George had nearly or all of these songs written and ready for a few years in the Beatles but always felt uncomfortable trying to work too many in around everything John and Paul were writing. He did have great songs like Something, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Here Comes the Sun, and others that did make it on albums. So, when they broke up he said this album for him was like "taking a good healthy dump"! Too much genius in one band for sure! Great job guys...I was 7 when they were on Ed Sullivan so I am a true Beatles baby. I had to tape my transistor radio to my bike handlebars so I could always have my radio on waiting for the next new Beatle's song!
My Sweet Lord got George involved in a plagiarism law case The writers of an early 60,s hit by female group The Chiffons said that George knocked off their hit Hes So Fine Eventually George was found guilty of subconscious plagiarism (stupid charge )and had to pay 1.5 million
What a beautiful and lovely album! Keep in mind that many people were still upset and saddened by the break up of the Beatles when this was released, and here comes George Harrison with his first album saying basically it's okay, because all things must pass. Great production by Phil Spector...Damn shame how he turned out and what he did.
George had an incredible group of musicians working with him on this album. The 'main' backing group was Clapton and the backing band for Delaney and Bonnie, who had worked with Clapton on his first solo album and who ended up being the Dominos of Derek and The Dominos - Carl Radle, Jim Gordon and Bobby Whitlock (Duane Allman wasn't an 'official' member, he just played on a few songs). Bobby Whitlock played the majority of the keyboard parts on All Things... and did a lot of background vocals, with Gary Wright also playing some keyboards. Whitlock was a great singer and never got the credit he deserved. He co-wrote several songs on the Layla album and did a lot of the lead vocals. The guys from Badfinger also played some on All Things... If you're not familiar with them you need to check out two of their albums - No Dice (my favorite) and Straight Up (favorite of the critics). You might know the songs 'Day After Day', 'No Matter What' and 'Baby Blue' (made famous again when used on the last episode of Breaking Bad). They also wrote and did the original version of 'Without You', which ended up being a huge hit for Harry Nilsson in 1972 and for Mariah Carey in the 90's. I strongly suggest when you get a chance you check out those two albums, you won't be disappointed. Badfinger was the first group signed to Apple records. Paul McCartney wrote their first hit for them, 'Come And Get It', and George helped produce the Straight Up album and played some guitar on it. They were a great band who had major management problems and got completely screwed over.
If you like George. Listen to the Traveling Wilburys. Band with tom petty, George, Jeff Lynne of ELO and more. Ck it out please. Great musicians having fun.
This was a huge album back in the day! An amazing debut. Always loved What is Life the best. In my opinion, the best of all the Beatles solo albums.💖🎇✨
Ringo Rama song "Never Without You" was co-written by Starr, Mark Hudson and Gary Nicholson. Starr commented: "Gary Nicholson started that song, and Mark brought it over and we realized we could tailor it. George was really on my mind then." In a 2003 interview, Starr said that he had remained closest to Harrison of all the former Beatles following the group's break-up in 1970, and that the song conveyed "how I miss him in my heart and in music".[1] The recording includes a lead guitar part by Harrison's friend Eric Clapton. Starr said of Clapton's contribution: "Eric's on two tracks on the album [Ringo Rama], but I really wanted him on this song because George loved Eric and Eric loved George." Clapton uses Harrison's favourite technique, the slide guitar, to achieve the characteristic sound of a song of the deceased former Beatle.
My parents gave me this album for Christmas the year it came out. I was incredibly thrilled. No way I'd have been able to afford a big boxed triple album at the time. George fell in love with Patti Boyd who was a bit player in the Beatles' movie "A Hard Day's Night" and later married her. Eric Clapton fell for her some time after that and wrote the song "Layla" about her before finally stealing her away from George. "My Sweet Lord" is the song George got sued over (successfully) due to its similarity to the earlier Chiffons hit "He's So Fine." My favorite songs on this album are "Let It Down", "Beware of Darkness", "Behind That Locked Door", "Wah-Wah", and "Run of the Mill." Speaking of Ringo and post-Beatle solo albums, Ringo's self-titled solo album (which all three other ex-Beatles played on and wrote for) would be one of the most massively successful of them all. Ringo had a very respectable solo career with a number of hit songs under his belt.
Great job guys. Enjoyed your insights and humour too. After all, this is only music and every point of view is valid. It was such an interesting time in music back then. George moving on from the biggest, most creative band in history which had two of the most prolific song writers who had overshadowed him as the quiet Beatle. Little did they or the world know what he had learned along the way until this, the first triple album of original music hit the scene. He obviously wasn’t intimidated and was able to gather a great ensemble of his musician friends along with Phil Spector to create this very special album. Thanks for giving his music the attention it deserves.
This album was actually re-released this year as the 50th Anniversary Edition. Worth hearing in your spare time because they remixed the songs to alleviate some of the "wall of sound" production (like on "What Is Life"), but the album doesn't lose its character at all.
Listening to this album for the first time in a very long time, and I can see now why it was so well received when it came out, whereas Ram was panned. This album is very much of its time. It sounds like a lot of early 70s music, but still with that unique George Harrison factor. And the songs are really good with easy to digest philosophical ideas. Whereas, Ram sounds like a sequel to Yellow Submarine, where someone took The White Album and put it through a blender. In a world dominated by Cat Stevens, Carole King, The Who and Led Zeppelin, nothing else sounded like it, yet it was both retro-Beatlesque and completely new at the same time. 1971 was also the year that Joni Mitchell's Blue and Marvin Gaye's What Going On came out, so it makes sense that critics would dismiss Ram. Whereas ATMP is an easy to measure tour-de-force.
This is one of the greatest albums in rock history. I am a STAN on all things Beatles and their solo work. I look forward to this with yall. Hopefully your younger fans will feel inspired to listen along.
Yup, both those albums are 5 stars, Plastic Ono Band is pure raw like, "Well well well". I don't think anyone has screamed like that by 1971 with such raw emotion.
Great album! It’s my favorite Beatles solo effort, but a close second is Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band album. It has to be one of the most emotionally raw records ever made. As a side note, I’ve always considered Ringo to be one of the luckiest people alive. What are the odds that a poor kid, growing up in a bombed out section of Liverpool , who developed a talent in playing the drums, would fall in with three musical geniuses and become a world famous millionaire?
@@jordanghetler8011 , of course, Ringo was already well established on the scene, with Rory Storm. No disrespect to Ringo, at all, he was an important part of their success. I think that without the other three, Ringo would have, most likely, remained a moderately successful drummer. I give Ringo nothing but love and respect. He’s always used his fame to try to make the world a better place and, to this day , continues to spread peace and love. I do think, though, that fortune smiled on him. He was the perfect fit.
