The Wu Tang Clan have clarified their announcement earlier this week that they had secured permission to use a sample from Beatles song 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', an unprecedented achievement it being more or less impossible to persuade Apple Corp to let you do anything with a Beatles recording. In a new posting on their MySpace they say they will be 'replaying' a bit of the classic track in their song 'The Heart Gently Weeps', but not actually sampling the Beatles original. As expected, they got permission for the replay via Dhani 'son of George' Harrison, who has been collaborating with the hip hop outfit, and whose father famously wrote the track.
The Wu Tang posting reads: "We didn't sample The Beatles, it was a replay, pardon. The statement that we made yesterday was incorrect and we apologize for any confusion it may have caused. We DID NOT sample The Beatles...rather we did an INTERPOLATION of the classic George Harrison composition 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. Dhani Harrison, son of George, through his friendship with the RZA, played guitar on the song and he himself helped secure the reuse license".