George Harrison in India 1966
Hari Georgeson 1966 Mumbai (Bombay) India
"I went to India in September 1966. When I had first come across a record of Ravi Shankar's I had a feeling that, somewhere, I was going to meet him. It happened that I met him in London in June, at the house of Ayana Deva Angadi, founder of the Asian Music Circle. An Indian man had called me up and said that Ravi was going to be there....
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George Harrison and his wife Pattie flew from London to Bombay (Mumbai), India in September 1966. The purpose of the visit was for George to take sitar lessons with Ravi Shankar, and for the couple to study yoga. The Harrisons stayed at the Taj Mahal hotel in Bombay, under the names Mr and Mrs Sam Wells.
"I went to India in September 1966. When I had first come across a record of Ravi Shankar's I had a feeling that, somewhere, I was going to meet him. It happened that I met him in London in June, at the house of Ayana Deva Angadi, founder of the Asian Music Circle. An Indian man had called me up and said that Ravi was going to be there....
So in September, after touring and while John was making How I Won the War, I went to India for about six weeks. First I flew to Bombay and hung out there. Again, because of the mania, people soon found out I was there.
I stayed in a Victorian hotel, the Taj Mahal, and was starting to learn the sitar. Ravi would give me lessons, and he'd also have one of his students sit with me. My hips were killing me from sitting on the floor, and so Ravi brought a yoga teacher to start showing me the physical yoga exercises.
It was a fantastic time. I would go out and look at temples and go shopping. We travelled all over and eventually went up to Kashmir and stayed on a houseboat in the middle of the Himalayas. It was incredible. I'd wake up in the morning and a little Kashmiri fellow, Mr Butt, would bring us tea and biscuits and I could hear Ravi in the next room, practising..." - George Harrison Anthology
Click to viewGeorge Harrison - Wonderwall Music (1968)
01. 00:00 "Microbes"
02. 03:43 "Red Lady Too"
03. 05:41 "Tabla and Pakavaj"
04. 06:47 "In the Park"
05. 10:56 "Drilling a Home"
06. 14:05 "Guru Vandana"
07. 15:11 "Greasy Legs"
08. 16:41 "Ski-ing"
09. 18:31 "Gat Kirwani"
10. 19:47 "Dream Scene"
11. 25:15 "Party Seacombe"
12. 29:51 "Love Scene"
13. 34:09 "Crying"
14. 35:28 "Cowboy Music"
15. 36:58 "Fantasy Sequins"
16. 38:50 "On the Bed"
17. 41:13 "Glass Box"
18. 42:20 "Wonderwall to Be Here"
19. 43:48 "Singing Om"
Wonderwall Music is George Harrison's first solo album and the soundtrack to the film Wonderwall. The songs are virtually all instrumental, except for some non-English vocals and a slowed-down spoken word track. The songs were recorded in December 1967 in England, and January 1968 in Bombay, India. Wonderwall Music is notable for being the first official solo album by one of The Beatles as well as Apple Records' first LP release.
Concert For Bangladesh - George Harrison/ Ravi Shankar Madison Square Garden 1971
Ravi Shankar planted the seed, but it was George Harrison who turned this historic benefit concert into reality. One can argue that the "Concert For Bangladesh", is one of the single most important events in rock n roll history. George Harrison, along with Ravi Shankar invented the pop star benefit concert, Without realizing at the time, that they would influence a whole charitable movement that has continued for decades, for various causes. The publicity-shy former Beatle could've easily written a check and forgotten all about the matter--impoverished East Pakistani refugees stranded in India--but instead recruited some of his most talented and compassionate friends and created an event remembered as much for the quality of its talent as the purity of its intent. (The two-part engagement itself raised $250,000.) The players include Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and Bob Dylan, while the backing band includes Jim Keltner, Klaus Voormann, and the up-and-coming Apple band Badfinger (Phil Spector and Harrison produced). The concert took place on August 1, 1971 at Madison Square Garden and was released as a triple-album boxed set that December and a feature film in 1972. That year, it won the Grammy for best album. The program begins with Shankar and his trio ("Bangla Dhun") and ends with a song Harrison wrote for the occasion ("Bangla Desh"). Highlights include Billy Preston's rousing "That's the Way God Planned It" and Dylan's heartfelt five-song set, starting with "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." The remaster adds an additional Dylan track, "Love Minus Zero/No Limit," from the afternoon show. Although the cover art has been changed to a picture of Harrison, the original iconic image of a sad-eyed child remains prominent in the CD and DVD packaging. As with previous versions of The Concert for Bangladesh, all artist royalties go to UNICEF or, as Harrison notes in his band introduction, "Nobody's gettin' paid for anything." - Kathleen C. Fennessy - aboutthefund
0:00:00 01 - Introduction By George Harrison And Ravi Shankar
0:02:33 02 - Bangla Dhun (Sitar - Ravi Shankar)
0:19:30 03 - Wah Wah
0:22:58 04 - My Sweet Lord
0:27:31 05 - The Concert For Bangladesh - Awaiting On You All
0:30:32 06 - That's The Way God Planned It
0:34:48 07 - It Don't Come Easy
0:37:48 08 - Beware Of Darkness
0:41:20 09 - Band Introduction
0:43:58 10 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
0:49:08 11 - Medley .. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Youngblood
0:59:00 12 - Here Comes the Sun
1:02:56 13 - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
1:08:25 14 - The Concert For Bangladesh - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
1:12:14 15 - Mr. Tambourine Man
1:17:00 16 - Just Like A Woman
1:22:04 17 - Something
1:26:56 18 - Bangla Desh
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