On this day in music history: December 9, 1974 – “Dark Horse”, the sixth album by George Harrison is released. Produced by George Harrison, it is recorded at Friar Park Studios (FPSHOT) in Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK and A&M Studios in Hollywood, CA from September 1973, April – July 1974, September – October 1974. Harrison’s third post Beatles album is recorded at a particularly turbulent period which sees him struggling in many aspects in his personal life. To complicate matters further, Harrison is suffering from laryngitis during the recording sessions, but must complete the album in time to begin a tour that he is already committed to perform. The project features a number of guest musicians including Billy Preston, Nicky Hopkins, Jim Keltner, Ringo Starr, Tom Scott, Gary Wright, Willie Weeks, and Ron Wood. Critics dub the album “Dark Hoarse” due to Harrison’s vocals, but in spite of this it performs well commercially, spinning off two singles including the title track (#15 Pop) and “Ding Dong, Ding Dong” (#36 Pop). The latter song is inspired by engravings on the grounds of Harrison’s sprawling estate Friar Park, written by its former owner Sir Frank Crisp. A promotional video for the song is filmed at Friar Park, with George donning his famous collarless Beatles suit and Sgt. Pepper uniform. Inspired by Phil Spector’s “Wall Of Sound”, the song written as a “New Year’s Eve sing-a-long”, but becomes associated with the Christmas holiday over the years. The album is remastered and reissued in September of 2014 with the non LP B-side “I Don’t Care Anymore” (flip side of “Dark Horse”) and an early outtake of the title track added as bonus tracks. It is also remastered and reissued as a 180 gram vinyl LP, as a stand alone release and as part of the box set “George Harrison – The Vinyl Collection” in 2017. “Dark Horse” peaks at number four on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.
Because tumblr isn’t a book of mine. It’s, at its best, a community, which includes a number of things, and sexuality is one of the things it includes.
I’ve got about 400,000 people following me here, and I’ve never stopped to investigate what any of them are or what they like. But sometimes I’ll click on the tumblr of someone who’s asked a good question or reblogged with an interesting comment, and found myself in very NSFW places. So assuming that people who like pop culture cannot also like nakedness, sex, or figuring out their sexuality in a safe space, would seem to me like a misguided assumption.
Contrary to popular belief “frank-o-meter”, most of us who run NSFW blogs are well rounded people with varied interests including your own on pop culture.
While we do post/reblog pictures/gifs of nakedness and debauchery we also touch a lot on our other interests. Until the mention of the forthcoming apocalypse of porn, my blog was about 50/50 NSFW vs SFW. (I’ve lightened on the DFW items now to get the nakeys out before I go) I even went so far to build three side blogs on words, music and military appreciation because those interests are great and would have taken over my main blog.
Though I have no where near the numbers that Mr Gaiman has in followers, I checked out each new follower as they came along, to make sure minors were not following. I can easily say my followers are 50% SFW blogs. With interests as wide and varied as my own. Even like yours Frank (may I call you frank), pop culture oriented. And they are the biggest “likers” of everything and are heavy in the reblogging of the SFW items found on my blog.
It would normally be at this point Frank that I would advise you not to put so much weight on what a person’s main blog is (all the likes have to come from there) because your posts may just be reblogged to a SFW sideblog. But in a week you will no longer have to worry about that.
PS @neil-gaiman I have loved your work for so long. Thank you.
Oh I am frustrated 