While My Guitar Gently Weeps

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Single by Onion

B-side: Hey Bulldog

Album: Onions On Mars

Release Date: October 22, 2020

Recorded: October 3, 2020

Length: 4:45

Writer(s): Roy Stephenson

Producer(s): Mick Davis

Last single: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road / Sloop John B

This single: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Next single: Come Together / Eleanor Rigby

While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a song by American rock band, Onion, written by lead guitarist, Roy Stephenson. It was released as a single backed with Hey Bulldog, and on their third album, Onions On Mars. Stephenson wrote the song, but Mick Davis took control on the production. Stephenson wrote it as a soft, acoustic song, but he wanted it to be more of a rock song, so he went to Davis for assistance with the arrangement. Davis decided to change the tempo, add electric guitars and a bass, and turned it into a hard rock song. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 3, and it stayed for 5 weeks through December 1. It won Best Rock Song at the 2021 Grammys.

Charts:

U.S. Billboard Hot 100:

# 1

Certifications:

RIAA: 7x Platinum

Personnel:

Roy Stephenson: lead vocals, electric guitar

Mick Davis: acoustic guitar, hammond organ, piano, backing vocals

Tyler Richards: drums, backing vocals

Tim Wilson: bass guitar