GEORGE HARRISON All Things Must Pass 3-LP's 1st UK MINT

Sunrise doesn't last all morning,
A cloudburst doesn't last all day',
Seems my love is up and has left you with no warning,
It's not always going to be this grey.

All things must pass,
All things must pass away.

Sunset doesn't last all evening,
A mind can blow those clouds away,
After all this, my love is up and must be leaving,
Its not always going to be this grey.

All things must pass,
All things must pass away,
All things must pass,
None of life's strings can last,
So, I must be on my way,
And face another day.

Now the darkness only stays the night time,
In the morning it will fade away,
Daylight is good at arriving at the right time,
It's not always going to be this grey.

All things must pass,
All things must pass away,
All things must pass, All things must pass away.....

GEORGE HARRISON: "All Things Must Pass" THREE LP BOX SET, POSTER & VERY RARE ORANGE CARD SQUARE.
THE VERY FIRST UK PRESSING, RELEASED 27th NOVEMBER 1970.

APPLE: STCH 639.

ONLY ONE SIDE HAS BEEN PLAYED AND THERE ARE NO SCRATCHES, MARKS OR HANDLING SIGNS ON ANY OF THE
SIX SIDES, ALL SIC LABELS ARE IMMACULATE, SIDE 1 WAS PLAYED TWICE AND FIVE SIDES ARE UNPLAYED.
BELOW THE SIX SIDES ARE GIVEN INDIVIDUALLY, INCLUDING MAITRIXES & EMI'S STAMPING CODES:

RECORD 1:
MAITRIX: YEX 817 - 1U / YEX 818 - 1U
EMI STAMPING CODES: R 1 / O 2
SIDE 1: PLAYED TWICE
SIDE 2: UNPLAYED


RECORD 2:
MAITRIX: YEX 819 - 1U / YEX 820 - 1U
EMI STAMPING CODES: O 1 /T 2
SIDE 3: UNPLAYED
SIDE 4: UNPLAYED


RECORD 3:
MAITRIX: YEX 8121 - 1U / YEX 8122 - 1U.
EMI STAMPING CODES: R 1 /O 1
SIDE 5: UNPLAYED
SIDE 6: UNPLAYED

That All Means All Three Records Are The Very First UK Pressings And Are Among The Earliest Made, Seen By;
1.) All Six Side's Maitrix Endings Having '- 1U,' The '1' Digit Before The 'U' Would Rise With Every Successive Batch.

2.) Four Of The Six Sides Have a '1' Digit At 9 O'Clock In The Run-Out Grooves, Signifying They Were Sourced From
The First 'Mothers'/Stamping Discs Created From Abbey Road Studio's Master Tapes.
The Other Two Sides Have Only Risen A Single Digit To '2.'

CONTRARY TO THE SEVERAL COPIES I HAVE SEEN SELLING ON EBAY AS 'FIRST PRESSINGS,' TO QUALIFY AS THE
BOX SETS GENUINELY BOUGHT ON OR IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE RELEASE DATE, 27th NOVEMBER 1970, ONLY THE
FIRST ISSUES /FIRST PRESSINGS HAD AN ORANGE COLOUR FOR THE BOX'S INTERIOR LID AND BOTTOM TRAY.
WHITE BOX INTERIORS ARE RE-ISSUES FROM THE LATE 1970's / EARLY 1980's.

ALTHOUGH EXTREMELY RARE AND APPLICABLE TO ONLY A FEW OF THE VERY FIRST PRESSINGS, ON TOP OF THE
POSTER, THREE LYRIC INNER SLEEVES & RECORDS, WAS A PRECISELY CUT 12"x 12" SQUARE OF CARDBOARD TO
PROTECT THE CONTENTS ONCE THE LID WAS CLOSED AT THE FACTORY FROM BRAND NEW FOR DISTRIBUTION.
I ASSUME AMERICAN FIRST ISSUES WERE SHRINKWRAPPED, SO THIS WAS THE ONLY EXTRA PROTECTION FOR
THE BRITISH INTERNAL ITEMS AND TO PRESERVE THE BOX SHAPE AND EIGHT CORNERS ON THE LID AND TRAY.

