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.
