McCartney Times

In the mid-1960s, Beatles member George Harrison began lessons in the sitar, a traditional Indian string instrument. His teacher was virtuoso Ravi Shankar, a revered classical musician in India. Through their collaboration, The Beatles went on to release several Indian-inspired songs, among them Love You To, giving rise to a wave of Indian influenced music in the West.“It was strange to see pop musicians with sitars at first. It had so little to do with our classical music,” Shankar once said. “When George Harrison came to me, I didn’t know what to think, but I found he really wanted to learn. I never thought our meeting would cause such an explosion.”

Source: You’ve heard of George Harrison and Ravi Shankar. Now hear the little known story of Lakshmi Shankar and her daughter, Viji – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW