For 50 years this song has been a moving influence in my life. This version is more personal. How could the other Beatles not have recognized the profound beauty and poignancy of George's work? It moves the soul. God bless George Harrison.

Probably the most powerful, incredible, moving songs ever written.

I don't know about all of you, but I actually prefer this take to the final one on All Things Must Pass. Less is truly more in this case. The simplicity only enhances the song's poignancy. I have acquired a considerably larger appreciation for this song.

@toothbrush5190

3 жыл бұрын

chuckcloseisgod without all of that Spector noise on the original, we certainly can better hear the melody George was so great at. Having said that, I would miss terribly those blistering sounds from Eric.

@luciferseven1426

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you as well... in general, these Beatle guys could have songs in demo form and would still sound like a complete song

@thebarryman

7 ай бұрын

I don't know about that, though this one is good too. I think Spector's production gets way too much hate, for the subject matter that's on the album the grandiosity/epic quality of the production works really well.

@GyzelE

7 ай бұрын

There's an acoustic album that's become sort of rare on KZread (I Believe it's called "Beware of ABCKO") that has my favorite version of this song. It's just George and an acoustic. It's so raw but full of emotion. I just love it so much! I believe Ranji even makes an appearance on a song or two.

@lostindesperation

6 ай бұрын

also the bass line @@toothbrush5190

I was 13 when it came out.Had to wait a month to get it as a 14th birthday present and I wasNOT disappointed. Took me a while to understand it but once I did I can say "Best Beatles solo track of all time!"

This is Art

@luisyahirbarbosaarana8192

3 жыл бұрын

Of daying

Good enough for the glorious Revolver. With the brightning of George Martin and Geoff Emerick this piece would hace been a milestone in 1966.

This song is fantastic! Love and miss you George ❤️

I love you George...What a great soul to be true to the heart of music...

Such an amazing song, and it's way way better in this arrangement - so much of the subtlety and yearning's missing in the official (hard rock) version. You listen to this Take 9 and it's got so much potential. George's vocal is amazing; I can imagine some sort of evocative string arrangement and slide guitar overdubs. Instead it's a bit rushed, bombastic even, on All Things Must Pass. I think it would be an undisputed classic if he'd gone for this version ... I can picture it in film soundtracks - must be something to do with its "Middle Eastern musical antecedents" (that's what one musicologist says, anyway).

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna. Krishna Krishna Hare Hare. Hare Rama Hare Rama. Rama Rama Hare Hare.

@cynthiawhite8868

3 жыл бұрын

The most intelligent spiritual and. .moving song ever written in my opinion HALLELUJAH N HARE KRISHNA FOR THE NEW YEAR and ALways

3 people didn't like George singing about the basic truth we all face! Surprise!

What a great version. Amazing Talent. And he was only the third writer in the Beatles. Unbelievable

01:14 to 01:18 Those are the greatest words I've ever heard.

@iamhudsdent2759

Ай бұрын

It's a demo dummy, an unfinished song.

Very beautiful song.

George was on a different spiritual level than the other guys

This is just magnificent. Haunting and brilliant.

There'll come a time when all of us must leave here Then nothing sister Mary can do Will keep me here with you As nothing in this life that I've been trying Could equal or surpass the art of dying Do you believe me? There'll come a time when all your hopes are fading When things that seemed so very plain Become an awful pain Searching for the truth among the lying And answered when you've learned the art of dying But you're still with me But if you want it Then you must find it But when you have it There'll be no need for it There'll come a time when most of us return here Brought back by our desire to be A perfect entity Living through a million years of crying Until you've realized the art of dying Do you believe me?

I miss You George 😭😭❤️

Another beautiful song

I like how you can mildy hear the chords later played by electric guitar in piano form at times like 0:53, 1:29, and etc. Very beautiful effect.

Canción compuesta entre 1966-1967 y es mejor de largo, que al menos el 50% de las canciones compuestas por los otros Beatles en esa época y años posteriores Song composed between 1966-1967 and is by far better than at least 50% of the songs composed by the other Beatles at that time and later.

i'm not 50, but i like this song - beautiful words really!!! oh george

ESTA CANCIÓN DE GEORGE HARRISON ES MUY PARECIDA A WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS, HERMOSAS AMBAS ❤

awesome song!! typical chord changes: Harrison's signature!

