Ron Wood's Version
"Far East Man" was written during a period when Ron Wood was a frequent visitor to George Harrison's Friar Park estate in Oxfordshire, the two having spent much of October−November 1973 writing and recording there. In his autobiography, Harrison would refer to them stumbling onto the soulful tune to the verses of "Far East Man" as well as "other things" − a reference perhaps to their public wife-swapping episode that caused a sensation in British tabloids a short time afterwards. Early in 1974, Wood needed a song for his debut solo album and asked Harrison if he would finish the tune and come up with some words; Harrison wrote the "especially attractive" middle eight at Wood's house, The Wick, while they were starting to run through the song.
The title came about because The Faces had just returned from a tour of the Far East and "Woodie" was wearing a T-shirt that carried the slogan Far East Man. The song was recorded there at Wood's home in Richmond, south-west London, co-produced by Gary Kellgren, with Mick Taylor, Andy Newmark and Wood's fellow Face Ian MacLagan among those joining him and Harrison on the session. "Far East Man" appeared as the second track on Wood's well-received I've Got My Own Album to Do, released in September 1974 on Warner Bros. Records.
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