query: who sings lead vocals on while my guitar gently weeps

pos: While My Guitar Gently Weeps 1971 and "Live in Japan" in 1992. Backed by a band that included McCartney and Ringo Starr, Clapton performed the song at the Concert for George in November 2002, a year after Harrison's death. George Harrison wrote "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" after his return from India, where the Beatles had been studying Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi during the spring of 1968. The visit had allowed Harrison to re-engage with the guitar as his primary instrument, after focusing on the Indian sitar for the previous two years, and also marked the start of a prolific period for him

pos: The Heart Gently Weeps The Heart Gently Weeps "The Heart Gently Weeps" is the first single from the 2007 album "8 Diagrams" by the Wu-Tang Clan. The song features a sample of The Beatles' song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". It features guest appearances from three other musicians: R&B singer Erykah Badu sings the song's chorus; Dhani Harrison, son of Beatles member George Harrison, plays acoustic guitar; and John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is featured on lead guitar. This song was made using a cover version of the George Harrison song played by the blues guitarist Jimmy Ponder. Out of respect

pos: While My Guitar Gently Weeps While My Guitar Gently Weeps "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album "The Beatles" (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist. The song serves as a comment on the disharmony within the Beatles following their return from studying Transcendental Meditation in India in early 1968. This lack of camaraderie was reflected in the band's initial apathy towards the composition, which Harrison countered by inviting his friend and occasional collaborator, Eric Clapton, to contribute to the recording. Clapton overdubbed

pos: While My Guitar Gently Weeps and, as with his substandard playing at the event, one indicative of his descent into heroin addiction.<ref name="Clapton/BD Revisited">"The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited with George Harrison and Friends", DVD, 2005.</ref> The version performed by Harrison during his set at the 1987 Prince's Trust Concert reunited him with Starr and Clapton, and features an extended coda with the guitars of Harrison and Clapton interweaving. On their 1991 tour of Japan, Harrison and Clapton performed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with additional background vocals. An edit combining parts of the 14 December and 17 December Tokyo Dome performances of the song was

pos: The Heart Gently Weeps for George Harrison, RZA, who produced this song, asked Harrison's son Dhani to play rhythm guitar. It was played using a mint condition Gretsch guitar from 1961 which was given to RZA as a gift from Russell Crowe after they had finished filming "American Gangster". The song was #50 on "Rolling Stone"s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. The Heart Gently Weeps "The Heart Gently Weeps" is the first single from the 2007 album "8 Diagrams" by the Wu-Tang Clan. The song features a sample of The Beatles' song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". It features guest appearances

pos: While My Guitar Gently Weeps description, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was the most instantly popular of "a quartet of more conventionally accessible pop songs [written by Harrison] that many felt were among the finest on the album". Among contemporary reviews, Jann Wenner of "Rolling Stone" said that "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was "one of George Harrison's very best songs", and likened it to "Blue Jay Way" in that it "recalls California, the simple Baja California beat, the dreamy words of the Los Angeles haze, the organic pace lapping around every room as if in invisible waves". Wenner found the lyrics "slightly self-righteous and

pos: Les Fradkin and this strategy paid off handsomely. By 2009, Fradkin had released 31 albums on his RRO Entertainment label, 20 of them as solo CDs - all titles available through worldwide download outlets such as Apple iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, and many others. Many singles from these CDs became popular Apple iTunes downloads. Some of the singles, (featuring Fradkin on vocals, guitar, guitar synthesizer, and Mellotron), including "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)", "My Baby Loves Lovin", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (done as a melodramatic guitar instrumental), "My Sweet Lord" (a cover of the George Harrison smash hit featuring Richie Furay

pos: 8 Diagrams "Watch Your Mouth" would be the album's first single. However, it was rumored that the song's producer DJ Scratch was unable to get a sample clearance, which resulted in its omission on the final release of the album. Instead, the first official single was "The Heart Gently Weeps", an adaptation of The Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". George Harrison's son Dhani Harrison and John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers performed lead and rhythm guitars. Originally thought to be a sampled track, it was later revealed as an interpolated version, sampling Jimmy Ponder's cover of the song. The

pos: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Phil Ochs's 'Tape from California', is the first track I know that succeeds in making magnanimous love serious and touching." "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" became a staple of US rock radio during the early 1970s, on a par with songs such as "Layla" by Clapton's short-lived band Derek and the Dominos, Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again". In 1973, it appeared on the Beatles' double album compilation "1967–1970", as one of only three tracks representing the White Album. Capitol Records included it on "The Best of George Harrison" in 1976; a year before

pos: While My Guitar Gently Weeps of the "highlights ... moving into a slightly Hendrix thing" and was bound to be "Another hit for somebody".<ref name="Smith/NME"></ref> Three weeks later, Smith acknowledged that the singer and composer was in fact Harrison, and added: "the words are evocative and the melody line is creeping into my mind to stay." Geoffrey Cannon wrote in "The Guardian": "George Harrison has seen the truth, and is anxious that we should see our truth. He's a preacher, man of fire. When his songs speak of 'you', the address is direct. He achieves his character in 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', which, with

pos: This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) new composition as "Son of 'Guitar Gently Weeps'".<ref name="This Guitar/YouTube">George Harrison interview, "Rockweek", "George Harrison explains 'This Guitar Can't Keep from Crying'" (retrieved 5 May 2013).</ref> Like the Beatles track, "This Guitar" is structured around short, minor-key verses (in this case, in the key of G minor) that conclude with the song title, rather than distinct choruses. Author Ian Inglis also notes the "evident similarity" between the melody of the two compositions. As with Harrison's lyrics for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Inglis writes, "This Guitar" follows in a tradition established by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Bo Diddley, of

pos: Jeff Healey film "Road House". Healey had numerous acting scenes in the movie with Swayze, as his band was the house cover band for the bar featured in the movie. In 1990, the band won the Juno Award for Canadian Entertainer of the Year. The albums "Hell to Pay" and "Feel This" gave Healey 10 charting singles in Canada between 1990 and 1994, including a cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which featured George Harrison and Jeff Lynne on backing vocals and acoustic guitar. By the release of the 2000 album "Get Me Some," Healey began to concentrate his

