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"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, as an exercise in randomness inspired by the Chinese I Ching. The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for ...
Kubo and the Two Strings (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2016 film of the same name.The album featured original score composed by Italian composer Dario Marianelli, with a cover rendition of The Beatles-band member George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" performed by Regina Spektor.
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 ...
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 on background ...
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')". [111]
The song serves as a rare guitar-oriented selection on the keyboard-heavy Extra Texture album, although 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".
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Canadian RPM 100 [20] 27 1990 "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" UK Singles Chart [21] 85 1990 "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" NZ RIANZ Singles Chart [22] 25 1990 "Full Circle" US Billboard Mainstream Rock [16] 16 1990 "Full Circle" Canadian RPM 100 [23] 72 1991 "How Long Can a Man Be Strong" US Billboard Mainstream ...
The album was recorded in New York City at Sound on Sound Recording except "I Should Care", which was recorded at Harold Desau, and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", recorded by Ribot on a cassette-tape Port-A-Studio. Ribot stated "Rootless Cosmopolitans was the first record I had real control over. It’s a walking tour through all these ...