The legendary musician and composer, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaboration with The Beatles, died on December 11 in Southern California. He was 92. ...
10:50 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Indian classical musician and Pandit Ravi Shankar's disciple Pandit Barun Kumar Pal joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the impact of Pandit Ravi Shankar on Indian classical music. ...
01:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012
He will be remembered as a global icon for Indian Music, philosophy and culture. He took India to the world. ...
03:36 PM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: It is said that the rocker quartet from the British dockside town of Liverpool, The Beatles, started their big-league journey exactly fifty years back when on September 4, 1962, they recorded their first single 'Love Me Do' at the iconic Abbey Road Studios of EMI in London. Accordingly, tributes have been pouring in from all and sundry. People on social networking sites have had their profile pictures replaced...
01:41 PM, Oct 05, 2012
London: Beatles legend George Harrison's sister Louise says she is writing a book about the guitarist and his famous bandmates. Louise Harrison is the older sister of the late guitarist - who died of lung cancer ten years ago on November 29 - at the age of 58. She said that she wants to tell the real story of her brother and his famous bandmates, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and...
06:40 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Mumbai: He was one of the most important musicians of our times. Not just because George Harrison belonged to the Beatles but also because he was the first musician of global repute to try a fusion of different musical styles, especially Indian. Director Martin Scorsese's documentary on Harrison, 'Living In A Material World', which played to packed houses at the Mumbai Film Festival, pays homage to this spirit of the...
01:58 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Mumbai: "Ravi was the first person who did not try to impress me but in turn I was impressed by him," Beatles legend George Harrison says about his first meeting with Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar in Martin Scorsese's documentary 'George Harrison: Living In the Material World'. The meeting not only began a great friendship between two great musicians but was also catalyst in introducing Harrison to Indian philosophy, which impacted...
06:13 PM, Oct 20, 2011
Buenos Aires: Beatles fan Gerardo Weiss ran a typical Buenos Aires barber shop until he had a dream that the Fab Four dropped in for a haircut. Seven years later, Weiss has made Beatles-inspired cuts his specialty. "The dream got etched on my memory," he said at the modest salon, the walls plastered with photos of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. "I decided to get rid...
11:24 AM, Jul 30, 2011
He had a large batch of unfinished tracks at the time of his death in 2001. ...
08:17 AM, Jun 18, 2009
George Harrison had realised he could not get all the signatures in time. ...
12:16 PM, May 04, 2009
The former Beatle posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...
02:23 AM, Apr 16, 2009
Hong Kong: Relenting on its stand not to use the Decision Review System (DRS) in Test cricket, the BCCI on Monday scaled down to accept a modified version of the technology, at the annual conference of the International Cricket Council in progress here. The much-debated system will be in place during India's tour of England, but with certain modifications. The BCCI said they are agreeable to the use of technology...
04:04 AM, Feb 07, 2008
George Harrison’s hand-written lyrics for the hit song
While My Guitar Gently Weeps fetched a hefty sum of $300,000. ...
10:42 PM, Jan 17, 2007
The Beatles'
Love album being released on Tuesday is a thorough reinterpretation of their work. ...
01:00 PM, Nov 21, 2006
