All Things Must Pass GEORGE HARRISON APPLE STCH 639 EXCELLENT CONDITION BEATLES

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I am liquidating my dads record collection. I would love to keep them but i have no room for them

they were stored in an air conditioned closet with no sunlight.

This record is in very good condition, no visible scratches or defects on the vinyl. the jacket is in very good condition.

i can not comment on its playability because i do not have a record player, however looking at in a visual inspection, it should play perfectly.

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All Things Must Pass is a triple album by English musician George Harrison, released in November 1970 following the break-up of the Beatles seven months earlier. It includes the hit singles "My Sweet Lord" and "What Is Life", as well as songs such as the title track and "Isn't It a Pity" that were turned down by the Beatles. The album reflects the influence of Harrison's musical activities outside the group in 1968–70 – with Bob Dylan, The Band, Delaney & Bonnie, Billy Preston and others – and his growth as an artist beyond his allotted, junior role to bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney during that time. The album introduced Harrison's signature sound, the slide guitar, and the spiritual themes that would be implicit throughout his subsequent solo work. The original vinyl release consisted of two LPs of songs and a third disc of informal jams, titled Apple Jam. It was the first studio triple album by a single rock act and the first box-set studio album in the history of rock music. Commentators interpret Barry Feinstein's album cover photo, showing Harrison surrounded by four garden gnomes, as a statement on his independence from the Beatles.

Production on the album began at London's Abbey Road Studios in May 1970, with extensive overdubbing and mixing lasting through to the end of October. Among the large cast of backing musicians were Eric Clapton and Delaney & Bonnie's Friends band – three of whom formed Derek and the Dominos with Clapton during the recording – as well as Ringo Starr, Gary Wright, Preston, Klaus Voormann, John Barham, Badfinger and Pete Drake. The sessions produced a double album's worth of extra material, most of which remains unreleased.

All Things Must Pass was critically acclaimed on release and, with long stays at number 1 on charts around the world, commercially successful. The album was co-produced by Phil Spector and employs the latter's Wall of Sound production technique to notable effect; Ben Gerson of Rolling Stone described the sound as "Wagnerian, Brucknerian, the music of mountain tops and vast horizons".[1] Reflecting the general surprise at the assuredness of Harrison's post-Beatles debut, Melody Maker's Richard Williams likened the album to Greta Garbo's first role in a talking picture and declared: "Garbo talks! – Harrison is free!"[2] A number of music critics consider All Things Must Pass to be the best of all the Beatles' solo albums.

British music journalist John Harris has identified the start of George Harrison's "journey" to making All Things Must Pass as his visit to America in late 1968, following the acrimonious sessions for the Beatles' White Album.[3] While in Woodstock in November,[4] Harrison established a long-lasting friendship with Bob Dylan[3] and experienced a creative equality among the Band that contrasted sharply with John Lennon and Paul McCartney's domination in the Beatles.[5][6] Coinciding with this visit was a surge in Harrison's songwriting output,[7] following his renewed interest in the guitar, after three years spent studying the Indian sitar.[8][9] As well as being one of the few musicians to co-write songs with Dylan,[3] Harrison had recently collaborated with Eric Clapton on "Badge",[10] which became a hit single for Cream in the spring of 1969.[11]

Once back in London, and with his compositions continually overlooked for inclusion on releases by the Beatles,[12][13] Harrison found creative fulfilment in extracurricular projects that, in the words of his musical biographer, Simon Leng, served as an "emancipating force" from the restrictions imposed on him in the band.[14] His activities during 1969 included producing Apple signings Billy Preston and Doris Troy, two American singer-songwriters whose soul and gospel roots proved as influential on All Things Must Pass as the music of the Band.[15] He also recorded with artists such as Leon Russell[16] and Jack Bruce,[17] and accompanied Clapton on a short tour with Delaney Bramlett's soul revue, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends.[18] In addition, Harrison identified his involvement with the Hare Krishna movement as providing "another piece of a jigsaw puzzle" that represented the spiritual journey he had begun in 1966.[19] As well as embracing the Vaishnavist branch of Hinduism, Harrison produced two hit singles during 1969–70 by the UK-based devotees, credited as Radha Krishna Temple (London).[20] In January 1970,[21] Harrison invited American producer Phil Spector to participate in the recording of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band single "Instant Karma!"[22][23] This association led to Spector being given the task of salvaging the Beatles' Get Back rehearsal tapes, released officially as the Let It Be album (1970),[24][25] and later co-producing All Things Must Pass.[26]

