All things … except this eternal album
5
By Grantly121278
Greatest rock and roll record ever made, period full stop.
These are songs Paul and John either rejected or George never even submitted to the Beatles, knowing they’d be rejected. Well THANK THE LORD for that, because every song on this double-sided masterpiece belongs right here, not on the White Album or wherever. This is the solo project to end all solo projects, the perfect distillation of what George was all about as a musician and artist. I was two years old when this came out, so it’s not nostalgia talking when I say that this record achieves everything that Elvis and Chuck Berry and all the other creators and caretakers of rock and roll set out to do. it is a work of art to rival any created in the 20th century, in any medium, from painting to architecture.
And George Martin could not have produced this; perfect as he was for the Beatles, these songs needed Phil Spector to realize their full potential. He may have been a bastard in life, but as a shepherd of music he was unrivaled, and this is his masterwork just as it is George’s. This record will stand, I believe, as a pinnacle of what rock and roll was and could be, in 1970 it was the climax of a decade of great rock and it ushered in another decade of great music and that’s why those two eras are forever linked under the banner of Classic Rock. George made it so.
