Tired of Midnight Blue
| "Tired of Midnight Blue" | |
|---|---|
| Song by George Harrison | |
| from the album Extra Texture (Read All About It) | |
| Published | Oops/Ganga |
| Released | 22 September 1975 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 4:51 |
| Label | Apple |
| Songwriter(s) | George Harrison |
| Producer(s) | George Harrison |
| Extra Texture (Read All About It) track listing | |
"Tired of Midnight Blue" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1975 album Extra Texture (Read All About It). It was written after a night out with music-industry executives in Los Angeles – an event that Harrison found particularly depressing. The recording includes contributions from Leon Russell, on piano, and Jim Keltner, who plays drums and percussion.
Along with the hit single "You", "Tired of Midnight Blue" is one of the few songs on Extra Texture that has consistently been received with favour by music critics and reviewers. Writing for Classic Rock magazine, Paul Trynka describes it as "a beautifully constructed lament to a tedious night out".
Since the early 1970s, George Harrison regularly spent part of spring and summer each year in Los Angeles, the recognised capital of the music industry worldwide. In 1971, he produced Ravi Shankar's Raga soundtrack album there, as well as recording his and Shankar's Bangladesh benefit singles. In 1973, he worked with Shankar once more, on Shankar Family & Friends, at A&M Studios in Hollywood, before going on to make guest appearances on albums by Ringo Starr (Ringo), Cheech & Chong (Los Cochinos) and Dave Mason (It's Like You Never Left) at Sunset Sound and other studios around town. When visiting him in Malibu in April 1971, Harrison's friend Chris O'Dell had found him lonely and keen to escape the hangers-on associated with the LA rock world, just as Klaus Voormann has noted that installing a state-of-the-art studio at his Friar Park home would allow Harrison to do the same from the London music scene.
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