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“All Things Must Pass.” George Harrison. EMI. All the hoopla surrounding the Beatles CDs will no doubt have a lot of fans hungry for more compact-disc versions of the Fab Four’s solo albums. In 1970, Harrison’s first post-Beatles effort was a major surprise: Everyone expected great things from Lennon and McCartney, but who would have predicted this ambitious, if flawed, three-LP set (now on a two-CD import) from the Quiet Beatle? In 1987, it seems obvious that Harrison exhausted his arsenal with this first shot, but what a shot it was. Some songs sound even more cosmically dopey (“Beware of Darkness,” “All Things Must Pass”) than they did originally; others (“What Is Life,” “My Sweet Lord”) hold up wonderfully. Sound quality: average. ***