After The Beatles’ 1966 U.S. tour, Harrison had become fascinated with Transcendental Meditation and had also befriended the Indian musician, Ravi Shankar. Proposing it as an outlet for a ...

“The first person who ever impressed me in my life was Ravi Shankar ... on The Beatles’ Rubber Soul track “Norwegian Wood,” by late 1965, before he and Shankar even met.

we felicitate Maestro Ravi Shankar on his 90th birthday," says Asia Society President Vishakha N. Desai. "He enchanted American audiences with his electrifying sitar playing even before the Beatles ...

A sitar used by Ravi Shankar will go onto display within the new immersive area, loaned to The Beatles Story by the Ravi Shankar Foundation. As George Harrison’s mentor, Ravi’s influence on ...

Harrison had been to India to study sitar with Ravi Shankar, and was settling into a more Eastern sensibility. Despite their youth, the Beatles had depths that impressed Grossman. “I have a 25-minute ...

Ravi Shankar's career spanned decades, continents, art forms and musical genres. Perhaps best known to western audiences as the man who taught sitar to the Beatles' George Harrison, he was a sitar ...

The Beatles recorded Norwegian Wood - the first ... learn how to play the instrument under the renowned sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. In an interview with the BBC's Mark Tully in April 2000, Shankar ...

The young Ravi Shankar travelled to Paris ... including violinist Yehudi Menuhin and composer Philip Glass. In the 1960s Beatles guitarist George Harrison was introduced to Shankar’s music.

Ravi Shankar was an influential Indian musician who created fusions between Indian Hindustani and western music. He was a big influence on British bands like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

Veterans BR Chopra, Raj Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Rajesh Khanna and singer Lata Mangeshkar had their fave delicacies ...

The spiritualism he had discovered on his trips to the East (with and without his fellow Beatles), his collaborations with ...

26). It was in 1965, while working on the set of the Beatles' "Help!" feature film, that Harrison first came into the orbit of the sitar. After listening to the work of Ravi Shankar, the renowned ...