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Beware of Darkness (song)

October 20, 2023

"Beware of Darkness" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass. It is the opening track on the second disc of the album. The lyrics warn against allowing illusion to get in the way of one's true purpose in life, an admonition that, like the content of "My Sweet Lord", reflects the influence of Harrison's association with the Radha Krishna Temple. Several critics recognise the song as one of the best tracks on All Things Must Pass.

"Beware of Darkness"
Song by George Harrison
from the album All Things Must Pass
Released27 November 1970
GenreRock
Length3:48
LabelApple
Songwriter(s)George Harrison
Producer(s)George Harrison, Phil Spector

Harrison performed "Beware of Darkness" with Leon Russell at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. Eric Clapton performed it in tribute to Harrison at the Concert for George in 2002. The song has also been recorded by Leon Russell, Marianne Faithfull, Spock's Beard, Concrete Blonde, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, and Sheryl Crow.

Background and inspiration Edit

"Beware of Darkness" was one of the more recent songs included on All Things Must Pass, George Harrison's first post-Beatles solo album, and his first to consist of songs.[1][2] When playing it to Phil Spector, his co-producer, in May 1970, he introduced it as "the last one I wrote, the other day".[3]

The song's lyrics reflect the influence of the Radha Krishna Temple, whose philosophy holds that spiritual concerns override all material things.[4] Since meeting the Radha Krishna devotees in December 1968, Harrison had produced their devotional music for Apple Records, including the 1969 single "Hare Krishna Mantra",[5] and assisted in securing a property in central London as their temple.[6] He told the devotees that his 1969 Beatles composition "Something" was a love song to the Hindu deity Krishna rather than to his wife, Pattie Boyd.[7][8]

In spring 1970, Harrison invited some of the movement's members to stay at Friar Park, his recently purchased estate in Oxfordshire, to help him restore the large house and overgrown gardens, and to give his new home an intensely spiritual atmosphere.[9][10] In his 1980 autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Harrison says he wrote "Beware of Darkness" at this time. He adds: "I had some of my friends from the Radha Krishna Temple staying: 'Watch out for Māya' ... The lyrics are self-explanatory.[11]

According to American keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, the song was partly informed by Harrison's difficulties with his former Beatles bandmates and their business manager, Allen Klein, in the period immediately after the band's break-up. Whitlock, who also stayed at Friar Park, cites this as one of several preoccupations that made up "a day in the life of George Harrison", along with the stresses of restoring the property with Boyd, dealing with Spector's idiosyncrasies, and indulging the Hare Krishna devotees.[12][nb 1] In music journalist John Harris's view, "Beware of Darkness" offers "a glimpse of the toll the [Beatles'] break-up had taken on George's emotions".[14]

Lyrics and music Edit

 
The song's lyrics encourage the listener to seek daylight and abundant growth in the manner of an Atlas cedar.

"Beware of Darkness" is a ballad containing dense imagery.[16] The song marks a return to the spiritual concerns of Harrison's songs with the Beatles such as "Within You Without You".[4][17] In addition to espousing spiritual concerns over material things, the lyrics warn the listener against various influences that may corrupt them.[4] Among the potential corrupting influences are con men ("soft shoe shufflers"), politicians ("greedy leaders") and pop idols of little substance ("falling swingers").[16][4] In addition, the lyrics warn against negative thoughts ("thoughts that linger"), since these corrupting influences and negative thoughts can lead to maya, or illusion, which distracts people from the true purpose of life.[16][4][18]

The middle eight delivers the message that surrendering to sad thoughts "can hurt you" and "is not what you are here for".[16] In the final verse,[19] Harrison states that an individual's purpose is not to follow political manipulation, but to grow unfettered in daylight, in the manner of "weeping Atlas cedars".[20][21]

Author Simon Leng describes the melody of "Beware of Darkness" as "complex and highly original".[22] The melody of the verses incorporates a pedal point on the key of G major and moves to G sharp minor, a progression Leng claims "should not work in harmonic terms", using as an analogy a count of "one, two, six", but comments that somehow the melody manages to work.[17] Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers explains the effectiveness of this key shift as dramatising the "beware" in the lyrics. Similarly, Mellers states that harmonic movement from the key of C sharp minor to D major to C major "creates the 'aimless' wandering of 'each unconscious sufferer'" described in the lyrics.[23] The nearly chromatic melody of the verses contrasts with a more standard rock melody in the middle eight.[21][nb 2]

