While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles. It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, as an exercise in
Cover of the Apple Publishing sheet music
Clapton had given Harrison his red Gibson Les Paul shortly before the session and subsequently used it on the song.
LP cover of The Beatles. Some music critics have recognised "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as a highlight of the Beatles' 1968 double album.
I Ching
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The I Ching or Yijing, usually translated as the Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The I Ching was original
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
…also known as the "White Album"). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, as an exercise in randomness inspired by the Chinese I Ching. The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for universal love, which he refers to as "the love there that's sleeping". The song…
Title page of a Song dynasty (c. 1100) edition of the I Ching
Fifty yarrow (Achillea millefolium) stalks used for I Ching divination
The da xu ䷙ segment carved into stone among the Tang dynasty Kaicheng Stone Classics.
Wood block printed page of Zhou Yi Zhuan Yi Da Quan depicting the eight trigrams