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BBC News 12 Sept 2020, by Soutik Biswas, India correspondent A Canadian backpacker’s meeting with The Beatles in a spiritual retreat In India half a century ago is the subject of a new documentary. For filmmaker Paul Saltzman it was a “life-changing” experience. When a 23-year-old Canadian man arrived at an ashram near India’s holy …
BBC News 14 may 2015 by Soutik Biswas BBC News, Rishikesh. In the wooded hills near India’s holy city of Rishikesh, a 67-year-old British man trudges gingerly through a forest. He is on his way to a derelict ashram where his musical idols once stayed. He first saw the Beatles in the summer of 1963, …
Thursday, 26 June 2014. It hosted the world’s most-famous popstars as they went on a journey of spiritual awakening that transformed their music forever. It was the home of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru to the Beatles, who they visited in 1968 and where, it is thought, they penned most of the White album, including …
Anna writes that by the end of March 2007, one of my long-wished dreams came true – I spent a week in Rishikesh, India. In this blog I would like to tell you the exciting story about searching and finding the ashram where about 39 years ago The Beatles, their relatives, friends and girlfriends arrived …