Recording Edit

Harrison recorded the basic track for "Beware of Darkness" between May and August 1970.[26] The sessions for All Things Must Pass typically featured a large cast of musicians, in keeping with Spector's Wall of Sound approach,[27] although the participants' varied recollections have made precise identification of each song's contributors open to conjecture.[28][29][30] According to Leng and Beatles historian Bruce Spizer, the only musicians on the completed recording are Harrison, Eric Clapton and Dave Mason on guitars, Whitlock on piano, Gary Wright on organ, Carl Radle on bass guitar and Ringo Starr on drums.[22][31] In addition, they credit the vibraphone part to either Alan White or John Barham.[31][nb 3] According to Whitlock, Harrison and Clapton both played electric guitar;[33] an acoustic guitar part is also present on the recording.[34][nb 4]

Spector wrote to Harrison in mid August with comments on the latter's initial mixes of the album's songs.[36][37] He opined that, following an 8-track reduction mix, Harrison's electric part "drown[ed] out" the rhythm guitars on "Beware of Darkness".[38] Spector suggested Harrison redo the reduction mix (or "bump") to give more prominence to these rhythm parts,[38] which were played on acoustic guitar by members of the group Badfinger throughout the sessions.[27][39]

Whitlock recalled that the main session for the song was the first time he played piano on a studio recording.[40] He said that Harrison asked him to give the part a gospel feeling, which Whitlock achieved by drawing on his upbringing in a churchgoing family in the American South. Whitlock also recalled that, due to his lack of experience on the instrument, he played the piano keys too hard and broke one of the thick-gauge bass strings; however, he believed that the replacement string gave the piano a new resonance that benefited the recording.[39]

Barham's orchestral arrangements were recorded during the next phase of the album's production,[41] along with further contributions from Harrison, such as lead vocals, slide guitar parts and multi-tracked backing vocals.[42] As with tracks such as "Isn't It a Pity" and "All Things Must Pass", Barham and Harrison collaborated on the string arrangement;[43] Barham stayed at Friar Park and created the score from melodies that Harrison sang or played to him on piano or guitar.[44][nb 5] In his description of the released recording, author Elliot Huntley says that the track's musical tension escalates to "breaking point" with Harrison's mid-song slide guitar solo.[47] Musicologist Thomas MacFarlane writes that, true to the song's lyrics, "the sounds of the track seem to emerge out of darkness/space." In this way, he continues, "Beware of Darkness" conveys the idea of "perpetual distortion itself as an inevitable aspect of the human experience".[48]

Release and reception Edit

Apple Records released All Things Must Pass on 27 November 1970.[49][46] "Beware of Darkness" was sequenced as the opening track on side three of the triple LP, followed by "Apple Scruffs",[50] Harrison's tribute to the diehard Beatles fans he termed the Apple scruffs.[51] Apple included a poster with the album, showing Harrison in a darkened corridor of Friar Park, standing in front of an iron-framed window.[52] Tom Wilkes had designed a more adventurous poster but Harrison was uncomfortable with the imagery.[53] Part of this original poster was a painting of a bathing scene featuring naked women (one of whom was blonde, representing Boyd) and a "mischievous" Krishna, who had hidden the bathers' clothing in the branches of a nearby tree.[54][nb 6]

Spizer writes of the message conveyed in the approved poster design: "[Harrison] is wearing a dark hat and is barely visible except for his face due to the darkness that dominates the photo. It is a powerful image of a serious man."[54] Don Heckman of The New York Times said the poster depicted a "brooding Harrison" and predicted that the album would be "one of the major hits of this – and next – year".[55]

In his contemporary review of All Things Must Pass, Ben Gerson of Rolling Stone wrote that "Beware of Darkness" was possibly the album's best song, commenting on its "enigmatic" music and the combination of "warning" and "affirmation" in its lyrics.[56] Recalling the impact of All Things Must Pass in his 1977 book The Beatles Forever, Nicholas Schaffner said that whereas "[John] Lennon's studio was his soap-box" on the concurrently issued John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, "Harrison's was his pulpit" through his album's focus on Hindu-aligned concepts such as maya, reincarnation, karma, chanting and transcendence. Schaffner paired "Beware of Darkness" with "All Things Must Pass" as "the two most eloquent songs on the album, musically as well as lyrically" with "mysterious, seductive melodies, over which faded strings ... hover like Blue Jay Way fog".[57][nb 7] In a rare early-1970s interview, Harrison told Mike Hennessey that "Beware of Darkness" was his favourite out of all his compositions, adding, "I like the tune, I like the idea and I like the chord changes ..."[58]

