Wah-Wah is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass. Harrison wrote the song in January 1969 following his temporary departure from The Beatles, during the troubled *Get Back* sessions that resulted in their *Let It Be* album and film. The lyrics were a response to the musical criticism he had been receiving from bandmates Paul McCartney and John Lennon, and were partly inspired by Harrisons frustration at Yoko Onos involvement in the bands activities. Music critics and biographers recognize the song as Harrisons statement of personal and artistic freedom from the Beatles, following his more satisfying collaborations with Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and the Band in the months leading up to the Get Back project. Recorded shortly after the Beatles broke up in 1970, Wah-Wah was the first track taped for All Things Must Pass. The recording features a dense production treatment from Phil Spector and backing from a large cast of musicians including Clapton, Billy Preston, Bobby Keys and Ringo Starr. On release, Rolling Stone magazine described it as a grand cacophony of sound in which horns sound like guitars and vice versa. Despite the praise that the song received from critics, Harrison considered the recording overproduced and the sound too cluttered.
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