The Beatles and India

00:01:53 My family lived in Arnold Grove in the 1940s.

00:05:41 to all the stereotypes about India,

00:09:26 And they symbolised to us, not just a new kind of music.

00:12:42 so that the people there could not recognise them.

00:16:28 looking a little bit bored, smoking like a chimney.

00:20:19 and we weren't told,

00:23:58 that brought them together.

00:27:54 And the first night

00:31:04 but you know, somehow because of him,

00:34:30 And so you think that if The Beatles adopt your teaching,

00:38:23 Its one of the most celebrated centres of pilgrimage

00:42:26 Anyway, we had curtains put up.

00:49:08 or meditate in some quiet spot overlooking the Ganges.

00:53:01 So John Lennon put that into the song, jai guru deva.

00:58:23 Ringo Starr, two or three days,

01:02:40 George Harrison's birthday present to her, the dilruba.

01:06:28 and Paul Horn, who was a jazz flautist, he was there too,

01:10:16 My function was to discover

01:13:50 and you're gonna be in it and they're going, "Are we?"

01:17:08 You see, he wanted to have power over John,

01:20:59 the ultimate destination was in fact Katmandu in Nepal.

01:24:35 It sounds amazing.

01:28:01 And he is a spry old codger,

01:31:45 but we're actually spirits in bodies.