MADE OF CORRUGATED CARDBOARD, ONE SIDE WAS PRINTED IN EXACTLY THE SAME ORANGE COLOUR AS THE
LID AND TRAY, MOST WERE DISCARDED OR PLACED ON THE VERY BOTTOM UNDER THE TRAY CONTENTS , WHICH
HAS RESULTED IN CONCLUSIONS BEING INCORRECTLY DRAWN BY THOSE WITHOUT FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE
OF BUYING "All Things Must Pass" IN THOSE LAST FEW DAYS OF NOVEMBER 1970. WHEN MY FIRST COPY WAS
BOUGHT, ON THE DAY OF ISSUE AND THAT INDEED HAD THE EXTRA ORANGE 12"x 12" SQUARE OF CARDBOARD,
IT WAS POSITIVELY PLACED ON THE TOP OF THE ITEMS, THE PRECISION OF THE FIT WAS REMARKABLE AND IT
WAS OBVIOUSLY INTENTENDED TO SUPPORT THE INSIDE OF THE TRAY'S EDGES DURING DISTRIBUTION AND
FOR THE DISPLAY AND STORAGE BY RECORD SHOPS.

I HAVE SOLD OTHER FIRST UK COPIES WITH THAT AND ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO I SOLD A FIRST PRESSING OF
"All Things Must Pass" ON EBAY WITH THE ORANGE CARDBOARD SQUARE. TO AVOID THE EMAILS GENERATED BY
THE MASSIVE RARITY OF THIS, I WILL RE-EMPHASISE THAT THE ORANGE COLOUR CARDBOARD WAS PRINTED IN
ENGLAND USING EXACTLY THE INK COLOUR AS THE INSIDE OF THE BOX IN ENGLAND, REGARDLESS OF WHERE
THE BOX WAS MADE, IN THE USA OR ENLAND. PERSONALLY I THINK ALL THE BOXES WERE MADE IN AMERICA AND
ONLY SOME OF THE PASTED ON INSIDES WERE UK PRINTED. RATHER INTRUIGINGLY THIS ORANGE SQUARE IS
IS UNIQUE IN MY EXPERIENCE AND HAS ASSERTED IT'S INDIVIDUALITY BY HAVING A SMALL STAMPED ADDITION
I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. BECAUSE THE STAMPED ADDITION IS VERY HARD TO READ BECAUSE OF THE NATURE
CORROGATED CARDBOARD, THIS IS THE ONLY PART TEXT I CAN POSITIVELY DECIPHER:
"....... L Fox ...... Co Ltd"
THE LETTERING BETWEEN 'L Fox & Co Ltd' IS POSSIBLY 'Piano' AND IF ANYONE OUT THERE HAS ANY KNOWLEDGE
ABOUT THIS AND IF A 'L Fox Piano Co Ltd" EXISTED IN 1970 I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE HEARING FROM YOU.
I CHECKED ON THE INTERNET AND NOTHING LIKE THAT EXISTS TODAY, THIS WAS NEARLY 40 YEARS AGO NOW, IF
YOU LOOK AT MY CLOSE UP PICTURE OF THE TEXT IT MIGHT JOG A MEMORY BUT THE PRINTING ITSELF IS UNCLEAR
AND WHO KNOW AFTER THE UPLOAD, IF ANYTHYING WILLL BE LEGIBLE. IN MY PICTURES I HAVE SHOWN THE LID
OPEN WITH THE ORANGE SQUARE ON TOP AND ALSO AFTER REMOVAL LEAVING THE PROTECTED TOP INNER SLEEVE.
THE SQUARE IS ALSO ON FULL DISPLAY WITH ONE SIDE OF THE LYRIC INNERS, THE REVERSE SIDES INCLUDE THE
FULLY FOLDED POSTER, YOU CAN SEE HOW PURE WHITE AND UNAGED THE MATT SIDE OF THE POSTER IS.
THE CARDBOARD SQUARE ITSELF HAS LEFT THE BOX SONCE NOVEMBER 1970, SO UNFADED AND UNAGED.

