{"id":30294,"date":"2024-09-06T18:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T18:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-6-1968-george-harrison-asked-eric-clapton-to-contribute-to-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T18:02:43","slug":"on-this-day-sept-6-1968-george-harrison-asked-eric-clapton-to-contribute-to-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-6-1968-george-harrison-asked-eric-clapton-to-contribute-to-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 6, 1968: George Harrison asked Eric Clapton to contribute to \u201cWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On This Day, Sept. 6, 1968 …<\/span><\/p>\n

George Harrison\u00a0<\/strong>asked\u00a0Eric Clapton\u00a0<\/strong>to contribute a guitar solo to his new\u00a0Beatles\u00a0<\/strong>song, \u201cWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Clapton initially declined Harrison\u2019s request, saying \u201cnobody ever plays on Beatles records,” but Harrison eventually convinced him to participate, and Clapton recorded the solo that night.<\/span><\/p>\n

The song appeared on the band\u2019s album\u00a0<\/span>The Beatles<\/span><\/em>, also known as\u00a0<\/span>The White Album<\/span><\/em>, which was released in November 1968. The track was one of Harrison’s songs on the album. It went on to be an iconic track for him and has often made it on lists of the greatest guitar songs of all time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harrison eventually paid Clapton back for his contribution by cowriting and playing guitar on\u00a0Cream<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cBadge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Harrison and Clapton performed \u201cWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps” live together several times.\u00a0In November 2002 Clapton performed the tune at the Concert for George at London’s Royal Albert Hall backed by a band that included Beatles Paul McCartney<\/strong> and Ringo Starr<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>The concert took place on the one-year anniversary of Harrison’s death.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On This Day, Sept. 6, 1968 … George Harrison\u00a0asked\u00a0Eric Clapton\u00a0to contribute a guitar solo to his new\u00a0Beatles\u00a0song, \u201cWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Clapton initially declined Harrison\u2019s request, saying \u201cnobody ever plays on Beatles records,” but Harrison eventually convinced him to participate, and Clapton recorded the solo that night. The songRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}