George Harrison: How Dark Horse Whipped Up A Winning Tour
Michael Gross, Circus Raves, March 1975
AS GEORGE HARRISON'S tour began to cross America late in 1974, reports filtered back to New York City that all was not right. Though the first show in Vancouver sold out, press reports, most notably a cover story in Rolling Stone, spoke of an ineffective set, George singing in a voice hardly better than a croak, and dismal ticket sales.
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