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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is a rock ballad written by George Harrison for The Beatles on their double album The Beatles (also known as The White Album).
George Harrison originally performed the song with a solo acoustic guitar and an organ; a demo version, longer than the officially released version, can be heard on the Anthology 3 album and in reworked form on the Love album. Eric Clapton, who was a good friend of George’s, played lead guitar on the album version of the song with a Gibson Les Paul guitar. On The Concert for Bangladesh, he performed it on a Gibson Super 400 hollowbody guitar, and later acknowledged that a solid-body guitar would have been more appropriate.
In 2004 George Harrison was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist....
Read on...Song lines: ♪ Still my guitar gently weeps ... While my guitar gently weeps ... I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping ♫
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This song is listed #135 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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