Retrospective assessments and legacy Edit

Writing for Goldmine magazine shortly after Harrison's death in November 2001, Dave Thompson said that "Beware of Darkness" and "Art of Dying" "rate among the finest compositions of Harrison's entire career".[59] In his entry for All Things Must Pass in the book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Tom Moon names it as the first of the three "key tracks". He writes that almost every song "offers a different type of ecstasy" and in the case of "the meditative 'Beware of Darkness'", by "follow[ing] a halting, patient path toward illumination".[60] In The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles, Michael Frontani describes it as Harrison's "supreme warning about maya", adding that his and Barham's attention to the orchestral arrangement on this and other songs was arguably more significant for the sound of All Things Must Pass than Spector's Wall of Sound aesthetic. Further to Harrison's standing as the most spiritually focused Beatle, Frontani continues, the message of the line "Beware of maya" "anchored his artistic and personal life for the next three decades".[61][nb 8]

AllMusic critic Richie Unterberger similarly views "Beware of Darkness" as one of the highlights of All Things Must Pass,[63] while authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter call it a "stunning composition" that demonstrates the considerable growth in Harrison's songwriting since 1965.[34] Nick DeRiso of the music website Something Else! describes it as "Harrison's best album's very best song – one where he perfectly matches a lyrical meditation on overcoming life's harder moments … with the sound, mysticism and fury of one of the early 1970s' greatest amalgamations of sidemen".[64] Writing for Mojo in 2011, John Harris deemed it and "Isn't It a Pity" "simply jaw-dropping" ballads.[65]

In his appreciation of Harrison for PopMatters, Christopher Guerin, the former president of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, admires the "beautiful melodic structures" and heartfelt spirituality of songs such as "Beware of Darkness", adding that Harrison sings the lyrics "not as a preacher, but as an older brother".[66] GQ's George Chesterton also rates the song "among Harrison's best", writing:

Again, sung in the second person and full of pointed advice, it swishes around with new-found confidence and has some of his most elegant, yearning chord progressions as well as some of his best slide guitar playing. To outsiders there is an opaque, unknowable quality to Harrison and no amount of interviews or lyrical analysis can clear away the fog. You get the feeling that was intentional.[67]

In Uncut magazine's August 2008 feature article on Harrison, Neil Innes commented on the difference between Harrison's songs and those of Lennon and Paul McCartney: "His stuff didn't always grab you the way the other two's did. But if you listen to something like 'Beware of Darkness' – the chords in that – I mean, he's up there with Brian Wilson ... up there with Debussy."[68] American rock band Beware of Darkness took their name from the song.[69] Having first met Harrison early in the sessions for All Things Must Pass,[70] Gary Wright soon followed him on a path dedicated to Hindu-aligned spirituality.[71] In his 2014 autobiography, Wright says he was already impressed with "Within You Without You", but songs such as "Beware of Darkness" "had spiritual messages, something I had not heard before in pop music – especially to the degree that he used them. He was breaking new ground as an artist to an even greater degree than he had done in the past [with the Beatles]."[70][72]

In July 2016, the Harrison family referenced the song in response to the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" being appropriated by Donald Trump's presidential campaign at the Republican National Convention. The family complained that this use of Harrison's work was unauthorised and "offensive",[73] and later tweeted: "If it had been Beware of Darkness, then we MAY have approved it! #TrumpYourself."[74]

In 2021, the song was featured prominently in Season 2, Episode 8 ("Man City") of sports comedy-drama Ted Lasso.

Other Harrison performances Edit

Concert for Bangladesh Edit

"Beware of Darkness" was one of the songs Harrison played at the Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden on 1 August 1971.[75] Harrison sang the lead vocals for the first two verses, and then Leon Russell took over the lead for the third verse.[76] Leng describes the vocal combination as "Scouse tremolo" followed by "mad-dog Southern growl", and an indication of Harrison's willingness to share the spotlight with other artists.[77][nb 9]

The song was played at both the afternoon and evening performances,[80] with Clapton and Starr again among the group of backing musicians.[81][82] In his 1972 interview with Hennessey, Harrison recalled that due to the unusual chord changes, some of the musicians "just couldn't figure it out, but later it made sense to them".[58][nb 10] The evening performance of the song was included on the Concert for Bangladesh live album and in the film of the concert.[83] In his album review for The Guardian, Geoffrey Cannon cited "Beware of Darkness" when commenting that, given the picture of a starving child refugee on the LP cover, some of the album's lyrics could be heard in a topical light. He highlighted Harrison's warning "Watch out now, take care, beware of greedy leaders" as a follow-up to statements in the preceding tracks – namely "Open up your heart and come together" in Starr's "It Don't Come Easy" and, before that, "I hope you get this message" in Billy Preston's "That's the Way God Planned It".[84]

