   "while my guitar gently weeps" is a song written by george harrison, first recorded by the beatles in 1968 for their eponymous double album (also known as the white album). the song features a lead guitar solo by eric clapton, although he was not formally credited on the album.while my guitar gently weeps by the beatles songfacts "while my guitar gently weeps" was ranked no. 136 on rolling stones list of "the 500 greatest songs of all time", no. 7 on their list of the 100 greatest guitar songs of all time, and no. 10 on their list of the beatles 100 greatest songs. in an online poll held by guitar world magazine in february 2012, "while my guitar gently weeps" was voted the best of harrison's beatle-era songs."readers poll results: george harrison's 10 best beatles songs", guitar world, http://www.guitarworld.com/readers-poll-results-george-harrisons-10-best-beatles-songs?page=0,9 (retrieved 26 february 2012). ==composition and recording== inspiration for the song came to harrison when reading the i ching, which, as harrison put it, "seemed to me to be based on the eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else... opposed to the western view that things are merely coincidental." taking this idea of relativism to his parentsâ home in northern england, harrison committed to write a song based on the first words he saw upon opening a random book. those words were âgently weepsâ, and he immediately began writing the song. as
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