TWO TYPES OF BOXES WERE USED FOR THESE FIRST PRESSINGS, OR THAT IS THE COMMONLY HELD CONCEPETION
BUT I BEG TO DIFFER! FIRST OF ALL BOTH THE UK AND USA BOXES HAVE THE INTERNAL ORANGE PRINTING ON THE
LID PASTED ON, SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SIMPLE ENOUGH TO LEAVE A LIMITED NUMBER BLANK FOR A UK CREDIT
TO BE PASTED ON HERE. UK AND USA BOXES LOOK IDENTICAL AND ONLY THAT CREDIT OF THE PRINTED COUNTRY
OF MANUFACTURING CAN TELL THEM APART. REGARDLESS OF THAT, ALL THE LYRI INNER SLEEVES PRINTED IN THE
USA, THERE WERE POSITIVELY NO UK INNER SLEEVES MADE. AS THIS WAS AN APPLE ANGLO/AMERICAN VENTURE,
THERE WAS NOT A DELAY BETWEEN THE USE OF EITHER COUNTRY'S CREDITED BOXES, THEY WERE DELIVERED AT THE
SAMETIME AS THE INNER SLEEVES, UK FIRST PRESSINGS WERE SIMULTANEOUSLYPLACED INSIDE UK AND USA BOXES
AT RANDOM.

THIS IS A USA BOX ON THE INSIDE...... AND BRITISH ON THE OUTSIDE! SOMETHING I HAVE ONLY ENCOUNTERED ONCE
BEFORE AND THE REASON MY LONG HELD THEORY IS NOW LOOKING LIKE BEING MUCH MORE THAN JUST A THEORY.
AS I JUST SAID, AN ANGLO/USA PROJECT FOR THE PRINTED ITEMS LIKE THIS, COULD HAVE EASILY MEANT JUST A FEW
WERE SENT OVER WITHOUT THE FRONT PASTED ON AS WELL. THE 'LEATHER' TAPE THAT OVERLAPS THE EDGES ONTO
THE FRONT, HAD THE PANEL PASTED OVER THAT, SO IT WAS REALLY SIMPLE TO GLUE A UK PRINTED PANEL OVER THE
TAPED EDGES. PLEASE SEE MY PICTURES, THE TAPES FINISHING POINT CAN BE CLEARLY SEEN UNDER THE OUTSIDE
EDGES OF THE FRONT STUCK ON PANEL.

I AM NOT ABOUT TO MAKE A BIG FUSS ABOUT 'Massive Rarities', I FULLY EXPECT TO FIND VARIATIONS IN THIS ERA,
BESIDES, I RATHER LIKE THE IDEA OF THE BOX BEING HALF BRITISH AND HALF AMERICAN. THIS PAIR OF RECORDS
ARE AS EARLY AS IT GETS, ADD IN THE ORANGE SQUARE AND I NOW BELIEVE I HAVE DEFIBITUVE PROOF THE IDEA
ABOUT A UK BOX IS NOTHING BUT A FALICY AND LIKE THE 1972 "Concert For Bangla Desh" BOX SET, THEY WERE ALL
MANUFASCTURED IN AMERICA AND IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE IF IT TURNED OUT THE "Made In Great Britain" PANEL
FOR THE LID..... WAS PRINTED IN AMERICA ALONG WITH ALL THE POSTERS AND THE ORANGE SQUARE! ECONOMICS
SUGGEST IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ADVANTAGEOUS AND THE TOKEN FEW 'UK' BOXES WERE MORE ABOUT OUR BRITISH
NATIONAL PRIDE! THE CLUE WAS ALWAYS THERE IN ALL THE INNER SLEEVES BEING MADE IN AMERICA, SELLERS
WHO LOVE TO ANNOUNCE "Rare UK Box" WILL NOT THANK ME FOR THIS, BUT THE TRUTH HAS TO BE TOLD.

THE OUTSIDE STUCK ON FRONT PANEL WITH GEORGE SITTING IN HIS GARDEN, IS 'BRITISH' PRINTED, OR AT LEAST
DESIGNATED AS BEING NON AMERICAN, BECAUSE THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER DOES NOT HAVE THE SMALL LOGO,
"Made In USA" PRINTED INSIDE A CIRCLE WITH ROUNDED LETTERING. THAT IS INSIDE THE LID'S CORRESPONDING
POSITION AND THIS ORANGE BACKGROUND INSIDE PANEL WITH THE ALBUM TRACKS AND CREDITS, HAS PRINTED
ON THE BOTTOM RIM ;
"Manufactured By Apple Records Inc. 1700 Broadway, New York, New York,10019."

