#ravi shankar

[harrisonsbabygirl]

George Harrison and the love he left behind<3

“So he gave me a tree as a present. It's a big fir tree, and it's by my gate. As I was leaving my house this morning [December 11], I get out of the car, close the gate and look up at the tree and say, 'Hi, George. ‘“—Business Insider

“John used to go on and on about George. About what a nice boy he was and how I’d like him. He went to great lengths to impress me with George. ‘Give you anything, George’, he’d say.” -John’s  Aunt Mimi

“I was going to Boston because my daughter had a brain tumor, and I said, ‘I’ve got to go to Boston.’ And he said, ‘Do you want me to come with you?’ Those were the last words I heard him say.” —Living in the Material World

“There were moments when it felt like we were the only two people in the world. The love we had was real and beautiful.” —Wonderful Tonight

“George and I shared a connection that went beyond words. It was a quiet understanding, a deep love that didn’t need to be spoken.”

— “Concert for George”

“It’s impossible to not feel his presence every day. The things he taught me, the way he lived, it’s all still here. I carry that love with me wherever I go.”

— People Magazine

 “Like a film flashing by, everything comes to my mind since I met him more than 30 years ago. His childlike quality, his shy but naughty little smile, his passion for all the music he loved and the serious quest for religion“—George Harrison: Behind the locked door

“George was a good friend of mine, a true friend. He had a lot of love in him, and it was always a joy to be around him. I miss him deeply.”

— Rolling Stone (2001)  

Thank you for leaving so much love behind George. Your a bright light that we all miss immensely. Rest in peace now George, we love you!❤️

[thaern]

One of the many reasons to why George is my favourite musician and artist is the fact that even when he was raised in a small town with many closed thoughts he didn't let that or even the fame construct a image of him as utterly masculine and stereotypical, with his friends (different from Paul) for him showing love to everyone being physically close to them or hugging them no matter the gender, was something normal, a simple act of love.

Just like Olivia once said, George had romantic relationships with all of his friends because he was so full of it that it didn't scared him to show it, being making presents or just giving a hug, he did not let the fragile masculinity and conservative speech stop him from being himself.

And that, for a man raised in the late 50s is something to admire

[davidhudson]

Ravi Shankar, April 7, 1920 – December 11, 2012.

[harrisonarchive]

Press conference, July 27, 1971. Footage courtesy of AP.

“The war had been going on for a bit, and I had hardly even heard of it, so he fed me a lot of newspaper articles about it. He was saying, “I’m going to have to do something to help. Attract a bit of attention to it, raise a bit of money, much more than I could make doing my own concert, maybe like ten or twenty thousand dollars.’That for him was like doing a big one. And so I got involved. The priority was to attract world attention to what was going on. It wasn’t so much the money because you can feed somebody today and tomorrow they will still be hungry, but if they are getting massacred you’ve got to try and stop that first of all.I said, ‘Okay, I’ll go on the show and I’ll get some other people to come and help. We’ll try and make it into a big show, and maybe we can make a million dollars instead of a few thousand.’ So I got on the telephone trying to round people up. We pinpointed the days which were astrologically good, and we found Madison Square Garden was open on one of those days — 1st August.” - George Harrison, Raga Mala “George Harrison was a very powerful and influential man, and a good friend of Bangladesh. I was in the war, fighting on the front against the Pakistani Army. We had only a one-band radio and that was for getting information from the outside world. After liberation, we came to know that a concert for Bangladesh had been held in Madison Square Garden. That concert acted like a catalyst. The U.S. government did not support Bangladesh, but we got the people’s support, and that concert helped a lot.” - Mahbubul Alam, Los Angeles Post Examiner, December 5, 2013 “George Harrison brought the attention of the world to what was happening in Bangladesh during the independence war because of his concert on behalf of the country in New York in 1971. Without his effort, much of the suffering endured by the Bangladeshi people at the time would have gone unnoticed. Millions were killed, made into refugees or raped.” - Masood Sobhan, BBC, December 11, 2008 “We felt the magnitude of this act of private individuals reached so many people and moved the whole Bangladesh tragedy into the public consciousness before even the governments were willing to face up to it. The world was looking on in stunned horror, not doing anything about it, when Ravi and George drove it into their minds, particularly the young people’s. Why, they even inspired us to get… to work. You should have seen how what they did affected even the people at UNICEF." - Paul B. Edwards, New York Post, June 2, 1972, via UNICEF Archives (x)

[okhumbug0]

fav genre of photo fr (george harrison with sitar).

