MATERIAL WORLD
IF YOU’D BEEN taking bets in 1970 on which former Beatle would be the most successful in the new decade, George Harrison was definitely — to borrow the name of one of his future hits — the dark horse. But as he’d sing in that tune, “Baby, it looks like I’ve been breaking out.” In November, he turned the page on the Fabs with All Things Must Pass, a triple album brimming with artistic confidence and gorgeous, melancholy songs, not to mention the world’s first-ever God-conscious Number 1 single. The album topped the charts around the globe, earned two Grammy nominations and had critics spouting superlatives about the formerly quiet one. As Melody
Maker put it, “Garbo talks! — Harrison is free!”