pos: Eric Clapton Angeles, 1968, was released shortly after Cream disbanded; it also featured the studio single "Badge", co-written by Clapton and George Harrison. Clapton met Harrison and became close friends with him after the Beatles shared a bill with the Clapton-era Yardbirds at the London Palladium. Clapton played the lead guitar solo on Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from the Beatles' "White Album" (1968). Harrison's debut solo album, "Wonderwall Music", in 1968, became the first of many Harrison solo records to include Clapton on guitar. Clapton would go largely uncredited for his contributions to Harrison's albums due to contractual restraints, and

pos: Marc Mann Harrison's posthumous "Brainwashed" album. In 2004, Mann played lead guitar along with Prince when George Harrison was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Marc Mann Marc Mann is an American keyboardist, guitarist, programmer, arranger and conductor. He is known for his work with Oingo Boingo, Jeff Lynne and Electric Light Orchestra. In 2002 he performed in the "Concert for George" alongside Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, playing George Harrison's parts. He is credited as performer, arranger or producer on 54 albums. Mann is a

pos: 25 or 6 to 4 Chicago guitarist Terry Kath, and a lead vocal line in Aeolian mode. The song's opening guitar riff has been compared to chord progressions and riffs in other songs. In the opinion of writer Melissa Locker: LA Weekly's music editor, Andy Hermann, names it "The Riff" and describes it as follows:Hermann details the riff's similarity to the chord progression in Led Zeppelin's song, "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", which came out a year before "25 or 6 to 4", and the similarity of that chord progression to one in George Harrison's song, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", which came out even

pos: This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) David Foster, Gary Wright and Harrison all contributed keyboard parts to the track. "This Guitar" has traditionally received a mixed reception from reviewers, partly due to the inevitable comparisons with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Harrison re-recorded the song in 1992 with former Eurythmic Dave Stewart, who used it to promote his Platinum Weird project in 2006. This version appears as a bonus track on the 2014 "Apple Years 1968–75" reissue of "Extra Texture". George Harrison's stated aim for his North American tour with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, which took place from 2 November to 20 December 1974, was to

pos: This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) critic Chaz Lipp views it as a "tighter rock-oriented remake", while Graham Reid describes the bonus track as "a fascinating undated update". The following musicians played on the original version of "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)": This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison, released on his 1975 studio album "Extra Texture (Read All About It)". Harrison wrote the song as a sequel to his popular Beatles composition "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", in response to the personal criticism he had received during and after his

pos: Fifth Beatle including "Misery" and "In My Life". Martin himself deflected claims of being the "fifth Beatle" to Beatles' manager Brian Epstein. In 2006, Martin inadvertently strengthened his image as the "fifth Beatle" by contributing the only piece of new music on the "Love" soundtrack: a string arrangement on top of George Harrison's solo acoustic demo of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from "Anthology 3". Lennon disparaged Martin's importance to the Beatles' music. In his 1970 interview with Jann Wenner, Lennon said, "[Dick James is] another one of those people, who think they made us. They didn't. I’d like to hear Dick

pos: Gary Clark Jr. D'Addario Strings EXL 115. Clark uses a Fender Vibro-King amp purchased from Zapata (who currently tours with him and plays rhythm guitar) paired with a Fender Princeton. He is known for extensive use of fuzz pedals, with his most frequently used pedal being the Fulltone Octafuzz, and regular use of a wah pedal. Clark performed at Alicia Keys' Keep a Child Alive Black Ball benefit, in an effort to raise money for children with AIDS in Africa. The two performed the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as a tribute to George Harrison. On November 5, 2014, it was announced

pos: This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison, released on his 1975 studio album "Extra Texture (Read All About It)". Harrison wrote the song as a sequel to his popular Beatles composition "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", in response to the personal criticism he had received during and after his 1974 North American tour with Ravi Shankar, particularly from "Rolling Stone" magazine. An edit of "This Guitar" was issued as a single in December 1975, as the final release by Apple Records in its original incarnation. The

pos: Eric Clapton at a 2004 auction. Gibson produced a limited run of 250 "Crossroads 335" replicas. The 335 was only the second electric guitar Clapton bought. In July 1968 Clapton gave George Harrison a 1957 'goldtop' Gibson Les Paul that been refinished with a red colour, nicknamed Lucy. The following September, Clapton played the guitar on the Beatles' recording of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Lucy was stolen from Harrison, though later tracked down and returned to him - he lent it to Clapton for his 1973 comeback concert at the Rainbow. His SG "The Fool" found its way into the hands

pos: The History of Eric Clapton spans time, bands, music styles and record labels. The album cover picture was taken at George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh while Clapton was playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on a Gibson Byrdland hollow-body guitar. The two "Tell the Truth" tracks here are different from and were recorded before "Tell the Truth" on "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" (1970). "Tell the Truth" here is a fast up-beat version of the song and was originally released as a single in July 1970. "Tell the Truth – Jam" is a long and slow instrumental jam from the Layla sessions which had

pos: Prince (musician) well as performing a trio of his own hits during the ceremony, Prince also participated in a tribute to fellow inductee George Harrison in a rendering of Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", playing a two-minute guitar solo that ended the song. He also performed the song "Red House" as "Purple House" on the album "". In April 2004, Prince released "Musicology" through a one-album agreement with Columbia Records. The album rose as high as the top five on some international charts (including the US, UK, Germany, and Australia). The US chart success was assisted by the CDs being included

pos: Girl on Fire (album) said she was not inspired by the current rhythmic trends in pop music. "I was really focused on writing, on the crafting of a song, more so than anything else. I didn't care about a beat. I didn't care about a hot track. I didn't even want to hear those things. I wanted to create a song." During a Keep a Child Alive concert in New York City, Keys met blues-rock guitarist Gary Clark, Jr.. Keys had initially asked Clark, Jr. if he would play the guitar elements from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by George Harrison. Seeing potential in

neg: From the Soul of Man "Extension of a Man" album. Lattimore also reimagines The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as a soulful ballad that closes with a hypnotically layered arrangement of background vocals. "Who knew that 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' could be so sexy?" remarks Michael Gallucci. Adding synergy to the album was the bonus inclusion of the gently soaring ballad "Love Will Find a Way", a duet with Heather Headley from the Disney movie "". The album peaked at #71 on the "Billboard" 200 album chart. On "Billboard"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, it reached #15. The lead single "Days Like This" peaked

neg: The Concert for Bangladesh Darkness", with guest vocals on the third verse by Russell, who covered the song on his concurrent album, "Leon Russell and the Shelter People" (1971). After pausing to introduce the band, Harrison followed this with one of the best-received moments in both the shows – a charging version of the White Album track "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", featuring him and Clapton "duelling" on lead guitar during the long instrumental playout. Both the band introduction and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" are among the few selections from the afternoon show that were included on the album and in the film.

