Harrison recalled vamping chords on guitar and alternating between sung phrases of "hallelujah" and "Hare Krishna". According to Harrison's 1976 court testimony, "My Sweet Lord" was conceived while the band members were attending a backstage press conference and he had ducked out to an upstairs room at the theatre. The Copenhagen stopover marked the end of the Delaney & Bonnie tour, with a three-night residency at the Falkoner Theatre on 10–12 December. Harrison now wanted to fuse the messages of the Christian and Gaudiya Vaishnava faiths into what musical biographer Simon Leng terms "gospel incantation with a Vedic chant". The latter was a musical adaptation of the 5000-year-old Vaishnava Hindu mantra, performed by members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), colloquially known as "the Hare Krishna movement". He had also produced two religious-themed hit singles on the Beatles' Apple record label: Preston's " That's the Way God Planned It" and Radha Krishna Temple (London)'s " Hare Krishna Mantra". By this time, Harrison had already written the gospel-influenced " Hear Me Lord" and, with Preston, the African-American spiritual " Sing One for the Lord". George Harrison began writing "My Sweet Lord" in December 1969, when he, Billy Preston and Eric Clapton were in Copenhagen, Denmark, as guest artists on Delaney & Bonnie's European tour.
It was also released as a single, Harrison's first as a solo artist, and topped charts worldwide it was the biggest-selling single of 1971 in the UK. " My Sweet Lord" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in November 1970 on his triple album All Things Must Pass.