AN EQUALLY BEAUTIFUL COPY SOLD LAST YEAR ON EBAY DID DID NOT HAVE A CIRCLED "Made In USA" LOGO INSIDE
THE LID SO THERE ARE POSITIVELY THREE VARIATIONS TO THE SUPPOSED 'USA' BOXES. NOBODY HAS BOTHERED TO
CHECK THE USA COVERS IN DETAIL, WHICH IS PLAIN CRAZY BECAUSE THEY CONTAINED THE VERY FIRST UK PRESSED
RECORDS AND ARE THEREFORE JUST AS IMPORTANT. KNOWING HOW EARLY THIS EDITION IS, I AM NOT SURPRISED
THIS HAS A 'UK' FRONT PASTED OUTSIDE PANEL. ALTHOUGH THE INFO WAS UNDOCUMENTED UNTIL LAST YEAR'S BOX,
THERE WERE THREE KNOWN VARIATIONS BY MYSELF, I ONLY DEAL IN FACTS, THIS AMAZING CONDITION VERY FIRST
FOIRST ISSUE CONTAINS EVERY POSSIBLE VARIATION AND ORIGINAL ITEM TO THE 27th NOVEMBER 1970, WHEN AN AN EQUAL NUMBER OF 'UK' AND 'USA' BOXES WERE ORIGINALLY FIRST DISTRIBUTED TO RECORD SHOPS.

THIS IS BOX IS AS CLOSE TO MINT CONDITION AS THE LAST COPY I SOLD, WELL, MINT TO BR PRECISE BECAUSE ONCE
AGAIN THERE IS NO WEAR TO DETAIL AND ALL EIGHT CORNERS ON THE LID AND THE TRAY ARE UNSPLIT, UNPRESSURED
AND SHOWING NO STRESS, LET ALONE ANY WEAR.

THE GOLD LETTERING ON THE LEFT SIDE RIM OF THE BOX LID IS UNTARNISHED AND AS PERFECT AS IT WAS IN 1970.
THE OUTSIDE & INSIDE EDGES ARE ABSOLUTELY IMMACULATE, SO IS THE TAPED HINGING BETWEEN THE LID AND TRAY,
THE MATT, TEXTURED ORANGE INTERIOR IS LIKE BRAND NEW, NOT A HINT OF AGEING OR WEAR.

THE MATT, ABSORBANT, PASTED ON FRONT ARTWORK IS UNSTAINED, UNSCUFFED & UNWORN, ANY OF THE COMMON
MOTTLING FROM THE GLUE SEEPING ONTO THE ABSORBANT PANEL'S LIGHT BACKGROUND, IS TOO TRIVIAL TO TAKE
SERIOUSLY. THE DEFINITION OF 'MINT' IS HOW IT WAS FIRST BOUGHT/MANUFACTURED AND THEREFORE I DO NOT
HESITATE TO SAY, THIS BOX IS IN MINT CONDITION.

THE TEXTURED PAPER, INDIVIDUALLY COLOURED LYRIC INNER SLEEVES, PASTEL MAUVE, OLIVE GREEN AND GREY.
NO SPLITS, TEARS, STAINING OR EVEN ANY HANDLING TRACES, ONLY A MILD ENOUGH IMPRESSION FROM THE
HEAVYWEIGHT RECORDS,A FEW SMALL RIPPLES ONLY, ALL THREE ARE IN MINT- CONDITION.

THE GIANT POSTER HAS NEVER LEFT THE BOX AND EVEN THE THICK MATT BACK IS A PURE UNAGED WHITE, WITH JUST
THE ORIGINAL PRINTER'S FOLDS, BUT NO WEAR AT ALL ON THEM DUE TO THE ORANGE SQUARE'S COMPRESSION TO
PREVENT ANY MOVEMENT OF THREE HEAVYWEIGHT RECORDS! IF ONLY ALL EBAY RECORD SELLERS TOOK THE SAME
PRECAUTIONS WITH PACKAGING PRECIOUS ITEMS LIKE THIS. A FANTASTIC ITEM, IN MINT CONDITION.