Definitely my favourite George Album & my favourite solo Beatle... Lennon does have some great albums as do McCartney & Ringo and will list below... Even though I love ATMP the production does grate on me at times, for me the acoustic demo's Harrison did in 69-70 are how I like to listen to some of the songs, George & John both sound great with just an acoustic guitar on their demo's... John Lennon Albums ... Plastic Ono Band & Imagine Paul McCartney ... Ram Ringo Starr ... Ringo All would be great for review...
Wah-Wah was allegedly a jab at Paul McCartney for being a "dictator" in the studio. He wrote it after quitting the Beatles for a short time during the Let It Be sessions
He apparently wrote it immediately after quitting, so it is more likely a jab at John since a fight with him was the immediate catalyst. Also the line, you made me a big star, fits better with John IMO, even though it was Paul who brought George into the group and you could interpret it that way. There was almost 2 yrs b/w writing and release so he may have changed lyrics to reflect his feelings toward Paul more. Who knows? Now I've always thought that Run of the Mill was about Paul, so it was interesting to hear them say that it was about Apple and John's emotional distancing from the band.
Bob Dylan wrote "If Not for You" as a love song to his wife Sara. In 1971, singer Olivia Newton-John released "If Not for You" as her first international single, after gaining prominence through her appearances on Cliff Richard's concert tours and the TV show It's Cliff Richard.[80] Marking the start of her 1970s country pop period,[80] the recording features an arrangement closer to Harrison's version than to Dylan's.
The reason why George was able to come out with an album like this right off the bat was that he had been compiling many of these songs since 1967. John and Paul were always the main songwriters, and for the most part (not always) their songs were used on Beatles albums as they were written or maybe on the next album, while a lot of George's songs simply weren't included. So George had a big backlog of songs, which is why he did a triple album (the 3rd album was just jamming stuff and really didn't need to be included, it could have just been a double album IMO). Paul and John didn't have a backlog, so didn't start cranking out 'deep' albums right off the bat. George didn't release another album until 1973, while John and Paul were releasing them at least once a year. From the breakup of The Beatles through 1973 George released two albums, Paul five and John four or five.
Another fascinating listen.. George had built up quite the song catalogue while in the Beatles (many of these were demoed by the group, but were abandoned) and no doubt this was an amazing achievement (and agree with you on Spectors over production. Listen to John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band (his first solo) and McCartney's Band on the Run, and Ringo's I Am The Greatest (BTW, Ringo may have had more success in the 70s chart wise...:)) Would be awesome to see your thoughts on The Concert for George memorial concert, where his friends gather to celebrate his life in song. It is one of the most joyous events ever captured.
good choice. This is my favorite album post Beatles by any Beatle. I listen to it more than any Beatles album actually, more than Abbey Road, the only Beatles album I still play. ps, Phil Spector produced the last album released by Beatles (Let It Be). That's the only Beatles album not produced by George Martin. There some history there. Paul McCartney wasn't a fan of Phil Spector and hated his production of 2 major Paul songs on Let It Be (the title song and Long and Winding Road). John Lennon brought Spector into the Let It Be project.
This video just popped up in my recommendations. Pleasant surprise. I’m only a handful of tracks in but a few thoughts so far related to some of your questions. No anger or “know it all” intentions below. It’s longer than I expected but is hopefully interesting. I’m not much older than you but am a lifelong fan of the Beatles so... My Sweet Lord: He was sued by a publisher because the arrangement hews closely to He’s So Fine (a girl group hit produced by, I believe, Phil Spector). Billy Preston released his own version prior to Harrison and it was much closer to the demo (available on Early Tracks, a great but too-short album that contains early and intimate versions from All Things Must Pass). Had Harrison’s version been more like his demo and less like Spector’s arrangement he probably wouldn’t have been sued - and the song probably wouldn’t have been a hit either. George lost the case but, because how life is, he eventually bought the publishing rights to that song so it all evens out, I suppose. Wah-Wah was written as a bit of a dig at Paul McCartney and his bossiness (which included this pedal recommendation). In 2001, while remastering this album he stated interest in “de-Spectorizing” the mix (citing this song) as being drowned in excessive reverb. Unfortunately, Spector had basically baked a lot of it in. These days it can be digitally removed better than then so some speculate it will happen in a 50th anniversary release. Spector is also the credited producer for Lennon’s 1970/1971 albums, Plastic Ono Band and Imagine. Spector didn’t do much on the first and though he added lots of layers to Imagine, Lennon made sure to keep the embellishments off the core recordings. That’s why in 2018 the super deluxe edition was able to have natural recordings stripped of strings, echo, etc. the “raw” mixes have a great immediacy and an “in the room” feel if you have a 5.1 Blu-ray setup. Plastic Ono Band has a similar release due next month which should do the same. Unlike All Things Must Pass, Plastic Ono Band is already a very stripped down album with direct and biting lyrics. Not at all experimental in the way you might think. A stark comparison track would be Lennon’s “God” to “My Sweet Lord.” Those three minutes would tell much of the story. Isn’t It a Pity was apparently written in 1966 or so. It doesn’t feel like it to me. The song deeply feels like a lament for the lack of support he felt in the Beatles. It’s worth noting that the main version is the EXACT length of Hey Jude, a song that Harrison wasn’t on as much because he and McCartney got into a conflict over the electric guitar approach. In this case I’d side with Paul that George’s idea wouldn’t have been appropriate. Not only do both songs have an extended, mantra-like coda but when Harrison performed it live in 1991, the coda featured “na na na’s” in a slightly different melody that definitively apes Hey Jude. It’s kinda funny, actually. George was sly that way. I’ve always loved the first version of Pity, but the second version has actually been covered a lot (same lyrics but more intimate and shorter arrangement). This song is one of my favorite “call to empathy” songs, a subset I tend to love. If Not For You. Harrison’s version was released before Dylan’s own version (which in this rare case is the more lively and tuneful one). Harrison sat in on some Dylan sessions for an album around that time and there are a few, recently released, jams that include takes on this song with both on guitar. The choice of this particular song’s inclusion and lyrical content is all the more touching because it’s followed by... Behind That Locked Door was not only written about Bob Dylan but it was a plea from a friend and fan for the artist who had retreated from public view and musically to a lesser degree. Re-read the lyrics and I think we’d all wish someone would write something so supportive for us. Harrison coaxed him back on stage for the first time in three or so years in 1971 for a great solo set at the Concert for Bangladesh. (Regarding Dylan live, it’s really from about 1979-1996 that his live performances were really off; now, of course, his