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 ...

He's performed with George Harrison, Yehudi Menuhin; taken the Carnatic violin around the world; created a new formula for ...

Sept. 11, Joe Boyd and David Byrne convened at New York’s Villa Albertine to pore over music’s intricate histories.

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

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...