ALL THREE RECORDS CAN BE GRADED TOGETHER, THERE ARE NO MARKS AT ALL, FIVE SIDES ARE UNPLAYED AND WITH
SUCH CONSUMATE CARE TAKEN OVER THE TWICE PLAYED SIDE, MY VERDICT IS A STRAIGHT MINT CONDITION.

SIDE 1
"I'd Have You Anytime" (George Harrison/Bob Dylan)
"My Sweet Lord"
"Wah-Wah"
"Isn't It A Pity" (Long Version, 7:08 minutes)

SIDE 2
"What Is Life"
"If Not For You" (Bob Dylan)
"Behind That Locked Door"
"Let It Down"
"Run Of The Mill"

SIDE 3
"Beware Of Darkness"
"Apple Scruffs"
"Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)"
"Awaiting On You All"
"All Things Must Pass"

SIDE 4
"I Dig Love"
"Art Of Dying"
"Isn't It A Pity (Short Version)"
"Hear Me Lord"

SIDE 5
"Out Of The Blue" (Jim Gordon/Carl Radle/Bobby Whitlock/Eric Clapton/Gary Wright
George Harrison/Jim Price/Bobby Keys/Al Aronowitz)
"It's Johnny's Birthday" (Based upon "Congratulations" - Bill Martin/Phil Coulter)
"Plug Me In" (Jim Gordon/Carl Radle/Bobby Whitlock/Eric Clapton/Dave Mason &
George Harrison)

SIDE 6 (Apple Jam)
"I Remember Jeep" (Ginger Baker/Klaus Voormann/Billy Preston/Eric Clapton &
George Harrison)
"Thanks For The Pepperoni" (Gordon/Radle/Whitlock/Clapton/Mason/Harrison)

George Harrison - vocals & guitars
Eric Clapton - guitar
Dave Mason - guitar
Peter Frampton - guitar
Badfinger - rhythm guitars & percussion
Pete Drake - pedal steel guitar
Klaus Voorman - bass
Billy Preston - keyboards
Gary Brooker - keyboards
Carl Radle - bass
Gary Wright - keyboards
Bobby Whitlock - keyboards
Ringo Starr - drums & percussion
Jim Gordon - drums & percussion
Alan White - drums & percussion
Phil Collins - drums & percussion
Ginger Baker - drums & percussion
Bobby Keys - tenor saxophone
Jim Price - trumpet

All Songs Written By George Harrison, Except Where Credited After The Tracks.
Recorded May – September 1970, At Abbey Road Studios.
Additional Recording & Mixing, August to September 1970, At Trident Studios.
Produced By George Harrison & Phil Spector For Apple Records.

The large amount of pressing, track and credit details has involved quite a lot of important information, no problem for George's
no problem for George's unsurpassed masterpiece. I will be treating the records as unplayed and nor play them myself because
two whole record s are and one half of the remaining third one is. Two ultra careful play of Side 1 could only be detected from
ultra faint spindle traces on label's centre, hard to see at that, or I would be convinced such pristine vinyl had never been on a
a turntable. Under those circumstances and six sides being out of the question to attempt fully describing, as I decided in the
the past, it will again be better to offer the records without me playing the records. 1970 EMI/Apple first pressing records in
this atsonishing, like new condition, do not require sound grading, for just how early the pressings are, please refer to details
given above, four '1' digits' and two '2' digits' at 9 o'clock, are a dream like scenario for any huge selling album, but for a triple
album, as low as I believe possible without digging back to the first few hundred made. The horrific state of the majority of the
earliest pressings today can regularly seen on ebay! I will still give an overview of "All Things Must Pass", I really don't know
where to start! For anyone not into backgrounds for albums,I could not have given any more details in my main headings, you do
not need to venture any further than this.... but I sincerely hope you will, I hope to make it interesting and informative. I realise
many Beatles collector's stop after the "Let It Be" album, but that means missing out on the next really thrilling chapter, we are
talking in terms of only days after they officially disbanded in April 1970.

