Recording: All Things Must Pass by George Harrison

Trident Studios, St Anne’s Court, London
Producer: George Harrison
Engineers: Ken Scott, Dave Corlet

Friday 11 September 1970 was the 37th recording session for George Harrison’s third solo album All Things Must Pass.

The previous album sessions had mostly taken place at Abbey Road, which had eight-track recording equipment. Harrison wanted to add more instruments and vocals to some songs, and Trident had 16-track facilities. The album’s co-producer Phil Spector was not present for these sessions.

I took ten or eleven of the tracks to try in the studio off Wardour Street, put them onto sixteen-track, ’cause at that time Abbey Road only had eight tracks. And of those tracks, then we overdubbed the ones that turned into the most noisy tracks on the album like ‘What Is Life’, ‘Let It Down’, and ‘Awaiting On You All’, ‘Wah-Wah’, all those ones that have big noise. So those tracks were done in Trident, mixed in Trident and the others remained as just eight tracks.

The overdub sessions at Trident lasted from 3-11 September.

George knew what he wanted to do. It was all these massive backing vocals, which were, in the most part, just him. And it was putting down a whole bunch of parts, bouncing them to a track, putting down a whole bunch of others, and just piecing together all of this amazing music.