Frank Crisp - Legacy

Legacy

Former Beatle George Harrison purchased Friar Park, where Frank Crisp had lived, as his new home in 1970. He also wrote a song called "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)", which appears on the album All Things Must Pass (and later, being included on and inspiring the title of his career-spanning compilation, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison). In addition, Harrison released a hit single called "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" on his Dark Horse LP in 1974 which contains the lyrical refrain: "Ring out the old - Ring in the new. Ring out the false - Ring in the true." for which Harrison credited Crisp as the author of that and several other quotes that Harrison found engraved in several places around Friar Park (it is actually from Ring Out, Wild Bells, a section of Tennyson's poem In Memoriam). The lyrics and title of another Harrison track, "The Answer's at the End," from his 1975 album Extra Texture, were also inspired by the writings of Frank Crisp: "Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass. You know his faults now let his foibles pass. Life is one long enigma my friend. So read on, read on, the answer's at the end."