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George Harrison - While my guitar gently weeps antology

George Harrison originally performed the song with a solo acoustic guitar and an organ; a demo version, longer than the officially released version, can be heard on the Anthology 3 album and in reworked form on the Love album. Eric Clapton, who was a good friend of George, played lead guitar on the album version of the song with a Gibson Les Paul guitar. On The Concert for Bangladesh, he performed it on a Gibson Super 400 hollowbody guitar, and later acknowledged that a solid-body guitar would have been more appropriate. liryc: I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping Still my guitar gently weeps I don’t know why nobody told you how to unfold your love I don’t know how someone controlled you They bought and sold you. I look at the world and I notice it’s turning While my guitar gently weeps With every mistake we must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps I don’t know how you were diverted You were perverted too I don’t know how you were inverted No one alerted you. I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping While my guitar gently weeps Look at you all… Still my guitar gently weeps.

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Bread Guitar Man

Artist Bread Song The Guitar Man Album Guitar Man Year 1972 Bread’s GUITAR MAN was not one of its most commercially successful albums–the album’s only chart single was the title track–but it’s a finely-crafted, well-constructed soft rock album which shows the group at its best. Bandleader David Gates first made his name as a session producer and songwriter in mid-’60s LA; the Monkees’ hard-pop “Saturday’s Child” is one of his best and best-known efforts. He clearly learned at the feet of such icons as Brian Wilson and Phil Spector, as even the weaker songs here are sublimely arranged, with crystalline production. The best songs, such as “Welcome to the Music” or “I Didn’t Even Know Her Name,” are comparable to the best of the Carpenters’ singles being released at the same time. Live Recording

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