Beware of ABKCO! version Edit

A solo acoustic version of "Beware of Darkness", which Harrison recorded at Abbey Road on 27 May 1970,[85] was included on the 1990s bootleg album Beware of ABKCO![3][86] The lyrics were incomplete at this time,[87] as Harrison acknowledges at the start of the song.[88] The performance was part of Harrison's run-through of his stockpile of songs for Spector, for possible inclusion on All Things Must Pass.[89]

The bootleg's title was taken from a line in Harrison's performance of "Beware of Darkness",[16] when he substitutes the reference to maya with the line "Beware of ABKCO". The latter refers to ABKCO Industries, the company owned by Allen Klein that Harrison, Lennon and Starr had authorised to manage Apple.[88] This solo performance was officially released as a bonus track on the 2001 remaster of All Things Must Pass.[90]

Cover versions Edit

 
Leon Russell covered the song in 1971 and performed it with Harrison at the Concert for Bangladesh.

Leon Russell recorded a version of "Beware of Darkness" on his 1971 album Leon Russell and the Shelter People.[91][92] Critic Toby Creswell considers "Beware of Darkness" to be the highlight of the album, regarding this as the "definitive" version of the song, noting that Russell "brings chiaroscuro to this song about Eastern mysticism".[93] The song was also included on several of Russell's compilation albums, including Gimme Shelter!: The Best of Leon Russell and The Best of Leon Russell.[91]

Marianne Faithfull included the song on her album Rich Kid Blues, which - though recorded in 1971 - was released in 1984 and also on her 2000 compilation album It's All Over Now Baby Blue.[91][94][95] The bands Concrete Blonde and Spock's Beard are among the other artists who have recorded "Beware of Darkness".[16] Spock's Beard used it as the title track of their 1996 album Beware of Darkness, basing their version on Leon Russell's arrangement.[96] In AllMusic critic Thom Jurek's description, the band employ "a full-blown choir, thundering guitars, and Neal Morse's growling vocal to create another valid and moving version of the tune".[96]

Eric Clapton performed "Beware of Darkness" at the George Harrison tribute concert Concert for George in 2002.[97][98] Author Ian Inglis states that Clapton's performance "captures the thoughtful intent of the original".[97]

Joe Cocker covered "Beware of Darkness" for his 2007 album Hymn for My Soul. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs covered "Beware of Darkness" on their 2009 album Under the Covers, Vol. 2.[91][99]

Sheryl Crow recorded a cover of the song for her 2019 album Threads. Crow's version also features Clapton, Sting and Brandi Carlile. In May 2020, she performed the track solo on piano during a remote appearance for the TV show Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Crow introduced the song by saying that Harrison was "one of my favorite artists of all time".[100]

Personnel Edit

The following musicians are believed to have played on Harrison's original version of "Beware of Darkness":

Notes Edit

  1. ^ Among his comments on making All Things Must Pass, Whitlock has criticised the devotees as an unwelcome distraction in the recording studio[13][14] and as having abused Harrison's financial generosity.[12] Whitlock also recalls gaining a "perspective on the true value" of gold records, after seeing that Harrison had hidden away the Beatles' gold sales awards in a dining room cabinet.[15]
  2. ^ With regard to the composition's unorthodox qualities, Mellers adds: "Both verse and music are mysterious and beautiful, and they work; we do let go, as the music ultimately declines in triads of B, A and G, the last with a flat seventh, left unresolved."[24][25]
  3. ^ White has said he played drums on the song, which he describes as "really ... one of my favorite tracks", although he also said that with three drummers appearing on the album, "none of us can remember which tracks we play on!"[32] In another interview, he listed six tracks he believed he played on, none of which was "Beware of Darkness".[30]
  4. ^ In a 2014 interview, Mason said he could not remember which All Things Must Pass tracks he played on but that his contributions were confined to acoustic guitar.[35]
  5. ^ Barham also wrote the orchestral score for Harrison's production of "Govinda",[45] the second single by the Radha Krishna Temple.[46]
  6. ^ Some of the Barry Feinstein photos that Wilkes used in the discarded poster design appeared instead on the picture sleeves for the "My Sweet Lord" and "What Is Life" singles.[54]
  7. ^ MacFarlane writes that the "sense of clouds of sound floating through the space" in "Beware of Darkness" anticipates the sound of Lennon's 1971 album Imagine.[48]
  8. ^ Having first collaborated with Harrison in 1967, Barham later said of working on All Things Must Pass: "I was surprised by the songs' originality, but not by their spiritual feeling. By this time, I was convinced that George was a genuine spiritual seeker, one of the very few that I have ever known."[62]
  9. ^ Less impressed with Russell's contribution, author Ian Inglis says that his singing "lacks the personal sincerity demanded by the lyrics".[78] Elliot Huntley dismisses it as a "totally unwelcome redneck hillbilly drawl", despite Rolling Stone's reviewer having deemed the duet "a performance of almost stately proportions".[79]
  10. ^ He cited this as an example of how "Some things in music one person will do quite naturally, while another will find them totally confusing. It's funny."[58]

