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 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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...