Its been forty years since George Harrison released his what would be his magnum opus-the triple disc set All Things Must Pass.George actually released two solo albums while still with the Beatles in the late sixties namely Wonderwall and Electronic Sound.Like John Lennon,he started making solo albums at the height of the Beatles' wailing relationship as band members.
They said that the breakup of the Beatles was triggered by so many problems the band members couldn't handle any longer.One mainly,was George Harrison's rise as a fine songwriter which caused a friction between him and the Lennon-McCartney partnership.Lennon and McCartney were the prime songwriters though all of them has written their own songs,what would happen is that John and Paul would write the songs and would include one or two songs written by George and one song would be sung by Ringo.George Harrison's songs were enigmatic and his guitar solos were so immaculate that a friction with Lennon and McCartney would be inevitable.The strongest Beatles album for George however was Revolver where three songs written by him were included and Abbey Road where two of his biggest hits became number one on both sides of the Atlantic.
Harrison was frustrated on the way his songs were treated by the other Beatles that he compiled them and waited for his freedom after the band's breakup and voila!--a triple disc album was formed.All Things Must Pass went straight to number one on the Billboard 200 charts on January 1971 and stayed there for at least three weeks.
It would have been a Beatles song,actually,a full band Beatles version was released in 1997 as part of Anthology 3.It would have been a perfect inclusion or perhaps an album after Let It Be--but sadly,the band broke up.
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