"I Don't Care Anymore" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released as the B-side of the lead single from his 1974 album Dark Horse.
[15] In October 1974, shortly before leaving for Los Angeles to begin rehearsals for his North American tour with Ravi Shankar, Harrison recorded an interview with BBC Radio 1 DJ Alan Freeman in which he performed three new songs, along with a snippet of his All Things Must Pass track "Awaiting on You All".
[16][17] The final song Harrison played was "I Don't Care Anymore",[18] sung in a cleaner-sounding voice than the officially released version, and with lyrics amended to thank Freeman for his support over the years.
[11] In addition to playing 12-string acoustic guitar[13] and singing, Harrison overdubbed a part on jew's harp,[1] an instrument that was among his many contributions to Splinter's debut album, The Place I Love.
[27][28] Authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter view the song as an obvious "one-take affair", with Harrison's half-heartedness apparent in his "barely in-tune" guitar and the underlying message that "[recording] this B-side is a pain in the ass".
[34][35] As a Harrison solo performance, "I Don't Care Anymore" shared common ground with the Dylan-styled "Apple Scruffs",[36][37] a track from All Things Must Pass that was then issued as a 1971 B-side.
[43][44] Describing the largely unfavourable critical reception towards the Dark Horse album, author Elliot Huntley writes that the title of "I Don't Care Anymore" appeared to be "a literal reflection of [Harrison's] attitude, circa 1974".
[45] Bruce Spizer recalls of the song's release: "While the whole affair may have been intended as a joke, listeners were left with the impression that George really didn't care anymore.
[48] Writing in Goldmine magazine in 2002, Dave Thompson considered "I Don't Care Anymore" to be "pleasant enough" among the songs from Harrison's Dark Horse period, few of which "could be compared to past triumphs".
[53] Following the appearance of "Deep Blue" and "Miss O'Dell" as bonus tracks on the 2006 Living in the Material World remaster,[54] "I Don't Care Anymore" remained the only one of Harrison's formally released recordings not to have been officially issued on compact disc.