neg: Dhani Harrison two unreleased Traveling Wilburys tracks under the pseudonym Ayrton Wilbury, a tribute to Ayrton Senna. In April 2006, it was announced that Harrison's band, thenewno2, had begun recording. The band released a music video, "Choose What You're Watching", on its website. thenewno2 features Harrison on lead guitar, synthesiser and vocals and Oli Hecks on drums and synths. He was involved in a re-working of the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" entitled "The Heart Gently Weeps", which was the first single on the Wu-Tang Clan's album, "8 Diagrams", released in December 2007. Thenewno2's debut album, "You Are Here", was released

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Leng comments that on Harrison's return to Madison Square Garden towards the end of the tour, his playing on the song nevertheless received a standing ovation. Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey covered "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on his 1990 album "Hell to Pay". Harrison participated in the recording, contributing on acoustic guitar and backing vocals. Also issued as a single, Healey's version peaked at number 27 in Canada, number 85 in the UK and number 25 in New Zealand. During the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II concert at Buckingham Palace Garden on 3 June 2002, McCartney performed the song with

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps second and fourth phrases. In his lyrics to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Harrison revisits the theme of universal love and the philosophical concerns that were evident in his overtly Indian-influenced compositions, particularly "Within You Without You". The song is a lament for how a universal love for humankind is latent in all individuals yet remains unrealised. In the description of theologian Dale Allison, the song "conveys spiritual angst and an urgent religious point of view without being explicitly theological". Harrison sings of surveying "you all" and seeing "the love there that's sleeping". Musicologist Walter Everett comments that the change

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps a lead guitar part, although he was not formally credited for his contribution. Harrison wrote "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as an exercise in randomness inspired by the Chinese "I Ching". The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for universal love, which he refers to as "the love there that's sleeping". Harrison first recorded it with a sparse backing of acoustic guitar and harmonium – a version that appeared on the 1996 "Anthology 3" outtakes compilation and, with the addition of a string arrangement by George Martin, on the "Love" soundtrack album in 2006. The full group

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps This version also includes the line "The problems you sow are the troubles you're reaping", which he similarly discarded. An early acoustic guitar and harmonium performance of the song features a slightly different third verse: "I look from the wings at the play you are staging / While my guitar gently weeps / As I'm sitting here, doing nothing but ageing …" This version was released on the 1996 compilation "Anthology 3" and was used as the basis of the 2006 "Love" remix, with a string arrangement by George Martin. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was one of the few

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Clapton, as a tribute to Harrison. The performance appears on the DVD release "Party at the Palace". On 29 November the same year, Clapton, backed by a large band that included McCartney, Starr, Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Marc Mann, performed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Concert for George in memory of Harrison. Author Ian Inglis writes that while Clapton was already "permanently associated" with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" due to his presence on the White Album recording and the Concert for Bangladesh and "Live in Japan" versions, his long, closing solo at the Concert for George

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps throughout 1968 as a distraction from the Beatles, said that "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" conveyed Harrison's spiritual isolation within the group. Author Jonathan Gould writes that, although in the past each of the Beatles had become temporarily subsumed in fads and personal interests, the level of Harrison's commitment to Indian spirituality as an alternative to the band was unprecedented. A demo that Harrison recorded at his home in Esher includes an unused verse: "I look at the trouble and hate that is raging / While my guitar gently weeps / As I'm sitting here, doing nothing but ageing …"

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps contained "perhaps the most expressive" playing of all those versions. American musician Todd Rundgren covered "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" for the 2003 album "". Rundgren said of his contribution to the multi-artist tribute: "[Before the Beatles], I'd never heard the term 'lead guitarist.' George created the job description for my first paying gig, the vocation that I'm still lucky enough to practice today …" Johnny Loftus of AllMusic views the recording as one of the collection's highlights, saying that Rundgren "effortlessly replicates the grandeur" of the Beatles' track. As his personal tribute to Harrison, Peter Frampton released a version

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps anniversary re-staging of Cirque du Soleil's "Love" theatrical production. The video was directed by Dandypunk, André Kasten and Leah Moyer. Ryan Reed, describing the clip for rollingstone.com, wrote that "Dandypunk's hand-drawn illustrations depict Harrison's lyrics falling off the page into the air, transporting LOVE performer Eira Glover into a series of fantastical locations. Projection mapping – and no CGI – was used to create the clip." According to Ian MacDonald, Walter Everett and John Winn: White Album version "Anthology 3" version While My Guitar Gently Weeps "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the

neg: Martin Luther McCoy Martin Luther McCoy Martin Luther McCoy (born July 1970) is an American musician and actor. McCoy is a San Francisco native from the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Martin collaborated extensively with musicians like The Roots and Cody ChesnuTT and appears as one of the six lead characters in the 2007 Beatles musical "Across the Universe" in the role of "Jo-Jo", who reflects Jimi Hendrix. In the film, McCoy performs the song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", and "Don't Let Me Down" and also provides guitar and vocals on others. McCoy goes by the stage name of "Martin Luther" in his music

neg: Automatic double tracking entire track, particularly on the vocals, drums and cymbals during the chorus. Hendrix also utilised this technique extensively. An example of an ADT variation being used to create an effect more similar to what is considered "flanging" today (rather than phasing) is on the Beatles' White Album tracks: "Cry Baby Cry" (acoustic guitar) and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (lead guitar). A similar technique to ADT is doubling echo, which uses short delays to mimic the double tracking effect. Many effects units were developed to produce similar sounds, such as chorus, flangers, and phasers, all of which use an oscillating

neg: Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem Pepper! The hippest of the hip! I mean I have a room for life at the home of the chronically groovy!". His name and pink color are both homages to classic rock acts – he is a Pink Floyd, named after "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", the album by The Beatles. He appears backstage more often than the other band members. Although Dr. Teeth is the leader, Floyd is the one who sings lead most often. Some of the songs he sang on "The Muppet Show" include: "New York State of Mind", "Ain't Misbehavin'", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

neg: The Concert for Bangladesh (film) footage is taken from the evening performance on 1 August.) Starr sings his hit song "It Don't Come Easy" and appears flustered as he forgets some of the words. Harrison then returns to the spotlight for two of his own numbers, the second being "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", at the end of which Clapton clearly struggles on lead guitar next to Harrison's more measured soloing. Before this, Harrison pauses for a few minutes to introduce the many musicians around him, and to his own amazement misses out one of the key performers so far – "We've forgotten Billy Preston!"

