From David Quantick's opinionated and funny book Revolution about The White Album.
'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' has been criticized in recent years. It is a big bloaty thing in its final version, with a slightly patronising lyric, and it doesn't really go anywhere. It's still a magnificent piece of work however, and whatever it's faults as an actual song, as a recording and chunk of rock music, it works incredibly well. Harrison has never sounded so confident on record before, nor had he attempted such a powerful and emotive song. In creating 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', he also inadvertently invented 70s rock, which is arguably a bad thing but ensured the sale of small cigarette lighters for the next decade.'
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