While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles - MP3 instrumental karaoke

George Harrison was in a reflective mood when he penned "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," recorded by The Beatles for their seminal 1968 double album The Beatles (aka the White Album). As legend has it, the band had just got back from a transcendental meditation retreat in India when George Harrison took inspiration from his passion for Eastern philosophy – in particular, the ancient Chinese divination text I Ching – to write his own meditation on the friction within the group and also the lack of love and harmony within the world-at-large ("I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps"... "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:"). "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is The Beatles at their finest, a masterful exercise in sweeping, folk-rock that will never go out of date.