Do you have a favorite Beatles song?

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23. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is now a poll option

It killed me to have to take down "Strawberry Fields" to make room for it; but it's a better song, imo.

George wrote most of the music during the Beatles' February-April 1968 trip to India, and wrote the words after the band returned home.
The initial studio recording took place in July 25, 1968 and "was a subdued, nearly solo piece"
A second version with the full band [John playing organ] was recorded on August 16th and September 3rd.
On Sept. 5th, they recorded a third, electric version with John on lead guitar with Ringo "contributing a heavy, lurching rhythm.
George later remembered "I went home that night thinking 'Well, that's a shame,' because I knew the song was pretty good."
The next day, Sept. 6th, George was giving Eric Clapton a ride from Surrey into London, and asked the Cream guitarist to play on the song.
Clapton initially declined, saying "Nobody [else] ever plays on Beatles records."
But Harrison replied,"Look, it's my song. I want you to play on it."

"With the famous guest in the studio, the other Beatles got down to business - McCartney's harmonies sound particularly inspired...Clapton's flickering filigrees and spectacular, lyrical solo brought the whole thing together, and it was finished that night."

"It's lovely, plaintive," Mick Jagger told Rolling Stone in 2002.
"Only a guitar player could write that...I love that song."
[Rolling Stone Magazine article: "100 Greatest Beatles Songs"]