*Production began at Londons Abbey Road Studios in May 1970, with extensive overdubbing and mixing continuing through October. Among the large cast of backing musicians were Eric Clapton and Delaney & Bonnies Friends band – three of whom formed Derek and the Dominos with Clapton during the recording – as well as Ringo Starr, Gary Wright, Preston, Klaus Voormann, John Barham, Badfinger and Pete Drake. The sessions produced a double albums worth of extra material, most of which remains unissued. The musicians included Bobby Whitlock, Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Bobby Keys, Jim Price and Dave Mason,[117] all of whom had recently toured with Delaney & Bonnie.[118] Along with Eric Clapton, there were also musicians whose link with Harrison went back some years, such as Ringo Starr and Billy Preston, and German bassist Klaus Voormann,[119] formerly of Manfred Mann and a friend since the Beatles years in Hamburg.[120] Handling much of the keyboard work with Whitlock was Gary Wright,[112] who went on to collaborate regularly with Harrison throughout the 1970s.[121] From within Apples stable of musicians, Harrison recruited the band Badfinger, future Yes drummer Alan White, and Beatles assistant Mal Evans on percussion.[122][123] Badfinger drummer Mike Gibbins powerful tambourine work led to Spector giving him the nickname Mr Tambourine Man, after the Dylan song,[56] while bandmates Pete Ham, Tom Evans and Joey Molland provided rhythm acoustic-guitar parts that, in keeping with Spectors Wall of Sound principles, were to be felt but not heard.[69] Orchestral arranger John Barham also sat in on the sessions, occasionally contributing on harmonium and vibraphone.[124] Other guests included Nashville pedal steel player Pete Drake, Procol Harums Gary Brooker and a pre-Genesis Phil Collins.[125] For contractual reasons, on UK pressings of All Things Must Pass, Claptons participation on the first two discs of the album remained unacknowledged for many years,[115][126] although he was listed among the musicians appearing on the Apple Jam disc in Britain.[127][128][nb 7] Harrison was unaware of Collinss contribution until putting together the 30th anniversary reissue of the album in 2000,[134] at which point he offered Collins his belated thanks.[135] Claptons former bandmate in Cream and Blind Faith, Ginger Baker, participated in the session for I Remember Jeep only, according to the albums sleeve notes.[102] youtube/watch?v=8mnDSI-fRp4
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