The Place I Love
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| Studio album by Splinter | ||||
| Released | 20 September 1974 | |||
| Recorded | mid 1973–August 1974 | |||
| Studio | FPSHOT, Oxfordshire | |||
| Genre | Rock, folk rock | |||
| Length | 36:18 | |||
| Label | Dark Horse | |||
| Producer | George Harrison | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Melody Maker | (favourable) |
| Phonograph Record | (favourable) |
The Place I Love is the debut album by English vocal duo Splinter, released on Dark Horse Records in September 1974. It was the first album released by the Dark Horse label, which was owned by George Harrison, who also produced the album. Recording sessions took place at Harrison's Friar Park home studio in Oxfordshire and featured extensive musical contributions from Harrison, on guitar, keyboards and other instruments, as well as participants such as Gary Wright, Billy Preston, Jim Keltner and Alvin Lee. "Costafine Town", the first single from the album, was a top-twenty hit in the United Kingdom and other countries.
On release, the album received favourable reviews from a number of critics, who likened its sound to that of the Beatles, Badfinger and Plastic Ono Band. Having long been unavailable, The Place I Love was issued on CD in 2015.
Splinter's Bobby Purvis and Bill Elliott had had links with the Beatles for some time before they came to work with George Harrison, since Mal Evans, in his role as a talent scout for Apple Records, had discovered the duo (then playing in the Newcastle band Half Breed) and become their manager. Following his involvement with the music documentaries Raga (1971) and The Concert for Bangladesh (1972), Harrison's first foray into feature-film production was Little Malcolm (1974), directed by Stuart Cooper and shot primarily in Lancashire during February and March 1973. A song was needed for a pivotal scene in the movie, for which Evans suggested the Purvis composition "Another Chance I Let Go", subsequently retitled "Lonely Man". Harrison was impressed and arranged sessions at Apple Studio in central London to record the song, with a view to issuing it as a single to coincide with the release of Little Malcolm. With Harrison as producer and contributing his signature slide guitars, Purvis and Elliott were backed by Pete Ham from Apple band Badfinger, as well as an unnamed bassist and drummer.
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