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An Indian sitarist and a tabla player accompanied the Yardbirds on a demo recording of the song, but only the tabla part was deemed usable. [11] Instead, Jeff Beck emulated the sitar figure, tone and accompanying drone on the electric guitar for the master recording. [12] The song reached number 2 on the UK chart [13] and number 9 in the US. [14]
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[45] [46] [47] The song marked the first example of a rock band playing a sitar [48] or any Indian instrument on one of their recordings. [49] It was also issued on a single with "Nowhere Man" in Australia and was a number 1 hit there in May 1966. [50] [51] The two songs were listed together, as a double A-side, during the single's two weeks at ...
The Beats had promoted Buddhism since the 1950s, but it was George Harrison's songs espousing Hindu philosophy and featuring Indian musicians, and the Beatles' study of Transcendental Meditation, that truly kick-started the human potential movement of the 1970s (rebranded New Age in the 1980s). In this way, the musicians helped expand the ...
The song was written and sung by George Harrison and features Indian instrumentation such as sitar and tabla. Following Harrison's introduction of the sitar on "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" in 1965, it was the first Beatles song to fully reflect the influence of Indian classical music.
Indian rock is a music genre in India that may incorporate elements of Indian music with rock music, and is often topically India-centric.While India is more often known for its (northern and southern) classical music, filmi, Bollywood music, Indi-pop, and Bhangra, the Indian rock scene has also produced numerous bands and artists.
Recently, Indian pop has taken an interesting turn with the "remixing" of songs from past Indian movie songs, new beats being added to them. In 2022, Jaimin Rajani, an Indian singer-songwriter, fused the sitar's Indian classical sound with Western rock sensibilities in "Something Here to Stay," a track from his debut album Cutting Loose.
Ravi Shankar, a master of the instrument, was the first to make inroads into Western culture with the sitar.. While the sitar had earlier been used in jazz and Indian film music, it was from the 1960s onwards that various pop artists in the Western world began to experiment with incorporating the sitar, a classical Indian stringed instrument, within their compositions.