on an album called all things must pass. maybe the greatest beatles solo album of all. you don t need no passport you don t need no visas over the years i had such a lot of stockpile of songs i wanted to do. but i only got a quota of one or two tunes per album. were you held down by the other fellows? well very subtly, yes. i would just like to thank you all for coming here. as you all know, it s a special benefit concert. ravi shankhar went to george harrison and said a terrible thing is happening in bangladesh what can we do? that created the first major superstar benefit concert ever
leave their home for tax purposes to go live in france. and record this record, exile on main street. in a very hot, uncomfortable, muddy sounding studio. baby, i can t stay yu got to roll me and call me the tumbling dice that record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. and i remember reading the review saying this is like a debauched album. i didn t know what debauched means but i got to get me some of this debauchery stuff. baby, i can t stay you got to roll me and call me the tumbling roll me and call me the tumbling dice having come out of the 60s which was its own animal. the 70s had to show a new skin. it had to shed the old one.
it s the definition of an album of self-expression. let me go into my house in laurel canyon and tell you about my life. after church you always went out for pancakes. if you were lucky enough to ride in one of the girl s cars, you know what you are listening to? tapestry. there were a lot of very important women who were some of the most significant writers and contributors to music at the time. we are going to do a song written by my friend, john david sausser, who is my favorite california songwriter and one of my favorite singers. it s called faithless love. she was in many ways my greatest collaborator. i became a professional song writer because of the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. faithless love like a river flows raindrops falling on a broken rose for my money, linda is still
beatle these days, respectfully married. when the kids come to his concerts, they don t scream any more, they listen. the significant thing is both john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact they were deeply in love with a woman. but i m not the only one mccartney went home and made the record where he plays all the instruments on his own. this kind of cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. it s going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. this is just the mock-up, folks. the new album. it s going to be called ringo s reviewer. i sell records. it doesn t matter if they ve got the beatles or not. if they don t like the record they won t buy it. ringo, who to this day people dismiss way too much, has tremendous success in the 70s. and george harrison, who had been stockpiling these amazing songs, explodes like a supernova
mccartney went home and made the record where he plays all the instruments on his own. this kind of cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. it s going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. this is just the mock-up, folks. the new album. it s going to be called ringo s reviewer. i sell records. it doesn t matter if they ve got the beatles or not. if they don t like the record they won t buy it. ringo, who to this day people dismiss way too much, has tremendous success in the 70s. and george harrison, who had been stockpiling these amazing songs, explodes like a supernova on an album called all things must pass. maybe the greatest beatles solo album of all. you don t need no passport you don t need no visas over the years i had such a lot of stockpile of songs i wanted to do. but i only got a quota of one or two tunes per album. were you held down by the other fellows?