The Beatles were never content ... world of astern culture with the sitar? It’s not like that idea was pulled out of thin air, either. The band had slowly been incorporating everything from jazz to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Harrison – influenced by Ravi Shankar – introduced Indian elements such as playing on the sitar to Beatles music (Norwegian Wood, Within You Without You). Yet despite Harrison’s popularity and ...

He was also music director of All India Radio in New Delhi from ... "He enchanted American audiences with his electrifying sitar playing even before the Beatles sought his guidance and partnership.