Side A, track one. The first sound on the record.
Before the wall of sound, before the flood —
two minutes fifty-seven seconds of someone opening the door.
CO-WRITTEN WITH BOB DYLANWOODSTOCK · AUTUMN 1968SIDE A · TRACK 12 MIN · 57 SECPHIL SPECTOR · PROD.APPLE RECORDS · NOV 1970
Dylan and Harrison wrote it together in Woodstock in the autumn of 1968 —
Dylan teaching Harrison a gentler way in. Harrison placed it first
because it lands like a hand on a shoulder before three hours of
everything else that follows on the album.
Let me roll it to you. That's the second verse. Spector's
production is almost restrained here — close guitar, close voice, a
prologue that already knows the weight of what comes next. All Things
Must Pass earned its long shadow. This earned the quiet before it.
