An example? To assess whether Jeff Lynne was a suitable co-producer for his 1987 Cloud Nine album, the first thing Harrison suggested was a three-week holiday together in Australia. This seemed typical of George, where friendship and collaboration ruled over everything. As voice, songwriter and a goddamn Beatle, George Harrison was obviously to be the name in lights, but the album truly boasted an extraordinary supporting cast. Official recording for All Things Must Pass began in May 1970. Sure, George could have another torturous meeting with The Beatles about The Beatles, when the rest were already plotting solo albums anyway. He had all this emotion built up when it was released to me.” “He had literally hundreds of songs and each one was better than the rest.
“It was endless!” the co-producer later recalled. Spector also couldn’t believe the sheer number of demos he heard at Harrison’s Friar Park home. But, at the time, Harrison had a clear choice: he was writing with Bob Dylan, he’d established new playing partners via his work with Eric Clapton and Delaney & Bonnie, and Phil Spector was “amazed” at the George songs The Beatles were rejecting. Peter Jackson’s forthcoming Get Back rockumentary (due August 2021) will attempt to show that the last days of The Beatles weren’t all disharmony, and may restore some balance. George actually announced to his fellow Beatles over lunch that he was leaving – “see you round the clubs” – but was also persuaded to remain to complete the Get Back ( Let It Be) songs. Ringo Starr later reiterated that Harrison had grown tired of McCartney “dominating” him. Maybe Harrison simply thought Spector was a conduit for moving forward, as in Camp Beatles all things were passing quickly.Īt a January 1970 lunch to discuss work on Get Back (aka Let It Be), rows erupted: Harrison was frustrated at what he saw as Lennon’s lack of engagement in the project, though Lennon’s increasing heroin problems probably explained that.
Back then, Spector was simply a celebrated if reclusive record producer, who had not yet earned the ire of Beatles fans for his overdubs and arrangement changes on the posthumous Let It Be, nor that of society in general for his future criminal acts. It was, possibly in frustration as much as anything, that Harrison played Phil Spector his extensive demos in early 1970. The foursome did all approve of Old Brown Shoe and Something, as we know, but All Things Must Pass was never pursued beyond the demo version that can be heard on Anthology 3. Perhaps the double-meaning – a musing of the transient nature of existence that doubled as a commentary on the fracturing Fabs – touched a raw nerve… But it turns out George Harrison actually had the most to say… When the serious rancour became clear, it was assumed that Lennon vs McCartney would be the narrative. McCartney would later describe that a wholly shared Fabs “wasn’t the right balance” and was “too democratic for its own good.”
Now that George is writing a lot, we could put out a double album every month…” yet this was clearly not going to happen with antagonism rising. READ MORE: The Genius Of… Murder Ballads by Nick Cave And The Bad Seedsįabs fans barely knew where to look: in autumn 1969, Lennon had declared, “The trouble is we’ve got too much material.All four were working on solo records: John, Ringo and George Harrison would all contribute to each others’, while McCartney cut his self-titled solo album on home recording equipment at his St John’s Wood home after writing much on retreat in Scotland. Paul McCartney was the first to issue a proper press release that he was “no longer working with the band” yet the four would still record under The Beatles brand to complete the Let It Be sessions. Even in the anarchic annals of rock music, The Beatles’ split in 1970 was a messy affair.
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