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 ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. George Harrison plays a guitar at the preview part for Eric Clapton's Christie's guitar auction ...
When one references the greatest contributors to the psychedelic rock movement of the 60s, they likely think of The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Pink Floyd, and The Beatles. However, ...
The man George Harrison calls "the godfather of world music," legendary classical sitar performer and renowned composer Ravi Shankar joins Chris Douridas in studio. The man George Harrison calls "the ...
Ravi Shankar was one of the first musicians to enlighten Western listeners about Indian music. Without him, "Paint it Black" and "Norwegian Wood" would sound incomplete. The sitar maestro died from ...
Not because he was the best guitarist in the group. Not because they called him “the quiet Beatle.” Not because he studied an exotic type of instrument, the sitar, with Ravi Shankar. All these ...
Harrison had grown fascinated with the sitar, a long necked, string instrument that uses a bulbous gourd for its resonating chamber and resembles a giant lute. He played the instrument, with a Western ...
George Harrison once called Ravi Shankar the godfather of world music. The classically-trained sitar player, who is credited with introducing Indian music to the Western world, has died at the age of ...
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