Nothing Is Real S03E08 - All Things Must Pass, Part One: The Road to ATMP

In May 1970, George Harrison succumbed to the inevitable and started putting together his debut solo album. He started by recording demos of the songs he had been stockpiling as a Beatle. What was the path that took him from his first composition, Don’t Bother Me in 1963, to this point?
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Originally released November 2020

[@darwinblinks]

5:40 actually there is an interview with George (68?) where he admits "I'm not Lennon or McCartney"--that's about the closest I've ever heard him acknowledging the pair's genius. Outside of the lyrics to All Those Years Ago, which praises John.

[@goldenbough5574]

Really enjoying your Beatles talks. I always loved George singing 'Do You Want to Know a Secret' on the 'Twist and Shout' EP. 'The Concert for Bangladesh' really made me appreciate him more, particularly 'Beware of Darkness' 'Wah Wah' 'While my Guitar Gently Weeps'.

[@chriscampanozzi6516]

Good information, thank you.

[@thesheeteels8252]

I think in many ways it sounds the MOST like a Beatles record. Isn’t Apple Scruffs the most Beatloid tune of late 1970? I think it is.

[@thesheeteels8252]

Martin Lickert is in 200 motels with Ringo too.

[@daverazziemvs6055]

That Phil Collins joke is near genius.😅

[@drummer78]

I think George’s discovery of The Music From Big Pink was as big as Clapton’s.

[@TheWalrusWasDanny]

£750! a bargain (we're talking Sapcor 7) I held one in my hands in the mid 80s and they wanted £1200!! Danny

[@conceicaotavora5599]

Gostei muito 💚 🇵🇹

[@vcsuwar6126]

Love your podcast. But I thought Electronic Sound was the most George thing you can imagine. The Beatles were always in money trouble, whether not having enough of it, not having access to it, or trying to hide it from Her Majesty. That Moog cost about $8,000 ($60,000 in today's dollars). The salesman who sold it to George demonstrated what it could do and George hit the record button on that session. Then the next time George was farting around with it, he recorded that as well. Then they release it on their avant garde label that was hungry for material. It's guaranteed that a product associated with the Beatles is going to sell at least a little bit, and in fact this sold enough copies to actually chart (It was 190 briefly). So what we see in the end, George buys an expensive instrument and then figures out a way to not only recoup his costs but to rip off the salesman as he's being shown to the door. Apple recoups its production costs or has another tax write-off to claim at the end of the year. It's brilliant really. George was a shrewd businessman and we saw that with him pulling some really amazing songs from Let it Be (probably with the correct idea that he'd make more releasing it on his solo work). And this is how I see Electronic Sound, just George being slick and making money with minimal effort.

[@1rwjwith]

George knew Paul then John since he was 14 , to him they were guys he had known and grown up with and played in a band with them for years He was not gonnabe in awe of them from that point of view. DON'T BOTHER ME is a song I like as well as many early Lennon-McCartney numbers....it stands up for me.