Kennedy and Richard Nixon eventually occupying the White House, To put it mildly, the bad’s disappointment of having travelled to India to join a training course at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Academy Of Transcendental Meditation, between February and April that year, Beatles members George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr created their own piece of history during their stay.
Joined by a coterie of some 60 people, including musicians Donovan and Beach Boys’ Mike Love, and actress Mia Farrow, the duo of Lennon-McCartney expectedly wrote the bulk of the 30 tracks that appeared on the original album, but it was also notable for drummer Starr writing his first, ‘Don’t Pass Me By’. The re-launched double-album contains the very same 30 tracks now remixed in stereo and 5.1 surround sound by producer Giles Martin, the original producer George Martin’s son.
Some of the instrumentation certainly sounds a lot sharper than the “original” version for instance, ‘Sexy Sadie’, a John Lennon composition that spilled vitriol on the Maharishi for allegedly having made sexual advances to one or more female members of the troupe that had travelled to India. Trivia-hunters will notice that the lyrics of the song, ‘What Have You Done?/You Made a Fool of Everyone’, are similar to the Miracles’ 1961 hit, ‘I’ve Been Good To You’, which contains the following lyrics: “Look what you’ve done/You’ve made a fool of everyone”. In fact, the piano interlude on Radiohead’s 1997 song, ‘Karma Police’, appears to be strongly influenced by ‘Sexy Sadie’.Ī group photo of The Beatles and their partners with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his ashram in Rishikesh in 1968.
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