And this got rejected from Revolver? H o w

@Thundergod-

3 жыл бұрын

Many of the songs on All Things Must Pass was nixed by John and Paul. They had such big heads they thought George was the inferior song-writer. IMHO the previous mentioned masterpiece was far and away better than any other Beatle....

@rue-for-you-music

3 жыл бұрын

Contract. Taxman was a hit catchy song and Love You To was the classical Indian masterpiece. When they signed their record contract, George hadn’t written any songs by himself yet, so he got two songs per album. Later on, he found his voice as a songwriter but was restricted by their contract. Revolver would have been much better if a couple of McCartney’s tunes were deleted in favor of Harrison, but alas.

@AppleCorp3

3 жыл бұрын

@@rue-for-you-music really? So which do you suggest? Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere, For No One, Got to Get You Into My Life, or Good Day Sunshine? Removing any of those songs is going to weaken what many now consider their best album. You’d probably have to deal with Lennon who was highly complementary of McCartney’s Revolver tracks...

@jonsterG

3 жыл бұрын

@@AppleCorp3 Here There and Everywhere, and Good Day Sunshine for sure ... Here There is a great song, of course, but it totally interrupts the flow of the album - it's as if his songs are sequenced to stop things getting too "heavy" and non-moptop. (Like it's time to keep the squares happy.) Revolver is their best album but it's almost like McCartney has stopped thinking he's in a band, and that's tragic. And then two years down the line, he gets away with loading the White Album up with ... well, utter drek.

@AppleCorp3

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonsterG I think the sequencing is fine - they liked mixing things up and Revolver doesn’t suffer one bit. I mean, considering the song in question was one of Lennon’s favorites, he might take exception to your “squares” reference.

I love the lyrics ❤ cool take, don’t remember having heard it

great version of a great song

H B George Harrison love forever 💚

WOW!!!! This is fantastic!

“There'll come a time when all of us must leave here Then nothing sister Mary can do Will keep me here with you As nothing in this life that I've been trying Could equal or surpass the art of dying Do you believe me? There'll come a time when all your hopes are fading When things that seemed so very plain Become an awful pain Searching for the truth among the lying And answered when you've learned the art of dying But you're still with me But if you want it Then you must find it But when you have it There'll be no need for it There'll come a time when most of us return here Brought back by our desire to be A perfect entity Living through a million years of crying Until you've realized the Art of Dying Do you believe me?”

@RicdelaBastide

3 жыл бұрын

Respect

LOVE IT

This version is more HEARTFUL and should have been the ORIGINAL

This version Reminds me so much of Elliott smiths works. amazing. worth checking out if you haven't.

my sweet George!!!

fantastico .

The production on Art of Dying ATMP version is great! I love this version, but what you got in the final version was layers. You have this almost mariachi horn section, bordering on Chicago/Blood Sweat & Tears, you have the bass line, which is just one note away from being Disco. Add the octave, and you got Disco in 1970. If you want it. I love this version, stripped down, but i also think one of Harrison's greatest gifts was layering and arrangement.

Very interesting! Nice version. :)

Nice bit of songwriting georgie boy, hope wherever you are is everything you thought it would be or hoped for. Hari Bol

Agreed... There's just something lacking in today's music... There's just no emotion... No soul...

@sunriseRISE I am a musician, completely influenced by the productions of ATMP and LITMW and since I finished my first album back in 2003, I've believed the same thing about both George and myself...meaning I followed the formula of the overproduction value. It's hard to control the song when there's so much going on.

never heard this song till now, but damn its good

But When you have it , they’ll be no need for it

YES!!!! :-) :-) :-)

GOVINDAM ADI PURISHAM

Hare Krishna, He was inspired by reading His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. He wrote an article called the Art of Dying. Hare Krishna!

but you're still with me

@kozmicblues14 Yup. Unfortunately, today is my generation as well. Pretty much everything I listen to is from my father's generation though, like this. There's a few bands out there that I like today, but not too many. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

smile smile smile

I really like this version of this song, just like so many others on ATMP. Kinda hate the production on that album tho, I wish they would do a de-spectorized mix just like let it be.

