Once George Harrison met Ravi Shankar, his musical guru, his playing drastically changed. Later, George said Indian music influenced 'the inflection of how I played.' ...

George Harrison became entranced by Indian music in the mid-1960s. Technically, George first heard Indian music in utero. His mother used to play the radio station, Radio India, hoping the ...

George Harrison surrounded his son with music When Dhani was a kid, he used to tell his friends that his dad “pushes buttons” for a living. He had no idea that those buttons were making hit ...

George Harrison preferred Indian music to any other form of music, even rock ‘n’ roll. Of course, George had a profound experience hearing Elvis Presley and Fats Domino for the first time.

Tom Petty and George Harrison were close friends and musical collaborators. According to Petty, they spent a lot of their free time together playing music too. He explained that Harrison always ...

George Harrison is known for playing guitar, but he did dabble with the bass here and there. He once said the instrument is one of the most important parts of a rock song. It holds everything else ...

Harrison’s love for Ravi Shankar and his sitar experiments are well documented, and it seems Crosby got the ball rolling ...

In the early ‘90s, gypsy jazz guitarist Robin Nolan was a frequent busker on the streets of Amsterdam. However, he’d soon find himself playing before more star-studded audiences thanks to an ...

“Norwegian Wood” is the first song featuring George Harrison playing the sitar. John Lennon wrote the 1965 Rubber Soul t rack, which is a Bob Dylan-influenced track with a blend of Indian music.

George Harrison started The Beatles' backward ... “That’s when I really enjoyed getting creative with the music-not just with my guitar playing and songwriting but with everything we did ...

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 ...