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For all Beatle fans, this blend of bio and song review assesses his immense contribution to music While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison is the most comprehensive evaluation of George Harrison's musical career ever published. Treating all Harrison's songs individually, author Simon Leng investigates the background to their creation, and finds not just pop and rock, but big band, gospel, soul, Indian and Polynesian influences, revealing Harrison's eclectic approach. The biographical content is focused and riveting, and enhanced with insights from many key figures who worked closely with Harrison, including Klaus Voormann, John Barham, Tony Sheridan, and Delaney Bramlett. First-hand accounts from them of the Concert for Bangla Desh and the making of All Things Must Pass take the reader into the studio and concert halls with Harrison. The George Harrison found in this book is a revolutionary musical and cultural figure who had no formal Western musical training but became proficient in Indian classical music, and married its techniques with his own unique slide-guitar stylings. This is a George Harrison who forged a path for world music long before the term was even thought of by fusing rock and Indian music on his groundbreaking Dark Horse Tour. Not simply concentrating on Harrison's solo career, Leng also clearly defines Harrison's role in the Beatles and illustrates, far from being the quiet one, Harrison's guitar arrangements were fundamental to the Beatles' sound and success. What emerges from While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a stirring portrait of a great artist whose music and spiritual quest quite literally changed the lives of millions around the globe, influencing such future stars as Madonna, Sting, and Carlos Santana, to name a few.
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WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS THE MUSIC OF GEORGE HARRISON
Synopsis
For all Beatle fans, this blend of bio and song review assesses his immense contribution to music While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison is the most comprehensive evaluation of George Harrison's musical career ever published. Treating all Harrison's songs individually, author Simon Leng investigates the background to their creation, and finds not just pop and rock, but big band, gospel, soul, Indian and Polynesian influences, revealing Harrison's eclectic approach. The biographical content is focused and riveting, and enhanced with insights from many key figures who worked closely with Harrison. First-hand accounts from them of the Concert for Bangla Desh and the making of All Things Must Pass take the reader into the studio and concert halls with Harrison. Not simply concentrating on Harrison's solo career, Leng also clearly defines Harrison's role in the Beatles and illustrates, far from being the qu iet one, Harrison's guitar arrangements were fundamental to the Beatles' sound and success. What emerges from While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a stirring portrait of a great artist whose music and spiritual quest quite literally changed the lives of millions around the globe.
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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 Harrison's musical career ever published. Treating each of Harrison's songs with unprecedented analysis, author Simon Leng reveals Harrison's eclectic approach - from teenage Nashville twang through Indian raga, psychedelia, gospel, soul, and pure pop - and thoroughly defines Harrison's 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 Harrison's 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.