ABSTRACT
The producers on the album were George Harrison and Phil Spector, even though Phil was never around for any of the overdubs. Between 1968 and 1970, a series of Beatle solo projects were released: George composed music for the film Wonderwall in 1968 and also recorded the synth-based Electronic Sound. The sessions for All Things Must Pass began in May 1970, with George and Phil Spector sharing production duties. Spector’s practice of creating walls of sound by having many musicians playing together on early takes may have appealed to George Harrison’s interest in music as a collaborative process. The initial session for “Beware of Darkness” was typical for All Things Must Pass in that by Beatles’ standards, it featured a large number of musicians on the initial take. Rather than encouraging a figure-based focus on the elements within that space, “Beware of Darkness” considers perceptual distortion itself as an inevitable aspect of the human experience.
