“A Beatle knows who I am? Ridiculous”: Peter Frampton’s response when George Harrison invited him to play on All Things Must Pass
Peter Frampton has looked back on the time he received an unexpected invitation from George Harrison to record on the Beatles legend’s third album, All Things Must Pass.
George Harrison recorded the album predominantly at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios), but the now-defunct Trident Studios – located at 17 St Anne’s Court in Soho – was used for some overdubs, partly in order to utilise its 16-track recording technology.
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As the story goes, Peter Frampton first met George Harrison through Terry Doran, Harrison’s personal assistant and a man heavily involved in organising the All Things Must Pass sessions.
And via a chance meeting at a pub between Frampton and Doran, Doran invited Frampton to Trident to meet George Harrison, who was producing a self-titled album for R&B singer Doris Troy.
After playing guitar in front of Harrison, the Beatles man was so impressed that he invited him to EMI Studios to play acoustic guitar on his album, including on tracks If Not For You and Behind That Locked Door.
Now, in a new interview with MOJO, Frampton recalls his interactions with George Harrison while recording the album.
“He was at Trident Studios. In the control room, there was George and he goes, ‘Hello, Pete’ – I thought Pete Townshend must have walked in behind me,” Frampton remembers.
“I mean, a Beatle knows who I am? Ridiculous. He said, ‘You want to play? Stephen Stills is downstairs.’ Klaus Voorman was playing bass, Ringo was playing drums, and George gives me this guitar, which I find out later was the guitar Eric gave him which he played on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. George said, ‘Here’s the chord, let’s go…’”
Elsewhere in the interview, Peter Frampton reflects on his Inclusion Body Myositis, which has progressively hampered his ability to play guitar in recent years.
“It’s become dangerous for me because if I fall I really do hurt myself, and going into a hundred hotels where everything’s different? Whereas I know every square inch of my house,” he says.
“But mentally, physically and otherwise, everything’s fine. It sounds weird but I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.”
Indeed, in another recent interview with the New York Times, the 76-year-old musician also commented on how he stays in a mentally good place despite his diagnosis. “If I don’t accept what I have, I’m going to be mad for the rest of my life,” he said.
Elsewhere, Peter Frampton is set to release his new album Carry the Light this week on 15 May. It marks his first collection of songs since his IBM diagnosis. Listen to Lions at the Gate, a track from the album, below:
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