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps of the song on his 2003 album "Now". In 2004, when Harrison was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was played in tribute by a large band that included Tom Petty, Lynne, Steve Winwood, Mann, Dhani Harrison and Steve Ferrone. The performance concluded with an extended guitar solo by Prince, who was also being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Among other cover versions, the song has also been recorded by guitarists such as Marc Ribot, Phish and Charlie Byrd, and on ukulele by Jake Shimabukuro. Toto

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps track". Starr paired it with "Something" as "Two of the finest love songs ever written", adding: "they're really on a par with what John and Paul or anyone else of that time wrote." In their written tributes to Harrison following his death in November 2001, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards each expressed their admiration for the song. Jagger said: "It's lovely, plaintive. Only a guitar player could write that ..." In 2018, the music staff of "Time Out London" ranked "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at number 20 on their list of the best Beatles songs. Harrison played "While My

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps this, Harrison released a sequel to the song, titled "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)", which also served as the final single issued by Apple in its original incarnation. The Beatles' recording also appeared on the soundtrack to "Withnail and I", a 1987 comedy film set in late-1960s London and produced by Harrison's company HandMade Films.<ref name="Pirnia/MentalFloss"></ref> Despite his reluctance to record "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", McCartney later identified it as one of his favourite selections on the 1995–96 "Anthology" outtakes series, and he grouped the song with "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" as candidates for Harrison's "greatest

neg: Something (Beatles song) anything his colleagues ever wrote". Like Lennon, both McCartney and Starr held the song in high regard. In the 2000 book "The Beatles Anthology", Starr paired "Something" with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as "Two of the finest love songs ever written", adding, "they're really on a par with what John and Paul or anyone else of that time wrote"; McCartney said it was "George's greatest track – with 'Here Comes the Sun' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'". Among Harrison's other peers, Paul Simon described "Something" as a "masterpiece" and Elton John said: "'Something' is probably one of the

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps did a cover version for their album Through the Looking Glass and in a live performance in Live in Amsterdam. Santana did a cover for his twentieth album "", in 2010, featuring singer India Arie and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Released as a single, it charted on "Billboard"s Adult Contemporary. In 2016, Regina Spektor performed the song for the soundtrack to the film "Kubo and the Two Strings", accompanied by Kevin Kmetz on a shamisen. In June 2016, Apple Corps and Cirque du Soleil released a music video for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". The video was created for the tenth

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps recording was made in September 1968, at which point the song's folk-based musical arrangement was replaced by a production in the heavy rock style. The recording was one of several collaborations between Harrison and Clapton during the late 1960s and was followed by the pair co-writing the song "Badge" for Clapton's group Cream. On release, the song received praise from several music critics, and it has since been recognised as an example of Harrison's continued maturity as a songwriter beside his Beatles bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney. "Rolling Stone" ranked "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" 136th on its list

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Clapton transition from the heavy blues style and its reliance on extended soloing, and onto the more song-based approach that he and Harrison admired in the Band's 1968 album "Music from Big Pink". Apple Records released "The Beatles" on 22 November 1968. One of four Harrison compositions on the double album, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was sequenced as the penultimate track on side one in the LP format, between Lennon's "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". The song was issued as the B-side of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", a McCartney-written song that had also tested

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps song. On 6 September, during a ride from Surrey into London, Harrison asked Clapton to play guitar on the track. Clapton, who recognised Harrison's talent as a songwriter, and considered that his abilities had long been held back by Lennon and McCartney, was nevertheless reluctant to participate; he later recalled that his initial response was: "I can't do that. Nobody ever plays on Beatles records." Harrison convinced him, and Clapton's lead guitar part, played on Harrison's Gibson Les Paul electric guitar "Lucy" (a recent gift from Clapton), was overdubbed that evening. Recalling the session in his 2007 autobiography, Clapton says

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps included on Harrison's 1992 double album "Live in Japan". Harrison also featured the song in the set list for his only other tour as a solo artist, a series of North American concerts over November–December 1974 with Ravi Shankar. Harrison shared the lead guitarist's role with Robben Ford, often extending the piece to eight minutes. While it was a popular inclusion in a set list that barely acknowledged Harrison's past as a former Beatle, his alteration of some of the lyrics – so that his guitar "gently smiles" and "tries to smile" – disappointed many concert-goers and reviewers. Author Simon

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps 1968, such as the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in the United States, and the Soviet Russian oppression of Czechoslovakia. Allison writes that the lyrics represent the "antithesis of spiritual triumphalism", in which Harrison "mourns because love has not conquered all". The Beatles recorded "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" several times during the sessions for their self-titled double album, also known as "the White Album". The recording sessions, which began in late May 1968, were characterised by a lack of cooperation among the four band members, and by what Lennon's bandmates regarded as the overly intrusive presence

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Guitar Gently Weeps" at every one of his comparatively rare concerts as a solo artist. Writing for "Mojo" in 2003, Ashley Kahn attributed the track's "classic" status to its evocation of "a band falling out of harmony" and, with regard to the enduring musical bond between Harrison and Clapton, its standing as ""their" song". At Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, held at Madison Square Garden in New York on 1 August 1971, Clapton performed the song on a Gibson Byrdland, a hollow-body guitar more suited to jazz or country music than rock. He later said that this was a poor decision

neg: This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) the press and critics tried to nail me on the 1974–5 tour, [and] got really nasty". The song title is a play on that of his 1968 composition "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", released on the Beatles' White Album and performed by Harrison throughout the 1974 tour. While reviewers of the 1974 concerts had focused on his altering of the lyric to "While my guitar gently smiles" and "... tries to smile", Harrison told BBC Radio 1's Paul Gambaccini in September 1975 that it was a track that was consistently well received by audiences during the tour. Harrison described the

neg: India Arie Universal Records. Arie performed "Video" with British singer Adele at the 2009 VH1 Divas. Arie is one of over 70 artists singing on "", a charity single in aid of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Arie contributed vocals to "Imagine" for the 2010 Herbie Hancock album, "The Imagine Project" along with Seal, P!nk, Jeff Beck, Konono N°1, Oumou Sangare and others. In the fall of 2010, she was a featured guest vocalist on Carlos Santana's version of The Beatles classic song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from his album "Guitar Heaven". The song also features Yo-Yo Ma on cello. In September

