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 ...
George Harrison used a sitar on a song from The Beatles’ Rubber Soul. He said the sitar wasn’t good. A famous sitar played had mixed feelings on the song in question. “So you know, they just thought, ...
A traditional Indian instrument used by George Harrison to record a Beatles song has sold for over £53,000. Harrison bought the 4ft long sitar from a small Oxford Street shop named Indiacraft between ...
Do you know that during the recording of the Beatles' iconic song 'Norwegian Wood', one of the strings of the sitar played by George Harrison broke leaving him with no clue about how to replace it ...
Some years ago as I browsed the racks in a record store, I overheard a couple of teenagers talking about an album. “Who’s this?” one of the lads asked his friend who looked up at the Long Play record ...
Hidden amongst the groundbreaking sitar and maturing lyricism of the Beatles’ 1965 track “Norwegian Wood” are surprisingly sordid and violent details of an extramarital affair that turned violent. A ...
Harrison (left) and Boyd (right) went to India so he could play the sitar under Ravi Shankar (middle) A sitar owned and played by George Harrison has been sold for $62,500 (£46,581) in the United ...
Singer-songwriter, ace musician and producer Mac McAnally's 2020 album Once in a Lifetime features a number of brand-new songs, but also, a cover of a Beatles classic: "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has ...