The song's title was invariably seen as a statement on the demise of the Beatles,Harris, p. 73. as commentators viewed the album as Harrison's liberation from the artistic constraints imposed on him within the band.Rodriguez, p. 147. The album's cover image, showing Harrison seated on his Friar Park lawn surrounded by four reclining garden gnomes – thought to represent the Beatles – was also viewed as reflecting this theme.The Editors of Rolling Stone, p. 40. While commenting that "All Things Must Pass" had "accrue[d] new layers of relevance" during the album's creation, particularly with the death of Harrison's mother, former Mojo editor Paul Du Noyer writes: "Nobody in November 1970 could have mistaken the title's significance ... As if to cement the association of ideas, the wry cover picture has George in solitary splendour, surrounded by a quartet of gnomes."Paul Du Noyer, "George Harrison's All Things Must Pass" , pauldunoyer.com, 13 March 2009 (retrieved 20 January 2015). In a 2001 interview, photographer Barry Feinstein admitted that the words "All Things Must Pass" had helped inspire his set-up for the photo, saying: "What else could it be? ... [It] was over with The Beatles, right? And that title ... Very symbolic."
