Channel: PERUVEN (Jorge Fuxá)

Category: Music

Tags: john lennon (musical artist)indiethe beatles (musical group)my sweet lord (musical recording)alternativefolk rockenglish musicringo starrmccartneygeorge harrison (musical artist)folk rock (musical genre)gospel music (musical genre)paul mccartney's liverpool oratorio (musical album)brittish groupsgospel

Description: "My Sweet Lord" is a song by English musician and former Beatle George Harrison, released in November 1970 on his triple album All Things Must Pass. Also issued as a single, Harrison's first as a solo artist, "My Sweet Lord" topped charts worldwide and was the biggest-selling single of 1971 in the UK. In America and Britain, the song was the first number 1 single by an ex-Beatle. Harrison originally gave the song to his fellow Apple Records artist Billy Preston to record; this version, which Harrison co-produced, appeared on Preston's Encouraging Words album in September 1970. The recording features producer Phil Spector's Wall of Sound treatment and heralded the arrival of Harrison's much-admired slide guitar technique, which one biographer described as being "musically as distinctive a signature as the mark of Zorro".Preston, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and the group Badfinger are among the other musicians appearing on the recording.