The beginning is usually the ideal startinng point, to find that, I recommend the George Harrison bootleg,"Beware Of ABKCO!"
That CD will be easily found and it makes the perfect companion to this fantastic official box set, that bootleg contains fifteen
acoustic versions of the pre-recorded "All Things Must Pass" in fantastic stereo sound quality. The bootleg takes you back to just
before the recording sessions in Abbey Road Studios began, great to hear George in such inspired form, that was indeed only a
matter of days after the Beatles broke up. Expectations for the solo Beatle to create something very special were intensive, Paul
experienced really bitter and viscious criticism, inspite of his songwriting genius being beyond and above such ridicule. He was
being stung with comments about "McCartney" only having one decent song, "Maybe I'm Amazed", it does seem unbelievable now,
but it happened in1970. Few thought George would pick up on where he left his "Abbey Road" songs, as equal to anything John and
Paul contributed, but you do reach that status unless you are as equally gifted. He confounded many people with an amazing triple
album was first released and still to this very day, anyone hearing "All Things Must Pass" in it's entirety, is left marvelling at the
astounding quality of the songs, performances and above all else, an ability to create a real masterpiece of a record(s).

John and Paul's first solo albums were just as inspired, if low in profile in terms of the record production the pair were capable
of, if anything George showed them the way, by going for it with the shackles of a decade removed and with a style and flair few
believed he was capable of. John next recorded the "Imagine" album and Paul "Ram", which really said it all about their solo
recordings re-climbing up to the height acheived with the Beatles. I personally thought their first albums were simply stunning
and I was refering to the general concesus I would always hotly dispute, especially for John's album, I believe it was his finest!

George Harrison....well he managed to record a No.1 single, called up few friends like; Eric Clapton & most of his current band,
Derek & the Dominoes, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, most of Badfinger and Alan White, soon to the drummer in Yes. The 19 year old
fledging drummer, Phil Collins, who when as a child actor appeared in the Beatles 1964, "A Hard Day's Night" film, straight after
the recordingsessions jhe oined Peter Gabriel etc. in Genesis. Eric Clapton played on the entire three albums and dedicated his
full time to George, then another really close friend, Bob Dylan, got together with him and they co-wrote,"I'd Have You Anytime."
From Dylan's current "New Morning" LP, George recorded "If Not For You", according to Alan White, who also played the drums on
John Lennon's "Imagine" sessions, John had performed on that track uncredited. I hastily add, unconfirmed officially, with Ringo,
Phil Spector, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman and Billy Preston so close to Lennon, it does add up he would be there in Abbey Road to
see how George was getting along. Oh yes, the beginning of the sessions, in the same May of 1970 as the Beatles final album was
belatedly released, they broke up, but on the 20th May George was in Abbey Road seated in front of Phil Spector with mostly just
an acoustic guitar. The only other musician involved before the album's recording sessions had actually began, was an un-named
bass guitarist accompanying George, I think that was Klaus Voorman, with the tapes rolling for future references to the new song
arrangements, George performed fifteen songs. First,"Run Of The Mill" received an acoustic rendition for Spector to digest, only
a few weeks earlier, that would have been George Martin, John, Paul or Ringo who were hearing his new material in basic formats.
I do recommend hearing the acoustic songs, as a professional record seller I would be hung, drawn and quartered for selling them,
I can at least point out the ultimate sound quality is on the CD I have, issued in 1994 on 'Strawberry Records,' catalogue number
'STR 001', under the title that very nicely brought together the Beatles legal court battle with 'ABKCO' and George's composition,
"Beware Of Darkness", "Beware Of ABCO." There are other studio out-takes available, but you will hear seven songs that were
selected for this three LP box set. For the first time you can hear almostunrecognisable early versions of the returned to songs,
"Everybody, Nobody" became "The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp", it was re-written about the original owner of George's Ascot home.
"Beautiful Girl" would not be returned to until "33 & 1/3," it would take another fifteen years before "I Don't Want to Do It" would
finally be recorded in full as a track for the 1985 "Porky's Revenge" soundtrack film. No less than five of his new compositions
were left in their original demo format: "Window, Window", "Mother Divine", "Tell Me What Has Happened With You" performed
as demo's acoustically. Like he did for "Wah-Wah" and "Hear Me Lord", George plugged in his electric guitar for "Nowhere To Go"
and "Cosmic Empire." I must stress demo's and out-takes are not to everyone's taste and they appeal more to those who have the
original vinyl, because the completed tracks were light years away from the basics of a vocal, a single guitar and a bass.

