Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
2. Sue Me, Sue You Blues
3. The Light That Has Lighted The World
4. Don't Let Me Wait Too Long
5. Who Can See it
6. Living In The Material World
7. The Lord Loves The One (That Loves The Lord)
8. Be Here Now
9. Try Some Buy Some
10. The Day The Word Gets 'round
11. That Is All
12. Deep Blue (bonus track)
13. Miss O'Dell (bonus track)

Disc 2:

1. Give Me Love (in 5.1 and stereo) live in Japan during the 1991 tour
2. Miss O'Dell (Alternative Version)-DVD
3. Sue Me - Sue You Blues (Acoustic Demo Version)-DVD
4. Living In The Material World-DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76314 in Music
• Released on: 2006-09-26
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Extra tracks, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered

Album Description
Remastered reissue of George Harrison's "Living In The Material World" album, originally released in 1973. Contains the #1 Pop single "Give Me Love."

Limited Edition CD+DVD comes in a digipack with a 40 page booklet. Deluxe booklet includes lyrics (some handwritten) and many additional photographs from the original session.

DVD Content: 4 videos and all visual content is previously unreleased. Features a new video for the ‘Living in the Material World’ track with footage of the original UK/US LP pressing. ‘Give Me Love’ performed live in Japan during the 1991 tour (in 5.1 surround sound and stereo). Along with unreleased versions of the songs Miss O'Dell and Sue Me, Sue You Blues.

Customer Reviews

Not a review, but a comment for Mr. Smith, Jr.
I can understand your disappointment to learn that a different guitarist "imitated" George's signature slide guitar style, but I wanted to bring a few things you may not know to light:

In one interview, he stated that, prior to the Japan tour, he "had not picked up the guitar in awhile", had been mostly playing the ukelele.
He was pretty forthcoming in admitting that he had gotten "a bit rusty". He may have also been (unbeknowst to us all) somewhat ill,even at that point in time.

The Japan tour was probably mostly a financial/monetary endeavor. He stated that Eric Clapton had talked him into it, maybe for that reason. The choice of Japan (as opposed to the U.S., for one)might likely have had to do with the poor reception he received when touring the U.S. in the '70s; he felt the audience at that time was expecting "The Beatles". He probably had more confidence that he would be accepted/respected on his own merits.

The reason I say "financial/monetary reasons" is because, when I trace back to the first rumors of his health problems, they surface prior to the tour. He may have received the first hints of a grave diagnosis, even at that time, and in spite of what would turn out to be a temporary recovery. George was strengthening his family's financial future.

That, as you know, is George.

Standard fare
This is a fairly typical offering from "The quite one" although I really wish he would keep his religious convictions to him self. The first couple of songs are good, after that it gets really boring. Most of the songs sound like he simply preaching his same old rhetoric. I am not knocking his faith. I just don't need him telling me about it in every song. In reality he only had three good songs for this album. Too bad he didn't have a real producer that could tell him to go back to the drawing board. The bonus DVD is alright.

Material World Delivers
Living in the Material World is one of George Harrison's great albums. The album is full of spiritual songs reflecting George's quest for spirituality/ God. Before you turn away from this cd thinking it's going to be a bore, think again. The songs are terrific. "Give Me Love", "The Light That Has Lighted The World", "The Lord Loves The One That Loves The Lord", and the title track, "Living In The Material World" tell of George's earnest quest to seek and understand God as well as putting worldly things in perspective. On "Try Some, Buy Some" George tells us of the battles he's had concerning drugs, fame, status, etc , and how God opened his eyes and reveiled Himself. George once said that "...the things of this life can wait...the search for God can't." This philosophy is very evident on this album. I esprcially liked the Beatles reference on 'Material world" where he says "...met my friends here in the material world/ John and Paul here in the material world/ though we started out quite poor, we got Richie on a tour..." As a side note, Ringo plays on this album. Apart from George giving us things spiritual to reflect on, he also humorously recalls the days of the Apple court battles in "Sue Me, Sue You Blues". I like the line "...court receiver, laughs, and thrills/ but in the end we just pay those lawyers their bills..." The lyrics are great as is the music. Some of the contributing players here are: Gary Wright, Nicky Hopkins, Jim Keltner and Ringo on drums, Klaus Voormann (old friend from their Hamburg days) on bass, and Jim Horn on sax and flutes. And, of course George on guitar. Not a bad line up. Living In The Material World is a must have for anyone into The Beatles or George as a solo artist.