vocals are wrecked but he always has an amazing band and most shows have a few standout performances despite how he’s destroyed his voice). In the late 80s they were the core of the Traveling Wilburys, an album that helped rejuvenate Dylan after an arguable artistic slump and on the heels of Harrison’s own comeback. The Wilburys recorded a second album, both co-produced by Harrison. Dylan couldn’t be there for the whole sessions so he recorded all his vocals early. Harrison, an enormous Dylan fan, liked them so much that he left in more Dylan vocals than had been planned. It makes the album less accessible in some ways - unless you’re a Dylan fan. Back to this song and its style, in 1968, Harrison sat in on some of The Band’s recording sessions and was quickly influenced by their roots rock aesthetic and approach. (The Band got its fame by being Dylan’s backing band in the legendary 1966 tour). You can hear the beginnings of their influence on him on the Let It Be album, on which John plays lap steel guitar on George’s Old Brown Shoe, a 12-bar blues. I suppose you could say he dabbled in it but I’d say it’s more a side step from the slide guitar sound he began developing in 1969 on Abbey Road. This song may strike you as countryish on first listen but after a few I’d argue that it’s really just that one element and it’s in part because of who he is writing it to. Dylan had been more country-inflected from 1968-1970 and so this stylistic choice is quite likely a means of appealing to his audience, friend, and hero of sorts. Let It Down is another song Harrison wanted to strip down. The Spector treatment is, I’d say, overwhelming. Still, I’ve always liked its gentle chorus/bombastic chorus arrangement. Feels almost like a Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie-type song that would’ve made a great b-side for that band. Run of the Mill is apparently another song written (as you mention) to some degree, about Harrison’s issues with Lennon and McCartney. Unlike Lennon’s own tracks sorting out his complicated feelings about his former band mates, George tended to be more philosophical and lamenting than bitter. Strange since he was the one that McCartney bossed around and Lennon somewhat dismissed musically. Like you, I also wish this one went on a bit longer. Interesting point about his vocal vs the music. I’ll have to re-listen to the Early Takes demo. It’s a great disc worth checking out. About George’s death, yeah, he died in November 2001 from cancer. The battle was made harder because he was stabbed in his home a few years earlier. They had to remove (I believe) part of a lung because of it. That’s particularly unhelpful for someone who smoked his way to cancer. Oh, and for more fun Phil Spector stories, read about his behavior when recording The Ramones, Leonard Cohen, and Lennon’s Rock and Roll album. The man was a lunatic long before he was a murderer.
Johns Imagine was #1 in just about every country. Walls & Bridges & Double Fantasy were #1 in US. Pauls Ram & Band On The Run are both great. Ringo had a #1 album RINGO. All Things Must Pass was a masterpiece for George.
Wah wah is slang for headache... The song was directed at McCartney from what I’ve read. My favorite song is The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp, just a great song.
Since the breakup of the Beatles, Ringo Starr has released 20 solo studio albums: Sentimental Journey (1970) Beaucoups of Blues (1970) Ringo (1973) Goodnight Vienna (1974) Ringo's Rotogravure (1976) Ringo the 4th (1977) Bad Boy (1978) Stop and Smell the Roses (1981) Old Wave (1983) Time Takes Time (1992) Vertical Man (1998) I Wanna Be Santa Claus (1999) Ringo Rama (2003) has a tribute to George on it. Eric Clapton does a solo also. Choose Love (2005) Liverpool 8 (2008) Y Not (2010) Ringo 2012 (2012) Postcards from Paradise (2015) Give More Love (2017) What's My Name (2019)
Spector actually only produced 5 or 6 tracks on this album. He was unavailable and/or incapacitated, apparently frequently getting drunk and eventually falling over in the studio, breaking his arm and withdrawing from the project.
Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album was (I believe) his first album post Beatles. It's excellent too but, unlike this rather polished album by George, is full of intense raw emotion, lyrically and vocally. The songs were John's therapy session (not kidding) as he was going through different emotions at the time, some apparent in the songs.
You both should listen and react to John Lennon how do you sleep a song he wrote about Paul McCartney after Paul wrote a song about John called too many people
On 'Behind That Locked Door' that's a guy named Pete Drake on the pedal steel guitar. He's famous for playing the pedal steel, and came up with the talk box, which was used by Joe Walsh in 'Rocky Mountain Way' and Peter Frampton in 'Show Me The Way', among others. Frampton played some on the All Things sessions and met Drake there, and that's how he found out about the talk box. Here's a great video where they both talk about it. ua-cam.com/video/Lph0cYlvydQ/v-deo.html
All the slide guitar is played by George. Backing vocals were George and Peter Frampton. Clapton had just formed the dominos, and used George’s home studio to demo songs for the album “Layla”. All of Clapton’s band, except Duane Allman, played on “All things must pass” .
electric guitars are split with George and eric. george plays 95% of the slide. backing vocals are usually George eric and bobby whitlock. except My sweet lord where it's george and Bobby only and wah wah where its only george. key boards are whitlock , billy preston and gary wright mostly. there are other keyboard players.frampton does not sing on the album. he plays acoustic guitar on certain songs. drums are alan white ringo and jim gordon some are easy to pick out but many are 2 drummers so its hard to know.there are also 2 bassists.the jams are totally different
Too many favs from this album, but top 5: Isn’t it a pity, Run of the mill, the ballad of sir Frankie Crisp, What is life, Beware of Darkness, Hear me Lord, and many more
Maybe you can react to the album Midnight Sun, Sean Lennon's album. He is the son from John & Yoko, and with his girlfriend made this fantastic psychedelic album back in to 2014. Cheers from Perú
The song "My Sweet Lord" went straight to number 1 on the Billboard Top 100, and reached number 1 in many countries. It was the first number 1 by an ex-Beatle. Ironically, George was sued for "subconcious plagiarism" by the girl group the Chiffons for their early 60's single "He's So Fine". Harrison was ordered to pay $1,599,987 to the Chiffons publishing group. "All Things Must Pass" remains the biggest selling post-Beatles album by any of the "Fab Four".
The biggest selling solo album by a Beatles is band on the run by Paul McCartney and wings 1973 and won a Grammy award for best album of the year in 1974
Hello. Enjoying these videos. Somehow UA-cam recommended your Ram reaction which led me here. Got info for you regarding the song 'Wah-Wah'. My understanding is that George would call petty rows and someone having a sulk as a 'wah-wah' and I believe this song was most likely written during the The Beatles' Get Back sessions when he and Paul had a falling out. So this song, which lyrically is quite explicit, is about Paul. Please try to do either one of John's Plastic Ono Band or Imagine. My gut feeling is that you'll prefer Imagine.
Ringo had his own albums too, then toured for years with Ringo and his All Stars - each year a whole new set of great rock and pop stars, with his son Zack Starkey playing a second set of drums. You know when this album came out, Paul and John had albums and I felt like it was three big stars competing with their solo efforts but sometimes one or two others would show up on another's album with the exception of John who really had gone his own way.