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", seventh on the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time", and at number 10 on its list of "The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs". Clapton's performance was ranked 42nd in "Guitar World"s 2008 list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos". In 2011 it was voted the sixth best collaboration of all time in a "Rolling Stone" readers poll. Harrison and Clapton often performed the song together live, during which they shared the lead guitar role over the closing section. Live versions featuring the pair were included on the "Concert for Bangladesh" album in

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps preferred Höfner or Rickenbacker models. Still wary that his contribution might present too much of a departure from the band's sound, Clapton requested that Harrison give the lead guitar track a more "Beatley" sound when mixing the song. During final mixing for the White Album, on 14 October, the guitar part was run through an ADT circuit with "varispeed", with engineer Chris Thomas manipulating the oscillator to achieve the desired "wobbly" effect. According to Everett, Lennon's tremolo-rich guitar part, recorded on 5 September, was retained only in the song's coda. Clapton's guitar contribution has been described as making this a

neg: Lucy (guitar) comedian Lucille Ball. Harrison and the Beatles were at the time recording their self-titled double album (also known as "the White Album"), and had been working for several weeks on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Harrison had been unable to record a lead guitar part that he was satisfied with; moreover, Lennon and McCartney were dismissive of the song and "didn't try very hard". Knowing that his bandmates would be on good behaviour around a guest musician, Harrison invited Clapton to come into EMI Studios on September 6 and play on the song, telling him "you don't need to bring

neg: Songs from the Material World: A Tribute to George Harrison participating. The list of songs at this time included a recording of "If I Needed Someone" by McGuinn, yet the track did not appear on the officially released album. Rundgren and Davies discussed their respective contributions to the project – the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and Harrison's 1973 solo hit "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)". Rundgren said: "Although I was a young guitar player before I'd heard of the Beatles, I'd never heard the term 'lead guitarist.' George created the job description for my first paying gig, the vocation that I'm still lucky enough to

neg: This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) "harrowing song", with a "passionate and powerful" Harrison vocal, and draws parallels between it and Neil Young's similarly anti-journalistic "Ambulance Blues". Elliot Huntley says that, while Harrison's decision to write a follow-up to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was misguided, the sequel is "a good song in its own right, with excellent lead guitar work from the master". Ian Inglis writes of the "gulf" separating Harrison's 1968 composition from the 1975 song: "While the first was a poignant and satisfying commentary that drew attention to his newfound maturity as a songwriter, this is a petulant and rather arrogant statement in

neg: George Harrison ran high, and drummer Ringo Starr quit briefly. Harrison's four songwriting contributions to the double album included "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", which featured Eric Clapton on lead guitar, and the horn-driven "Savoy Truffle". Dylan and the Band were a major musical influence on Harrison at the end of his career with the Beatles. While on a visit to Woodstock in late 1968, he established a friendship with Dylan and found himself drawn to the Band's sense of communal music-making and to the creative equality among the band members, which contrasted with Lennon and McCartney's domination of the Beatles' songwriting

neg: Automatic double tracking of the stereo mix, which was sourced from the mono mix, by splitting the entire mix between the channels), and the unusually wide ADT used on the lead vocal tracks on "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" and "Blue Jay Way". On "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Eric Clapton used ADT to make his guitar sound 'less bluesy', according to Ian MacDonald in "Revolution In The Head". Townsend's technique, and minor variations on it, quickly caught on with other artists and record producers. Former Beatles engineer Norman Smith used ADT extensively on Pink Floyd's debut album "The Piper at

neg: George Harrison the Sun" and "Something", as "exquisite", declaring them equal to any previous Beatles songs. From 1968 onwards, Harrison collaborated with other musicians; he brought in Eric Clapton to play lead guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" for the 1968 Beatles' White Album, and collaborated with John Barham on his 1968 debut solo album, "Wonderwall Music", which included contributions from Clapton again, as well as Peter Tork from the Monkees. He played on tracks by Dave Mason, Nicky Hopkins, Alvin Lee, Ronnie Wood, Billy Preston and Tom Scott. Harrison co-wrote songs and music with Dylan, Clapton, Preston, Doris Troy, David

neg: Fixing a Hole the tonic chord;" Harrison later adds an eight bar solo that culminates in a two octave descent. McCartney, Lennon and Harrison do backing vocals on track 4 for the bridge ("And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right where I belong I'm right") in the parallel major key (F). This shift between minor (verse) and major (bridge) is also seen in the songs "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (verse E, chorus Em); "Michelle" (verse F, chorus Fm); "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (bridge A, verse Am), "I Me Mine" (chorus A, verse Am), "The Fool on the

neg: Savoy Truffle the lead guitar parts. In addition, the mono version omits the organ over the third verse. Apple Records released "The Beatles" on 22 November 1968. "Savoy Truffle" was sequenced as the third track on side four of the double LP, between "Honey Pie" and "Cry Baby Cry". As with Harrison's other three contributions to the album, including "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", the song was viewed by many commentators as a sign of his growing maturity as a songwriter beside Lennon and McCartney. Due to the Beatles' use of pastiche, parody, irony and, in the case of "Savoy Truffle" and

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps from the minor-mode verse to the parallel major might express hope that "unrealized potential" described in the lyrics is to be "fulfilled", but the continued minor triads "seem to express a strong dismay that love is not to be unfolded". During the bridges, Harrison adopts a repetitive rhyming scheme in the style of Bob Dylan to convey how humankind has become distracted from its ability to manifest this love. He sings of people that have been "inverted" and "perverted" from their natural perspective. According to Harrison biographer Joshua Greene, the song's message reflects the pessimism encouraged by world events throughout

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps as a songwriter. Inspiration for the song came to him when he was visiting his parents in Warrington, Cheshire, and he began reading the "I Ching", or "The Book of Changes". As Harrison put it, "[the book] seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to "everything" else, as opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental." Embracing this idea of relativism, he committed to writing a song based on the first words he saw upon opening a book, which happened to be "gently weeps". Harrison continued to work on the lyrics

neg: Savoy Truffle name="Easlea/BBC"></ref> Mark Kemp, writing for "Paste", highlights the same pair of tracks as "two of Harrison's finest moments ('While My Guitar Gently Weeps,' with Eric Clapton wailing on lead guitar, and the surrealistic soul of 'Savoy Truffle')". In 2015, "Savoy Truffle" was ranked 66th in the "NME"s list "100 Greatest Beatles Songs As Chosen By Music's A-Listers". Staff writer Leonie Cooper admired its subject matter and described the track as a "typically off-kilter" Harrison composition. In Consequence of Sound's feature article celebrating the 45th anniversary of "The Beatles", Deap Vally provided commentary on the track, describing it as "on fire"

