 "George Harrison made Ravi Shankar famous")
There’s no true blue Beatles fan who will not fondly remember Pandit Ravi Shankar who passed away early this morning, and say a silent thank you. The Beatles’ George Harrison met Ravi Shankar in 1966, a meeting which resulted in Harrison’s visit to India to learn how to play sitar. The sitar first made an appearance in the wonderfully lilting Norwegian Wood from the album Rubber Soul in 1965, before Harrison met Ravi Shankar. [caption id=“attachment_554233” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  George Harrison and Pandit Ravi Shankar. AFP[/caption] If that song gave Beatles fans a taste of the magic of the sitar, Love you to, from the album Revolver (which was produced post Harrison’s meeting and coaching sessions with Ravi Shankar), sees the sitar dominate a Beatles song for the first time. The love affair with the sitar seems to be more a George Harrison passion than an all-Beatle one, as it’s in Harrison tracks that the songs rely heavily on Ravi Shankar’s instrument, though the sitar makes appearances on three Beatles albums: Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Listen to this, where the sitar is omnipresent in Tomorrow Never Knows, also from Revolver, with Harrison’s vocals. What did Ravi Shankar think of The Beatles? “When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way,” said Ravi Shankar in a 2009 interview. So today, as news comes in about Ravi Shankar’s death, I’ll listen to The Beatles and mourn Shankar’s passing.
There’s no true blue Beatles fan who will not fondly remember Pandit Ravi Shankar who passed away early this morning, and say a silent thank you.
Anant Rangaswami was, until recently, the editor of Campaign India magazine, of which Anant was also the founding editor. Campaign India is now arguably India's most respected publication in the advertising and media space. Anant has over 20 years experience in media and advertising. He began in Madras, for STAR TV, moving on as Regional Manager, South for Sony’s SET and finally as Chief Manager at BCCL’s Times Television and Times FM. He then moved to advertising, rising to the post of Associate Vice President at TBWA India. Anant then made the leap into journalism, taking over as editor of what is now Campaign India's competitive publication, Impact. Anant teaches regularly and is a prolific blogger and author of Watching from the sidelines. see more
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