EMI had scheduled the release for 21 November 2000, close to the true date for the anniversary, but the album was delayed for two months. In his PopMatters review, John Bergstrom likens All Things Must Pass to "the sound of Harrison exhaling", adding: "He was quite possibly the only Beatle who was completely satisfied with the Beatles being gone. Reflecting the widespread surprise at the assuredness of Harrison's post-Beatles debut, Melody Maker 's Richard Williams likened the album to Greta Garbo's first role in a talking picture and declared: "Garbo talks! Music journalist John Harris said George Harrison's "journey" to making All Things Must Pass started when he visited America in late 1968, after the acrimonious sessions for the Beatles' self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album"). Although Harrison had estimated in a New York radio interview that the solo album would take no more than eight weeks to complete, [197] [198] recording, overdubbing and mixing on All Things Must Pass lasted for five months, until late October.

Gibbins' bandmates Pete Ham, Tom Evans and Joey Molland provided rhythm acoustic-guitar parts that, in keeping with Spector's Wall of Sound principles, were to be "felt but not heard". In another review, for The Times, Williams opined that, of all the Beatles' solo releases thus far, Harrison's album "makes far and away the best listening, perhaps because it is the one which most nearly continues the tradition they began eight years ago". George Harrison confronted the breakup head-on, with the graceful, philosophical All Things Must Pass.Co-producer Phil Spector employed his Wall of Sound production technique to notable effect; Ben Gerson of Rolling Stone described the sound as " Wagnerian, Brucknerian, the music of mountain tops and vast horizons". The Super Deluxe Edition LP collects 70 tracks across 8 LPs (180g) including 47 (42 previously unreleased) demo recordings, session outtakes and studio jams all housed in a beautiful slipcase. I have newer speakers and had to upgrade to a new turntable as my original had been parked for 30 years and unfortunately had problems. According to Gibbins, he and White played most of the percussion parts on the album, "switch[ing] on tambourine, sticks, bells, maracas . nb 25] At the 1972 Grammy Awards, All Things Must Pass was nominated for Album of the Year and "My Sweet Lord" for Record of the Year, but Harrison lost out in both categories to Carole King.

Spector has praised Harrison's guitar and vocal work on the overdubs, saying: "Perfectionist is not the right word. When CDs arrived, I got rid of much of my LP Collection and repurchased most of it in the new CD format. According to Colin Larkin, writing in the 2011 edition of his Encyclopedia of Popular Music, All Things Must Pass is "generally rated" as the best of all the former Beatles' solo albums.

The reissue is available in seven varieties, from Standard vinyl and CD editions up to an Uber Deluxe Edition box set. On 27 November 2020, the Harrison family released a stereo remix of the song "All Things Must Pass" to mark the album's 50th anniversary.