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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- The Music of George Harrison
- Narrated by: Simon Leng
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
Far from being "the quiet one," George Harrison was a writer and arranger of terrific power and beauty, and his guitar playing was fundamental to the Beatles' sound and success. Now fully revised and expanded, this new edition of While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison is the most comprehensive evaluation of George Harrison's musical career ever published.
Treating each of Harrison's songs with unprecedented analysis, author Simon Leng reveals Harrison's eclectic approach from teenage Nashville twang through Indian raga, psychedelia, gospel, soul, and pure pop and thoroughly defines Harrison's role in the Beatles. First-hand accounts of the Concert for Bangladesh and the making of All Things Must Pass take the reader deep into the most fertile and controversial periods of Harrison's long solo career that culminated with Brainwashed.
Enhanced with insights from key figures who worked closely with Harrison throughout his extraordinary career, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a remarkably stirring study and portrait of a great artist whose musical and spiritual quest changed the lives of millions of people around the world while redefining popular music and rock 'n' roll.
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- eithne
- 20-11-18
Very boring to listen to
Should have listened to a previous review, but all other listens were very short. Had to stop half way into it as found the reader very monotonous, probably ok if you’re reading it yourself
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- John
- 12-03-14
Why oh why
Oh dear, I was so looking forward to this book, but why oh why did the author think it a good idea to narrate it himself? Listening to him attempt to read what I presume he has written, took me back to those school days when a classmate would falter and stammer over the grammar on the written page. Excruciatingly embarrassing for all concerned as is this narration. I am sure the book contains some interesting insights into George Harrison but I am afraid I'll pass on this audiobook and buy the printed version. I cannot bring myself to listen to the painful rendition past chapter five!
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- Clive
- 13-01-19
Awful
Any value this book may have had was ruined by the wholly inept reading. it was read, so very badly, by the author. Surely at some point his agent should have realised this was a big mistake and got a professional in: it's that bad, don't Audible have any quality control.
There are false starts, hesitations, errors, poor and inappropriate inflexions. There are gaps of varying lengths between words, sentences, paragraphs: but only no gap at all between the last word of a chapter and the start of the next.
The book may be better.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-09-20
It may or may not be a good book
It may or may not be a good book but the narration is so bad I'm done within 25 minutes. He stutters and stop starts. There is little inflection in his voice and its like a school kid reading in a English class.
Might be worth reading but it's awful for audio.
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