George was executive producer on Shanghai Surprise and doing the music with Michael Kamen, and Michael brought his engineer to George’s studio and apparently he and George didn’t hit it off. “Then, nothing, until George called a producer I was working with, Mike Moran, who does film music. “Actually, the first time I worked with George was in ’78 when I did string overdubs for him at AIR London for an album he was doing ,” Dodd recalls from his Nashville home. Harrison wrote a few songs for the film (and appeared briefly in a nightclub scene) and worked closely with composer Michael Kamen on the incidental music. It was working on the soundtrack for HandMade’s most notorious “catastrophe” (as he called it)-the 1986 Madonna/Sean Penn film Shanghai Surprise-that first brought engineer Richard Dodd to the recording studio in Harrison’s 120-room mansion known as Friar Park, in Henley-on-Thames, west of London in Oxfordshire. Beginning in 1979, his HandMade Films company helped produce such movies at Monty Python’s Life of Brian, The Long Good Friday, Time Bandits, The Missionary, Mona Lisa and others. After George Harrison’s mellow Gone Troppo album bombed upon its release in 1982, the former Beatle all but announced his retirement from the music business, noting that he was going to concentrate on his burgeoning film operation instead.
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