UK Media pushing EMI to re-release My Sweet Lord.

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Harrison set for UK top 40

 

British newspapers are pushing record company EMI to re-release My

Sweet Lord.

 

Hundreds of fans have paid homage at the Abbey Road studios

 

George Harrison's third solo album, All Things Must Pass, looks set

to enter the top 40 album charts, with fans rushing to rediscover

his music after his death on Thursday.

 

The album, featuring My Sweet Lord, the first number one single by a

solo Beatle, was first released in late 1970, and digitally

remastered and re-released earlier this year.

 

Gennaro Castaldo, from record retailer HMV, believes the album will

do well when the charts are announced next Sunday.

 

"There has been a very significant sales rise since Friday. If this

continues it will move into the top 40 of the album charts," he

said.

 

"It would be a tremendous tribute to him, because it shows that

people are buying it specifically to mourn him and to show how much

affection they had for him."

 

 

'Number One'

 

British newspapers are pushing record company EMI to re-release My

Sweet Lord.

 

 

"If they did re-release it there is no doubt it would be the

Christmas number one," said Castaldo.

 

 

 

Liverpool's Beatles statues have attracted tributes

 

Harrison, who died of lung cancer aged 58, has already been cremated

at a private ceremony in Los Angeles.

 

Fans from Liverpool to Tokyo have continued to pay tribute to the

late guitarist and songwriter.

 

So many have been prompted to buy Harrison's recordings that All

Things Must Pass is at number one on internet retailer Amazon's

chart.

 

It is one of four Harrison albums in their top 40, while another

four Beatles CDs are also listed in the top 40.

 

 

 

All Things Must Pass includes the hit My Sweet Lord

 

In the UK, some record shops sold out of his solo CDs on Friday and

were supplied with "emergency shipments" on Saturday.

 

"All Things Must Pass and The Best of George Harrison are definitely

selling very quickly," said David Wilson, manager of Virgin

Megastore on Oxford Street, central London.

 

"We've found that the back catalogue Beatles albums are also

selling, as is the Jools Holland album."

 

The last song Harrison recorded, A Horse To Water, is featured on

Holland's Small World, Big Friends album.