McCartney Times

It took an unspeakable tragedy to get George Harrison‘s Somewhere in England onto the charts, and even then the album couldn’t be saved.Finally released on June 5, 1981, the project saw its first sessions back in October 1979. Along the way, Harrison was ordered by Warner Bros. to drop four of the original songs, as officials cautioned him that they were too downbeat.“They were telling me: ‘Well, we like it, but we don’t really hear a single,’” Harrison told Creem. “And then other people were saying, ‘Now, look, radio stations are having all these polls done in the street to find out what constitutes a hit single and they’ve decided a hit single is a song of love gained or lost directed at 14-to-20-year-olds.’ And I said, ‘S—, what chance does that give me?’”

Source: 35 Years Ago: George Harrison Tries But Fails to Salvage ‘Somewhere In England’