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps preaching", representing "a general set of incidents, a message, like a sermon, impersonally directed to everyone", and concluded: "I am willing to bet something substantial that the lead guitarist on this cut is Eric Clapton, yet another involution of the circular logic on which this song [is] so superbly constructed as a musical piece." In his review for the "International Times", Barry Miles said the song was a "great tune" with "nice hi-hats" but a "lifeless" guitar part. Alan Smith of the "NME" credited the "warm voice" and "very strong melody" to McCartney and said that the track was one

neg: Layla "A Hard Day's Night". During the late 1960s, Clapton and Harrison became close friends. Clapton contributed uncredited guitar work on Harrison's song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the Beatles' "White Album", and Harrison co-wrote and played guitar pseudonymously (as L'Angelo Misterioso) on Cream's "Badge" from ""Goodbye"". However, between his tenures in Cream and Blind Faith, Clapton fell in love with Boyd. The title, "Layla", was inspired by the story of "Layla and Majnun", which Clapton had been told by his friend Ian Dallas, who was in the process of converting to Islam. Nizami's tale, about a moon princess who

neg: Jazz (Queen album) at the piano. "Fat Bottomed Girls" was written by Brian May with lead vocals shared by Mercury and May, who sings lead on the chorus. On stage Mercury sang the entire song, with Roger Taylor and May doing harmonies. Both guitar and bass are played in drop-D tuning for this song, a rarity for Queen. "Jealousy" was penned by Mercury and features May playing his Hairfred acoustic guitar. The guitar had been given a replacement hardwood bridge, chiselled flat, with a small piece of fret wire placed between it and the strings, which lay gently above. The strings produce the

neg: The Place I Love full album. "Splinter had all the qualities that Harrison admired in abundance," Simon Leng has written in his musical biography of the ex-Beatle, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", noting Purvis's strength as a songwriter, Elliott's powerful vocals, and the pair's "lush harmonies". Keen to continue his role as a record producer and mentor for other artists after the scaling down of Apple Records, Harrison set about establishing his own label, which he would launch in May 1974 as Dark Horse. Splinter were the first rock act signed to the label, apparently after considering Threshold Records, followed by Indian classical musician

neg: Dale Ockerman replicating all song parts and overdubs, such as blending electric, acoustic, slide, and twelve string guitars, as well as piano, organ and clavinet. GuitArmy features professional musicians Tiran Porter on bass and David Tucker, former (Maria Muldaur,([Tommy Castro]) drummer and Musicscool teacher) on drums. Lead vocalist James Durbin, then 19, also guested with the White Album Ensemble's "Across the Universe" concert in December 2008 and received a standing ovation for his vocal on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". James was the focus of the Musicscool's Guitarmy, doing mostly ([Led Zeppelin]) songs. Next James passed the audition and whizzed up to

neg: Yer Blues and "Strawberry Fields Forever." This song, along with "Glass Onion" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," is one of the few known Beatles songs on which Paul McCartney used a Fender Jazz Bass rather than his better-known Hofner bass or his Rickenbacker bass. Contributing to the live sound of the song, loud yelling between band members can be heard in the instrumental tracks. Just after the album "The Beatles" came out in late 1968, Lennon performed "Yer Blues" at "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" with a supergroup dubbed "The Dirty Mac," consisting of himself, Eric Clapton on lead

neg: Jeff Lynne 2002, which also featured Traveling Wilburys member Petty. Lynne sang the lead vocal on "The Inner Light", "I Want to Tell You" and "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)", and subsequently produced the Surround Sound audio mix for the "Concert for George" DVD, released in November 2003, which later received a Grammy. Lynne reunited in 2006 with Petty to produce the latter's third solo release, "Highway Companion". In 2004, Lynne and Petty inducted Harrison into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, then played "Handle with Care" with Dhani Harrison, also "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" adding Prince,

neg: George Harrison You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something". Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django Reinhardt; Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry were subsequent influences. By 1965, he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in Bob Dylan and the Byrds, and towards Indian classical music through his use of the sitar on "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". Having initiated the band's embracing of Transcendental Meditation in 1967, he subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. After the band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released the

neg: The Concert for Bangladesh (album) film release. According to Madinger and Easter, he took early mixes of the concert tapes to Dylan for the latter's approval. Of all the featured performers, only Leon Russell chose to intervene, necessitating a reworking of his "Jumpin' Jack Flash/Youngblood" medley, which he apparently remixed himself. Post-production on the Madison Square Garden recordings was minimal, the known examples being Harrison's double-tracked lead vocal on the bridges of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", and a composite edit of his opening song, "Wah-Wah", which was assembled from both the shows. In addition, it is possible that Shankar and Khan's "Bangla Dhun" was

neg: Todd Rundgren Bellevue Hospital's 'wall of prayers' following the attacks. The film was part of a special screening at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2002. Rundgren toured the United States and Europe in 2004 with Joe Jackson and the string quartet Ethel, appearing on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" performing their collaborative cover of the Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". In late 2005, the Boston-based band The Cars were planning to re-form despite bassist Benjamin Orr's death and lack of interest on the part of former lead singer Ric Ocasek. Rumors followed that Rundgren had joined Elliot Easton and Greg

neg: Paul McCartney "a lovely guy and a very brave man who had a wonderful sense of humour". He went on to say, "We grew up together and we just had so many beautiful times together – that's what I am going to remember. I'll always love him, he's my baby brother." On the first anniversary of his death, McCartney played Harrison's "Something" on a ukulele at the Concert for George. He also performed "For You Blue" and "All Things Must Pass", and played the piano on Eric Clapton's rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". During a recording session for "The Beatles"

neg: The Beatles (album) Mellotron's standard tape library. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was written by Harrison during a visit he made to his parents' home in Cheshire. He first recorded the song as a solo performance, on acoustic guitar, on 25 July – a version that remained unreleased until "Anthology 3". He was unhappy with the group's first attempt to record the track, and so invited his friend Eric Clapton to come and play on it. Clapton was unsure about guesting on a Beatles record, but Harrison said the decision was "nothing to do with them. It's my song." Clapton's solo was treated

