harrisonarchive:On 9 December 1974, George Harrison’s album “Dark Horse” was released.“[The album] w

harrisonarchive:On 9 December 1974, George Harrison’s album “Dark Horse” was released.“[The album] was all done in a rush, with rehearsals [for the tour] by day and mixing at night. For the artwork on the inner sleeve. I was so behind that moments before we went on the road I got a blank dust cover and wrote out all the credits by hand, put a few thumb prints on it and gave it to ‪the record company‬ for the printers. The cover shot was my high school class photo from Liverpool Institute, with lots of gray students who all look the same, and this big gray building in the background. I positioned the blown-up photo so that I’d be in the middle, put an album cover over the length of it and cropped it off. I moved the headmaster, who never liked me anyway, from where he was in the photo and I put him in the middle with a bull’s eye Capitol logo on his chest. I got the art guy to paint the Himalayas in the background with a few yogis in the sky, and put exotic T-shirts on everybody. […] The bubble caption in the photo of Peter [Sellers] and me on the Dark Horse jacket is from The Producers, from Max Bialystock’s line to his partner Bloom: ‘Well Leo! What say we promenade though the park?’” - George Harrison, Musician, Nov 1987“To take the GCE (General Certificate of Education) at 16, we had first to pass three subjects in the ‘mock’ GCE. The first result in the 'mock’ was art, which I passed. But that’s because Stan Reid, the art teacher, was nice, you see (he’s the one with OM on his tee shirt on the Dark Horse album).” - George Harrison, I Me MineThe vinyl album features a closeup of George’s eyes on one side, and Olivia’s eyes on the other —“That was so sweet of him. He just said, 'Someone’s coming over here to take a picture.’ I’d only known him for a couple of weeks so it was like, 'Oh, I think we’re getting somewhere here.’” - Olivia Harrison, The Sun, 26 Sep 2014 (x) -- source link

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