“This was the most one could do in six weeks, considering that a disciple usually spends years learning these basics.” The posture was rough on Harrison’s hips, so Shankar signed him up for additional yoga courses. “I had George practice all the correct positions of sitting and some of the basic exercises,” Shankar wrote in his autobiography, My Music, My Life. Many players believe the instrument takes several lifetimes to master, so Harrison had to settle for a crash course. The main objective of the visit was to study under sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. Accompanied by his wife Pattie, he flew to India that September for six weeks, checking into Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace Hotel under the name Sam Wells. Pepper sessions, a well-needed respite after the traumatic 1966 world tour that ended their live career for good. Harrison had flourished during the three-month break that preceded the Sgt.
I’m trying to work out solutions to the more important things in life.” I’m fed up with all this ‘me, us, I’ stuff and all the meaningless things we do. “All that sort of Beatle thing is trivial and unimportant. For all the praise it garnered, the recording was fraught with growing pains for the band’s youngest member, who had turned 24 that February. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. “I don’t personally enjoy being a Beatle anymore,” George Harrison admitted to biographer Hunter Davies not long after the release of Sgt. Today’s installment tells the story of George Harrison’s Indian-influenced late addition to the record, “Within You Without You.” Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” reprise on Side Two – that explore the background of this revolutionary and beloved record.
#Song sergeant orphaned songs series#
Pepper, we present a series of in-depth pieces – one for each of the album’s tracks, excluding the brief “Sgt. In honor of the anniversary, and coinciding with a new deluxe reissue of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which Rolling Stone named as the best album of all time, turns 50 on June 1st.
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