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While_My_Guitar_Gently_Weeps_(Beatles_song_-_sample).ogg (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 22 s, 69 kbps, file size: 184 KB)

Summary

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Short, relatively low-quality sound sample from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles.

Fair use rationales

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Description
Source

Album sample

Article

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Portion used

21 seconds (<10% of original 4:44)

Low resolution?

It is a sample of less than 30 seconds and no more than 10% of the original recording, and could not be used as a substitute for the original commercial recording or to recreate the original recording. It is also of a lower quality than the commercially available digital versions of the original recording.

Purpose of use

It illustrates an educational article specifically about the song from which this sample was taken.

Replaceable?

It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted sample of comparable educational value.

Other information

This sample will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original recording.

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Non-free media information and use rationale true for The Beatles
Description

Audio sample from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles

Source

Sample from The Beatles (album)

Article

The Beatles

Portion used

21 seconds (<10% of original 4:44)

Low resolution?

Quality reduced to 64 kbit/s

Purpose of use

This rock ballad has been said to demonstrate George Harrison's "vigorous return to form" as a writer, and to be "virtually a declaration of his recommitment to rock" after the group had expanded their stylistic range to include Indian classical music among other styles. Unusually, Harrison himself did not play lead guitar for this recording but asked Eric Clapton to do so, after "failing to get the weepy sound he wanted using a tape-reversed guitar". (Source: Gould, Jonathan (2008), Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America. Piatkus. ISBN 978-0-7499-2988-6, p. 523.) The sample presents part of verse two; after Harrison is heard singing and playing rhythm guitar, the verse leads into the guitar solo where Clapton can be heard providing the "weepy" sound Harrison chose for the song. Words alone are inadequate to describe the song, and presenting the sound of this song alongside earlier and later ones is necessary for a complete understanding of its nature and its contrast with material from other periods, and hence of the way the band's music evolved during their career.

Replaceable?

No free alternative for copyrighted audio recording

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current01:18, 24 August 200222 s (184 KB)Lee Daniel Crocker (talk | contribs)21-second clip from Beatles

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