Whereas Harrison's Krishna devotionals on "All Things Must Pass" had been uplifting celebrations of faith, his latest compositions betrayed a more austere quality, partly as a result of the Bangladesh experience. His musical arranger, John Barham, would later suggest that a spiritual "crisis" might have been the cause; other observers have pointed to Harrison's failing marriage to Boyd. Leng writes of his frame of mind at this time: "while George Harrison was bursting with musical confidence, "Living in the Material World" found him in roughly the same place that John Lennon was when he wrote 'Help!' – shocked by the rush of overwhelming success and desperately wondering where it left him."