The Beatles were never content with merely being ... what was stopping them from dipping into the world of astern culture with the sitar? It’s not like that idea was pulled out of thin air, either.

In turn, an array of classical Beatles music has been recorded ... English bandleader and arranger Frank Chacksfield, Indian sitar player Anoushka Shankar (daughter of one-time Beatles ...

sitar, and a tambura that provided the drone, making this the first Beatles song to fully reflect the influence of Indian classical music. George’s third song is “I Want To Tell You,” and it ...

A traditional Indian instrument used by George Harrison to record a Beatles song has sold ... launching 'the Great Sitar Explosion' in rock music. Harrison took the sitar to Barbados on his ...

The track was played to 100 people at Liverpool Beatles Museum earlier ... star and famously taught him to play the sitar. He was working on the music for a documentary film, called East meets ...

The Indian string instrument, crafted by a well-known music shop in Kolkata ... Harrison had discovered the sitar in 1965, on the set of the Beatles' second film, Help. His love affair with ...

He was a big influence on British bands like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. His Symphony mixes Indian Hindustani sitar music with a western classical orchestra. Banghra is a fusion music that ...

"On behalf of music lovers and champions of East-West cultural connections, we felicitate Maestro Ravi Shankar on his 90th birthday," says Asia Society President Vishakha N. Desai. "He enchanted ...

The visit changed the attitude of the West to Indian spirituality and promoted an interest in meditation. George Harrison – influenced by Ravi Shankar – introduced Indian elements such as playing on ...