![]() ![]() The wonderful home movie footage from that period was among the highlights of The Beatles Anthology series, and we were treated to even more of it during 2021’s Get Back documentary. The fact that their stay in Rishikesh produced the bulk of the songs which made up the White Album later that year adds to the intrigue, as does the view held by some that the trip may have sown some seeds which ultimately led to the group’s disintegration. It was all so crazily exotic as well as showing how far they were prepared to go in pursuing their interest in Transcendental Meditation (inadvertently helping to pivot Western spiritual focus away from traditional Christian norms, for young people at least), I think I’ve always really loved the fact that it was another wild adventure for the still-united gang of four (and their partners), who – in spite of their money, fame and freedom – felt the need to do everything together. Pretty much all of their career seemed like an impossible fiction, but that episode seemed really far out. ![]() I remember when I first began reading up on the Fabs and looked wide-eyed at photos of them bedecked in flowers sat at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, seeking spiritual enlightenment in the shadow of the Himalyas. For me, The Beatles’ excursion to India in the spring of 1968 has always been one of the most fascinating – and yet under-explored – chapters in the band’s story. ![]()
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