{"id":30162,"date":"2016-06-29T15:31:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30162"},"modified":"2016-06-29T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:31:17","slug":"the-making-of-loves-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30162","title":{"rendered":"The Making of LOVE&#8217;s &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cirque de Soleil today released a new video for the performance of &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps&#8221; from their <i>The Beatles LOVE<\/i> show.  While I don&#8217;t care much about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VJDJs9dumZI\">that music video<\/a> &mdash; I never really &#8220;got&#8221; music videos, as I like to experience music <i>as<\/i> music &mdash; the Beatles released <i>another<\/i> video today, this one about the making of <i>LOVE<\/i>&#8216;s version of &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the Cirque de Soleil production, George Harrison&#8217;s acoustic guitar demo was taken, and George Martin scored strings for it, his last work for the Beatles.  The Beatles released a video with footage from 2005 when Martin conducted the string ensemble in what would be his last Beatles recording session.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FDLBBn9n6yw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was more emotionally difficult to watch than I&#8217;d have thought because the two Georges, Harrison and Martin, are no longer with us, yet the work they did has touched us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cirque de Soleil today released a new video for the performance of &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps&#8221; from their The Beatles LOVE show. While I don&#8217;t care much about that music video &mdash; I never really &#8220;got&#8221; music videos, as I like to experience music as music &mdash; the Beatles released another video today, this<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30162\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Making of LOVE&#8217;s &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[4454,4260,60,73,98],"class_list":["post-30162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beatles","tag-cirque-de-soleil","tag-george-martin","tag-george-harrison","tag-love","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}