Fantastic album (probably would have been better without Phil Spector's production style) :-) The spiritual ("My Sweet Lord") and the profane ("She's given me a wah-wah"??) co-existing side by side. Lennon's solo albums are not really my cup of tea. As you mentioned his ones with Yoko Ono are deliberately experimental, while his later ones are surprisingly pop. Paul is a different thing, but he was the most prolific one with a mass of albums. 'Band on the Run' with Wings is recommended. 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard' is a later great solo album of his!
"Wah-wah" isn't profane, it means "headache." George wrote the song about all the headache and fighting that accompanied some of the later Beatles years. He also seems to give credit to Paul in singing "you made me such a big star," probably tongue in cheek since Paul always said he viewed George as a younger brother, but the overall point of the song seems to be his proclamation of freedom from the restraints placed on him by remaining in the Beatles.
George & Patti's marriage was already starting to fall apart when this album was recorded. Eric fell in love with Patti and wrote the Song Layla for her. He then formed Derek & The Dominos and released the song on it.Eventually they did marry and later divorced .
That full sound you referred to is Spector’s “Wall of Sound” - maybe you have heard of it? Harrison was often concerned that Spector’s Wall was overpowering his songs
I know you’ve done Paul and George solo albums. May I suggest John’s first solo album, it has Imagine on it and his musical attack on Paul. How do you sleep. You guys will love it
Pretty amazing these guys didn't know "My Sweet Lord" was involved in the most famous music Plagarism case in history. I still don't hear enough similarity between it and "She's so fine" to call it plagarized. Unlike Stairway to Heaven stolen from Spirit's song "Taurus" let alone the two bands toured together.
In 1981 Harrison had to pay plagiarisation damages of $687,000 to the owner of the rights to song 'He's So Fine' - a certain Mr A Klein. So George got shafted twice by him!
The backing vocals were irreverently credited to the “George O’Hara-Smith Singers”, who were Harrison and Phil Spector, joined by Eric Clapton, keyboard player Bobby Whitlock and two others identified by Harrison as “Cyril” and “Betty”. The singers repeatedly overdubbed the backing vocals, creating a choral effect in keeping with the song’s subject.
Now I'm listening to you compare John and George solo work. To be clear, All Things Must Pass is, IMO, the best solo Beatles album (not close). My second favorite is Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album. My third favorite is Lennon's Imagine album. My fourth is George's Living in the Material World. I love Paul's work with Beatles...love love love it. Paul wrote more great Beatles songs than any other Beatle. I just don't like Paul's solo work. Maybe a better way to say it is that I find it uninspiring (others will disagree). I own a solo Ringo album. He even had a hit or 2. Ringo is more for fun, imo. Light music with a beat.
I would say John’s album “Mind Games” is the closest in production to “All Things Must Pass”. His debut record was much more raw sounding, and featured just Lennon, Ringo, and Klaus Voorman as the only musicians on most songs.
Yeah, Patti left George for Eric, but by the same token, George was fooling around with Ringo's first wife Maureen, so it's not like he was absolutely guiltless. His second wife alluded to the fact that he was unfaithful to her, but they made the marriage work regardless. Those crazy Beatles!
George was sued for writing My Sweet Lord. Too similar to He's So Fine. WAH WAH George wrote this song whe he was fed up with Paul's driving ambition and John's sniping.
I don't think any of the Beatles ever made a solo album that was great all the way through. Some say George came the closest to achieving this with this album, but although there aren't any bad songs on it, there's quite a few songs that approach filler territory for me. Which is perhaps to be expected from a triple album! But even if you'd take all the best songs here and put them on one album, they still wouldn't make for a perfect album. John came close with Plastic Ono Band and perhaps even Imagine, and Paul had his Band on the Run. Neither of those are perfect albums, either, although they contain some of the finest songs the two ever wrote. I think if you'd create greatest hits compilations for all 3 Beatles (sorry, Ringo), then most of George's songs would be taken from this album, whereas John and Paul had songs throughout their careers that were great. George really didn't make anything decent again until 1987 with his Cloud Nine album.
George had nearly or all of these songs written and ready for a few years in the Beatles but always felt uncomfortable trying to work too many in around everything John and Paul were writing. He did have great songs like Something, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Here Comes the Sun, and others that did make it on albums. So, when they broke up he said this album for him was like "taking a good healthy dump"! Too much genius in one band for sure! Great job guys...I was 7 when they were on Ed Sullivan so I am a true Beatles baby. I had to tape my transistor radio to my bike handlebars so I could always have my radio on waiting for the next new Beatle's song!
i’d say johns best album would be Imagine or Plastic Ono Band. Paul’s would be Band on the Run or Ram, but Venus and Mars is great as well
At The Speed Of Sound is great too
Red Rose Speedway and Chaos and Creation close behind those 2 for me.
Flowers in the Dirt is great too. Also Tug of War.
My Sweet Lord got George involved in a plagiarism law case
The writers of an early 60,s hit by female group The Chiffons said that George knocked off their hit Hes So Fine
Eventually George was found guilty of subconscious plagiarism (stupid charge )and had to pay 1.5 million
Wah wah was full tilt Phil Specter wall of sound production
As a somewhat biased Paul fan, and a Beatles fan since 1963, I must admit that ATMP is by far the best solo album produced by any ex-Beatle.
The list of recognized musicians playing on this album is incredible. He could get anyone he wanted. Thanks for doing this.
It was our pleasure
@mags jay I'm sure he was
💜 Sweet reaction. My dad got me into George Harrison's solo work when I was 10 and have been hooked ever since. Love this album!
What a beautiful and lovely album! Keep in mind that many people were still upset and saddened by the break up of the Beatles when this was released, and here comes George Harrison with his first album saying basically it's okay, because all things must pass. Great production by Phil Spector...Damn shame how he turned out and what he did.
George, Ringo and Eric - SUPERGROUP!
Wah Wah ,my fav from the album . One of the great wall of sound songs also.
Thanks Phil and George.
Ringos drums just so so unbelievably good on this album
Doing full albums on you tube is good idea. Not many reactions have full albums. It made me subscribe.
