ABSTRACT
George Harrison had composed and produced the soundtrack album Wonderwall Music, and demonstrated the properties of his newly acquired Moog synthesizer on Electronic Sound. Harrison's disappointment over his traditional allocation of two songs per album, and the secondary status it implied, was a perennial frustration to him. His popular characterization as 'the quiet one' of the group and George Martin's description of him as 'the third man' only added to his unease. Of all the Beatles, Harrison was the member whose discontent with the chaotic conditions of live performance had definitively helped to propel the group away from the stage and into the studio, as he readily explained in 1968. Thus, early versions of 'All Things Must Pass' and 'Hear Me Lord' had been initially recorded in February 1969, during the Beatles' Let It Be sessions.
