Teardrops

"Teardrops" is a song by the English rock musician George Harrison from his ninth studio album Somewhere in England (1981). It was also issued as the second single off the album, in July 1981. As with the lead single, "All Those Years Ago", Harrison completed the song after Warner Bros. Records had rejected his initial submission of Somewhere in England in September 1980. In response to Warner's concerns, he wrote "Teardrops" as an attempt at a commercially oriented song. Harrison recorded the song at his Friar Park studio in England with Ray Cooper as his co-producer. Despite some reviewers predicting it as a hit, the single failed to achieve commercial success. In the United States, it peaked at number 102 on Billboards Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart and number 88 on the Cash Box Top 100. Background George Harrison wrote "Teardrops" while on holiday in Hawaii in October 1980, after Warner Bros. Records, the company that distributed his Dark Horse record label, had rejected his initial submission of Somewhere in England. In need of a best-selling release to boost its revenue for the final quarter of 1980, Warner's invoked its contractual right to demand that Harrison replace four of the songs. The company deemed the album to be too laid-back, not sufficiently contemporary-sounding, and lacking commercial potential. Harrison later said that Warner's had complained that the album lacked an obvious single, and others had told him that a hit song had to be about "love gained or lost, directed at 14- to 20-year-olds". According to Derek Taylor, who presented Somewhere in England to the Warner's executives in late September, and then had to relay their disapproval, Harrison resolved to give the company the market-focused material they wanted.