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| Length = | Label = Apple | Producer = | Last album = ''Electronic Sound'' (1969) | This album = ''All Things Must Pass'' (1970) | Next album = ''The Concert for Bangladesh'' (1971) | Misc = }} ''All Things Must Pass'' is a triple album by English musician George Harrison, released in November 1970. His third solo album, it includes the hit singles "My Sweet Lord" and "What Is Life", as well as songs such as "Isn't It a Pity" and the title track that were turned down by Harrison's former band, the Beatles. The album reflects the influence of his musical activities outside the Beatles during 1968–70, with Bob Dylan, the Band, Delaney & Bonnie, Billy Preston and others, and Harrison's growth as an artist beyond his supporting role to former bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney. ''All Things Must Pass'' introduced Harrison's signature sound, the slide guitar, and the spiritual themes that would be present 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''. 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 began at London's Abbey Road Studios in May 1970, with extensive overdubbing and mixing continuing through 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 unissued. ''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 his 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".〔Ben Gerson, ("George Harrison ''All Things Must Pass''" ), ''Rolling Stone'', 21 January 1971, p. 46 (retrieved 5 June 2013).〕 Reflecting the widespread 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!"〔 According to Colin Larkin, writing in the 2011 edition of his ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', ''All Things Must Pass'' is "generally rated" as the best of all the former Beatles' solo albums.〔Larkin, p. 2635.〕 During the final year of his life, Harrison oversaw a successful reissue campaign to mark the 30th anniversary of the album's release. Following this reissue, in March 2001, the set was certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Among its appearances in critics' best-album lists, ''All Things Must Pass'' was ranked 79th on ''The Times'' "The 100 Best Albums of All Time" in 1993, while ''Rolling Stone'' currently places it 433rd on the magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In January 2014, ''All Things Must Pass'' was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. ==Background== The 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.〔Harris, p. 68.〕 While in Woodstock in November,〔George Harrison, p. 164.〕 Harrison established a long-lasting friendship with Bob Dylan〔 and experienced a creative equality among the Band that contrasted sharply with John Lennon and Paul McCartney's domination in the Beatles.〔Leng, pp. 39, 51–52.〕〔Tillery, p. 86.〕 Coinciding with this visit was a surge in Harrison's songwriting output,〔Leng, p. 39.〕 following his renewed interest in the guitar, after three years spent studying the Indian sitar.〔George Harrison, pp. 55, 57–58.〕〔Lavezzoli, pp. 176, 177, 184–85.〕 As well as being one of the few musicians to co-write songs with Dylan,〔 Harrison had recently collaborated with Eric Clapton on "Badge",〔Leng, pp. 39, 53–54.〕 which became a hit single for Cream in the spring of 1969.〔("Artist: Cream" ), Official Charts Company (retrieved 16 January 2013).〕 Once back in London, and with his compositions continually overlooked for inclusion on releases by the Beatles,〔Sulpy & Schweighardt, pp. 1, 85, 124.〕〔Martin O'Gorman, "Film on Four", ''Mojo: The Beatles' Final Years Special Edition'', February 2003, p. 73.〕 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.〔Leng, pp 39, 55.〕 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.〔Leng, pp. 60–62, 71–72, 319.〕 He also recorded with artists such as Leon Russell〔O'Dell, pp. 106–07.〕 and Jack Bruce,〔Rodriguez, p. 1.〕 and accompanied Clapton on a short tour with Delaney Bramlett's soul revue, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends.〔Miles, pp. 351, 360–62.〕 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.〔Clayson, pp. 206–08, 267.〕 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).〔Spizer, p. 341.〕 In January 1970,〔Beatles timeline, ''Mojo Special Limited Edition: Days of Revolution'', February 2003, p. 114.〕 Harrison invited American producer Phil Spector to participate in the recording of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band single "Instant Karma!"〔Rodriguez, p. 21.〕〔George Harrison, in ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' DVD, Village Roadshow, 2011 (directed by Martin Scorsese; produced by Olivia Harrison, Nigel Sinclair & Martin Scorsese).〕 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),〔The Beatles, p. 350.〕〔Spizer, p. 28.〕 and later co-producing ''All Things Must Pass''.〔Schaffner, pp. 137–38.〕 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.〔Hertsgaard, p. 283.〕〔 At Abbey Road Studios on 25 February, his 26th birthday,〔Miles, p. 335.〕 Harrison recorded demos of "All Things Must Pass" and two other compositions that had received little interest from Lennon and McCartney at Twickenham.〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 38.〕〔Huntley, p. 19.〕 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.〔Clayson, p. 285.〕〔Lavezzoli, p. 185.〕 Although he began talking publicly about recording his own album from the autumn of 1969,〔Tillery, p. 87.〕〔Clayson, p. 284.〕 it was only after McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles, in April 1970, signalling the band's break-up,〔Hertsgaard, p. 277.〕 that Harrison committed to the idea.〔O'Dell, pp. 155–56.〕 Despite having already made ''Wonderwall Music'' (1968), a mostly instrumental soundtrack album, and the experimental ''Electronic Sound'' (1969),〔Huntley, pp. 30–31.〕 Harrison considered ''All Things Must Pass'' to be his first solo album.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「All Things Must Pass」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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