“It was a pretty mean squad of people that he recruited, you know what I mean? Like, he wasn’t messing around with this record,” said Harrison. Harrison collected quite a roster of musicians to help him on “All Things Must Pass,” including Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, Pete Drake and even a young Phil Collins (whose bongo work never made the album). So we really wanted to show a lighter side to some of the content.” Harrison and Hicks have dubbed Disc 5, which contains session outtakes and jams, the “party disc.” “We wanted to show that the guys were having fun,” said Hicks. Video trailer for "All Things Must Pass" 50th anniversary collection The demos reveal the origin of a very rootsy “Woman Don’t You Cry For Me,” which would become the opening track of his 1976 album, “Thirty Three & 1/3.” And during the 14th take of “Isn’t It a Pity,” a fed-up artist goes off-script to instead sing: “Isn’t it a pain/Why we do so many takes?” There’s also Harrison’s recording of “It’s Johnny’s Birthday,” a gift to mark John Lennon’s 30th birthday. He’s captured asking for orange juice - while playing a very cool version of “Get Back.” His “Going Down to Golders Green” is Harrison doing his very best Elvis impression, a real treat. But it doesn’t ruin the experience of knowing the record,” said Harrison.Ī very human George Harrison - who died at age 58 in 2001 - can also be heard in the mix. It does change the way you hear the whole record forever. Some songs got sped up and some got slower during the process, potentially blowing the mind of anyone who thought the final versions were somehow the only way to play them. There’s a slowed-down version of “Isn’t It a Pity” that’s even sadder than the album version, and a sublime version of “Art of Dying” that’s arguably better than the final. Listeners familiar with the album track “Let It Down” - a dynamic tune that got the Spector Wall of Sound treatment and resembles a James Bond theme - may be stunned to hear the stripped down, heartfelt acoustic demo version Harrison recorded on Day 2. But first is the music, which Rolling Stone lists among the 500 greatest albums of all time. The most expensive edition comes in its own wooden crate, complete with figurines of the famous garden gnomes featured on the album cover. There are reprinted archival notes, track annotations, photos and memorabilia.
ALL THINGS MUST PASS MUSICIANS PLUS
The anniversary editions out this week make that look quaint, containing eight LPs (or five CDs) plus a Blu-ray audio disc, with the remixed album, demos, outtakes and jams. The original collection was audacious for its time - the first triple studio album in rock history, a virtual flurry of vinyl. This is a really important bit of music.” “The message is clearer and now it’s sonically clearer. “I think that the message of this record is more ready to be received now than it was when it first came out,” said Dhani Harrison. NEW YORK (AP) - George Harrison’s landmark album “All Things Must Pass” is celebrating its belated 50th anniversary and the former Beatles’ son thinks a new remixed collection might make the perfect post-pandemic soundtrack.
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