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George Harrison, a member of The Beatles, began experimenting with the sitar in 1965, that is how and why he met Ravi Shankar and became close friends. This in turn expanded Shankar's fame as a pop star and as Harrison's mentor. This development greatly expanded his career. He was invited to play venues that were unusual for a classical musician, such as the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival in Monterey, California, with Ustad Allah Rakha on tabla. He was also one of the artists who performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and with Harrison was one of the organizers of The Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, in an attempt to raise awareness of the genocide that was occurring in the region of Bengal where Shankar's familiy origins lay. Ravi Shankar & Friends was also the opening act for Harrison's 1974 tour of the United States. He became involved with American concert promoter Sue Jones but they did not marry. Their union, however, produced one daughter, recording artist Norah Jones. He later married an admirer, Sukanya Rajan, with whom he had had a second daughter named Anoushka.

Om (or Aum) is a sacred syllable in, both, Hinduism and Buddhism. The syllable is sometimes referred to as, "the Udgitha". The Chandogya Upanishad (1.1.1-10) states, "The udgitha is the best of all essences, the highest, deserving the highest place, the eighth." It has been argued that Om can be translated, into English, as "yes". Notes the Chandogya Upanishad, "That syllable, is a syllable of permission; for, whenever we permit anything, we say Om." [+]
Om is a river in Russia; it is ~724km long.

Ravi Shankar on the Dick Cavett Show

George Harrison brought all the love back from India after his meeting with Ravi Shankar.

 

George speaks candidly about difficulty of choosing the charity organization to donate the proceeds from The Concert for Bangladesh, the mercenary nature of Capitol Records (regarding the distribution of The Concert for Bangladesh record) and also about American television in this excerpt from 1971.

George Harrison - My Sweet Lord

John Lennon and Yoko Ono interviewd by Dick Cavette