Legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar and The Beatles had a meaningful relationship. Without Shankar’s influence, The Beatles might not have experimented with new sounds. George first heard Indian music in ...
With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso, who died Tuesday at 92, mentored a Beatle, became a hippie musical icon and ...
During the 1960s, Harrison developed a passion for Indian classical music. He learned how to play the sitar and first incorporated it in a Beatles song on “Norwegian Wood” from 1965’s Rubber Soul. In ...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and longtime Encinitas resident who played an influential role for The Beatles, has died, his family announced. He was 92. Shankar, the father of ...
Despite being in poor health for the last year, Shankar just earned a 2013 Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album for The Living Room Sessions, Part 1. His youngest daughter, Anoushka Shankar, ...
When George Harrison’s "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Les Paul was kidnapped in 1973, he called on his former sitar mentor Ravi Shankar to issue an appeal for its safe return, such was their ...
Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight-decade ...
NEW DELHI — With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and ...
Ravi Shankar became the most unlikely of Western pop stars: a middle-aged master of the sitar largely unknown outside South Asia who suddenly found himself hanging out with the biggest rock acts of ...
Long before the triumph of Live Aid in 1985 there was the Concert for Bangladesh. Comparatively modest in scope, the historic August 1971 concerts marked perhaps George Harrison’s finest moment, a ...
NEW DELHI — Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an ...