See how many personalities you can identify.
The video:
Personnel:
From the wiki entry: According to Simon Leng (except where noted), the following musicians played on Harrison's original version of "My Sweet Lord". Leng states that his keyboard credits for All Things Must Pass are "more indicative than authoritative."
- George Harrison – vocals, acoustic guitar, slide guitars, backing vocals
- Eric Clapton – acoustic guitar
- Pete Ham – acoustic guitar
- Tom Evans – acoustic guitar
- Joey Molland – acoustic guitar
- Peter Frampton – acoustic guitar
- Billy Preston – piano
- Gary Brooker – electric piano
- Klaus Voormann – bass
- Ringo Starr – drums
- Jim Gordon – drums
- Mike Gibbins – tambourine
- John Barham – orchestral arrangement
- uncredited – harmonium, zithers
If you are not familiar with the personnel, recommend checking in on Pete Ham and Tom Evans.
The personnel who played on this song is quite remarkable.
Other items of note from the wiki entry:
According to a chart published by PPL in August 2018, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Apple Records' founding, "My Sweet Lord" had received the most airplay in the 21st century of any song released by the record label, ahead of Lennon's "Imagine" and the Beatles' "Hey Jude."
Regarding the video above:
To promote the 50th anniversary reissue of All Things Must Pass in December 2021, the Harrison estate released a music video for the 2020 mix of "My Sweet Lord". Executive produced by Dhani Harrison and David Zonshine, it was written and directed by Lance Bangs, and stars Mark Hamill, Vanessa Bayer and Fred Armisen as secret agents investigating a mysterious phenomenon around Los Angeles. Much of the video follows Armisen's perspective, from a room filled with books to a large cinema showing a fictional film of George Harrison's home footage, titled All Things Must Pass. The video features cameos from many celebrities – including Starr, Jeff Lynne, Joe Walsh, Dhani and Olivia Harrison – and ends with Armisen and Bayer's characters solving the mystery by hearing the song for the first time on their car radio.
You might recognize Fred Armisen and Vanessa Bayer from SNL's The Californians, which may simply be the best skit series ever seen on SNL. Briefly here.
The Californians is a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live which parodies a soap opera and features Karina (played by Kristen Wiig), Devin (played by Bill Hader), Stuart (played by Fred Armisen), Trey (played by Kenan Thompson) and Rosa (played by Vanessa Bayer), who is also the only brunette, as wealthy blondes with Valley Girl accents exaggerated to the point of incoherence.
Throughout the melodramatic plot developments in the sketch, much of the dialogue consists of descriptions of freeway routes taken from place to place. Each installment includes three scenes, each of which ends with all of the characters in the room crowded around a single mirror and gazing at their own reflections.
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