Gone Troppo - Harrison, George (CD 1991)

There's just no pleasing some people. For years, critics and (some) fans had been complaining that George Harrison had grown too dour, too consumed by Eastern mysticism. Nevertheless, he continued to have Top 40 hits throughout the 1970s. His 1981 release, Somewhere in England, was necessarily somber in parts, due to the fact that it was completed and released in the wake of John Lennon's murder. It, too, was a big hit commercially, but it also seemed to reaffirm the perception that George had lost the cheeky sense of humor that had characterized his years in the Beatles. But for his 1982...