Taken from an audio perspective "All Things Must Pass" was a stunning three album set, with the sonic properties nothing less than
awesome, so I patiently wait until I can again offer a first pressing, only when I have Mint vinyl..... so not very often. Bursting with
info like this does prohibit any attempt to describe all the six sides of the vinyl! This really all began back in 1970, with only their
truly wonderful solo albums as compensation for losing the Beatles, to say I know these British first issues inside out is something
of an understatement. Yes, 'experts' emerge on a daily basis on ebay, I sincerely hope to bring something of a smitten fan's love of
the music, also combining that with a professional record seller's genuine first hand experience/knowledge to precisely know what
was available in a UK record shop back in November 1970.

George Harrison was for the first time experiencing the freedom of a whole album to himself, his 60's solo albums were more like
instrumental expressions of sounds and now he was writing lyrics. "Let It Be" and particularly "Abbey Road" demonstrated he was
now on the same artistic and composing level with Lennon & McCartney, such was his talent surpressed, in 1970 he was finally able
to air so many songs written while within the Beatles, but were never recorded by a band knee deep in talented composers. Not just
during the initial 1970 year of them disbanding, because so many 'Beatles era' songs were finally recorded on George's solo albums
over the coming decades as well. Most artists would have been happy to write five songs, not leave them indefinately and yet still
manage to release a triple album! You can retract his song writing all the way back to 1966/1967 for "The Art Of Dying" and also
"Isn't It A Pity," that surfaced during the January 1969 "Get Back"rehearsals and filming, when many private conversations were
recorded...and were they revealing! It turned out John Lennon rejected the Beatles recording "Isn't It A Pity" and in 1966 George
George was thinking about contacting Frank Sinatra to find out if he would be interested in recording it, that was not just fanciful
thinking, because "Something" was indeed covered by a host of top vocalists. George's songwriting had become so inspired, he
was working with Bob Dylan during1968 and that pair of true greats co-wrote "I'd Have You Anytime" and "Nowhere To Go", the
Traveling Wilbury's were born out of that very special relationship George shared with Dylan.

During the "Get Back"rehearsals the Beatles spent hours and hours perfecting the title track of this album, you could fill a whole
CD with them, including the version with John Lennon singing lead vocals. Not just that brilliant song either, George had written
and finished the just mentioned "Isn't It A Pity," it was still being discussed, plus there was "Hear Me Lord", "Let It Down" and
"Window, Window." During the infamous, "I quit" and the boiling over of building tensions after that disagreement with Paul as
seen in the film, George left, went home and wrote "Wah-Wah." If that is news, if you re-play the track on this album and that,
"I'll play what you want me to play, or not play at all," said by George to Paul in the film will connect the aggression heard in
the stinging guitar riff and lyrics, the Beatles were now rapidly approaching the end. The individuality of the Beatles was fully
revealed in that intensive period of 1969 and and this fantastic album was very much influenced by all those events that were
only months away then. There was still the same closeness between George, John and Ringo, heard on "It's Johnny's Birthday,"
one of the later tracks recorded in August 1970, with Ringo playing the drums, it was made just in time for John's 30th birthday.
Amazing to think after all they had been through, John was still only 29 years old when they actually broke up, I could continue
this indefinately, I better move onto to a little more info about the box etc.

