George Harrison's Spiritual Journey: All Things Must Pass | Classic Albums Review

While Paul was adapting to domestic life, John was fighting with his demons and Ringo was releasing a covers album, George Harrison, always relegated and underestimated by his bandmates, was preparing for his first solo album. During the last years of the beatles, george had composed dozens of songs that were rejected by lennon and mccartney, and only at the end of his career did john and paul realize the level as a composer that george had reached. It was too late. As a result of his songs only filling one or two spaces on the beatles' albums George had enough material for his debut triple album. Phil Spector was amazed and said that the level and quantity of George's content was endless, the result was an album composed of songs that were conceived in the Beatles era. With phil spector, bob dylan, eric clapton, billy preston and badfinger. George Harrison showed to the world what he was able to do and released what is for many people, the best album ever created by a solo beatle.

[@dennismason3740]

When I met George in 1977 I spewed potatoes all over the restaurant table in a perfect spittake and Geroge smiled and walked on. He got the joke. No words exchanged just good old fashioned pantomime.

[@dennismason3740]

@@robertcalvin2643 - comedy classic gesture, the spit-take. What do you do when you meet a Beatle?

[@proangling326]

One of my favorite albums! George brought so much into the world! Love that his music still being loved today!

[@Bruce15485]

Definitely the best solo Beatles album !

[@dinovesh]

This album holds a Spirituality and unique thought provoking sense of beauty, love, hope, desire, frustration and almost every emotion you can think of. I find it therapeutic and uplifting every time I play it. 🙂❤

[@LaHemeroteca]

great as always

[@ZemarRed]

My favorite album of all the Beatle's collective work

[@jaydorbish7316]

I'm so glad Music Box USA exists!

[@Turtle152]

Three more 1970 leftovers appeared in 1976, "Beautiful Girl" and "Woman Don't You Cry For Me" on George's "Thirty-Three and One Third" album, and "I'll Still Love You" on the "Ringo's Rotogravure" album.

[@countvlad8845]

I wish there was a video recording of the sessions like with Let It Be. There are hardly even photos of the people who recorded. It was one of the least documented albums ever recorded, IMHO. The other thing, when working with such talent it is almost impossible to screw up. Everybody was on top of their game. But the outburst of talent with George is a rare thing and hard to duplicate. George is no different from the other Beatles for writing fluff and crap too. The next best album for me was in the late 80s.

[@garytrew2766]

Thanks for the video. It was great, George had it going on. 😃😎 ✌️🤟

[@jesse2d]

There is a new music software plugin which can remove reverb from recordings. I think the Harrison estate should remix this "All Things Must Pass" album removing the dated Phil Spector overly reverberant production giving the album a more contemporary mix. It would make it's sonic signature less dated and make a big improvement overall as even George in his later years hated the over use of reverb on the album.

[@stitchgrimly6167]

ie the remix released 3 years ago.

[@aureliande2659]

The difficulty is not with th reverb alone, it's with overproduction (like 10 rhythm guitar tracks on one song etc.) In 2001, for his remix, George confessed that he would have liked to slim the production down, but it was a real challenge and in the end he decided that that was the way the album sounded, so he kept it. The 2010 remaster on vinyl is, in my view, the cleanest (i.e., most transparent and least convoluted) version. I prefer it to the aniversary remix for most of the tracks, although I occasionally listen to the outtakes.

[@jesserussell7242]

I love all things must Pass I think it’s one of the best albums ever and his output was so enormous I’m glad that he did this as a triple album and there are songs that he could’ve released and I think everything on all things must Pass is fantastic. From beginning to end I’m a huge Phil Spector fan I left a specters production quality and he should be remembered for his music rather than being a murderer.

[@Owner7979]

I would agree with him on being Solo😳🙏

[@dannyespinosa3978]

Bobby Whitlock said when they recorded all things must pass everything was so professional and he stayed with GOERGE for a while. If anybody get a chance go to Bobby Whitlock podcast some very great great stories.

[@mibeatleman6767]

"All Things Must Pass" was not George's first album, it was his third album after "Wonderwall Music By George Harrison" and "Electronic Sound".

[@musicbox_usa]

you're right, we can put it this way in that case, "McCartney" is Paul's second album? in 1966 he made... the family way. regards

[@mibeatleman6767]

@Music Box USA , Well not really with "The Family Way". Paul composed the music but did not play on the recording at all unlike George's "Wonderwall Music", George did play on some of the tracks like "Skiing" with Eric Clapton, for instance and some others too.