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Beware of Darkness is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass It is the opening track on the second disc of the album The lyrics warn against allowing illusion to get in the way of one s true purpose in life an admonition that like the content of My Sweet Lord reflects the influence of Harrison s association with the Radha Krishna Temple Several critics recognise the song as one of the best tracks on All Things Must Pass Beware of Darkness Song by George Harrisonfrom the album All Things Must PassReleased27 November 1970GenreRockLength3 48LabelAppleSongwriter s George HarrisonProducer s George Harrison Phil SpectorHarrison performed Beware of Darkness with Leon Russell at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 Eric Clapton performed it in tribute to Harrison at the Concert for George in 2002 The song has also been recorded by Leon Russell Marianne Faithfull Spock s Beard Concrete Blonde Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs and Sheryl Crow Contents 1 Background and inspiration 2 Lyrics and music 3 Recording 4 Release and reception 5 Retrospective assessments and legacy 6 Other Harrison performances 6 1 Concert for Bangladesh 6 2 Beware of ABKCO version 7 Cover versions 8 Personnel 9 Notes 10 ReferencesBackground and inspiration Edit Beware of Darkness was one of the more recent songs included on All Things Must Pass George Harrison s first post Beatles solo album and his first to consist of songs 1 2 When playing it to Phil Spector his co producer in May 1970 he introduced it as the last one I wrote the other day 3 The song s lyrics reflect the influence of the Radha Krishna Temple whose philosophy holds that spiritual concerns override all material things 4 Since meeting the Radha Krishna devotees in December 1968 Harrison had produced their devotional music for Apple Records including the 1969 single Hare Krishna Mantra 5 and assisted in securing a property in central London as their temple 6 He told the devotees that his 1969 Beatles composition Something was a love song to the Hindu deity Krishna rather than to his wife Pattie Boyd 7 8 In spring 1970 Harrison invited some of the movement s members to stay at Friar Park his recently purchased estate in Oxfordshire to help him restore the large house and overgrown gardens and to give his new home an intensely spiritual atmosphere 9 10 In his 1980 autobiography I Me Mine Harrison says he wrote Beware of Darkness at this time He adds I had some of my friends from the Radha Krishna Temple staying Watch out for Maya The lyrics are self explanatory 11 According to American keyboardist Bobby Whitlock the song was partly informed by Harrison s difficulties with his former Beatles bandmates and their business manager Allen Klein in the period immediately after the band s break up Whitlock who also stayed at Friar Park cites this as one of several preoccupations that made up a day in the life of George Harrison along with the stresses of restoring the property with Boyd dealing with Spector s idiosyncrasies and indulging the Hare Krishna devotees 12 nb 1 In music journalist John Harris s view Beware of Darkness offers a glimpse of the toll the Beatles break up had taken on George s emotions 14 Lyrics and music Edit nbsp The song s lyrics encourage the listener to seek daylight and abundant growth in the manner of an Atlas cedar Beware of Darkness is a ballad containing dense imagery 16 The song marks a return to the spiritual concerns of Harrison s songs with the Beatles such as Within You Without You 4 17 In addition to espousing spiritual concerns over material things the lyrics warn the listener against various influences that may corrupt them 4 Among the potential corrupting influences are con men soft shoe shufflers politicians greedy leaders and pop idols of little substance falling swingers 16 4 In addition the lyrics warn against negative thoughts thoughts that linger since these corrupting influences and negative thoughts can lead to maya or illusion which distracts people from the true purpose of life 16 4 18 The middle eight delivers the message that surrendering to sad thoughts can hurt you and is not what you are here for 16 In the final verse 19 Harrison states that an individual s purpose is not to follow political manipulation but to grow unfettered in daylight in the manner of weeping Atlas cedars 20 21 Author Simon Leng describes the melody of Beware of Darkness as complex and highly original 22 The melody of the verses incorporates a pedal point on the key of G major and moves to G sharp minor a progression Leng claims should not work in harmonic terms using as an analogy a count of one two six but comments that somehow the melody manages to work 17 Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers explains the effectiveness of this key shift as dramatising the beware in the lyrics Similarly Mellers states that harmonic movement from the key of C sharp minor to D major to C major creates the aimless wandering of each unconscious sufferer described in the lyrics 23 The nearly chromatic melody of the verses contrasts with a more standard rock melody in the middle eight 21 nb 2 Recording EditHarrison recorded the basic track for Beware of