All those years ago george harrison greatest hits
“He was playing me the songs, and I played the piano or harmonium, and he was playing the guitar,” Voormann recalls “Even in the demos, you could hear the quality of the song already. He previewed his work for his old friend, Klaus Voormann, whom he’d met in 1960, when The Beatles first played Hamburg, Germany, and who was now living in London. “Even before I started I knew I was gonna make a good album, because I had so many songs and I had so much energy,” Harrison told Crawdaddy. Spiritual themes would be a prominent element in a number of songs on his new album. He’d become involved with the Hare Krishna movement, recording with and producing two singles and an album by members of the Radha Krishna Temple he also let Krishna devotees stay on the grounds of his new home, Friar Park, which he’d moved into in March 1970. Harrison was also looking for a way to put more spiritual consciousness into his work. “(It was) just what Harrison needed after all that hoopla with The Beatles,” keyboardist Bobby Whitlock told author Graeme Thomson, “to get involved with a bunch of redneck rock and rollers and just have a good time.”
Harrison relished the chance to play live as a sideman in the background. Harrison had previously tried to sign the group to Apple Records, and after catching their show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on December 1, 1969, he offered to sit in with the group on their subsequent dates. One was the sound of the Southern soul music of the husband-and-wife team Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, who played with a revolving group of musicians as Delaney & Bonnie and Friends. I’m just really relieved it’s coming out when it is.”Īs Harrison laid plans for ATMP in 1970, there would be two major influences that helped shape the work. “There’s been a lot of stuff that we’ve been fighting against. “In fact, it’s amazing that we got this out this year,” as the pandemic slowed down everything even the blockage of the Suez Canal this past March delayed shipping.
“And we’re already a year late,” he says. It retails for $999.98. More affordable sets are also available.įor Harrison’s son, Dhani, it’s been a project long in the making. The All Things Must Pass ‘Uber Deluxe Edition,’ an 8-LP/5-CD/Blu-ray set, which comes in a wooden crate with books, gnome figurines, a Klaus Voormann illustration and a lot more.