When The Beatles' guitarist George Harrison called Ravi Shankar "the godfather of world music", he opened culture up to a ...

Indian Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi’s plea for help was in vain. Pandit Ravi Shankar, a friend of George Harrison of Beatles fame since 1966, was moved by the suffering of millions of refugees. At ...

Ravi was so offended ... listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple… It is now the 'in' thing," Shankar said in an interview in 1967.

“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 ...

George Harrison's 1974 tour didn't go over well with critics. John Lennon also wasn't impressed with what he saw from his ...

Rare footage provided by The Ravi Shankar Foundation includes an intimate moment between the artist and George Harrison, as Shankar teaches the Beatles’ guitarist the sitar. Harrison ...

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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.

The Beatles partly recorded the album in character ... King, a bit of Stockhausen, a bit of Albert Ayler, a bit of Ravi Shankar, a bit of Pet Sounds, a bit of The Doors; it didn’t matter ...

A Record Collection If you are a fan of classic rock then you will be quite happy to see vinyl records of The Beatles’ Revolver and Abbey ... Records of Indian classics such as Mohammed Rafi, Ravi ...

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.