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All things must pass
Remembering a Beatle … guitarist Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall
All things must pass | sitar solo, and ELO’s Jeff Lynne joins her for | |
| Pop | a gorgeous version of The Inner Light. | |
| A Concert For George | The second half features a band led by | |
| Alexis Petridis | Lynne and Eric Clapton, bashing out his bestknown | |
| songs with celebrity guests. | ||
| A huge portrait of George Harrison stares out | The ensemble rampage through a | |
| over London’s Royal Albert Hall. He looks a | cacophonous Wah Wah, a bitter song, written | |
| bit fed up. Never the sunniest Beatle, he | after Harrison stormed out of a Beatles’ | |
| often looked like that in photographs, but it is | rehearsal, accusing McCartney of patronising | |
| interesting to speculate what he would have | him by telling him how to play a solo. But | |
| made of this event. On one hand, he virtually | now McCartney is pounding at a piano, stage | |
| invented the superstar charity gig with the | right, a sideman on a Harrison masterpiece | |
| 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. On the other, | about how ghastly life in The Beatles was. | |
| he was intensely private, suggesting the | It’s hard to suppress the sort of sardonic | |
| public mark his passing by meditating. | chuckle that Harrison frequently used when | |
| Harrison would certainly have enjoyed the | discussing his “nightmare” time as a Fab – | |
| music specially composed by Ravi Shankar. | and conclude that’s what George would have | |
| A tiny, frail figure, Shankar sits onstage, | wanted. | |
| nodding as his daughter Anoushka plays a |
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