George had an incredible group of musicians working with him on this album. The 'main' backing group was Clapton and the backing band for Delaney and Bonnie, who had worked with Clapton on his first solo album and who ended up being the Dominos of Derek and The Dominos - Carl Radle, Jim Gordon and Bobby Whitlock (Duane Allman wasn't an 'official' member, he just played on a few songs). Bobby Whitlock played the majority of the keyboard parts on All Things... and did a lot of background vocals, with Gary Wright also playing some keyboards. Whitlock was a great singer and never got the credit he deserved. He co-wrote several songs on the Layla album and did a lot of the lead vocals. The guys from Badfinger also played some on All Things... If you're not familiar with them you need to check out two of their albums - No Dice (my favorite) and Straight Up (favorite of the critics). You might know the songs 'Day After Day', 'No Matter What' and 'Baby Blue' (made famous again when used on the last episode of Breaking Bad). They also wrote and did the original version of 'Without You', which ended up being a huge hit for Harry Nilsson in 1972 and for Mariah Carey in the 90's. I strongly suggest when you get a chance you check out those two albums, you won't be disappointed. Badfinger was the first group signed to Apple records. Paul McCartney wrote their first hit for them, 'Come And Get It', and George helped produce the Straight Up album and played some guitar on it. They were a great band who had major management problems and got completely screwed over.
Pete Ham was such a great songwriter and singer.
If you like George. Listen to the Traveling Wilburys. Band with tom petty, George, Jeff Lynne of ELO and more. Ck it out please. Great musicians having fun.
This was a huge album back in the day! An amazing debut. Always loved What is Life the best. In my opinion, the best of all the Beatles solo albums.💖🎇✨
Ringo Rama song "Never Without You" was co-written by Starr, Mark Hudson and Gary Nicholson. Starr commented: "Gary Nicholson started that song, and Mark brought it over and we realized we could tailor it. George was really on my mind then." In a 2003 interview, Starr said that he had remained closest to Harrison of all the former Beatles following the group's break-up in 1970, and that the song conveyed "how I miss him in my heart and in music".[1]
The recording includes a lead guitar part by Harrison's friend Eric Clapton. Starr said of Clapton's contribution: "Eric's on two tracks on the album [Ringo Rama], but I really wanted him on this song because George loved Eric and Eric loved George." Clapton uses Harrison's favourite technique, the slide guitar, to achieve the characteristic sound of a song of the deceased former Beatle.
My parents gave me this album for Christmas the year it came out. I was incredibly thrilled. No way I'd have been able to afford a big boxed triple album at the time.
George fell in love with Patti Boyd who was a bit player in the Beatles' movie "A Hard Day's Night" and later married her. Eric Clapton fell for her some time after that and wrote the song "Layla" about her before finally stealing her away from George.
"My Sweet Lord" is the song George got sued over (successfully) due to its similarity to the earlier Chiffons hit "He's So Fine."
My favorite songs on this album are "Let It Down", "Beware of Darkness", "Behind That Locked Door", "Wah-Wah", and "Run of the Mill."
Speaking of Ringo and post-Beatle solo albums, Ringo's self-titled solo album (which all three other ex-Beatles played on and wrote for) would be one of the most massively successful of them all. Ringo had a very respectable solo career with a number of hit songs under his belt.
Great job guys. Enjoyed your insights and humour too. After all, this is only music and every point of view is valid. It was such an interesting time in music back then. George moving on from the biggest, most creative band in history which had two of the most prolific song writers who had overshadowed him as the quiet Beatle. Little did they or the world know what he had learned along the way until this, the first triple album of original music hit the scene. He obviously wasn’t intimidated and was able to gather a great ensemble of his musician friends along with Phil Spector to create this very special album. Thanks for giving his music the attention it deserves.
It was our pleasure!
If Not For You was released by Dylan on his New Morning album 1970-an album that George sat in on guitar for several tracks.
This album was actually re-released this year as the 50th Anniversary Edition. Worth hearing in your spare time because they remixed the songs to alleviate some of the "wall of sound" production (like on "What Is Life"), but the album doesn't lose its character at all.
Listening to this album for the first time in a very long time, and I can see now why it was so well received when it came out, whereas Ram was panned. This album is very much of its time. It sounds like a lot of early 70s music, but still with that unique George Harrison factor. And the songs are really good with easy to digest philosophical ideas. Whereas, Ram sounds like a sequel to Yellow Submarine, where someone took The White Album and put it through a blender. In a world dominated by Cat Stevens, Carole King, The Who and Led Zeppelin, nothing else sounded like it, yet it was both retro-Beatlesque and completely new at the same time. 1971 was also the year that Joni Mitchell's Blue and Marvin Gaye's What Going On came out, so it makes sense that critics would dismiss Ram. Whereas ATMP is an easy to measure tour-de-force.
This is one of the greatest albums in rock history. I am a STAN on all things Beatles and their solo work. I look forward to this with yall. Hopefully your younger fans will feel inspired to listen along.
Bob Dylan's vocals are amazing.
Wah wah is about Paul's drive, lennon's sarcasm. George was fed up with it.
Masterpiece! George Harrison was a master. Legend!
John's first 2 solo albums 'Plastic Ono Band' (1970) and 'Imagine' (1971) are head and shoulders his best albums.
Yup, both those albums are 5 stars, Plastic Ono Band is pure raw like, "Well well well". I don't think anyone has screamed like that by 1971 with such raw emotion.
Walls And Bridges has grown on me more and more as the years have passed and it's now my favourite Lennon album.
John had Imagine, Plastic ono band, walls and bridges and some really experimental stuff. But this is my favourite beatle solo album.
Great album! It’s my favorite Beatles solo effort, but a close second is Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band album. It has to be one of the most emotionally raw records ever made. As a side note, I’ve always considered Ringo to be one of the luckiest people alive. What are the odds that a poor kid, growing up in a bombed out section of Liverpool , who developed a talent in playing the drums, would fall in with three musical geniuses and become a world famous millionaire?
they actually sought Ringo out to be their drummer. he was an established musician already. yes, he's lucky. but they're also lucky they got him.
@@jordanghetler8011 , of course, Ringo was already well established on the scene, with Rory Storm. No disrespect to Ringo, at all, he was an important part of their success. I think that without the other three, Ringo would have, most likely, remained a moderately successful drummer. I give Ringo nothing but love and respect. He’s always used his fame to try to make the world a better place and, to this day , continues to spread peace and love. I do think, though, that fortune smiled on him. He was the perfect fit.
Definitely my favourite George Album & my favourite solo Beatle... Lennon does have some great albums as do McCartney & Ringo and will list below... Even though I love ATMP the production does grate on me at times, for me the acoustic demo's Harrison did in 69-70 are how I like to listen to some of the songs, George & John both sound great with just an acoustic guitar on their demo's...
John Lennon Albums ... Plastic Ono Band & Imagine
Paul McCartney ... Ram
Ringo Starr ... Ringo
All would be great for review...
Wah-Wah was allegedly a jab at Paul McCartney for being a "dictator" in the studio. He wrote it after quitting the Beatles for a short time during the Let It Be sessions
He apparently wrote it immediately after quitting, so it is more likely a jab at John since a fight with him was the immediate catalyst. Also the line, you made me a big star, fits better with John IMO, even though it was Paul who brought George into the group and you could interpret it that way. There was almost 2 yrs b/w writing and release so he may have changed lyrics to reflect his feelings toward Paul more. Who knows?
