Performances and Later Releases
Despite its standing as one of his best-known songs, "All Things Must Pass" was not a track that Harrison ever played in concert, although it was included on a preliminary setlist for the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh shows. He twice performed the song live in front of TV cameras during the final years of his life, beginning with his appearance with Ravi Shankar on VH1's Hard Rock Live, filmed in New York on 14 May 1997. The pair were on the show to promote their recent collaboration, the "quiet masterpiece" Chants of India album, but at host John Fugelsang's urging, Harrison accepted an acoustic guitar and performed a brief rendition of "All Things Must Pass". Although 150 minutes of Harrison and Shankar's appearance was filmed, only 22 minutes of footage was originally aired by VH1 on 24 July, as George & Ravi − Yin & Yang. Omitted from the broadcast but also performed by Harrison was the Traveling Wilburys tune "If You Belonged to Me" and, at the suggestion of Shankar's wife, Sukanya, "Any Road", a track subsequently released on his posthumous album Brainwashed. In late 2000, Harrison sang "All Things Must Pass" while sitting on Friar Park's main lawn, a performance that was included in the press kit for the All Things Must Pass 30th Anniversary reissue (which was delayed until January 2001 from the true anniversary date).
Omitted from the "cursory" selection of 1970−75 tracks on The Best of George Harrison, the song was included on Harrison's 2009 career-spanning compilation Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison.
In Martin Scorsese's 2011 documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World, "All Things Must Pass" is the first song featured in the movie, played over footage of German air raids over Britain during World War II. In November that year, a demo of the song, featuring just Harrison, Starr and bassist Klaus Voormann, was included on the deluxe edition CD accompanying the British DVD release of the film; this CD was subsequently issued worldwide in May 2012 as Early Takes: Volume 1.
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