Darkness between May and August 1970 26 The sessions for All Things Must Pass typically featured a large cast of musicians in keeping with Spector s Wall of Sound approach 27 although the participants varied recollections have made precise identification of each song s contributors open to conjecture 28 29 30 According to Leng and Beatles historian Bruce Spizer the only musicians on the completed recording are Harrison Eric Clapton and Dave Mason on guitars Whitlock on piano Gary Wright on organ Carl Radle on bass guitar and Ringo Starr on drums 22 31 In addition they credit the vibraphone part to either Alan White or John Barham 31 nb 3 According to Whitlock Harrison and Clapton both played electric guitar 33 an acoustic guitar part is also present on the recording 34 nb 4 Spector wrote to Harrison in mid August with comments on the latter s initial mixes of the album s songs 36 37 He opined that following an 8 track reduction mix Harrison s electric part drown ed out the rhythm guitars on Beware of Darkness 38 Spector suggested Harrison redo the reduction mix or bump to give more prominence to these rhythm parts 38 which were played on acoustic guitar by members of the group Badfinger throughout the sessions 27 39 Whitlock recalled that the main session for the song was the first time he played piano on a studio recording 40 He said that Harrison asked him to give the part a gospel feeling which Whitlock achieved by drawing on his upbringing in a churchgoing family in the American South Whitlock also recalled that due to his lack of experience on the instrument he played the piano keys too hard and broke one of the thick gauge bass strings however he believed that the replacement string gave the piano a new resonance that benefited the recording 39 Barham s orchestral arrangements were recorded during the next phase of the album s production 41 along with further contributions from Harrison such as lead vocals slide guitar parts and multi tracked backing vocals 42 As with tracks such as Isn t It a Pity and All Things Must Pass Barham and Harrison collaborated on the string arrangement 43 Barham stayed at Friar Park and created the score from melodies that Harrison sang or played to him on piano or guitar 44 nb 5 In his description of the released recording author Elliot Huntley says that the track s musical tension escalates to breaking point with Harrison s mid song slide guitar solo 47 Musicologist Thomas MacFarlane writes that true to the song s lyrics the sounds of the track seem to emerge out of darkness space In this way he continues Beware of Darkness conveys the idea of perpetual distortion itself as an inevitable aspect of the human experience 48 Release and reception EditApple Records released All Things Must Pass on 27 November 1970 49 46 Beware of Darkness was sequenced as the opening track on side three of the triple LP followed by Apple Scruffs 50 Harrison s tribute to the diehard Beatles fans he termed the Apple scruffs 51 Apple included a poster with the album showing Harrison in a darkened corridor of Friar Park standing in front of an iron framed window 52 Tom Wilkes had designed a more adventurous poster but Harrison was uncomfortable with the imagery 53 Part of this original poster was a painting of a bathing scene featuring naked women one of whom was blonde representing Boyd and a mischievous Krishna who had hidden the bathers clothing in the branches of a nearby tree 54 nb 6 Spizer writes of the message conveyed in the approved poster design Harrison is wearing a dark hat and is barely visible except for his face due to the darkness that dominates the photo It is a powerful image of a serious man 54 Don Heckman of The New York Times said the poster depicted a brooding Harrison and predicted that the album would be one of the major hits of this and next year 55 In his contemporary review of All Things Must Pass Ben Gerson of Rolling Stone wrote that Beware of Darkness was possibly the album s best song commenting on its enigmatic music and the combination of warning and affirmation in its lyrics 56 Recalling the impact of All Things Must Pass in his 1977 book The Beatles Forever Nicholas Schaffner said that whereas John Lennon s studio was his soap box on the concurrently issued John Lennon Plastic Ono Band Harrison s was his pulpit through his album s focus on Hindu aligned concepts such as maya reincarnation karma chanting and transcendence Schaffner paired Beware of Darkness with All Things Must Pass as the two most eloquent songs on the album musically as well as lyrically with mysterious seductive melodies over which faded strings hover like Blue Jay Way fog 57 nb 7 In a rare early 1970s interview Harrison told Mike Hennessey that Beware of Darkness was his favourite out of all his compositions adding I like the tune I like the idea and I like the chord changes 58 Retrospective assessments and legacy EditWriting for Goldmine magazine shortly after Harrison s death in November 2001 Dave Thompson said that Beware of Darkness and Art of Dying rate among the finest compositions of Harrison s entire career 59 In his entry for All Things Must Pass in the book 1 000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die Tom Moon names it as the first of the three key tracks He