Harrison was stifled by the domination of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership and was only allowed a song or two per album.
George Harrison was the Beatle who most immediately benefited from the band's breakup. The results are outstanding as the songs sound clear and fresh. Finally after years of clamoring from fans, George Harrison has issued a remastered version of his classic All Things Must Pass. The original cd release of this album was marred by a muddy and hissy sound that took away from the great music. And then there's the project's truly stellar session lineup, which included Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman, Jim Gordon, Dave Mason, Badfinger, Billy Preston, Ginger Baker, Carl Radle, Gary Brooker, Jim Price, Bobby Keys, Pete Drake and, it turns out, even Phil Collins! -Jerry McCulley The devolved "My Sweet Lord" aside, the bonus tracks here offer new insight: the unreleased "I Live for You" further highlights the album's oft overlooked country facet spare takes of "Beware of Darkness" and "Let It Down" underscore the strength of Harrison's songwriting an alternate backing track of "What Is Life" demonstrates the meticulousness of Spector's production. It remains Harrison's unequaled masterpiece. Still, no amount of grumpy auto-revisionism can subtract from the admittedly overwrought majesty of these tracks, which were the logical sonic extension of Abbey Road. With such a mindset, it's unsurprising Harrison has allowed a nearly decade-and-a-half gap to grow between recordings. If the mini-boxed set's booklet and twin inner CD sleeves won't convince you (the album's familiar cover is colorized and altered to include backdrops of a freeway-tangled cityscape and nuclear reactor cooling towers, respectively), then maybe his liner-note apology for Phil Spector's "big production" (kind of like Da Vinci grousing about Mona's crooked smile) or his laconic, stripped-down, 2000 rethink of "My Sweet Lord" will. We offer as evidence this splendidly remastered 30th-anniversary edition of his 1970 multidisc solo epic. It's hard to imagine, but Beatles resident mystic George Harrison has arguably become the band's most curmudgeonly cynic.
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