]

"Cheer Downwards" was used over the closing credits of Lethal Weapon two.^[10] It was and so issued as the opening rails on the accompanying soundtrack album, released on ten August 1989 in the United states,^{[6] [11]} and as a single to promote the film there, on 22 August.^[12] Issued on Warner Bros. Records,^[12] the single's B-side was "That's What It Takes", a track from Cloud 9.^[13] The Uk release, which took identify on 27 November, on Harrison'due south Warner-distributed Night Horse record label,^[14] instead used the newly recorded "Poor Fiddling Girl" as the B-side.^{[fifteen] [16]} The unmarried was the last such release by Harrison as a solo artist during his lifetime.^[16]

In Oct 1989, "Cheer Downwards" was included on Harrison's Dark Equus caballus Records compilation anthology Best of Night Horse 1976–1989, as the terminal rail.^[17] Although All-time of Dark Equus caballus is no longer in print, "Cheer Downwards" was included on the 2009 career-spanning compilation Let Information technology Curlicue: Songs by George Harrison.^{[18] [19]} It also appeared on the reissued soundtrack anthology in 2013, as function of a box prepare titled Lethal Weapon Soundtrack Collection.^[twenty]

Live version [edit]

Harrison performed "Cheer Downwardly" throughout his 1991 Japanese bout with Clapton,^[21] which was Harrison'southward first tour since 1974.^[22] "Cheer Down" was the well-nigh recent vocal included in Harrison'south gear up listing;^{[23] [24]} in addition, information technology was i of the few selections to showcase his slide guitar playing, since otherwise he delegated his slide parts to Clapton'due south guitarist, Andy Fairweather-Low.^[25] During the concerts, Harrison took to introducing it as a song from the musical South Pacific.^{[23] [26]} A version recorded on 15 December 1991 at the Tokyo Dome appears on Harrison'due south 1992 double anthology Live in Nihon.^[27] He likewise performed information technology at the Natural Law Political party Concert, held at the Imperial Albert Hall in London on half-dozen April 1992.^{[28] [29]} For this performance – which was Harrison's only full-length concert every bit a solo creative person in Britain^[30] – Piffling's atomic number 82 guitarist in the Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell, replaced Clapton.^[31]

American dobro player Rainer Ptacek performed "Cheer Down" in 1997. Forth with a version of Harrison's Beatles runway "Within You Without Yous", the song was issued on Ptacek'southward 2001 album Live at the Performance Center.^[32]

Track listings [edit]

• Usa (Warner Bros. Records):^[12] seven-inch vinyl vii-22807, cassette 4-22807 ^[6]

1. "Cheer Down"
2. "That'due south What It Takes"

• UK (Dark Horse Records): seven-inch vinyl W2696 ^[fourteen]

1. "Cheer Downwards"
2. "Poor Little Girl"

• United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland (Dark Equus caballus Records): 12-inch single W2696T, CD W2696CD,^[14] cassette W2696C

1. "Cheer Down"
2. "Poor Little Girl"
3. "Crackerbox Palace"

Personnel [edit]

The following personnel are credited by Simon Leng:^[ix]

• George Harrison – vocals, guitar, slide guitars
• Jeff Lynne – bass, guitar, keyboards, bankroll vocals
• Richard Tandy – piano
• Ray Cooper – percussion
• Ian Paice – drums

References [edit]

1. ^ The Editors of Rolling Stone 2002, p. 225.
2. ^ Madinger & Easter 2000, pp. 469, 478.
3. ^ Harry 2003, p. 50.
4. ^ Leng 2006, p. 262.
5. ^ Madinger & Easter 2000, p. 478.
6. ^ ^{a b c} Harry 2003, p. 51.
7. ^ Badman 2001, p. 420.
8. ^ Best of Night Horse 1976–1989 (CD booklet). George Harrison. Nighttime Equus caballus/Warner Bros. 1989. p. 2. D-180307. {{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
9. ^ ^{a b} Leng 2006, p. 264.
10. ^ Clayson 2003, p. 424.
11. ^ Badman 2001, p. 429.
12. ^ ^{a b c} Madinger & Easter 2000, p. 633.
13. ^ Leng 2006, p. 248.
14. ^ ^{a b c} Madinger & Easter 2000, p. 632.
15. ^ Harry 2003, pp. 28, 157.
16. ^ ^{a b} Huntley 2006, p. 225.
17. ^ Madinger & Easter 2000, pp. 478, 637.
18. ^ Easlea, Daryl (2009). "George Harrison Let Information technology Roll: Songs of George Harrison Review". BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
19. ^ Inglis 2010, p. 128.
20. ^ "Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton, David Sanborn – Lethal Weapon Soundtrack Collection". Retrieved 12 Nov 2016.
21. ^ Madinger & Easter 2000, pp. 481–82.
22. ^ Badman 2001, p. 471.
23. ^ ^{a b} Inglis 2010, p. 111.
24. ^ Clayson 2003, p. 432.
25. ^ Leng 2006, p. 271.
26. ^ Badman 2001, p. 473.
27. ^ Madinger & Easter 2000, pp. 481, 483.
28. ^ Leng 2006, p. vii.
29. ^ Badman 2001, pp. 478–79.
30. ^ Huntley 2006, p. 239.
31. ^ Madinger & Easter 2000, pp. 484–85.
32. ^ Downing, Brian. "Rainer Ptacek Live at the Performance Center". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 November 2016.

Sources [edit]

• Badman, Keith (2001). The Beatles Diary Volume ii: After the Break-Up 1970–2001. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN978-0-7119-8307-vi.
• Clayson, Alan (2003). George Harrison. London: Sanctuary. ISBN1-86074-489-iii.
• The Editors of Rolling Stone (2002). Harrison . New York, NY: Rolling Stone Press. ISBN978-0-7432-3581-5.
• Harry, Bill (2003). The George Harrison Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. ISBN978-0-7535-0822-0.
• Huntley, Elliot J. (2006). Mystical One: George Harrison – After the Break-up of the Beatles. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions. ISBNone-55071-197-0.
• Inglis, Ian (2010). The Words and Music of George Harrison. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. ISBN978-0-313-37532-3.
• Leng, Simon (2006). While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard. ISBN978-1-4234-0609-nine.
• Madinger, Fleck; Easter, Marking (2000). Viii Artillery to Concord You lot: The Solo Beatles Compendium. Chesterfield, MO: 44.1 Productions. ISBN0-615-11724-4.

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