neg: Teardrops on My Guitar 35 seconds. It is set in common time and has a moderate tempo of 104 beats per minute. It is written in the key of B major and Swift's vocals span one octave, from F to B. Swift sings in a breathless manner. It follows the chord progression B–Gm–E–F. The track's instrumentation is gently guided by mandolin and acoustic guitar, with accents of brushed drums. It ultimately resulting in a simple and tender undertone. The lyrics of "Teardrops on My Guitar" speak of heartbreak and are direct, referring to the subject by his first name, Drew. The song describes fancying

neg: Tak Matsumoto Epiphone. In recent years was released signature model "Doublecut Custom Ebony". Matsumoto has also amassed a substantial guitar collection, including the following: Matsumoto is also an avid collector of older guitar amplifiers, as well as an accomplished bass player. Aside from guitars, he also owns other instruments, such as a few sitars, electric and otherwise. Tak Matsumoto Matsumoto was inspired to pick a guitar at an age of 13 when for the first time listened to Eric Clapton's playing on The Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Reportedly he bought his first electric guitar at age of 15, a

neg: Wonderwall Music in Leng's description, is complemented by "spacey steel guitar, and a fugue of flugelhorn countermelodies, added by Barham". The song includes backing from the Remo Four, and Big Jim Sullivan on bass. Harrison overdubbed the sitar-like steel guitar part. "Glass Box" is "a high-speed Indian raga", according to Spizer, and features sitarist Indranil Bhattacharya. Everett describes "Wonderwall to Be Here" as a tune "based on a minor-mode I-VII-VI-V progression, styled like Liberacian variations on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'". The performance is led by Ashton, on piano, and also includes instrumentation such as organ, acoustic guitar, drums and percussion. Leng

neg: Tak Matsumoto Tak Matsumoto Matsumoto was inspired to pick a guitar at an age of 13 when for the first time listened to Eric Clapton's playing on The Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Reportedly he bought his first electric guitar at age of 15, a Japanese Gibson Les Paul after hearing Deep Purple's guitarist Ritchie Blackmore play "Smoke on the Water on live album "Made in Japan". Matsumoto has said over the years that he has many favorite artists, from whom he has drawn much inspiration, from hard rock particularly such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and Van Halen.

neg: This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) would do a year later with "Thirty-Three and a Third"." Rodriguez writes that "Critics by nature tended to regard the Beatles' catalog as sacrosanct" and therefore "dissed [Harrison] for producing a sequel to 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'". In another unfavourable review from "Rolling Stone", Dave Marsh dismissed much of the album's first side as "padded subterfuge" while opining that "there just isn't compensation here for the failed promise of 'This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)'". "NME" writers Roy Carr and Tony Tyler said that, in comparison with the Beatles track, Harrison's "often-impressively lachrymose guitar falls short of true grief-stricken

neg: Guest appearance were relatively stable units, and while guests were not uncommon, they were seldom given credits on album covers. For example, Eric Clapton was not credited in print for his guitar performance in the release of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" of the Beatles. Still the term "featuring" was used as early as in the July 1954 UK Singles Chart by "The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts" with "Three Coins In The Fountain" at 5th place. Gradually guest appearances have become a fully credited staple of music industry. The custom of guest appearance has become especially prominent in rap music, and

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Harrison overdubbed a backwards (or "backmasked") guitar solo, as he had done two years before on "I'm Only Sleeping", on the "Revolver" album, but he was not satisfied with the results. The Beatles then remade the basic track on 5 September – a session that marked Ringo Starr's return to the group after he had walked out on 22 August, upset at the unpleasant atmosphere. While Harrison led the band in welcoming back their drummer, by installing a large flower display all over Starr's drum kit, he continued to think that his bandmates were not giving their best to the

neg: The Highways of My Life in. Lead singer Ron Isley sings in his trademark countertenor vocals while he and his vocalizing older brothers Kelly and Rudy Isley helped him in the backgrounds while being accompanied by Jasper, who also plays a synthesizer solo, and younger brothers Ernie, on both acoustic guitar and drums and Marvin on bass guitar. The song was released as the b-side to the Isleys' modest hit, "What It Comes Down To", though the song attracted UK fans of the group enough to play it. The song eventually charted at number twenty-five in the UK in 1974. The song's intro was later

neg: If You Want My Love and noted the similarity of the song's middle eight to that of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." In a review of the 1996 box set "Sex, America, Cheap Trick", "Billboard" commented: "Cheap Trick never ceased producing the occasional Beatlesque gem, such as "If You Want My Love"..." In the 2007 book "Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide", a section on Cheap Trick featured reviews on the top 20 stand-out tracks from the band. "If You Want My Love" was included, with the author John M. Borack writing: "Best ballad of the '80s anyone? For sheer Lennon-meets-McCartney-head-on

neg: Yo-Yo Ma Musician initiative. Yo-Yo Ma is represented by the independent artist management firm Opus 3 Artists. Also in 2010, he appeared on a solo album by guitarist Carlos Santana, "Guitar Heaven : The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time", playing alongside Santana and singer India Arie on a Beatles' classic, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". In 2015, Ma performed alongside singer-songwriter and guitarist James Taylor for two separate tracks on Taylor's chart-topping record Before This World: "You And I Again", in addition to the title track. Ma formed his own Silk Road Ensemble, following the trade route which for more than

neg: George Harrison and Ravi Shankar's 1974 North American tour Beatles" (from the song "God"). Harrison biographer Simon Leng writes that the ensuing tour represented "a whirlwind of pent-up Beatlemania" in North America, "where the group had a status way beyond that of mere icons." In his set list for the tour, Harrison included just four Beatles songs: his own compositions "Something", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "For You Blue", and the Lennon–McCartney song "In My Life". Aside from Scott and Preston, the musicians in Harrison's band included the soul/R&B rhythm section of Willie Weeks and Andy Newmark, Scott's L.A. Express bandmate Robben Ford (on guitar), jazz percussionist Emil

neg: Gary Clark Jr. The Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", along with Dave Grohl and Joe Walsh for . On February 16, 2014, Clark performed in the NBA All-Star Game Halftime Show with Trombone Shorty, Earth Wind and Fire, Doctor John, and Janelle Monáe and on May 29, 2014, Gary Clark Jr performed solo at Rock in Rio in Lisbon. Clark performed guitar, as a guest, on an episode of the PBS cable television show "Austin City Limits", with the Foo Fighters, that aired on February 7, 2015. He and the Foo Fighters were accompanied, on stage, by another guest guitarist, Jimmie

