<P> Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey covered "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on his 1990 album Hell to Pay . Harrison participated in the recording, contributing on acoustic guitar and backing vocals . Also issued as a single, Healey's version peaked at number 27 in Canada, number 85 in the UK and number 25 in New Zealand . </P> <P> American musician Todd Rundgren covered "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" for the 2003 album Songs from the Material World: A Tribute to George Harrison . Rundgren said of his contribution to the multi-artist tribute: "(Before the Beatles), I'd never heard the term' lead guitarist .' George created the job description for my first paying gig, the vocation that I'm still lucky enough to practice today ..." Johnny Loftus of AllMusic views the recording as one of the collection's highlights, saying that Rundgren "effortlessly replicates the grandeur" of the Beatles' track . As his personal tribute to Harrison, Peter Frampton released a version of the song on his 2003 album Now . </P> <P> Among other cover versions, the song has also been recorded by guitarists such as Marc Ribot, Phish and Charlie Byrd, and on ukulele by Jake Shimabukuro . Toto did a cover version for their album Through the Looking Glass and in a live performance in Live in Amsterdam . Santana did a cover for his twentieth album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, in 2010, featuring singer India Arie and cellist Yo - Yo Ma . Released as a single, it charted on Billboard's Adult Contemporary . In 2016, Regina Spektor performed the song for the soundtrack to the film Kubo and the Two Strings, accompanied by Kevin Kmetz on a shamisen . </P> <P> In 2016 a music video was created by Apple Corps Ltd. and Cirque du Soleil . The video is based on a 10th anniversary re-staging of the song for Love, Cirque du Soleil's theatrical production . The video was directed by Dandypunk, André Kasten and Leah Moyer . Ryan reed, describing the clip in rollingstone.com, wrote that "Dandypunk's hand - drawn illustrations depict Harrison's lyrics falling off the page into the air, transporting LOVE performer Eira Glover into a series of fantastical locations . Projection mapping--and no CGI--was used to create the clip ." </P>

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