Harrison first discussed the possibility of making a solo album of his unused songs during the ill-tempered Get Back sessions, held at Twickenham Film Studios in January 1969.[27][28][nb 1] At Abbey Road Studios on 25 February, his 26th birthday,[30] Harrison recorded demos of "All Things Must Pass" and two other compositions that had received little interest from Lennon and McCartney at Twickenham.[31][32] With the inclusion of one of these songs – "Something" – and "Here Comes the Sun" on the Beatles' Abbey Road album in September 1969, music critics acknowledged that Harrison had bloomed into a songwriter to match Lennon and McCartney.[33][34] Although later that year he began talking publicly about recording his own album,[35] it was only after McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles, in April 1970, signalling the band's break-up,[36] that Harrison committed to the idea.[37] Despite having already made Wonderwall Music (1968), a mostly instrumental soundtrack album, and the experimental Electronic Sound (1969),[38] Harrison considered All Things Must Pass to be his first solo album.[39] This is a view held by biographers Leng[40] and Joshua Greene[41] also, as well as by music writers and critics such as John Harris,[3] David Fricke[39] and Richie Unterberger.[42]

Spector first heard Harrison's stockpile of unreleased compositions early in 1970, when visiting his recently purchased home, Friar Park.[43] "It was endless!" Spector later recalled of the recital, noting the quantity and quality of Harrison's material.[43] Harrison had accumulated songs from as far back as 1966; both "Isn't It a Pity" and "Art of Dying" date from that year.[44] He co-wrote at least two songs with Dylan while in Woodstock,[45] only one of which, "I'd Have You Anytime", appeared on All Things Must Pass.[46] Harrison wrote "Let It Down" in late 1968 also.[47]

He introduced the Band-inspired[48] "All Things Must Pass", along with "Hear Me Lord" and "Let It Down", at the Beatles' Get Back rehearsals, only to have them rejected by Lennon and McCartney.[49][50][nb 2] The tense atmosphere at Twickenham fuelled another All Things Must Pass song, "Wah-Wah",[54] which Harrison wrote in the wake of his temporary departure from the band on 10 January 1969.[55] "Run of the Mill" followed soon afterwards, its lyrics focusing on the failure of friendships within the Beatles[56] amid the business problems surrounding their Apple organisation.[57] Harrison's musical activities outside the band during 1969 inspired other compositions on the album: "What Is Life" came to him while driving to a London session that spring for Preston's That's the Way God Planned It album;[58] "Behind That Locked Door" was Harrison's message of encouragement to Dylan,[59] written the night before the latter's comeback performance at the Isle of Wight Festival;[60] and Harrison began "My Sweet Lord" as an exercise in writing a gospel song[61] during Delaney & Bonnie's stopover in Copenhagen in December 1969.[62][nb 3]

"I Dig Love" resulted from Harrison's early experiments with slide guitar, a technique that Bramlett had introduced him to,[61] in order to cover for guitarist Dave Mason's departure from the Friends line-up.[65] Other songs on All Things Must Pass, all written during the first half of 1970, include "Awaiting on You All", which reflected Harrison's adoption of chanting through his involvement with the Hare Krishna movement;[66][67] "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)", a tribute to the original owner of Friar Park;[68] and "Beware of Darkness".[69] Shortly before beginning work on All Things Must Pass, Harrison attended a Dylan session in New York on 1 May 1970,[70] during which he acquired a new song of Dylan's, "If Not for You".[54] Harrison wrote "Apple Scruffs", which was one of a number of Dylan-influenced compositions on the album,[71] towards the end of production on All Things Must Pass, as a tribute to the diehard fans who had kept a vigil outside the studios where he was working.[67][72]

The songs are variously based in the rock, soul, gospel, country and folk genres, and Leng notes aspects of Indian classical music in the melodies of "Isn't It a Pity" and "Beware of Darkness", as well as Harrison's fusing of the Hindu bhajan tradition with gospel in "My Sweet Lord".[73] The recurrent lyrical themes on the album are Harrison's spiritual quest, as it would be throughout his solo career,[74] and friendship, particularly the failure of relationships among the Beatles.[75][76]

Apple Jam

On the original LP's third disc, entitled Apple Jam, four of the five tracks – "Out of the Blue", "Plug Me In", "I Remember Jeep" and "Thanks for the Pepperoni" – are improvised instrumentals built around minimal chord changes,[77] or in the case of "Out of the Blue", a single-chord riff.[78] The title for "I Remember Jeep" originated from the name of Clapton's dog, Jeep,[79] and "Thanks for the Pepperoni" came from a line on a Lenny Bruce comedy album.[80] In a December 2000 interview with Billboard magazine, Harrison explained: "For the jams, I didn't want to just throw [them] in the cupboard, and yet at the same time it wasn't part of the record; that's why I put it on a separate label to go in the package as a kind of bonus."[81][nb 4]

The only vocal selection on Apple Jam is "It's Johnny's Birthday", sung to the tune of Cliff Richard's 1968 hit "Congratulations", and recorded as a gift from Harrison to Lennon to mark the latter's 30th birthday.[83] Like all the "free" tracks on the bonus disc,[84] "It's Johnny's Birthday" carried a Harrison songwriting credit on the original UK release of All Things Must Pass,[85] while on the first US copies, the only songwriting information on the record's face labels was the standard inclusion of a performing rights organisation, BMI.[86] In December 1970, "Congratulations" songwriters Bill Martin and Phil Coulter claimed for royalties,[83] with the result that the composer's credit for Harrison's track was swiftly changed to acknowledge Martin and Coulter.[79]