The Beatles have achieved another milestone: one of the band's most famous hits has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify, becoming the first Beatles song to do so.
"Here Comes the Sun," a George Harrison-penned track from the Beatles' "Abbey Road" album, on Tuesday became the 406th track to join Spotify's Billions Club. Seven years ago, Drake became the first artist to have a song reach one billion plays on Spotify with his smash "One Dance," from the 2016 album "Views."
George Harrison Joins Paul McCartney As Beatles at No. 1 on Top Rock Albums. ChartFor 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.
For the first time, George Harrison is No. 1 on Billboard’s 15-year-old Top Rock Albums chart as a solo artist.
The 50th anniversary reissue of Harrison’s 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass debuts at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums list dated Aug. 21 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 12, according to MRC Data.
It’s Harrison’s first leader solo on Top Rock Albums, which began in 2006, exceeding the No. 7 peak of Early Takes: Volume 1 in 2012.
Harrison is the second former Beatle to lead Top Rock Albums in 2021. Paul McCartney boasts two rulers this year with McCartney III (Jan. 2) and companion release McCartney III Imagined (Aug. 7).
The record has been re-mixed, re-mastered and re-issued to honour its 50th year. Every version of the album, including the original 1970 edition, have been combined in this new release, and it will be available in a variety of formats.
A previously unreleased take of George Harrison’s “Isn’t It a Pity” has arrived ahead of the release of the 50th-anniversary edition of the musician’s solo classic, All Things Must Pass.
“Isn’t It a Pity (Take 27)” is closer in style and sound to the second version of the song that appears on the latter half of All Things Must Pass. Even still, the groove on “Take 27” feels a bit slower and deeper, the steady bass thumps driving the song as piano, delicate guitar, organ, and Harrison’s voice fill the spaces in between.
The track was also released with an animated music video directed by Alan Bibby and Jonny Kofoed of the New Zealand-based creative house, Assembly.
Ahead of the 50th=anniversary reissue of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, Capitol and UMe have shared the first unreleased track from the collection, the acoustic demo “Cosmic Empire.”
Official Music Video for George Harrison “ All Things Must Pass" released
"He hated that reverb," explains Dhani Harrison. "He told me a million times: 'God, that glare!'". Voormann remembers similar comments about the excess of overdubs: "He told me it was too much," he says.
The audio of the All Things tapes has been improved thanks to a new high-resolution technique that uses technology that did not exist at the time of the previous reissues. "It's called ultra-remastering and it's about getting the most out of sound separation," says Dhani. "You get more bass frequencies and greater clarity."
The process took a lot of work and several attempts. At first, says Hicks, "there were too many basses." Together with Dhani Harrison, the sound engineer found that eliminating reverb, as George asked, was easier said than done. "In some songs, like Wah-Wah, the voice is inside the reverb," explains Dani. “With the reverb completely removed, it didn't even feel like a record anymore. It should be reduced a bit, within the limits of good taste ". In Apple Scruffs, the acoustic and Dylanian tribute to Beatles fans, "if you remove the delay it becomes a demo," explains Hicks. The original mix of that piece, as well as Hear Me Lord's slap echo, have been preserved.
limited edition 50th-anniversary box set, available on August 6th via Capitol/UMe. The super-deluxe package, which you can pre-order here, is filled with unreleased tracks from the prolific period of the former Beatle’s career, newly mixed by Grammy Award-winning engineer Paul Hicks.
One of these gems is the whimsical “Run Of The Mill (Take 36).” According to Olivia Harrison, the song was one of their favorites. The Harrison estate released the track with a new video, set in Friar Park, which is on their property. “Mill,” along with “Isn’t It A Pity,” “Wah-Wah,” and “Beware Of Darkness,” came out of Harrison’s frustration concerning the Beatles’ breakup in April of 1970.