Now I've always thought that Run of the Mill was about Paul, so it was interesting to hear them say that it was about Apple and John's emotional distancing from the band.
Bob Dylan wrote "If Not for You" as a love song to his wife Sara.
In 1971, singer Olivia Newton-John released "If Not for You" as her first international single, after gaining prominence through her appearances on Cliff Richard's concert tours and the TV show It's Cliff Richard.[80] Marking the start of her 1970s country pop period,[80] the recording features an arrangement closer to Harrison's version than to Dylan's.
Of Isn't a Pity, there is a very well done cover by Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam together with Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers etc
As a George fan. You've made me very happy today. Thanks 👍
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The reason why George was able to come out with an album like this right off the bat was that he had been compiling many of these songs since 1967. John and Paul were always the main songwriters, and for the most part (not always) their songs were used on Beatles albums as they were written or maybe on the next album, while a lot of George's songs simply weren't included. So George had a big backlog of songs, which is why he did a triple album (the 3rd album was just jamming stuff and really didn't need to be included, it could have just been a double album IMO). Paul and John didn't have a backlog, so didn't start cranking out 'deep' albums right off the bat. George didn't release another album until 1973, while John and Paul were releasing them at least once a year. From the breakup of The Beatles through 1973 George released two albums, Paul five and John four or five.
Another fascinating listen.. George had built up quite the song catalogue while in the Beatles (many of these were demoed by the group, but were abandoned) and no doubt this was an amazing achievement (and agree with you on Spectors over production. Listen to John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band (his first solo) and McCartney's Band on the Run, and Ringo's I Am The Greatest (BTW, Ringo may have had more success in the 70s chart wise...:))
Would be awesome to see your thoughts on The Concert for George memorial concert, where his friends gather to celebrate his life in song. It is one of the most joyous events ever captured.
good choice. This is my favorite album post Beatles by any Beatle. I listen to it more than any Beatles album actually, more than Abbey Road, the only Beatles album I still play.
ps, Phil Spector produced the last album released by Beatles (Let It Be). That's the only Beatles album not produced by George Martin. There some history there. Paul McCartney wasn't a fan of Phil Spector and hated his production of 2 major Paul songs on Let It Be (the title song and Long and Winding Road). John Lennon brought Spector into the Let It Be project.
This video just popped up in my recommendations. Pleasant surprise. I’m only a handful of tracks in but a few thoughts so far related to some of your questions. No anger or “know it all” intentions below. It’s longer than I expected but is hopefully interesting. I’m not much older than you but am a lifelong fan of the Beatles so...
My Sweet Lord: He was sued by a publisher because the arrangement hews closely to He’s So Fine (a girl group hit produced by, I believe, Phil Spector). Billy Preston released his own version prior to Harrison and it was much closer to the demo (available on Early Tracks, a great but too-short album that contains early and intimate versions from All Things Must Pass). Had Harrison’s version been more like his demo and less like Spector’s arrangement he probably wouldn’t have been sued - and the song probably wouldn’t have been a hit either. George lost the case but, because how life is, he eventually bought the publishing rights to that song so it all evens out, I suppose.
Wah-Wah was written as a bit of a dig at Paul McCartney and his bossiness (which included this pedal recommendation). In 2001, while remastering this album he stated interest in “de-Spectorizing” the mix (citing this song) as being drowned in excessive reverb. Unfortunately, Spector had basically baked a lot of it in. These days it can be digitally removed better than then so some speculate it will happen in a 50th anniversary release.
Spector is also the credited producer for Lennon’s 1970/1971 albums, Plastic Ono Band and Imagine. Spector didn’t do much on the first and though he added lots of layers to Imagine, Lennon made sure to keep the embellishments off the core recordings. That’s why in 2018 the super deluxe edition was able to have natural recordings stripped of strings, echo, etc. the “raw” mixes have a great immediacy and an “in the room” feel if you have a 5.1 Blu-ray setup. Plastic Ono Band has a similar release due next month which should do the same. Unlike All Things Must Pass, Plastic Ono Band is already a very stripped down album with direct and biting lyrics. Not at all experimental in the way you might think. A stark comparison track would be Lennon’s “God” to “My Sweet Lord.” Those three minutes would tell much of the story.
Isn’t It a Pity was apparently written in 1966 or so. It doesn’t feel like it to me. The song deeply feels like a lament for the lack of support he felt in the Beatles. It’s worth noting that the main version is the EXACT length of Hey Jude, a song that Harrison wasn’t on as much because he and McCartney got into a conflict over the electric guitar approach. In this case I’d side with Paul that George’s idea wouldn’t have been appropriate. Not only do both songs have an extended, mantra-like coda but when Harrison performed it live in 1991, the coda featured “na na na’s” in a slightly different melody that definitively apes Hey Jude. It’s kinda funny, actually. George was sly that way. I’ve always loved the first version of Pity, but the second version has actually been covered a lot (same lyrics but more intimate and shorter arrangement). This song is one of my favorite “call to empathy” songs, a subset I tend to love.
If Not For You. Harrison’s version was released before Dylan’s own version (which in this rare case is the more lively and tuneful one). Harrison sat in on some Dylan sessions for an album around that time and there are a few, recently released, jams that include takes on this song with both on guitar. The choice of this particular song’s inclusion and lyrical content is all the more touching because it’s followed by...
Behind That Locked Door was not only written about Bob Dylan but it was a plea from a friend and fan for the artist who had retreated from public view and musically to a lesser degree. Re-read the lyrics and I think we’d all wish someone would write something so supportive for us. Harrison coaxed him back on stage for the first time in three or so years in 1971 for a great solo set at the Concert for Bangladesh. (Regarding Dylan live, it’s really from about 1979-1996 that his live performances were really off; now, of course, his vocals are wrecked but he always has an amazing band and most shows have a few standout performances despite how he’s destroyed his voice). In the late 80s they were the core of the Traveling Wilburys, an album that helped rejuvenate Dylan after an arguable artistic slump and on the heels of Harrison’s own comeback. The Wilburys recorded a second album, both co-produced by Harrison. Dylan couldn’t be there for the whole sessions so he recorded all his vocals early. Harrison, an enormous Dylan fan, liked them so much that he left in more Dylan vocals than had been planned. It makes the album less accessible in some ways - unless you’re a Dylan fan.
