That Is All (song)
| "That Is All" | |
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| Song by George Harrison | |
| from the album Living in the Material World | |
| Published | Material World Charitable Foundation (administered by Harrisongs) |
| Released | 30 May 1973 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 3:43 |
| Label | Apple |
| Songwriter(s) | George Harrison |
| Producer(s) | George Harrison |
| Living in the Material World track listing | |
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"That Is All" is a song by English musician George Harrison released as the final track of his 1973 album Living in the Material World. A slow, heavily orchestrated ballad, it is one of many Harrison love songs that appear to be directed at either a woman or a deity. Harrison wrote and recorded the song during the height of his public devotion to Hinduism; on release, Rolling Stone described its lyrics as "a sort of Hindu In Paradisium".
Recording for "That Is All" took place in London in late 1972, following Harrison's completion of the international aid project begun the previous year with the Concert for Bangladesh. The other musicians on the track include keyboard players Gary Wright, whose fledgling solo career Harrison actively supported during the early 1970s, and Nicky Hopkins. The song's orchestral and choral arrangements were provided by John Barham, who had also worked on Harrison's album All Things Must Pass and Wright's Footprint. "That Is All" has been covered by singers Andy Williams and Harry Nilsson.
As with all the songs on his 1973 album Living in the Material World except for "Try Some, Buy Some",George Harrison wrote "That Is All" over 1971–72, a period marked by both his heightened devotion to Hindu spirituality and his commitment to providing humanitarian aid for the refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War. With his own career taking second place to the latter endeavour, following the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971, Harrison's musical activities included helping American musician Gary Wright establish himself as a solo artist. Wright's album Footprint was released in November that year and included "Love to Survive", a song that author Simon Leng cites as having been an influence on Harrison's composition "That Is All". "Love to Survive" was orchestrated by Harrison's All Things Must Pass arranger, John Barham, who says that "musically there was a strong rapport" between himself, Harrison and Wright at this time. The friendship was also based on a shared interest in Eastern spirituality, after Harrison had given Wright a copy of Autobiography of a Yogi, a text that Ravi Shankar had introduced to Harrison when he visited India in 1966.
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