Ending of While My Guitar Gently Weeps- George or Paul? | Fab forum

Ben Ramon said
Now I don't want to spark up another debate like the Unspeakable Thread, but I'm in a (pointless) debate with some friends.

WHO is singing those "yeah yeah yeah"s right at the end of WMGGW? George or Paul? I'm convinced it's Paul, and have heard it described as Paul before, but I can also see why people reckon it's George. Without it getting too heated, can anybody offer their opinion on this?

No need for discussion.

That's Paul, no doubt.

You know I love Paul, but he really steals WMGGW even from Clapton with his piano intro, that insane bass, and then the "Yeah Yeahs" at the end.I guess you could call it inspiration, and without him it wouldn't be as great as it is. But since there was a famous visitor present he also might have needed to show-off a little…

meanmistermustard said
I aint getting into a debate, i remember other threads, but here is the isolated vocals, drums and bass track.

Unfortunately in Germany we can't watch the clip, but I found another one with the isolated bass.

Fantastic work, and I never noticed the doubling 12string guitar in the middle part before!

Funny Paper said
My verdict, after listening to the isolated track:  Let's put it this way: it certainly could be George; therefore, using Occam's razor, there's no reason to assume it's Paul.

Never heard of that "razor" but there's no reason to assume it's George.

That's a trademark sawdust Paul "Yeah" which George could never have done, and check out the very end after the "yeah yeah" ("whoaw, Wooo" or something like that), that's totally Paul.

I will never get why so obvious things even get a discussion…

But it's kind of cool to see that other people noticed that part as well which struck me as something special, and I waited for it every time the song came on. Perfect addition to the fade out ending.

Paul, the scene stealer, at his best.

thewordislove94 said
After listening to the isolated and White Album tracks, I still think it's George. I don't want to get into an argument with paulsbass again (I believe I have before), but maybe this isn't so obvious to everyone. Maybe it's good to discuss things that may seem so obvious. I will agree with you that the end is special.

Yeah, it's quite surprising indeed for me how some very obvious things are not that obvious for everybody else.

This is even more obvious than the ADITL part.

Anyway, arguments or polls won't help anyone. If you want to believe it's George, so be it, nothing I can or have to do about it.

It's just one of two things that strikes me as odd about some users of this site:

I really thought other hard core Beatles fans – in contrast to the average person – would be able to to identify their voices.

So it's really hard for me to accept these discussions taking place at all…

The other one is:

The thing that has always been the biggest part of their magic for me was the way the four of them worked together.

And who freaking cares if Paul or John wrote 80 or 85 percent or a certain word of a song?! They don't remember themselves for some parts, so why should we care that much anyway?

And sadly it's mostly Lennon (or George) fans who try and take things away from Paul or blame him of claiming too much that isn't his own, when it's really not that  big a deal.

So we should really go back to enjoying their music instead of bitter bickering which I admit like to do myself when I know I'm right.

Ben Ramon said

I don't think I was being a particularly unqualified fan by questioning some fairly amorphous and ambiguous "yeah"s right in the fadeout of a song.

Sorry Ben, I didn't intend to attack you at all.

Especially since we both share the same opinion about who sings the Yeahs, and I also felt this kind of "How can anyone believe it's not Paul" vibe in you OP.

I know my posting sounded totally arrogant, and maybe it was.

Of course discussion are nice and important, and I did learn quite a lot here already.

But sometimes I wish there would be more like "yeah, I know, some unknowing outsider thought that was George, but we Beatle fans know better" feeling around here.

Instead I'm finding myself in the position of the stupid looking freak who believes something almost everyone else doesn't.

I didn't come here to feel like a Beatle outsider, you know.

That's why it's so hard for me to accept when so many other Beatle fans disagree with thing I consider to be extremely obvious.

("She loves you" – always sounded like Paul to me, and I think it is more him at the start and in the end there's more John, since they sing it together).

sinco said
I listened to it quite a bit and I really do think it's George.

No problem. While you're free to do so, it's still Paul.

And paulsbass while I do agree that the song wouldn't be AS good without Paul's contributions, I disagree with the your statement that "Paul stole the show". That's like saying that Paul stole the show with the mellotron intro in Strawberry Fields and I think the song would've turned out an instant classic with whatever contributions anyone made, after all the Anthology version was already great.

I took it a step to far by saying he stole the show even from Clapton, and that's not true, since everybody knows this song because of Clapton's playing (AND the song itself, sure).

But apart from Clapton's guitar Paul RULES this song with his bass.

PLUS his piano intro

PLUS the backing vocals, often as loud as George's lead.

PLUS the Yeah Yeahs at the end.

Maybe I do a thread sometime which Macca's (and the others&#39 biggest showstealers…

Don't forget the intro to LitSwD!

On the other hand, while these parts were absolutely integral to the songs I wouldn't call them "stealing the show". They just needed an intro, and he provided it.

On WMGGW, in contrast to that, he totally shows off on the bass and on the vocals. Totally great, and I love it, and it adds a lot to the song's magic and drive (it would never have got that famous in the Anthology or Love version, just another nice ballad). Still not excactly necessary. Just him being very inspired – PLUS just a little showing off in front of Clapton, which I can only assume, I wasn't there.