All Things Must Pass WAS NOT REJECTED by the BEATLES part 1| #038

In this video (part one) I do a deep dive on George's ALL THINGS MUST PASS. Despite lots of work by the group on this song, the Beatles never recorded a proper version of it. This fact led to the assumption by many overly creative writers and lazy researchers that this and other George Harrison songs "were REJECTED" by the Beatles." Upon closer examination of the hours of rehearsals - most of which were recorded - we can hear a different story emerge regarding many of George's songs.

[Abraham_Kist-Okazaki]

Listening to Paul's bass on this song, I am reminded of his work on Something as well. If Paul didn't think much of George as a songwriter, it sure is strange that Paul put so much effort into creating really lovely basslines that add to the songs and do not overpower them. Regardless of what words from conversations during those sessions have been recorded, Paul's basslines speak volumes about how much he appreciated George as a songwriter and fellow bandmate.

[davidg]

Yoko's presence not only caused the end of the Beatles, it caused the outbreak of WW2, the '91 riots, and the decline of Western Civilization.

[guciowitomski]

– Is this a Harrisong?
– Yeah
– Oh, there's no solo or anything complicated

[rubbersoul]

It's amazing that The Beatles recorded all their work (12 albums and 20+ singles & e.p.'s) in just 7 years!!

[boneappletea]

Damn, when John holds that vocal note and Paul pitches in, it's what's really missing. So sad.

[MarkMikelVideos]

I love how you do the subtitles to the Beatles talking. I could watch that stuff for hours and hours. Really fascinating!

[bohall]

The best channel on the music of the sixties..Thanks man

[c.a.t.]

Hearing the beautiful Beatles harmony vocals at 9:15 on this song made me feel so wistful about what might have been.

[DINGDONGDANIEL]

I really like how you can hear in all these recordings how easily Ringo can break in and the flow is amazing haha

[palacerevolution]

The review you read from 'Get back' book about "a band in shambles". What a crock. Clearly whoever wrote this has never been in a band rehearsal. Those harmonies start sounding so good; and John and Paul are clearly working on the song. Love your channel.

[lornedey]

I have been a Beatles fan since they made their debut on the Ed Sullivan show. This is the first time I have heard this guy talk about them and I am impressed; very thorough and in-depth anaylsis.

[tabturn]

Excellent. I like it when these tired "truths" that get mindlessly repeated get a little light shone on them. These fellas were friends and great collaborators far more than they weren't.

[randlemcmurphy]

I believe it was in The Beatles Documentary George Martin said "when you have Lennon and McCartney spewing out so many songs one after another, I did tend to dismiss George's writing talent". You can probably find his exact words on the web.

[Semiam]

Thank you so much for breaking this all down. My respect has grown for The Beatles since Get Back was released.

[Bill_Jones.]

George My favorite Beatle. My God what a monumental talent.

[fredapeeples]

Plenty of Paul's stuff was "rejected" and left off Let It Be. What say you about that? No mention of that? No less than 3 songs were put on McCartney. Sure we're talking about George here, but it's worth mentioning.

[aquamarine]

So we're waiting for Peter Jackson's reimagining of the Let It Be movie, which apparently shows that things weren't so bad during those sessions.

[chillbobaggins]

That whistle by John was so beautiful! :D This was just fascinating to behold. Legendary musicians in the midst of putting together a legendary song.

[johnnhoj]

A key point which I've never seen really emphasised is that we are hearing, in the Let it Be sessions, the entire progress of a song. We are going from first presentation of the basic song by the writer to the other Beatles right up to, often, a finished product. We have never heard this before at such length. The studio tapes of previous sessions are being recorded ONLY to capture what might end up in the final record. At the point at which we first hear previous songs they have already gone through the clumsy learning and trying out dead ends stage and are at a point where a take might possibly be useful.
Most of what we hear in the Let It Be sessions is being recorded ONLY for use in the film and the Film sound tapes were running for many hours during which the Music sound tapes were not running - and wouldn't have been on previous records.
On their first few records The Beatles mainly came in to the studio with rehearsed songs but after that stage I suspect that many sessions would sound similar to the Let It Be sessions - but they weren't recorded.
Because we only hear the full sessions for Let It Be we assume that they are dramatically different than those for other records (leaving aside that being filmed added it's own problems). But that isn't necessarily the case.

[Oklatucky_Guitarman]

I dig it with the harmonies. I wish one of those takes had made it to the Anthology albums.