[@hmm3484]

Nobody thinks of “Wonderwall” and “Electronic Sound” as being proper albums. They were a hodgepodge of “sounds”and jamming but that’s all (and not particularly compelling either). ATMP is generally considered his first true solo album. I find that it’s generally people who don’t like George who bring up those first two albums because they don’t want to admit the brilliance of ATMP.

[@ontheruntonowhere]

@@hmm3484 I dunno. I don't think you have to be a George hater to recognize that, compelling or not, they were legit solo albums and were indeed released prior to ATMP.

[@henmat3000]

The only flaw of the album is the dated and over-the-top Phil Spector reverb. I remember being disappointed and confused by the sound the first time I heard the album, but George's great songs are magic despite the dated sound production.

[@ontheruntonowhere]

There's a remixed Super Deluxe version of the album on Spotify which is a lot cleaner. It is kind of cool to hear the instrumentation and George's vocals clearly, but I was surprised to find I prefer the Spector mix, possibly out of nostalgia for an album I've loved for most of my life, but also because it's such a warm blanket of sound.

[@paranoidandroid1997]

This album is excellent

[@skyboy4341]

Mind doing some ELO or traveling wilburys videos

[@jako1234567890jako]

I'd definitely love to see some ELO. They're so underappreciated. ElO II, On the Third Day, Eldorado, OOTB and Time are such incredible albums, but people only ever talk about OOTB

[@ontheruntonowhere]

@@jako1234567890jako Lifelong ELO fan here. Agree 100% on those early albums, OTTD especially. I loved ELO when people used to laugh at me.

[@andrewfyfe8986]

I love George and all the Beatles but let’s be truthful (in the karmic spirit of George). None of them really produced great work after 1973-4. Geniuses without question, but like all geniuses they peaked. No shame in this, just the truth. Isn’t it a pity?

[@shekespearecub]

The video is excellent but I will only make a small criticism, I don't understand why you didn't name the musicians who participated in the album, for example Phil Collins in Art Of Dying, Peter Framtom also appears in one or several tracks. Furthermore, and according to George himself, he stated in the booklet of the 2001 remastered version of ATMP that Ringo Starr had recorded most of the drums on the album and I don't think you mentioned him on a single occasion, that hurt my feelings.

[@aidanmasters7208]

that hurt your feelings? Someone you have never met, NOT talking about someone else you've never met. U must be joking

[@ontheruntonowhere]

@@aidanmasters7208 Chill. Let people have their feelings.

[@briangoodspeed8807]

Plastic oh no was a joke

[@markrobinson5780]

Great songs but many of the tracks are over-produced and muffled - as usual, the instruments are lost in the mix. Spector was a half-decent producer during the very early part of the 1960s but the wall-of-sound treatment does not suit these songs at all. He did a much better job with the Plastic Ono Band album, which sounds like demos....completely unlike Spector and much better for it

[@jwt208]

Respect disagree with the narrative that George had dozens and dozens of songs that he couldn’t get on Beatles albums. Yes, he had a handful that could’ve been on a Beatles album, and it’s debatable whether they were good enough to be there. That being said, if he did have dozens of songs, why didn’t we see them after all things must pass? He didn’t release another original material album until 2 1/2 years later with living in the material world. If he had so many songs, he could’ve released three albums by then, why didn’t he?

[@andrewfyfe8986]

I love George but you cannot be pissed off about being over looked by the greatest songwriting combination of all time. An un questionable talent but against Lennon & McCartney? Seriously?

[@josephblue4135]

I don’t own a copy of this album and never will. I have heard the first 2 discs all the way through a couple times, but I am turned off by the spiritual tracks. I still think 'Band On The Run' is far more creative & a pleasure to listen to.

[@ontheruntonowhere]

Thanks for oversharing.

[@briangoodspeed8807]

Phil Spector, the murderer?

[@hmm3484]

Well, it was several decades before Phil murdered anyone…

[@franciscoantonio5306]

Yes! Him! -_-

[@omnipop4936]

Is this an automated narration? It just sounds like someone reading paragraphs, with no interest in the subject whatsoever.

[@59Rosco]

Any entiy in the history of the world more oeverrated than he Beatoffs? Any entity more irrelevant than their single musical pursuits?