All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary - Deluxe)

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The original vinyl release featured two LPs of rock songs as well as Apple Jam, a third disc of informal jams. Voormann has said that Harrison "cluttered" the album's sound in this way, and "admitted later that he put too much stuff on top". Several commentators interpret Barry Feinstein's album cover photo, showing Harrison surrounded by four garden gnomes, as a statement on his independence from the Beatles. In 2022, the 50th anniversary box set won the Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package. The 50th anniversary release also peaked at number 2 in Germany and number 3 in Switzerland, among other top-ten international chart placings.

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a b Nigel Williamson, "All Things Must Pass: George Harrison's post-Beatles solo albums", Uncut, February 2002, p.Soon after the tour, Harrison gave "My Sweet Lord" and "All Things Must Pass" to Preston, [69] who released the songs on his Encouraging Words album in September 1970, two months before Harrison's versions appeared. Once you get used to this new presentation, you notice George's voice always has a nice little space carved out for it in the high mids. Harrison offered these three songs to Ronnie Spector in February 1971 for her proposed solo album on Apple Records. Kevin Korber, "Best Solo Beatles Album Ever: All Things Must Pass", Spectrum Culture, 4 September 2019 (retrieved 12 November 2020). Podrazik, All Together Now: The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961–1975, Ballantine Books (New York, NY, 1976; ISBN 0-345-25680-8).

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Randy Lewis, "George Harrison's 'All Things Must Pass' Still Inspires 45 Years Later", Los Angeles Times, 24 November 2015. According to White, a "really good bond" formed among the musicians; the main sessions lasted three weeks and "There was no mucking around. Writing for Pitchfork in 2016, Jayson Greene said that Harrison was the only former Beatle who "changed the terms of what an album could be" since, although All Things Must Pass was not the first rock triple LP, "in the cultural imagination, it is the first triple album, the first one released as a pointed statement.Badfinger drummer Mike Gibbins' powerful tambourine work led to Spector giving him the nickname "Mr Tambourine Man", after the Dylan song. Despite having already made Wonderwall Music (1968), a mostly instrumental soundtrack album, and the experimental Electronic Sound (1969), [42] Harrison considered All Things Must Pass to be his first solo album. In his 2001 review for Mojo, John Harris said that All Things Must Pass "remains the best Beatles solo album. In addition, Harrison resequenced the content of Apple Jam so that the album closed with "Out of the Blue", as he had originally intended. nb 29] Nigel Williamson of Uncut said that the album includes some of Harrison's best songs in "My Sweet Lord", "All Things Must Pass" and "Beware of Darkness", and stands as "George's finest .

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According to Harrison's recollection in a 1977 interview for Crawdaddy magazine, [200] Lennon first saw the artwork at Friar Park and remarked to a mutual friend of theirs that Harrison "must be fucking mad" to be releasing a triple album, and described him as "look[ing] like an asthmatic Leon Russell" on the cover. I used to have an early US press, but I never knew the exact version because I sold it after getting the Italian press many years ago. Bruce Spizer, The Beatles Solo on Apple Records, 498 Productions (New Orleans, LA, 2005; ISBN 0-9662649-5-9). Martin O'Gorman, "Film on Four", Mojo Special Limited Edition: 1000 Days of Revolution (The Beatles' Final Years – Jan 1, 1968 to Sept 27, 1970), Emap (London, 2003), p.Authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter cite this as the probable date for Harrison's run-through of songs for Spector.

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All Things Must Pass was remastered again for the eight-disc Harrison box set The Apple Years 1968–75, [351] issued in September 2014. Jeff Kaliss, "Ravi Shankar Raga: A Film Journey into the Soul of India", Songlines, 26 November 2010, p. I’m not completely adverse to the sound of the remix as I did really enjoy George’s increased vocals and more detail, but I felt it lost some of the weight, presence and nuance of the original; I also noticed considerable amounts of distortion on the busier moments of tracks like ‘isn’t it a pity’ and ‘let it down’ which sounded compressed and muddy. In Canada the album hit number 1 on just its 3rd week, was number 1 for 9 weeks, and was on the charts for 31 weeks, ending July 17, 1971. a b c "Artist: George Harrison" > Albums > "All Things Must Pass: Chart Facts", Official Charts Company (retrieved 3 March 2016).He says that the later recording sessions featured a core group of himself, Harrison, Clapton, Starr or Gordon on drums, and Voormann or Radle playing bass. Down to the River" remained unused until he reworked it as "Rocking Chair in Hawaii" [115] for his final studio album, the posthumously released Brainwashed (2002). Ken Sharp, "Dave Mason Takes an Alternate Path down Memory Lane with 'Future's Past'", Goldmine, 23 September 2014 (retrieved 23 December 2020). Bobby Keys with Bill Ditenhafer, Every Night's a Saturday Night: The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Legendary Sax Man Bobby Keys, Counterpoint (Berkeley, CA, 2012; ISBN 978-1-58243-783-5).