For severe wear to an Apple or a EMI box set, the notorious "Let It Be" Box Set made months earlier in 1970, tops them all, but
only fractionally behind that is "All Things Must Pass" as the UK first issue. George's stunning three album set sold extremely
well and reached No. 4 in the UK charts, going on to a 26 week chart residency. Over six months in such high demand of course
meant multiple re-pressings made well into 1971, this box set can be traced all the way back to the very first made prior to the
November 1970 release date. I have fully detailed the pressing details and how he very first USA and the 'UK' made boxes were
simultaneously sold side by side and at the time, I have given my opinion and 'evidence' in the headings, I also firmly made the
point how all the inner sleeves were strictly American printed and there never was UK printing for them and the implications of
that have been 'conveniently, ignored by ebay sellers keen to 'cash in.' Returning to opening comments about how badly wear
affects the box set from this era, it was not possible to use plastic outer sleeves due to the size of the box and even today there
is none commercially available plastic sleeve to fit box sets. Unlike single or gatefold covers to access the LP's a sleeve could
not be left on. Apart from the usual excessive playing the records took in 1970 alone, the posters went missing after they were
pinned onto a wall, the inner sleeves split and tore.... the corners of the box were split by uncaring use and then just fell apart!
The design of the lid being held to the the bottom box by only a thin strip of tape was usually doomed to come apart, only ultra
careful storage kept this box in such an unbelievable condition. The design for George's "Bangla Desh" box set had an individual
lid that lifted clean off, even then most are squashed and split at the corners of the lid and box. Opening "All Things Must Pass"
meant the the lid flopped down at an awkward angle, placing a strain on the black strip's glue holding the lid to the box. It's not
really for me to criticise near 40 year old designs, but as I have been using this box set from that long ago, I know all about the
problems only too well and can only look with amazement at this beauty!

All eight corners of the box and the lid are only really being held together by the outside 'leather' covering, hardly practical
for a box holding three mega heavyweight records! The box is in absolutely stunning condition, with all those just mentioned
weak points, common to both the 'UK' and USA made, as perfectly strong and robust as it was in 1970. The lid's pasted picture
of George and his garden gnomes is totally unfaded, unaged and unscuffed. All four sides are pasted precisely how it left the
printer who meticulously lined it up straight, maybe one of only a few not requiring such close attention after arriving from the
USA, where I believe all the front panels were pasted on. Still just as perfectly flat, without any lifting at the four corners, the
matt picture is close to blotting paper's highly absorbant texture, but ageing is non existant and any glueseepage is too minor
to consider here because this box ranks up there with the very finest I have ever handled. The lid opens and shuts with ease,
all of the black top surface, even on the bottom of the tray, is in fantastic unworn condition, including all the very vulnerable
edges of both the box and lid, few first issues have that! The album title gold lettering on the left side's edge is also superb,
unscuffed and untarnished, again this is normally severely worn away.

The inside is as new, still the original vividly bright orange colour, the tracks and the credits on the lid are totaly unscuffed,
so is the orange background.

The huge fold-out poster measures 36"x 24", it has a very moody looking George, this has never left the protection of the box,
with only the original printer's folds means a Mint item.

The textured lyrics inner sleeves are coloured mauve, olive grey & green, all three are unsplit, the top openings are untorn with
only naturally formed heavy record impressions.

The ultra rare orange 12"x 12"square has been fully detailed enough in text and pictures to conclude by reassuring anyone
concerned about shipping a box set, this will receive the maximum protection possible. No way did this make it through 39
years, almost to the week of issue, only be left at the mercy of the post!

PAYMENT DETAILS.

WE WILL SEND ALL WINNING BIDDERS AN INVOICE WITH THE FULL
PAYMENT AND POSTAL DETAILS, AS NEAR TO AN AUCTION ENDING
AS POSSIBLE, THEN SHIP AS SOON AS IT IS PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE.

OUR AIM IS TO MAKE YOUR PURCHASE SMOOTH AND TROUBLE FREE.


FOR UK BUYERS;

WE ACCEPT: PAYPAL, CHEQUES, POSTAL ORDERS & BANK WIRES.


FOR OVERSEAS BUYERS;

WE ACCEPT: PAYPAL, INTERNATIONAL MONEY ORDERS IN POUNDS
STERLING ONLY, OR BANK TO BANK WIRE TRANSFERS.

WE WILL NOT MAKE FALSE STATEMENTS ON CUSTOMS DECLARATIONS
FORMS AND WILL ALWAYS CONDUCT ALL OF OUR BUSINESS WITH THE
SAME TOTAL HONESTY OUR ITEMS ARE DESCRIBED AS.
AS MUCH AS WE SYMPATHISE WITH THE WAY SOME COUNTRIES CHARGE
SUCH HEAVY IMPORT DUTIES, WE WILL NOT LIE.

Pay me with PayPal. I don't charge my buyers extra!