George Harrison wrote the most powerful song ever about saving the earth: While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

And in terms of sheer musical beauty it has long been my favorite from the entire enchanted catalog of the Beatles.

Whether or not George intended the song as I interpret it doesn’t really matter because great works of art are characterized by how they speak differently to the receiver depending upon that person’s temperament in the moment.

In the song, George sings about how humanity has fallen asleep in regards to honoring and preserving our planet for future generations and ourselves.

His reference to a floor that needs sweeping is nothing less than restoring clean air, water and earth free from pollution and unnatural warming.

He sings of our misguided love, despairing of how humanity too often diverges from mutually beneficial pathways and fosters unnecessary greed.

Finally, George’s song hopes that we will learn from our mistakes yesterday rather than TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS.

Here's another phenomenal song of the earth and performance by George as watched by Robindro Ravi Shankar and his second wife Sukanya Rajan Shankar

Harrison - coincidently meaning Son of Hari or Krishna - had a great love for trees and gardening.

This is the remastered version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps. A fascinating lesson in mastering would be to detail why one version may be preferred over the other.

George Harold Harrison once sang Charukeshi for me during an extended evening conversation in Lahaina, Maui.

This was his favorite raga due to its pleasing confluence of major and minor modalities, symbolizing the concept of persevering to find solutions when presented with challenges.

Let's honor his dream of prioritizing cleanliness and purity in the very elements our bodies and the world are made from: AIR, WATER, EARTH, FIRE AND AKASHA.

This is the sweetness he sang of in another song, MY SWEET LORD, transcending denominations, or even the belief in God, recognizing that for some Nature and God are different words for the same thing and there are few human beings who do not love Nature, at least, even if only on private golf courses or homes on the ocean.

- Michael Robinson Longhi, May 2017 - February 2026, Los Angeles

MICHAEL ROBINSON LONGHI HAS RECORDED A NUMBER OF BEATLES SONGS FOR SOLO PIANO AND ALSO DUET FORM WITH LEGENDARY TABLA MASTER ANINDO CHATTERJEE INCLUDING WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS

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Michael Robinson Longhi is a Los Angeles-based composer, pianist, and musicologist. His over 200 albums include over 150 albums for meruvina and over 50 albums of piano improvisations. He has performed and lectured at various American churches, universities, colleges, NPR, Pacifica, college, and community radio stations, high schools, elementary schools and community centers including all over the world online.