neg: Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time Temple Pilots, Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, Pat Monahan of Train and rapper Nas. The album was certified gold by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry. The first single released from the album is the cover of Def Leppard's "Photograph" which featured Chris Daughtry peaked at number 14 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100. The last single released from the album was the cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which featured India.Arie and Yo-Yo Ma and Fortunate Son with Scott Stapp, Under the Bridge with Andy Vargas, Dance the Night Away with Pat Monahan, Sunshine

neg: JT Curtis through TuneCore. In the beginning of 2015, Curtis produced his debut solo album "One Last Stand" which was also released independently. A song from the album, "Home (Last Stand)" was featured on Reverbnation. A music video for the song also appeared on youtube. From July to September 2013, JT Curtis performed in "Let it Be" on Broadway. The show's rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", which Curtis sang and performed the guitar solo, was praised by critics as the highlight of the play. He also toured with the production since 2015 in North America, New Zealand, and Asia. JT

neg: Fifth Beatle Fender Rhodes electric piano on "Don't Let Me Down" and "Get Back". Preston had been introduced to the Beatles in 1962, and worked with them in 1969, when Harrison invited him to join them for recording sessions in order to defuse tensions in the band. Lennon once suggested that Preston join the Beatles, even using the term "Fifth Beatle", but the idea was dismissed by the others. To distinguish him from the controversy over who is the Fifth Beatle, he is sometimes given the unique title of the "Black Beatle". Originally "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" had only the first

neg: Guitar solo "November Rain", Metallica’s "Fade to Black", Led Zeppelin’s "Black Dog", Journey's "Who's Crying Now", The Cult's "Love Removal Machine", The Beatles’ "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", .38 Special's "Hold On Loosely", The Rolling Stones’ "Sway", Pearl Jam’s "Alive", Red Hot Chili Peppers’ "Dani California", Cream’s "White Room", AC/DC’s "Let There Be Rock", Outlaws’ "Green Grass and High Tides", The Alan Parsons Project’s "Eye in the Sky" and Eagles’ "Hotel California". Solos can take place in the intro, such as "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" by Jimi Hendrix, "Since I've Been Loving You" by Led Zeppelin, "One" by Metallica, "Lazy" by Deep

neg: Bangla Desh (song) refer to both money and food. With little time to begin rehearsing for the New York shows, the "Bangla Desh" single was rush-recorded in Los Angeles. Sources differ over the venue and date: the Record Plant West seems the most likely studio, with sessions taking place on 4–5 July and horn overdubs perhaps on 10 July. Phil Spector again co-produced, but as with the recording details for the sessions, the exact line-up of musicians is a matter of conjecture. According to Simon Leng, who consulted Klaus Voormann and Jim Horn for his book "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", the line-up

neg: The Assembled Multitude The Assembled Multitude The Assembled Multitude was an instrumental ensemble, consisting entirely of studio musicians, which music producer Tom Sellers organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1970. The "Multitude" released a self-titled album on the Atlantic Records label in 1970, which included interpreted versions of songs such as "Woodstock", "Ohio", "MacArthur Park", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", and "Overture", from The Who's "Tommy". The last of these was released as a single and reached No. 16 on the US "Billboard" Pop Singles chart. Sellers, who otherwise enjoyed only minor success as a music producer, died in a house fire in March

neg: While My Guitar Gently Weeps of his new romantic partner, Yoko Ono. In this atmosphere, Harrison had initially been reluctant to present his new compositions to the group. Take 1 on 25 July – the version later issued on "Anthology 3" – was a solo performance by Harrison, playing his Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar, with an overdubbed harmonium part. Sessions on 16 August and 5 September produced full band recordings of the song. In the case of the 16 August version, an overdubbing session on 3 September marked the first time that the Beatles had used eight-track recording at EMI Studios. At the same session,

neg: This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) form here", adding: "The lack of a tune doesn't help." Conversely, "Record World"s single reviewer wrote that Harrison "hits the mark with this edited extra textural ballad" and highlighted Wright's ARP strings among the "superb accompaniment" on the recording. In his review for "Melody Maker", Ray Coleman admired it as a "scorching track" with a lyrical message that he deemed "Hot, pertinent, touching".<ref name="Coleman/MM '75">Ray Coleman, "Extra Texture: Back to the Sixties!", "Melody Maker", 6 September 1975, p. 30.</ref> AllMusic's Richard Ginell views "This Guitar" as an "attractive" sequel to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and includes it among Harrison's

neg: Wonderwall Music assumption that he did not play on the recordings.<ref name="Fritsche/Huff">Tom Fritsche, "The Wild World of WONDERWALL's Music", "The Huffington Post", 20 October 2016 (retrieved 25 May 2017).</ref> After consulting Barham in 2002 for his book "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Leng credited Harrison as a performing musician, and Spizer also recognised him in his track-by-track list, published in 2005. The performer credits in the 2014 reissue of "Wonderwall Music" rectified the situation, and list Harrison on piano and guitar. The album opens with "Microbes", which consists of call-and-response shehnai parts and was partly based on the raga Darbari Kanada. The

neg: Cloud Nine (George Harrison album) first new commercial album in five years. Having recorded the backing tracks for seventeen songs between January and March, he completed the album's overdubs in August 1987. Besides Harrison and Lynne, other artists involved in the sessions included Jim Keltner and Ringo Starr on drums, Eric Clapton on guitar and both Gary Wright and Elton John on piano. (John was recovering from his vocal surgery at the time.) With new-found enthusiasm, Harrison actively promoted the album, even appearing with Starr at the Prince's Trust Concert that June to perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun". The

neg: Rip Rense in 1987. In his book "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", author Simon Leng quotes Rense's observations on the importance of Harrison's guitar contributions to the Beatles' sound. Rense became a friend with LA-based singer-songwriter Tom Waits, and later supplied the press-kit essay accompanying Waits' acclaimed 1999 album "Mule Variations". Waits told him that the album title had originated from Waits' wife, Kathleen Brennan, telling the singer: "I didn't marry a man – I married a mule." Rense supplied the liner notes to Captain Beefheart's 2014 box set "Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972". His poetry also appears on "Red Beans