McCartney Times

It can’t be overstated how life-changing the work of sitarist Ravi Shankar was to a young George Harrison.Once exposed to Shankar’s signature raga scales, an entire creative and personal path was unveiled by the classical Indian musician, triggering a years-long fascination with the sitar to the point of heading straight to New Delhi in the mid-1960s to purchase the instrument directly from Rikhi Ram & Sons, later to study the sitar under Shankar’s tutelage for six weeks in Kashmir. For the rest of his days, Harrison harboured a spiritual affinity with Hindu mysticism and the Hare Krishna Movement.

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