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  • ...I got the name Rigby from a shop in Bristol. I was wandering round Bristol one day and saw a shop called Rigby. And I think Eleanor was from Eleanor Bron, ...ting a melody over it, just danced over the top of it. It has almost Asian Indian rhythms.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'', Barry Mi
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  • ...riod. The song was written at Klaus Voormann's house in Hampstead, London, one night after dinner. I was playing a pedal harmonium in the house, when the ...was getting a ''bit'' better on the instrument. I was continually playing Indian music lessons the melodies of which are called Sargams, which are the bases
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  • {{cquote|The album's most significant new ingredient was the influence of Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Patti Harrison had attended a lecture by the M ...h one, and said, 'Look, I've gotta leave. I can't make it!' But then, each one I went to said, 'I thought it was you three, and I was on my own. So, at le
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  • ...I could see from the look on Harrison's face that he didn't like the idea one bit, but he reluctantly agreed and then proceeded to disappear for a couple ...o have Paul play that bit on 'Taxman.' If you notice, he did like a little Indian bit on it for me.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison, ''Guitar Player Magazin
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  • ...esulted in a fabulous sound, right in your face, and both Harrison and the Indian musicians commented afterward about it.|quotewidth=500px|Geoff Emerick, EMI {{cquote|'Love You To' was one of the first tunes I wrote for sitar. ''Norwegian Wood'' was an accident as
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  • ...Columbia]], [[Concord Music Group]], [[EMI Music Group|EMI]], [[One Little Indian]], [[Vee-Jay]] ...er had a car, or a television till the coronation in 1953. I was the first one in the family to buy a car with my Beatle earnings. My mum, a nurse, road a
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  • ...s in wood. Norwegian wood. It was pine really, cheap pine. ... So it was a little parody really on those kind of girls who when you'd go to their flat there George had become very interested in Indian music and it was his first sitar solo. ... It's 60-40 to John because it's
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