In 1997, George Harrison agreed to make a rare TV appearance, dropping by VH1 along with his longtime friend and collaborator, Ravi Shankar, and his wife to help promote Shankar's latest release, ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — The walls of Sanjay Sharma’s music shop are lined with gleaming string instruments and old photographs of legendary musicians. Beatles George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
ENCINITAS, California (Reuters) - Ravi Shankar's daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar, along with the wife of late Beatle George Harrison said their final goodbyes to the Indian sitar virtuoso ...
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, ...
Ravi Shankar became the most unlikely of Western pop stars: a middle-aged master of the sitar largely unknown outside South Asia who suddenly found himself hanging out with the biggest rock acts of ...
Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight-decade ...
In 1968, the celebrated Indian musician Ravi Shankar performed for six days in Manhattan, bringing his virtuosity on the sitar to a New York audience. That year, this magazine’s reviewer wrote that ...