*"We are all back again:* All of the people that have lived and died in the past have been reborn and have rejoined mankind. Almost every human being who has every lived on earth is alive right now or will be reborn in this generation. You could be George Washington, Columbus or Adolf Hitler; someone has to be them. Their spirit is back along with everyone else that lived in the past and did not learn the truth. They are just in a different body and mind and are nothing like what they were in their previous lifespan. Everyone is back or will be soon. That homeless guy that asked you for some change could be George Washington." *- quote from page 90 of "The Present" at TruthContest◙Com*

@tigerlife1

7 жыл бұрын

SAYS WHO ?? WE DO NOT HAVE A CLUE WHAT IS WHAT AND WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN SO ADMIT IT YOU FUCKING NO NOTHING

hoje fazem 12 anos que o mestre George Harrison se foi!

@77purplepeopleeater I believe seeking is better than finding because once you've found, what do you do after that? There's nothing left to do, but nothing.

In this lifetime, he believed in many lifetimes or incarnations

er hat tolle songs,so gut,sinnlich.

Muito bom

Still Epic

I never heard Art Of dying Take 9 but I did hear the real version

@troybonner91

4 жыл бұрын

This is the real version. The album is reverbed and multi-tracked beyond listenability because of Phil Spector.

yeah this is better than the ATMP .. George allwaysa overproduced his songs never knowing when to stop... this is just beautiful as it is.

no spirits no god only now not back then not tommorrow, now

@richig761 yup we are so screwed I like the foo fighters and the red hot chilli Peppers those are about the newest bands I like.( of today beause they both recently put new albums out)( even th foo f was mid 90s and red hot chilli peppers were around since late 80s) I was born in 96. I mainly listen to 60s rock and 90s rock and some 70s and 80s rock. my fave beatle is John Lennon even though I love George:)

...is true of Hendrix, Morrison, Gandhi, or whoever. They still did amazing things that inspired millions and are not deserving of our spiteful jealousy.

Rokband, George also quoted from the Bible "knock and the door shall be open ". That means he believed in the Bible of Jesus Christ.

Which version has Phil Collins on the bongos?

This is better than the record

@hu9204

6 жыл бұрын

Phil Spector is a good producer and a good songwriter. But George chose the wrong person to produce the album.

@yallevereatenbeans2723

6 жыл бұрын

Paperback Writer Phil was a revolutionary producer and did some incredible work, but the thing is the stuff he did worked in a certain type of music and when he transposed it to more rock n roll it tended to sound like an undefined mess being played down an echoey corridor

@sunriseRISE I don't think it was overproduced so much by George as it was by Phil Spector. Look up the ATMP EPK vid where George says that after listening to ATMP after all these years it had " To much echo".

I don't think the lyrics are any different from the final version on All Things Must Pass, except that here he forgets the words in the second verse.

Can we just enjoy the music without bickering? That would be so nice!

@twouselesslegs that's a bit heartless. Yes, smoking may have been the cause of his throat cancer, but let's not try to forget that we are all a victim of the time and society in which we grew up. It was commonplace to chain smoke in the 50's 60's 70's and 80's and as you should know once you're hooked it's incredibly addictive. Let's honour this musical legend and show him some respect? How many peoples lives have you had a profound affect on? A damn site fewer than George Harrison I would wag

@brandonleewebb Amen brother

john just call it recycling we can t leave here unless you have enough money for the mars trips i don t i guess i ll stay here then

I don"t know what to say about this song i am not saying it is bad tune just little strange to my ears. that is all. Interesting tune that is for sure very dark I felt like i am in coffin for a moment i must to admit..Second this version is better than that version in record.He could record this way. In conclusion great song like something from Mozart requiem but of course in different style. If it was recorded like requiem it could sounds so much like some part of requiem i am pretty sure about it. Just awesome.

(wager)

The hair long so that I could wash a person's feet. So many are a part of my 'being'. To be the same as the opposite and NOT seek 'sanctuary' . . . ever! THIS is the 'art of dying' unto the end . . . not hiding from God . . . going . . . also . . . with those who don't have means of gaining sanctuary . . . woman. Here in the material world there isn't much sharing. But God's gift is non-negotiable. My sins are only a memory w/o original sin. Washing the feet of memory that is good. Music

@TwoUselessLegs Karma affects your future lives, not the one you're currently living.

