While listening to "Long, Long, Long," "Old Brown Shoe," and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from his time with the Beatles, we can hear hints to his love of God, soul, and rock and roll, when ATMP came out in 1970, it shocked (pleasantly) everyone. The album has become the best selling album of any of the solo Beatles, and it contained the first #1 after the breakup, “My Sweet Lord.” The songs ranged from completely out-of-control hard rock about reincarnation, to very heartfelt and intimate tunes with Harrison's vulnerability coming through producer Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, to gospel flourishes that could be called early Christian Rock… were George Harrison a Christian (I guess you could call it Hare Krishna Rock.) While some of his detractors unfairly dub his work as “preachy,” his overtly religious lyrics merely find Harrison wearing his heart on his sleeve.
Submitted by John J. Madonna on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 11:31am.
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