While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Music of George Harrison)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Music of George Harrison) ** By George Harrison. Book (not sheet music). Softcover. 304 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Far from being the quiet one, George Harrison was a writer and arranger of terrific power and beauty, and his guitar playing was fundamental to the Beatles sound and success. Now fully revised and expanded, this new edition of While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison is the most comprehensive evaluation of George Harrisons musical career ever published. Treating each of Harrisons songs with unprecedented analysis, author Simon Leng reveals Harrisons eclectic approach - from teenage Nashville twang through Indian raga, psychedelia, gospel, soul, and pure pop - and thoroughly defines Harrisons role in the Beatles. First-hand accounts of the Concert for Bangladesh and the making of All Things Must Pass take the reader deep into the most fertile and controversial periods of Harrisons long solo career that culminated with Brainwashed. Enhanced with insights from key figures who worked closely with Harrison throughout his extraordinary career, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a remarkably stirring study and portrait of a great artist whose musical and spiritual quest changed the lives of millions of people around the world while redefining popular music and rock n roll.