How George Harrison Made Eric Clapton's Guitar Solo on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps ...

George Harrison disregarded his ego and allowed his friend, Eric Clapton, to play on his song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” The Beatle thought Clapton did great work, but they had to make the tune sound more “Beatle-y.”

The Beatle and Clapton briefly crossed paths several times throughout the first half of the 1960s. However, they didn’t become friends until the latter part of the decade.

In Martin Scorsese’s documentary, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Clapton said George recognized him as an equal because Clapton had a “level of proficiency even then that he saw as being fairly unique too.”

The Yardbirds guitarist also thinks George liked that he was a free agent. “And I think, if anything, he may have already been wondering about whether he was in the right place being in a group,” Clapton said. “Because the group politic is a tricky one. There was a lot about what he had going, which I envied, and there was a lot about what I had going that he envied.”

Source: Hannah Wigandt/cheatsheet.com

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