| Blood from a Clone | |
| Type: | song |
| Artist: | George Harrison |
| Album: | Somewhere in England |
| Released: | 1 June 1981 |
| Recorded: | November 1980 – February 1981 |
| Studio: | FPSHOT (Oxfordshire) |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 4:03 |
| Label: | Dark Horse |
| Producer: |
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"Blood from a Clone" is a song by the English musician and former Beatles guitarist George Harrison from his 1981 album Somewhere in England. The song saw a re-release on The Dark Horse Years 1976–1992.[1]
This was the one of the many songs that Harrison was recording for his next album when the murder of John Lennon occurred. The expectations were that the day's work would be postponed, but after a couple of hours following the news, Harrison decided to continue on. Session musician Ray Cooper recalls Harrison thought "trying to make music would be more therapeutic than him sitting around and being besieged by press and God knows what else."[2]
Harrison's original plan was to write songs that were aimed at "14-20-year-olds", but he had to write another song.[3] [4] Far Out Magazine said that it was a "last-ditch attempt to jump on the funk bandwagon that was popular in England at that time."[5]
In 1980, Harrison had finished recording the original track listing for Somewhere in England and was ready to present it to Warner Records. Harrison's record label thought none of the songs were radio ready, which made Harrison upset, so he decided to make the song after the occasion. Harrison's label was "looking for the mathematical equation for making the perfect single for the pop market."[6]
Elliot J. Huntley said that Blood from a Clone, That Which I Have Lost, Teardrops and All Those Years Ago were "certainly more commercial but were also more throwaway and unbalanced than Harrison's original vision of the album"[7]
According to Simon Leng[8]