The best albums of all time typically don’t get to the point until many years after the original recording. Some records can capture listeners’ attention immediately upon release. However, it usually takes more than just a catchy song list to keep them interested for years to come. Although George Harrison acknowledged that he didn’t truly know what he was doing when he was making Abbey Road. The album was already hailed as a masterpiece before it had even been released for a year.
Of course, after their dreadful sessions for Get Back, none of the surviving Beatles would have felt that they were meant to be producing anything more. Once they graduated and started their solo careers, it was obvious that all of the communication wasn’t working anymore. A major change needed to be made for everyone.
The idea was to make a final statement that everyone could be proud of. However, ending a career on a record like The White Album might have been a bit too abrupt for most people to accept. Paul McCartney and John Lennon indulged in their customary antics and produced strong gold pop hits. However, Harrison ended up taking home the best songs from the record.
Nothing was going to stop a song like “Something,” which may stand among the best love songs ever recorded. “Come Together” and “Oh Darling” are fantastic pop masterpieces for what they are. Even though “Here Comes the Sun” opens the second side of the record like a massive beam of light. It only gets listeners ready for the medley that comes in the second half of the record.
Combining a fast-paced selection of songs. The album’s closing minutes are likely the closest the Beatles have ever come to progressive music. Each member of the band gives a brief performance on pieces like “Polythene Pam” and “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window.” Harrison acknowledged that while it might have been revolutionary at the time, he wasn’t sure what they were doing either.
In an interview from around that time, Harrison said, “I got an overall image of my own of the album, whereas, with this one, I’m at a loss,” referring to the fact that everything didn’t seem to come together as it did for most of their previous records. I still find it to be very abstract and am unable to see it in its entirety. It doesn’t seem like we are there. We spent hours doing it, but it still doesn’t look like us. It resembles just another person more.
Harrison did, however, most likely not have enough time to concentrate on the two songs he contributed to the group’s actual swan song. All Things Must Pass features all of his signature songs with more elaborate arrangements, so those were just tasters of what he was getting up to in his solo career.
Harrison was correct, though, in saying that the record didn’t feel like it belonged to The Beatles. Because the Fab Four couldn’t claim credit for their greatest work, looking back decades later. This genre of music belonged to the entire world, and these songs are now as deeply embedded in society as Shakespeare is.
