ALL THINGS MUST PASS FIRST HAND

All Things Must Pass featured a who’s who of the music world at the time. The following insights are from musicians who were involved in the making of the album — keyboardists Bobby Whitlock and Gary Wright, guitarists Peter Frampton, Dave Mason and Joey Molland (Badfinger) — as well as orchestrator John Barham and engineer Ken Scott.

Ken Scott: We started the All Things Must Pass sessions at Abbey Road. George was so comfortable at Abbey Road. Much as they might bitch about the place, they always came back to Abbey Road. Paul (McCartney) had his home studio built as an exact replica of Studio Number Two. There was obviously something about that studio that they all liked. When it came time for All Things Must Pass, George recorded all the basic tracks there with a great engineer called Phil McDonald. Phil had been a second engineer for me for some time and then he moved up the ladder. We were swapping a lot of stuff around at that time. I’d record it and he’d mix it, I’d mix it and he’d record it. At Abbey Road there were still only eight-track machines.

I was fortunate to hear a lot of George’s songs earmarked for the album before we recorded it; things like “My Sweet Lord,” “Awaiting on You All” and “Run of the Mill.” Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Eric Clapton and myself, we had played together before, so we were already dialed in with each other as musicians. So when it came to us being the core band on , you couldn’t have asked for better support, because we were already linked