writes that almost every song offers a different type of ecstasy and in the case of the meditative Beware of Darkness by follow ing a halting patient path toward illumination 60 In The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles Michael Frontani describes it as Harrison s supreme warning about maya adding that his and Barham s attention to the orchestral arrangement on this and other songs was arguably more significant for the sound of All Things Must Pass than Spector s Wall of Sound aesthetic Further to Harrison s standing as the most spiritually focused Beatle Frontani continues the message of the line Beware of maya anchored his artistic and personal life for the next three decades 61 nb 8 AllMusic critic Richie Unterberger similarly views Beware of Darkness as one of the highlights of All Things Must Pass 63 while authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter call it a stunning composition that demonstrates the considerable growth in Harrison s songwriting since 1965 34 Nick DeRiso of the music website Something Else describes it as Harrison s best album s very best song one where he perfectly matches a lyrical meditation on overcoming life s harder moments with the sound mysticism and fury of one of the early 1970s greatest amalgamations of sidemen 64 Writing for Mojo in 2011 John Harris deemed it and Isn t It a Pity simply jaw dropping ballads 65 In his appreciation of Harrison for PopMatters Christopher Guerin the former president of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra admires the beautiful melodic structures and heartfelt spirituality of songs such as Beware of Darkness adding that Harrison sings the lyrics not as a preacher but as an older brother 66 GQ s George Chesterton also rates the song among Harrison s best writing Again sung in the second person and full of pointed advice it swishes around with new found confidence and has some of his most elegant yearning chord progressions as well as some of his best slide guitar playing To outsiders there is an opaque unknowable quality to Harrison and no amount of interviews or lyrical analysis can clear away the fog You get the feeling that was intentional 67 In Uncut magazine s August 2008 feature article on Harrison Neil Innes commented on the difference between Harrison s songs and those of Lennon and Paul McCartney His stuff didn t always grab you the way the other two s did But if you listen to something like Beware of Darkness the chords in that I mean he s up there with Brian Wilson up there with Debussy 68 American rock band Beware of Darkness took their name from the song 69 Having first met Harrison early in the sessions for All Things Must Pass 70 Gary Wright soon followed him on a path dedicated to Hindu aligned spirituality 71 In his 2014 autobiography Wright says he was already impressed with Within You Without You but songs such as Beware of Darkness had spiritual messages something I had not heard before in pop music especially to the degree that he used them He was breaking new ground as an artist to an even greater degree than he had done in the past with the Beatles 70 72 In July 2016 the Harrison family referenced the song in response to the Beatles Here Comes the Sun being appropriated by Donald Trump s presidential campaign at the Republican National Convention The family complained that this use of Harrison s work was unauthorised and offensive 73 and later tweeted If it had been Beware of Darkness then we MAY have approved it TrumpYourself 74 In 2021 the song was featured prominently in Season 2 Episode 8 Man City of sports comedy drama Ted Lasso Other Harrison performances EditConcert for Bangladesh Edit Beware of Darkness was one of the songs Harrison played at the Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden on 1 August 1971 75 Harrison sang the lead vocals for the first two verses and then Leon Russell took over the lead for the third verse 76 Leng describes the vocal combination as Scouse tremolo followed by mad dog Southern growl and an indication of Harrison s willingness to share the spotlight with other artists 77 nb 9 The song was played at both the afternoon and evening performances 80 with Clapton and Starr again among the group of backing musicians 81 82 In his 1972 interview with Hennessey Harrison recalled that due to the unusual chord changes some of the musicians just couldn t figure it out but later it made sense to them 58 nb 10 The evening performance of the song was included on the Concert for Bangladesh live album and in the film of the concert 83 In his album review for The Guardian Geoffrey Cannon cited Beware of Darkness when commenting that given the picture of a starving child refugee on the LP cover some of the album s lyrics could be heard in a topical light He highlighted Harrison s warning Watch out now take care beware of greedy leaders as a follow up to statements in the preceding tracks namely Open up your heart and come together in Starr s It Don t Come Easy and before that I hope you get this message in Billy Preston s That s the Way God Planned It 84 Beware of ABKCO version Edit A solo acoustic version of Beware of Darkness which Harrison recorded at Abbey Road on 27 May 1970 85 was included on the 1990s bootleg album Beware of ABKCO 