They emerged from the vault with some 110 different songs and Harrison and his team had to decide how to present what he'd found. It was an ever deeper dive than the 30th and 40th anniversary reissues. The 1970 session tapes produced 25 hours of music, including several songs that didn't make the album like “Cosmic Empire,” “Going Down To Golders Green,” “Dehra Dun,” “Sour Milk Sea,” and “Mother Divine.”ĭhani Harrison and Hicks started work on the anniversary editions five years ago, re-digitizing and listening to every song and every take made during the sessions. The original 23-track album - complete with hits “Isn't It a Pity,” “What Is Life” and “My Sweet Lord” - has been remixed for the anniversary editions from Capitol/UMe and are now augmented with 47 demos and outtakes, 42 of them previously unreleased. The next day, he played an additional 15 songs for co-producer Phil Spector on just an acoustic guitar. On May 26, Harrison record 15 songs backed by Ringo Starr and his longtime friend, bassist Klaus Voormann.

The skeleton of “All Things Must Pass” was recorded over two days in late May 1970. We are very respectful to the mixes that were there and follow them as much as possible.” “I'm not trying to put any sort of stamp on it. “We're not trying to make it sound modern,” said triple Grammy Award-winning engineer Paul Hicks. But first is the music, which Rolling Stone lists among the 500 greatest albums of all time. The most expensive edition comes in its own wooden crate, complete with figurines of the famous garden gnomes featured on the album cover. There are reprinted archival notes, track annotations, photos and memorabilia. The anniversary editions out this week make that look quaint, containing eight LPs (or five CDs) plus a Blu-ray audio disc, with the remixed album, demos, outtakes and jams. The original collection was audacious for its time - the first triple studio album in rock history, a virtual flurry of vinyl. This is a really important bit of music.”

“The message is clearer and now it's sonically clearer. “I think that the message of this record is more ready to be received now than it was when it first came out,” said Dhani Harrison. George Harrison's landmark album “All Things Must Pass” is celebrating its belated 50th anniversary and the former Beatles' son thinks a new remixed collection might make the perfect post-pandemic soundtrack.

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