I know it's George, I was just wondering what his involvement, if any, was to Dave Stewart's project. Has anyone seen the commercials with Mick Jagger, Ringo and Dhani? Apparently Stewart is launching his new band with this faux documentary on the made up 1974 band Platinum Weird. I've read that George was somehow involved. I was just wondering if that was at all true.
Some info:
"A previously unheard George Harrison recording has surfaced online, as part of an elaborate hoax about the fictitious history of a new band, Platinum Weird. The band is the brainchild of Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, who was a friend of Harrison's, and pop singer-songwriter Kara DioGuardi, best known for writing songs for Ashlee Simpson and Kelly Clarkson, among others. The track is a re-recording of Harrison's 1975 song "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)," which he wrote as a sequel to the Beatles' 1968 tune "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." It appears on the website platinumweird.com, and is billed as a track from the band's upcoming album of outtakes and is described a being a 1974 performance -- which it clearly is not. The website, which features an elaborate multi-media "history" of the band, including cameo comments and video appearances by such "friends" of Platinum Weird as Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr, Elton John, Stevie Nicks, Annie Lennox, Bob Geldof, Christina Aguilera, Paris Hilton, and Harrison's son Dhani Harrison.