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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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Songs by The Beatles with strong Indian Classical influence. Bonus feature: Ravi Shankar's "I am missing you", produced and arranged by George Harrison.
For many western listeners, the first time they heard Indian classical music, or at least something resembling it, was on a Beatles record. One of the many f...
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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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‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’‘Blackbird’‘The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill’‘Cry Baby Cry’‘Child of Nature’ on Imagine‘Circles’ on Gone Troppo‘Cosmically Conscious’ on Off the Ground: The Complete Works‘Junk’ on McCartneyAug 9, 2009 · The music and philosophy of India had a key effect on The Beatles' music, particularly between 1965 and 1968. They tentatively began using traditional Indian instruments in 1965. Between 1966 and 1968 the group wrote three songs written by George Harrison in the Indian style.
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The Beats 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). In this way, the musicians helped expand the ...
