Fish On The Sand

Written by: Harrison
Recorded: 5 January – August 1987
Producers: George Harrison, Jeff Lynne

Released: 2 November 1987 (UK), 3 November 1987 (US)

Available on:
Cloud Nine

Personnel

George Harrison: vocals, electric guitar
Jeff Lynne: bass guitar, keyboards
Ringo Starr: drums

‘Fish On The Sand’ is the third song on George Harrison’s eleventh solo album Cloud Nine.

It is the first song on the album to feature Ringo Starr on drums.

You know what was happening? Ringo made an album, or was making an album, Paul was going in the studio and started making an album, but then he decided he didn’t want to do it—and I think that was going around, saying that we were all making an album. People thought that it meant we were all making an album together, but we were all making separate ones, although Ringo did play on mine.

The song also featured the sound of Harrison’s 1964 Rickenbacker electric 12-string guitar.

[‘If I Needed Someone’] was written in D nut position [capoed at the 5th fret]. The opening to ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ is also that Rickenbacker 12-string. And in fact on the new album, ‘Fish On The Sand’ is the Ricky 12-string.

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