[georgeharrisonsmiling]

[1976desire]

poster for concert for bangladesh, japan, 1972.

[sivavakkiyar]

IMO if you’re interested in instrumental ICM/Hindustani music but are intimidated there probably isn’t a better intro than Ravi Shankar’s Improvisations & Theme From Pather Panchali. When you get hooked on that one you can do Three Ragas and bam there it is

[dbp]

Ravi, Olivia and George

[kamala-laxman]

Sound when stretched is music. Movement, when stretched, is dance. Mind when stretched is meditation. Life when stretched is celebration." Ravi Shankar

[mysticalblizzardcolor]

Krishna, why You are speaking to me?" Why specifically was Bhagavad-gita spoken to Arjuna? Krishna's reply is, bhakto 'si: "The only qualification is that you are My devotee. That's all."

Raga Gara ~Pandit Ravi Shankar ~Sitar

[santmat]

George Harrison's Spirituality & Music - Beatles and Eastern Influences: https://youtu.be/6jm3a_Gvc5g?si=3dERNsMUelZ8_qBY

"Dive deep into the life of George Harrison, the legendary Beatle, and discover the profound influence of spirituality on his music. In this video, we explore how George's quest for spiritual enlightenment shaped his songwriting and personal life. From his embrace of Indian culture and the sitar to his collaborations with spiritual figures and his devotion to the Hare Krishna movement, witness the harmonious blend of his spiritual journey with his musical genius."

I believe the host of the channel, Filip Holm, is a Sufi. His documentaries are always impressively thorough, with this one even mentioning Swami Vivekananda, Yogananda, and the Vaishnava tradition. A great exploration of the Beatles, Ravi Shankar, and the various eastern influences.

[circleofshit]

[harrisonarchive]

Photos by Henry Grossman.

“[The Dark Horse Tour] was an extremely well organized tour. George had even arranged a Boing 707 for us, complete with a big Aum painted on the outside, and the inside rearranged so that the first-class area was a floor with carpets and throw cushions, like a Maharaja’s lounge. The entire plane was ours for the tour. Our musical instruments, cushioned in large protective boxes, were traveling by road along with the sound equipment, After a performance three trucks used to leave for the next city, while we would fly later on, so that when we landed and were whisked off from the plane directly to the hotel (by car), they were there to meet us. One of the trucks was even converted into a full kitchen run by Vasudevan [Ravi’s former cook], so that there was Indian food ready for us on arrival at the hotel!” - Ravi Shankar, Raga Mala (1997) “That was great. Everybody really got on well on the plane, all the Indian and Western musicians, The flights were the best times. It was easier to fly after the show, so we got into the groove of escaping out of the hall, running to the airport and jumping on the plane. Then we’d take off and go to the next city and there would be a little after-show party on the plane, and we would arrive late at night so we would already be in the town for the next gig. Jim Keltner, Emil Richards and Tommy Scott were so into all the Indians — they would be hanging out with Alla Rakha on those plane rides, playing different rhythms. It was fantastic. And with the kitchen truck, it reached the stage where the Western musicians would be eating Indian food and the Indians would all be eating pizza!” - George Harrison, ibid “There were many exchanges on different sounds with two percussionists with Ravi Shankar’s band. […] We somehow communicated through melody and rhythm. When Rij Ram, one of the percussionists, heard a new sound that impressed him, the look of joy on his face was indescribable.” - Emil Richards, Wonderful World of Percussion: My Life Behind Bars (2013)

[ludmilachaibemachado]

October 26, 1966 - "Ravi Shankar arrived at London Airport from India. George met him at the airport, dressed in Indian clothes. Ravi Shankar, who had received a European education, was dressed in a Western-style suit." Barry Miles (author of The Beatles Calendar)🎸🌸🎸

Via Facebook🪕

[mahgnib]

Ravi Shankar and his daughter Anoushka Shankar