On May 27, 1970 George Harrison recorded the demos for his first solo album, All Things Must Pass. These tapes are legendary because the sound is excellent. It's just George and a guitar, with occasional bass, playing his new songs for Phil Spector. As great as All Things Must Pass is, even its biggest fans believe that Phil Spector's co-production is grossly overbearing. When you hear some of those same songs the way George casually plays them here, you'll agree... Spector should be put on tria...
On May 27, 1970 George Harrison recorded the demos for his first solo album, All Things Must Pass. These tapes are legendary because the sound is excellent. It's just George and a guitar, with occasional bass, playing his new songs for Phil Spector. As great as All Things Must Pass is, even its biggest fans believe that Phil Spector's co-production is grossly overbearing. When you hear some of those same songs the way George casually plays them here, you'll agree... Spector should be put on trial. It's kind of like hearing the difference between Spector's work with Let It Be and Let It Be Naked.
The bulk of this session sounds so good that two of the tracks were bonus additions to the 2001 reissue of All Things Must Pass. There's also compositional evidence of George's recent work with Bob Dylan.
ABKCO refers to Allen B. Klein, The Beatles' manager for a brief time and who was a big part of the rift between The Beatles. George originally wanted Klein as did John but George had apparently seen the light as he name drops ABKCO (Klein's company) in "Beware of Darkness."
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