Is This What You Want?

Is This What You Want?
Studio album by
Released21 March 1969
Recorded
  • June – August 1968
  • October 1968 – January 1969
Studio
  • Sound Recorders, Los Angeles
  • EMI and Trident, London
GenreRock, soul
Length40:09 (UK version)
39:14 (US version)
LabelApple
ProducerGeorge Harrison; Jackie Lomax and Mal Evans (US version only)
Jackie Lomax chronology
Is This What You Want?
(1969)
Home Is in My Head
(1971)
Singles from Is This What You Want?
  1. "New Day"
    Released: 9 May 1969 (UK)
    2 June 1969 (US)

Is This What You Want? is the debut album by English rock and soul singer Jackie Lomax, released in 1969 on the Beatles' Apple record label. It was produced by George Harrison and features contributions from Harrison's Beatles bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The album includes Lomax's debut single for Apple, the Harrison-written "Sour Milk Sea". The US version added "New Day", which was produced by Lomax and released as a non-album single in Britain.

The recording sessions for Is This What You Want? began in London in June 1968. The majority of the songs were recorded in Los Angeles in October–November that year, after Harrison had completed work on the Beatles' self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album"). Among the other guest musicians were members of the Wrecking Crew, Eric Clapton, Nicky Hopkins, Klaus Voormann and John Barham. Although the album received favourable reviews, it failed to achieve commercial success. The 2010 reissue includes bonus tracks covering the rest of Lomax's output while on Apple Records.