McCartney Times

Due to his understated nature, it took a while for The Beatles to allow George Harrison to be more prominent in the songwriting process, and even then, he still needed to struggle to get his efforts brought to life. However, for arguably his greatest composition, Harrison had an ace up his sleeve that trumped his bandmates to the point that they allowed him to go ahead and capture it in all its glory without so much of a whisper of complaint.Of course, the song in question is ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’, taken from 1968’s The White Album. Notably, Harrison’s ace was his close friend, Eric Clapton, the day’s foremost guitarist, whose presence even John Lennon and Paul McCartney could not question. While Harrison first recorded the track as a sparse effort containing an acoustic guitar and harmonium, he later recorded it with the whole group, opting for a more full-bodied approach featuring Clapton’s lead lines, which many people have long wrongly deemed Harrison’s.

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