3 86 The lyrics were incomplete at this time 87 as Harrison acknowledges at the start of the song 88 The performance was part of Harrison s run through of his stockpile of songs for Spector for possible inclusion on All Things Must Pass 89 The bootleg s title was taken from a line in Harrison s performance of Beware of Darkness 16 when he substitutes the reference to maya with the line Beware of ABKCO The latter refers to ABKCO Industries the company owned by Allen Klein that Harrison Lennon and Starr had authorised to manage Apple 88 This solo performance was officially released as a bonus track on the 2001 remaster of All Things Must Pass 90 Cover versions Edit nbsp Leon Russell covered the song in 1971 and performed it with Harrison at the Concert for Bangladesh Leon Russell recorded a version of Beware of Darkness on his 1971 album Leon Russell and the Shelter People 91 92 Critic Toby Creswell considers Beware of Darkness to be the highlight of the album regarding this as the definitive version of the song noting that Russell brings chiaroscuro to this song about Eastern mysticism 93 The song was also included on several of Russell s compilation albums including Gimme Shelter The Best of Leon Russell and The Best of Leon Russell 91 Marianne Faithfull included the song on her album Rich Kid Blues which though recorded in 1971 was released in 1984 and also on her 2000 compilation album It s All Over Now Baby Blue 91 94 95 The bands Concrete Blonde and Spock s Beard are among the other artists who have recorded Beware of Darkness 16 Spock s Beard used it as the title track of their 1996 album Beware of Darkness basing their version on Leon Russell s arrangement 96 In AllMusic critic Thom Jurek s description the band employ a full blown choir thundering guitars and Neal Morse s growling vocal to create another valid and moving version of the tune 96 Eric Clapton performed Beware of Darkness at the George Harrison tribute concert Concert for George in 2002 97 98 Author Ian Inglis states that Clapton s performance captures the thoughtful intent of the original 97 Joe Cocker covered Beware of Darkness for his 2007 album Hymn for My Soul Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs covered Beware of Darkness on their 2009 album Under the Covers Vol 2 91 99 Sheryl Crow recorded a cover of the song for her 2019 album Threads Crow s version also features Clapton Sting and Brandi Carlile In May 2020 she performed the track solo on piano during a remote appearance for the TV show Late Show with Stephen Colbert Crow introduced the song by saying that Harrison was one of my favorite artists of all time 100 Personnel EditThe following musicians are believed to have played on Harrison s original version of Beware of Darkness George Harrison vocals electric guitar slide guitars Eric Clapton lead guitar Dave Mason acoustic guitar Bobby Whitlock piano Gary Wright organ Carl Radle bass guitar Ringo Starr drums John Barham string arrangement uncredited vibraphoneNotes Edit Among his comments on making All Things Must Pass Whitlock has criticised the devotees as an unwelcome distraction in the recording studio 13 14 and as having abused Harrison s financial generosity 12 Whitlock also recalls gaining a perspective on the true value of gold records after seeing that Harrison had hidden away the Beatles gold sales awards in a dining room cabinet 15 With regard to the composition s unorthodox qualities Mellers adds Both verse and music are mysterious and beautiful and they work we do let go as the music ultimately declines in triads of B A and G the last with a flat seventh left unresolved 24 25 White has said he played drums on the song which he describes as really one of my favorite tracks although he also said that with three drummers appearing on the album none of us can remember which tracks we play on 32 In another interview he listed six tracks he believed he played on none of which was Beware of Darkness 30 In a 2014 interview Mason said he could not remember which All Things Must Pass tracks he played on but that his contributions were confined to acoustic guitar 35 Barham also wrote the orchestral score for Harrison s production of Govinda 45 the second single by the Radha Krishna Temple 46 Some of the Barry Feinstein photos that Wilkes used in the discarded poster design appeared instead on the picture sleeves for the My Sweet Lord and What Is Life singles 54 MacFarlane writes that the sense of clouds of sound floating through the space in Beware of Darkness anticipates the sound of Lennon s 1971 album Imagine 48 Having first collaborated with Harrison in 1967 Barham later said of working on All Things Must Pass I was surprised by the songs originality but not by their spiritual feeling By this time I was convinced that George was a genuine spiritual seeker one of the very few that I have ever known 62 Less impressed with Russell s contribution author Ian Inglis says that his singing lacks the personal sincerity demanded by the lyrics 78 Elliot Huntley dismisses it as a totally unwelcome redneck hillbilly drawl despite Rolling Stone s reviewer having deemed the duet a performance of almost stately proportions 79 He cited this as an example of how Some 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