George Harrison on how Eric Clapton saved his Beatles classic
While My Guitar Gently Weeps is one of the Beatles' most enduring classics, but it had a rocky start. Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr weren't all that keen on George Harrison's opus. It took a special guest to help get things off the ground.
Not only was it one of the best songs Harrison ever wrote, it was one of the greatest Beatles songs full stop, and a standout inclusion on the White Album.
During the record's studio sessions, though, Harrison's bandmates didn't care too much for the tune. It made tracking the song difficult. At one point, they abandoned the song altogether, only to later start over again.
In the February 2001 issue of Total Guitar, which featured a long-lost interview with Harrison conducted in the 1990s, the Beatle looked back on the frustrating experience.
"We'd be in a recording situation, churning through all this Lennon/McCartney, Lennon McCartney, Lennon/McCartney! Then I'd say, 'Can we do one of these?'" he said.
"When we actually started recording While My Guitar Gently Weeps it was just me playing the acoustic guitar and singing it and nobody was interested. Well, Ringo probably was, but John and Paul weren't.
"When I went home that night I was really disappointed, because I thought, 'Well, this is really quite a good song, it's not as if it's shitty!'"
Source: yahoo.com/Matt Owen
