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The making of The Beatles' new Love album.
The usual "politics" which overlay every Beatles project - making sure John and Paul songs are equally represented - also played its part in track selection on the Love soundscape. And George Harrison is also strongly represented, fittingly perhaps since it was his friendship with Cirque founder and CEO Guy Laliberte which paved the way for the project in the first place.
One of Harrison's song is also the subject of the only brand new recording for the whole album. Sir George has added a new orchestration to an acoustic demo version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, first officially released on the third Anthology album in 1996.
"That was the only thing that was really recorded for the show," says Sir George. "The story of this is, is that [Cirque director] Dominic [Champagne] wanted to use the song, but didn't want to use the record as we know it. And he fell in love with the demo that George had made in Abbey Road before he did the final version, just a guitar and voice. He wanted to use that and Olivia [Harrison] thought it sounded too rough and too ordinary. She didn't ...
- SINGING ON WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) February 23, 2002 700+ words
...to Blue Jay Way and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Abbey Road, their last recorded album...Beware of Darkness; While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Jumpin Jack Flash ; Here Comes the...Yourself; For You Blue; While My Guitar Gently Weeps; My Sweet Lord; Give Me Love (Give...
- WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS.(Eric Clapton plays on new recording)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Guitar Player GRESS, JESSE March 1, 1999 700+ words
...Studios to embellish George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on September 6, 1968, the Beatles had already lived through...incarnations of the song. Harrison's first recording of "Gently Weeps" is in G minor and features only his capoed acoustic guitar...
- WORLD GENTLY WEEPS FOR THE QUIET BEATLE.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) November 30, 2001 700+ words
...Love You To'' on ''Revolver''; ''Within You, Without You'' on ''Sgt. Pepper''; and ''While My Guitar Gently Weeps'' on the White Album. In 1966, he married model Patti Boyd, who had a bit part in ''A Hard Day's Night.'' (They...
- A GUITAR THAT GENTLY WEEPS
- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) TERRENCE JAMES May 12, 1995 700+ words
TERRENCE JAMES The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-12-1995 A GUITAR THAT GENTLY WEEPS By TERRENCE JAMES Date: 05-12-1995, Friday Section: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P...
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- Magazine article from: WWD September 5, 2007 700+ words
...in Saint-Tropez and St. Jean Cap Ferrat, where paparazzi caught the likes of Tony Blair and Bono on board. HER GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS: Chrissie Hynde does not want Diego Della Valle to admire her style. When the Pretenders' lead singer found out Della...
- WORLD GENTLY WEEPS FOR GEORGE.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) November 30, 2001 700+ words
TRIBUTES today poured in from around the world for George Harrison, the youngest of the Fab Four. Sir Paul McCartney led the praise for his "baby brother" and former band mate. He said: "I am devastated and very, very sad. We knew he'd been ill for a long time. "He was a lovely guy and a very brave
- My guitar gently weeps.(Journals by Kurt Cobain)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Abramovich, Alex December 9, 2002 700+ words
Journals. By Kurt Cobain. Riverhead. 280 pp. $29.95. "I was in a highly unshaved and tatty state," John Lennon said of his 1966 meeting with a certain conceptual artist, then mounting her first show at London's Indica Gallery. "I was up three nights. I was always up in those days, tripping. I was
- The world gently weeps for George.(George Harrison)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Grose, Thomas K. December 10, 2001 700+ words
It was 1 a.m. Record producer Don Nix landed in England and took a cab to the house of his friend George Harrison. Nix was ready to sleep. Not George. "About 10 minutes later, he woke me up and said, `Come here, I have something I want you to hear.' " In his home studio, Harrison played his new