@jordanjustkidding There is. Yes. I have found some very good songs/albums written today. I just think it's a shame you have to dig deep to find it. I don't get why the modern pop culture's view of music is so simplistic nowadays.

RokBand, yes I understand George was Hindu. He also believed in Jesus Christ. I saw a picture of him in a room with a statue of Jesus Christ.

@twouselesslegs I had forgotten all about this thread, but seem to recall we disagreed about something here some time ago. With regard to your latest comment, I'm not sure there's reason to SHOUT. Your most recent comment may have an element of truth with regard to Ringo, which almost goes without saying. But George was more than a barnacle. Here comes the sun, point in fact. George was a good soul. Paul sold out. John was a visionary. But then that's like, just my opinion, man.

@twouselesslegs I don't genuflect at any alter, let alone those of the rich and famous. However, credit should be given where it's due, even to persons who are not perfect and have made their own mistakes. If you can point me in the direction of anyone that has created something inspirational and also has a clean record, then please do so but I think such people are few and far between. Perhaps you are correct and karma is behind the bad things that happened to George Harrison. Perhaps the same

@Deliveranceminister I hope you know you're commenting on a video of a song by an Artist that believed in Hinduism.

@QueenBeatlesWings ..atmpass Even when it HIT THE SHOPS- as a 13yr old -I felt it was over blow-n.. with the live jam sides a waste of time.. as for the rest i seen heaps of footage where THE BEATLES play better drums, better bass RUNS guitar, better organs.. BETTER FEEL on ATMPASS tracks.. and i read more than once from apple producers who worked on the sessions((6 months))) that phil made a cool lp and george just kept adding more by himself.....

@Deliveranceminister So anyone that quotes from the Bible is automatically a Christian? Failed assessment.

@richig761 yup Technology is ruining are lives. People have even become lazy IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! music is supposed to be one of the greatest gifts but todays "Stars" slap a song together in 2 minutes and throw a bunch of autotune in it and call it good. and it actually becomes a HIT! . some people just cant do anything right anymore:( screw my generation at least I have people like George:)

@sunriseRISE Well, I think the album would of been alot better without Spector. Just my opinion. He always had that "wall of sound" thing going on. Took away alot from the songs I think. Well, for most of them atleast. For some reason I think it works really well for "wah wah".

@brandonleewebb I have figured out all religions except one is of Spirit.

Much better than the disco version with the worlds worst guitarist clapton.

@TwoUselessLegs What makes you think I believe it? You said that he was stabbed and got cancer because (you claim) he plagiarized somebody's music. Some would say that's the silly superstition right there - and so it is, but karma is the wrong word for it.

JW's now believe Jesus is the creator, created the universe, yet they call god jehovah. They also believe that god does not love everyone, as I was told a week ago by a neighbor JW.

@MattHatter Sorry but you're completely wrong! Jehovah's witnesses do believe in Jesus, The Perfect son of God, sent by God, Born of the Virgin Mary,came to preach and teach The Kingdom of God, and their places of worship are called Kingdom halls,Where instruction and Truth are taught about Almighty God Jesus and his Kingdom arrangement. I hope that clears this up for you.

@geranium0kiss .. yeah your right.. HA old BOBS DYLAN ..... he'll ''rip off ANYONE- now =even his best dead friend..for another spoonful of the FAME tonic

@TwoUselessLegs It would be dumb of anybody to buy into a religion just because they like the guy's music. I'm not saying some fans don't, but that is dumb. (I liked Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder, doesn't mean I'm going to become a Scientologist.) But, you know, the guy's dead. Time to let go of hate.

nope;he died without christ...........sadly

i reported you for homofobic,bulling against jayjay77

actually not true. music still has the emotion, etc. maybe your listening to Britney to much. your sounding like my peer group............"anything newer than the '70s is crap" attitude

There'll come a time when all of us must leave here Then nothing sister Mary can do Will keep me here with you As nothing in this life that I've been trying Could equal or surpass the art of dying Do you believe me? There'll come a time when all your hopes are fading When things that seemed so very plain Become an awful pain Searching for the truth among the lying And answered when you've learned the art of dying But you're still with me But if you want it Then you must find it But when you have it There'll be no need for it There'll come a time when most of us return here Brought back by our desire to be A perfect entity Living through a million years of crying Until you've realized the Art of Dying Do you believe me?