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Songs by The Beatles with strong Indian Classical influence. Bonus feature: Ravi Shankar's "I am missing you", produced and arranged by George Harrison.
archive footage // In February 1968, the English rock band the Beatles travelled to Rishikesh in northern India to take part in a Transcendental Meditation (...
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Taken from the forthcoming companion album for the film 'The Beatles and India': https://orcd.co/indiaindiaReleased via Silva Screen Records.
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Find out in Bennett’s video how each of the Beatles’ “raga rock” songs from the mid-sixties incorporated Indian classical music in various ways, and listen to a playlist of those songs here.
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Oct 2, 2024 · ‘The Beat had promoted Buddhism since the 1950s, but it was George Harrison’s songs espousing Hindu philosophy and featuring Indian musicians, and the Beatles’ study of Transcendental Meditation, that truly kick-started the human potential movement of the 1970s (rebranded New Age in the 1980s).