Back to this song and its style, in 1968, Harrison sat in on some of The Band’s recording sessions and was quickly influenced by their roots rock aesthetic and approach. (The Band got its fame by being Dylan’s backing band in the legendary 1966 tour). You can hear the beginnings of their influence on him on the Let It Be album, on which John plays lap steel guitar on George’s Old Brown Shoe, a 12-bar blues. I suppose you could say he dabbled in it but I’d say it’s more a side step from the slide guitar sound he began developing in 1969 on Abbey Road. This song may strike you as countryish on first listen but after a few I’d argue that it’s really just that one element and it’s in part because of who he is writing it to. Dylan had been more country-inflected from 1968-1970 and so this stylistic choice is quite likely a means of appealing to his audience, friend, and hero of sorts.
Let It Down is another song Harrison wanted to strip down. The Spector treatment is, I’d say, overwhelming. Still, I’ve always liked its gentle chorus/bombastic chorus arrangement. Feels almost like a Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie-type song that would’ve made a great b-side for that band.
Run of the Mill is apparently another song written (as you mention) to some degree, about Harrison’s issues with Lennon and McCartney. Unlike Lennon’s own tracks sorting out his complicated feelings about his former band mates, George tended to be more philosophical and lamenting than bitter. Strange since he was the one that McCartney bossed around and Lennon somewhat dismissed musically. Like you, I also wish this one went on a bit longer. Interesting point about his vocal vs the music. I’ll have to re-listen to the Early Takes demo. It’s a great disc worth checking out.
About George’s death, yeah, he died in November 2001 from cancer. The battle was made harder because he was stabbed in his home a few years earlier. They had to remove (I believe) part of a lung because of it. That’s particularly unhelpful for someone who smoked his way to cancer.
Oh, and for more fun Phil Spector stories, read about his behavior when recording The Ramones, Leonard Cohen, and Lennon’s Rock and Roll album. The man was a lunatic long before he was a murderer.
Amazing insight! Thank you ! And thank you for watching :)
You guys need to do The Travelling Wilburys first album. George, Dylan, Jeff Lynn (ELO), Tom Petty and the incredible Roy Orbison
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Did you hear the Hey Jude “na na na na” at the end of Isn’t it a pity?
good catch !
Johns Imagine was #1 in just about every country. Walls & Bridges & Double Fantasy were #1 in US. Pauls Ram & Band On The Run are both great. Ringo had a #1 album RINGO. All Things Must Pass was a masterpiece for George.
Wah wah is slang for headache... The song was directed at McCartney from what I’ve read. My favorite song is The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp, just a great song.
The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp is my absolute favourite song ever. I have literally never come across anyone else who has any time for it. 🙂
Since the breakup of the Beatles, Ringo Starr has released 20 solo studio albums:
Sentimental Journey (1970)
Beaucoups of Blues (1970)
Ringo (1973)
Goodnight Vienna (1974)
Ringo's Rotogravure (1976)
Ringo the 4th (1977)
Bad Boy (1978)
Stop and Smell the Roses (1981)
Old Wave (1983)
Time Takes Time (1992)
Vertical Man (1998)
I Wanna Be Santa Claus (1999)
Ringo Rama (2003) has a tribute to George on it. Eric Clapton does a solo also.
Choose Love (2005)
Liverpool 8 (2008)
Y Not (2010)
Ringo 2012 (2012)
Postcards from Paradise (2015)
Give More Love (2017)
What's My Name (2019)
Spector actually only produced 5 or 6 tracks on this album. He was unavailable and/or incapacitated, apparently frequently getting drunk and eventually falling over in the studio, breaking his arm and withdrawing from the project.
Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album was (I believe) his first album post Beatles. It's excellent too but, unlike this rather polished album by George, is full of intense raw emotion, lyrically and vocally. The songs were John's therapy session (not kidding) as he was going through different emotions at the time, some apparent in the songs.
George almost single-handedly introduced eastern philosophy to western culture at large. Just a head's up.
You both should listen and react to John Lennon how do you sleep a song he wrote about Paul McCartney after Paul wrote a song about John called too many people
Most of songs were written in 1968 and 1969 a lot of songs were written for the Beatles white album let it be and abbey road album
Easily the best Beatles solo album for me
On 'Behind That Locked Door' that's a guy named Pete Drake on the pedal steel guitar. He's famous for playing the pedal steel, and came up with the talk box, which was used by Joe Walsh in 'Rocky Mountain Way' and Peter Frampton in 'Show Me The Way', among others. Frampton played some on the All Things sessions and met Drake there, and that's how he found out about the talk box. Here's a great video where they both talk about it.
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All the slide guitar is played by George. Backing vocals were George and Peter Frampton. Clapton had just formed the dominos, and used George’s home studio to demo songs for the album “Layla”. All of Clapton’s band, except Duane Allman, played on “All things must pass” .
electric guitars are split with George and eric. george plays 95% of the slide. backing vocals are usually George eric and bobby whitlock. except My sweet lord where it's george and Bobby only and wah wah where its only george. key boards are whitlock , billy preston and gary wright mostly. there are other keyboard players.frampton does not sing on the album. he plays acoustic guitar on certain songs. drums are alan white ringo and jim gordon some are easy to pick out but many are 2 drummers so its hard to know.there are also 2 bassists.the jams are totally different
Too many favs from this album, but top 5: Isn’t it a pity, Run of the mill, the ballad of sir Frankie Crisp, What is life, Beware of Darkness, Hear me Lord, and many more
After mentioning the "beach sounding guitar" on I'd Have You Anytime, you have to check out That's The Way It Goes.
Maybe you can react to the album Midnight Sun, Sean Lennon's album. He is the son from John & Yoko, and with his girlfriend made this fantastic psychedelic album back in to 2014. Cheers from Perú
The song "My Sweet Lord" went straight to number 1 on the Billboard Top 100, and reached number 1 in many countries. It was the first number 1 by an ex-Beatle. Ironically, George was sued for "subconcious plagiarism" by the girl group the Chiffons for their early 60's single "He's So Fine". Harrison was ordered to pay $1,599,987 to the Chiffons publishing group. "All Things Must Pass" remains the biggest selling post-Beatles album by any of the "Fab Four".
The biggest selling solo album by a Beatles is band on the run by Paul McCartney and wings 1973 and won a Grammy award for best album of the year in 1974
Loved this...thanks guys.
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Hello. Enjoying these videos. Somehow UA-cam recommended your Ram reaction which led me here. Got info for you regarding the song 'Wah-Wah'. My understanding is that George would call petty rows and someone having a sulk as a 'wah-wah' and I believe this song was most likely written during the The Beatles' Get Back sessions when he and Paul had a falling out. So this song, which lyrically is quite explicit, is about Paul. Please try to do either one of John's Plastic Ono Band or Imagine. My gut feeling is that you'll prefer Imagine.
