Great George Harrison interview from Creem

Creem published this interview around the time Cloud Nine came out. It's great!

http://www.creemmedia.com/BeatGoesOn/GeorgeHarrison.html

 

Matt,

Thanks for posting this great interview. George is at his candid best. Here's some Elvis food for thought:

"I wanted to say to him, "Why don’t you just come out in your jeans and your black shirt–get rid of all them horrible women singers in your band, all them horrible trumpet players and just have James Burton and the drummer and the bass player and the piano player? Just come out and do ‘That’s All Right, Mama.’" But instead he came out and did (sings) "I did it myyy wayyyy." Oh, Jesus. But we all loved Elvis and it was sad to see what happened to him. We still love him and he’s still there in his spirit and in his music and best of luck to him, that’s what I say."

Great stuff Geprge!

 

Thanks for the link - interesting read.

On a sidenote - I always did like Creem magazine. Serious and irreverent at the same time. By the mid 70's they were doing rock n' roll "journalism" better than Rolling Stone. I loved that picture they published of Grace Slick flashing her breasts for a Boy Howdy advert.

If you don't know what Boy Howdy was - all I can say is: you should have been there!

 

Thanks Matt.

Good interview.

 

Creem is back and online: http://www.creemmedia.com/

 

I love his comment about Dick Clark:
"Rock and roll has done a lot more for Dick Clark than Dick Clark has done for rock and roll."

 

My favorite read back in the day. Bought it for the Kiss articles and got intrigued by other reviews (probably how I ended up buying my first Ramones and Stooges albums).

 

Great interview - thanks for posting this Matt. I was pretty surprised to see George call Dick Clark a twat.

 

Great interview--thanks for posting this Matt! George could always make me laugh out loud....

"So what kind of readers does CREEM have?" asked George Harrison. "It’s not just Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton, is it?" We hope not, but one never really knows