<i>Gone Troppo</i>

Gone Troppo

<p><i><b>Gone Troppo</b></i> is the tenth studio album by English rock musician <a href="/en/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison" class="wl">George Harrison</a>, released on 5 November 1982 by <a href="/en/Dark_Horse_Records" title="Dark Horse Records" class="wl">Dark Horse Records</a>. It includes "<a href="/en/Wake_Up_My_Love" title="Wake Up My Love" class="wl">Wake Up My Love</a>", issued as a single, and "<a href="/en/Dream_Away_(George_Harrison_song)" title="Dream Away (George Harrison song)" class="wl">Dream Away</a>", which was the theme song for the 1981 <a href="/en/HandMade_Films" title="HandMade Films" class="wl">HandMade Films</a> production <i><a href="/en/Time_Bandits" title="Time Bandits" class="wl">Time Bandits</a></i>. Harrison produced the album with <a href="/en/Ray_Cooper" title="Ray Cooper" class="wl">Ray Cooper</a> and former <a href="/en/Beatles" title="Beatles" class="mw-redirect wl">Beatles</a> engineer <a href="/en/Phil_McDonald" title="Phil McDonald" class="wl">Phil McDonald</a>.</p>

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background-color: lightsteelblue; font-size: 125%;">Gone Troppo</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:GoneTroppo.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:GoneTroppo.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2f/GoneTroppo.jpg/220px-GoneTroppo.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" data-file-type="bitmap" height="220" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/GoneTroppo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/GoneTroppo.jpg 2x" alt="GoneTroppo.jpg"></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description notheme" style="background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/en/Album" title="Album" class="wl">Studio album</a><span> </span>by <div class="contributor" style="display:inline"><a href="/en/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison" class="wl">George Harrison</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data published">5<span>&nbsp;</span>November<span>&nbsp;</span>1982<span style="display:none"><span>&nbsp;</span>(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1982-11-05</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">5 May–27 August 1982</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Studio</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/en/FPSHOT" title="FPSHOT" class="mw-redirect wl">FPSHOT</a> (Oxfordshire)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Music_genre" title="Music genre" class="wl">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><a href="/en/Rock_music" title="Rock music" class="wl">Rock</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="duration"><span class="min">39</span>:<span class="s">07</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Record_label" title="Record label" class="wl">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/en/Dark_Horse_Records" title="Dark Horse Records" class="wl">Dark Horse</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Record_producer" title="Record producer" class="wl">Producer</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/en/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison" class="wl">George Harrison</a>, <a href="/en/Ray_Cooper" title="Ray Cooper" class="wl">Ray Cooper</a>, <a href="/en/Phil_McDonald" title="Phil McDonald" class="wl">Phil McDonald</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description notheme" style="background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/en/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison" class="wl">George Harrison</a> chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0"><i><a href="/en/Somewhere_in_England" title="Somewhere in England" class="wl">Somewhere in England</a></i><br>(1981)</td>
<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em"><i><b>Gone Troppo</b></i><br>(1982)</td>
<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em"><i><a href="/en/Cloud_Nine_(George_Harrison_album)" title="Cloud Nine (George Harrison album)" class="wl">Cloud Nine</a></i><br>(1987)</td></tr>
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<ol><li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"<a href="/en/Wake_Up_My_Love" title="Wake Up My Love" class="wl">Wake Up My Love</a>"</span><br>Released: 8 November 1982</span></li>
<li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"<a href="/en/I_Really_Love_You" title="I Really Love You" class="wl">I Really Love You</a>"</span><br>Released: 9 February 1983 (US)</span></li>
<li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"<a href="/en/Dream_Away_(George_Harrison_song)" title="Dream Away (George Harrison song)" class="wl">Dream Away</a>"</span><br>Released: February 1983 (Japan only)</span></li></ol>
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<p>With Harrison uninterested in the contemporary music scene and unwilling to promote the release, <i>Gone Troppo</i> failed to chart in the United Kingdom, and it was his only post-Beatles studio album not to chart inside the top 20 in the United States.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> For the next five years, he largely took an extended hiatus from his music career, with only the occasional soundtrack recording surfacing.</p>



Gone Troppo is the tenth studio album by English rock musician George Harrison, released on 5 November 1982 by Dark Horse Records. It includes "Wake Up My Love", issued as a single, and "Dream Away", which was the theme song for the 1981 HandMade Films production Time Bandits. Harrison produced the album with Ray Cooper and former Beatles engineer Phil McDonald. With Harrison uninterested in the contemporary music scene and unwilling to promote the release, Gone Troppo failed to chart in the United Kingdom, and it was his only post-Beatles studio album not to chart inside the top 20 in the United States. For the next five years, he largely took an extended hiatus from his music career, with only the occasional soundtrack recording surfacing. 