Oasis really loves and worship the Beatles and so did nirvana
Lots of bands do. Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy of Motorhead were and are massive fanboys.
John Lennons "Double Fantasy" is excellent. The one thing I can say is I wish they were still making music together, Imagine...
Not his best
Ringo had his own albums too, then toured for years with Ringo and his All Stars - each year a whole new set of great rock and pop stars, with his son Zack Starkey playing a second set of drums. You know when this album came out, Paul and John had albums and I felt like it was three big stars competing with their solo efforts but sometimes one or two others would show up on another's album with the exception of John who really had gone his own way.
No, he wrote and sang backing vocals on Ringos I'm The Greatest and Goodnight Vienna.
Fantastic album (probably would have been better without Phil Spector's production style) :-)
The spiritual ("My Sweet Lord") and the profane ("She's given me a wah-wah"??) co-existing side by side.
Lennon's solo albums are not really my cup of tea. As you mentioned his ones with Yoko Ono are deliberately experimental, while his later ones are surprisingly pop.
Paul is a different thing, but he was the most prolific one with a mass of albums.
'Band on the Run' with Wings is recommended.
'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard' is a later great solo album of his!
"Wah-wah" isn't profane, it means "headache." George wrote the song about all the headache and fighting that accompanied some of the later Beatles years. He also seems to give credit to Paul in singing "you made me such a big star," probably tongue in cheek since Paul always said he viewed George as a younger brother, but the overall point of the song seems to be his proclamation of freedom from the restraints placed on him by remaining in the Beatles.
"I love George; I hope he never did anything stupid." Haha.
Best song… I Live For You
Left off of the original release, but added to the 2000 rerelease.
George & Patti's marriage was already starting to fall apart when this album was recorded. Eric fell in love with Patti and wrote the Song Layla for her. He then formed Derek & The Dominos and released the song on it.Eventually they did marry and later divorced .
That full sound you referred to is Spector’s “Wall of Sound” - maybe you have heard of it? Harrison was often concerned that Spector’s Wall was overpowering his songs
Ringo is playing the drums on his album
George was onboard with his wife getting with Clapton. What a friend!
"George is more 'Run of the Mill' and John is more 'Imagine'ative"-hah!
George financed Life of Brian.
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John used to complain about Phil Spector bringing guns to recording sessions.
Love the habs logo in the background👌
lol right. too bad its been a rough couple days.
George is a Musical Monster
At the time George John and Ringo were being taken to court by Paul McCartney to split up the Beatles officially
That’s sad
I know you’ve done Paul and George solo albums. May I suggest John’s first solo album, it has Imagine on it and his musical attack on Paul. How do you sleep. You guys will love it
That's his second solo album, Imagine. His first was Plastic Ono Band, with songs like Mother, God, and Working Class Hero.
If Dylan sang like your impersonations, I wouldn't like him. Love him live, too.
Pretty amazing these guys didn't know "My Sweet Lord" was involved in the most famous music Plagarism case in history. I still don't hear enough similarity between it and "She's so fine" to call it plagarized. Unlike Stairway to Heaven stolen from Spirit's song "Taurus" let alone the two bands toured together.
In 1981 Harrison had to pay plagiarisation damages of $687,000 to the owner of the rights to song 'He's So Fine' - a certain Mr A Klein. So George got shafted twice by him!
The backing vocals were irreverently credited to the “George O’Hara-Smith Singers”, who were Harrison and Phil Spector, joined by Eric Clapton, keyboard player Bobby Whitlock and two others identified by Harrison as “Cyril” and “Betty”. The singers repeatedly overdubbed the backing vocals, creating a choral effect in keeping with the song’s subject.
WAH WAH was a swipe against Paul McCartney.
George was sued for my sweet lord and lost. They said he stole song from he s so fine. Thought he got jobbed
Now I'm listening to you compare John and George solo work. To be clear, All Things Must Pass is, IMO, the best solo Beatles album (not close). My second favorite is Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album. My third favorite is Lennon's Imagine album. My fourth is George's Living in the Material World.
I love Paul's work with Beatles...love love love it. Paul wrote more great Beatles songs than any other Beatle. I just don't like Paul's solo work. Maybe a better way to say it is that I find it uninspiring (others will disagree). I own a solo Ringo album. He even had a hit or 2. Ringo is more for fun, imo. Light music with a beat.
Hard to make a bad record with the players on this; Derek & dominoes, stone’s horn section, klaus Voorliand,Gary wright,Badfinger ext…. Wow.
Thank God they finish, our we don t have this great album !!!!! Sorry my english from Portugal 🇵🇹 ty
I would say John’s album “Mind Games” is the closest in production to “All Things Must Pass”. His debut record was much more raw sounding, and featured just Lennon, Ringo, and Klaus Voorman as the only musicians on most songs.
Watch George Harrison: Living in the Material World on HBO
Imagine is the only other solo beatle album that comes close
Did you guys know that Bob Dylan wrote along the watchtower by hendrix
Wha Wha is of course about the quarrels with the Beatles and the separation.
Yeah, Patti left George for Eric, but by the same token, George was fooling around with Ringo's first wife Maureen, so it's not like he was absolutely guiltless. His second wife alluded to the fact that he was unfaithful to her, but they made the marriage work regardless. Those crazy Beatles!
His cabin in the woods or his psychedelic bungalow in Esher.
Double Fantasy by John Lennon (his last album) has some pretty good songs. Too bad Yoko Ono managed to include some of her ‘songs’ on it
George was sued for writing My Sweet Lord. Too similar to He's So Fine.
WAH WAH George wrote this song whe he was fed up with Paul's driving ambition and John's sniping.
John's last album "double fantasy " worth a listen
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Check out the official What is Life music video from 2016.
What is life was covered by Olivia Newton John.
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George fell in love soon after.
I'm wondering if that's Clapton or Harrison playing League guitar on the first cut that we hear my guess is that it is Harrison but I'm not sure
I don't think any of the Beatles ever made a solo album that was great all the way through. Some say George came the closest to achieving this with this album,
but although there aren't any bad songs on it, there's quite a few songs that approach filler territory for me. Which is perhaps to be expected from a triple album!
But even if you'd take all the best songs here and put them on one album, they still wouldn't make for a perfect album.
John came close with Plastic Ono Band and perhaps even Imagine, and Paul had his Band on the Run. Neither of those are perfect albums, either, although they contain
some of the finest songs the two ever wrote.
I think if you'd create greatest hits compilations for all 3 Beatles (sorry, Ringo), then most of George's songs would be taken from this album, whereas John and Paul
had songs throughout their careers that were great. George really didn't make anything decent again until 1987 with his Cloud Nine album.
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George Harrison passed away in 2001 I think it was like November or something
A must for any record collection!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Beatle..
Everyone loved George…