On December 26, 1970, “My Sweet Lord” went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the first member of The Beatles to top the charts as a solo artist, where he remained for four weeks.
George Harrison Forgot Ringo Played on ‘All Things Must Pass’. They worked together so much that George forgot that Ringo played on about two-thirds of his solo debut, All Things Must Pass.
Ringo Starr reveals on Daily Mail he often asked fellow Beatles star George Harrison for advice when making music because he 'didn't have the talent to end a song.
“I used to always go to George to help me end the song,” Ringo explained. “I didn’t have the talent to end a song. With ‘Back Off Boogaloo,’ I went to George and he helped me finish it.” The tune reached No. 9 on the U.S. charts.
By the time The Beatles ended, Ringo and George had already established a successful songwriting partnership of their own. George had helped Ringo write “Octopus’s Garden” off Abbey Road. After “Back Off Boogaloo,” George and Ringo would collaborate many more times.(Source Cheatsheet)
They worked on the soundtrack for 1968’s Wonderwall. Then, George helped Ringo on Sentimental Journey in 1970, and Ringo provided drums on George’s album, All Things Must Pass.
Later, Ringo helped George on The Concert for Bangladesh, Living in the Material World, Dark Horse, Somewhere in England, Cloud Nine, Nobody’s Child: Romanian Angel Appeal, and Extra Texture (Read All About It). After all they had done together, George completely forgot how much Ringo had helped him on All Things Must Pass.
The single My Sweet Lord, arguably one of the finest post-Beatles endeavours by any of the Fab Four , remains a real fan favourite, with its joyous melody, slide guitar line, and message of universal spirituality as Clash Music reports.
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For the first time since 1971, George Harrison’s classic album All Things Must Pass Hit the the top in the Billboard 200 charts. It has entered in at number 1 following its 50th anniversary re-release.
Ringo shared the story with the LA Times when George’s family reissued I Me Mine
“I have a story for you,” Ringo said. “When he originally was doing the book, he called me up and said, ‘Ringo, did you play on ‘All Things Must Pass’?’ And I said, ‘I don’t remember.’ People were on a lot of medication in those days.
“So he checked and called me back and said, ‘You were on about two-thirds of it!’ Then he wrote that in the book — that I didn’t remember whether I’d played on that album — but he didn’t say he forgot too!”
Two-thirds might be an over-exaggeration. Ringo contributed drums and tambourine on All Things Must Pass. According to Beatles Bible, he added drums to “Wah-Wah,” “Isn’t It A Pity,” “Beware Of Darkness,” “All Things Must Pass,” and “I Dig Love.” He added tambourine on “My Sweet Lord” and “If Not For You.”
“When I work with young players today, I always use George as an example,” said drummer Jim Keltner, one of the world’s foremost studio musicians who worked with Harrison, Starr and John Lennon after the Beatles dissolved.
“When somebody writes a song and plays it for you as the band, or just to the drummer when you start to record,” he said, “my feeling is it should be so strong already without the band, that you know that once you put the band on it you’ve really got something.
“George was like that every time he would play a song for you,” he said. “That’s the amazing thing about him.”
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass — and the album’s new reissue — the former Beatle’s son Dhani Harrison teamed up with floral artist Ruth Davis of All for Love London to make a special art installation in the center of London that recreates the album’s iconic cover art. (Rolling Stone)
A new behind-the-scenes video shows how the giant “Gnome Garden” came together, with Davis creating larger-than-life figures based on two of the gnomes using different plant materials. The gnomes sit on a large circle of turf, centered on an oversized stool and a pair of boots meant to represent Harrison.
“He had a connection with nature — that’s how he meditated and prayed, was his gardening,” Dhani Harrison says in an interview at his father’s Hyde Park property. “My whole life, he’d be right over there, he’d be up in that hill right there.”
The clip ends on an especially heartwarming note, showing George Harrison’s widow Olivia Harrison visiting the installation and exclaiming, “That’s the most joyous thing I’ve ever seen!”
