George Harrison – Brainwashed : une interview de Dhani Harrison

C’est dans son édition d’hier que le journal espagnol « El Mundo » offrait à ses lecteurs une interview exclusive de Dhani Harrison, que nous vous livrons ci-après.

Q.: You use to say that you don’t know if this songs can change one life, but that they changed yours,…what way?

[Dhani] The simple lose of dad or of a beloved person is already a tremendous inner shock. Also, after I was working in this record so long waited by professionals and for the public. For this ,also, it changed my life. I wanted to control each one of their parts (sections) for becoming whole sure that it would the record that my dad wanted before dying.

Q: What instructions (rules) did your dad brought about arrangements?

A: We were playing and recording together many times, and our first working takes already showed a clear direction. A few times after his passing, I went with the tapes to L.A. along with Jeff Lynne. My dad brought a list of indications so precise: add a piano here, guitar there…all the snippets that were unfinished we were trying to fill a way that they weren’t noticed so much.

Q.:If you close your eyes,..which is the image of your dad that came to your mind? A.:(He closes his eyes) I remember him recording ‘Rising Sun’. a so vivid memory. I’m in the studios along him and I heard him alone. I remember above all all the sights fulfilled with admiration of people, meanwhile he played and sang. All of this crowded my mind, along sounds and vibrations. It’s like hearing a song that makes you to remember your girlfriend. In fact all of this record made me to think in my tender years, when dad and I played guitar together.

Q. If you needed to choose what is the preferred song from your dad?

A: One that he penned along eric clapton for the soundtrack of ‘Lethal Weapon.’ It’s called ‘Cheer Down’. It’s a phrase that reminds me the happy conversations among my dad and my mum. When someone else is sad, it used to be said ‘Cheer up.’  »

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