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"Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass. Harrison wrote the song as a tribute to Frank Crisp, a nineteenth-century lawyer and the original owner of Friar Park – the Victorian Gothic residence in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, that Harrison purchased in early 1970.
Let It Roll contains Harrison songs originally released on the Beatles' EMI-affiliated Apple Records and his Dark Horse label. All the tracks are presented in digitally remastered form, and the collection includes a 28-page booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos together with an essay by music historian Warren Zanes.
Other songs on All Things Must Pass, all written during the first half of 1970, include "Awaiting on You All", which reflected Harrison's adoption of chanting through his involvement with the Hare Krishna movement; [72] [73] "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)", a tribute to the original owner of Friar Park; [74] and "Beware of Darkness ...
Songs by George Harrison is a book of song lyrics and commentary by English musician George Harrison, with illustrations by New Zealand artist Keith West.It was published in February 1988, in a limited run of 2500 copies, by Genesis Publications, and included an EP of rare or previously unreleased Harrison recordings.
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The song was also included on 2009's Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison. [88] In Martin Scorsese's 2011 documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World, released ten years after Harrison's death, [89] the song plays over footage of the Friar Park grounds and of Harrison making music in the house with Keltner and Voormann. [90]
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Harrison recorded the tape that subsequently became the Beware of ABKCO! bootleg at Abbey Road Studios in London, early on in the sessions for All Things Must Pass. [6] By this time, in May 1970, he had amassed a large stockpile of songs since his level of contribution as a songwriter in the Beatles was always limited by the dominance of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.