Written by: Harrison
Recorded: 5 May – 27 August 1982
Producers: George Harrison, Ray Cooper, Phil McDonald
Released: 5 November 1982 (UK), 8 November 1982 (US)
Available on:
Gone Troppo
Personnel
George Harrison: vocals, electric guitar
Billy Preston, Mike Moran: keyboards
Herbie Flowers: bass guitar
Henry Spinetti: drums
Willie Greene: vocals
‘Greece’ is the fourth song on George Harrison’s tenth solo album Gone Troppo.
Harrison’s playful spirit on the album found him setting sail on a litany of puns:
You may Athena
Handed on Plato
Hole in my Socrates
I came Acropolis
On Monty Pythagoras
Ulysses Greece
‘Greece’
‘Wake Up My Love’ was released on 8 November 1982 as the album’s lead single, with ‘Greece’ on the b-side.
Despite its commercial sound, ‘Wake Up My Love’ failed to chart in the UK and peaked at 53 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
