Is This What You Want?
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| Studio album by Jackie Lomax | ||||
| Released | 21 March 1969 | |||
| Recorded | June–August 1968, October 1968–January 1969 | |||
| Studio | Sound Recorders Studio, Los Angeles; EMI Studios, London; Trident Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Rock, soul | |||
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40:09 (UK version) 39:14 (US version) |
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| Label | Apple | |||
| Producer | George Harrison; Jackie Lomax & Mal Evans (US version only) | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | B |
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Is This What You Want? is the debut album by English rock and soul singer Jackie Lomax, released in 1969 on the Beatles' Apple record label. It was produced by George Harrison and features contributions from Harrison's Beatles bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The album includes Lomax's debut single for Apple, the Harrison-written "Sour Milk Sea", while the US version added "New Day", which was produced by Lomax and released as a non-album single in Britain.
The recording sessions for Is This What You Want? began in London in June 1968. The majority of the songs were recorded in Los Angeles in October–November that year, after Harrison had completed work on the Beatles' White Album. Among the other guest musicians on the album were members of the Wrecking Crew, Eric Clapton, Nicky Hopkins, Klaus Voormann and John Barham. Although the album received favourable reviews, it failed to achieve commercial success. The 2010 reissue includes bonus tracks covering the rest of Lomax's output while on Apple Records.
A fellow Liverpudlian, Jackie Lomax signed to the Beatles' Apple Publishing as an in-house songwriter in 1967, writing songs and recording demos at the company's original headquarters, on Baker Street in central London.John Lennon was the first to suggest he should consider becoming a solo artist, and with the formation of Apple Records in early 1968, George Harrison committed to producing an album by Lomax on the new label. Lomax later admitted he was concerned that the album might never get made since he was unsure whether Harrison would ever come back from India, where the Beatles were attending the Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation course in the early months of 1968.
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