All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary - Deluxe)

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The Super Deluxe Edition LP collects 70 tracks across 8 LPs (180g) including 47 (42 previously unreleased) demo recordings, session outtakes and studio jams all housed in a beautiful slipcase. In their book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler were likewise lukewarm in their assessment, criticising the "homogeneity" of the production and "the lugubrious nature of Harrison's composing". Simon Leng consulted Voormann, Barham and Molland for his chapter covering the making of All Things Must Pass and credits Tony Ashton as one of the keyboard players on both versions of "Isn't It a Pity". Harrison and Scott were shocked at the amount of reverb they had used in 1970 [323] and were keen to remix the album, but EMI vetoed the idea.

Spector also made suggestions about overdubbing more instruments and orchestration on some tracks, but encouraged Harrison to focus on his vocals and avoid hiding his voice behind the instrumentation. two sets of drums on risers, a piano, organ and other keyboards to the wall on the left, up against the far wall on the right were Badfinger, and in the centre were George and Eric and the guitars". Other contributors included Procol Harum's Gary Brooker, on keyboards, and pedal steel player Pete Drake, [132] the last of whom Harrison flew over from Nashville for a few days of recording. In his 2010 autobiography, Whitlock describes the All Things Must Pass sessions as "spectacular in every way", although he says that the project was informed by Harrison's preoccupation with his former bandmates and ongoing difficulties with Klein and Apple. The original was produced by Phil Spectre and whilst I loved the songs so many were just over the top in terms of the sound was saturated with reverb and echo and lots of the individual instruments were lost somewhere in the mix, quite frankly it wasn't really easy to listen to.

Music historian Richie Unterberger comments that, typical of the Beatles' solo work, the precise dates for the recording of All Things Must Pass are uncertain, a situation that contrasts with the "meticulous documentation" available for the band's studio activities. In 1999, All Things Must Pass appeared at number 9 on The Guardian 's "Alternative Top 100 Albums" list, where the editor described it as the "best, mellowest and most sophisticated" of all the Beatles' solo efforts. Recorded and released in 1970, the album was Harrison's first solo work since the break-up of The Beatles in April that year. Wilkes had designed a more adventurous poster, but according to Beatles author Bruce Spizer, Harrison was uncomfortable with the imagery.

Scott says that Spector would visit Trident for a few hours and make suggestions on their latest mixes, and that some of Spector's suggestions were followed, others not.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. In January 1970, [23] Harrison invited American producer Phil Spector to participate in the recording of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band single " Instant Karma! Harrison's approach to slide guitar incorporated aspects of both Indian music and the blues tradition; [53] he developed a precise playing style and sound that partly evoked the fretless Indian sarod.

Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. He adds that the songs are performed with "tension and urgency" as if "the whole thing is happening on the edge of a canyon, an abyss into which the '60s is about to topple". oozing both the goggle-eyed joy of creative emancipation and the sense of someone pushing himself to the limit". Capitol Canada executives presented Harrison with the platinum award in Toronto in December 1974, shortly before he performed at the city's Maple Leaf Gardens. The Super Deluxe Edition CD collects 70 tracks across 5 CDs including 47 (42 previously unreleased) demo recordings, session outtakes and studio jams all housed in a beautiful slipcase.If you love the work of George or want to learn more about him then this album should be in your collection, in fact this album should be in every record collection, a definite 500 out of 5. 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 .

All Things Must Pass was number 1 on the UK's official albums chart for eight weeks, although until 2006, chart records incorrectly stated that it had peaked at number 4. The most extensive editions contain 70 tracks across 5 CDs/8LPs, including outtakes, jams and 47 demos, 42 of which are previously unreleased, [358] and a scrapbook containing archival notes and track-by-track annotation curated by Olivia Harrison. 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. Among Harrison's biographers, Simon Leng views All Things Must Pass as a "paradox of an album": as eager as Harrison was to break free from his identity as a Beatle, Leng suggests, many of the songs document the " Kafkaesque chain of events" of life within the band and so added to the "mythologized history" he was looking to escape.All Things Must Pass received almost universal critical acclaim on release [275] – as much for the music and lyrical content as for the fact that, of all the former Beatles, it was the work of supposed junior partner George Harrison. In Spector's absence, Harrison completed the album's backing tracks and carried out preliminary overdubs, doing much of the latter work at Trident Studios with former Beatles engineer Ken Scott. The collection contains a beautiful 56-page scrapbook curated by Olivia Harrison, with unseen imagery and memorabilia from the era, handwritten lyrics, diary entries, studio notes, tape box images, a comprehensive track-by-track and more.