KBC14: Pandit Ravi Shankar taught the sitar to George Harrison, who was a member of which famous band?
Answer: The Beatles
The legendary sitar master Pandit Ravi Shankar is credited with popularising Indian classical music and inspiring the ‘psychedelic’ sound of the 1960s through his work with The Beatles.
As Harrison introduced Eastern philosophy to the heart of the Western world’s pop darlings, his love of classical Indian music is audible throughout The Beatles’ back catalog. The Fab Four began utilizing many of Shankar’s techniques after Harrison and Shankar first met. His connections to Harrison and The Beatles made him the ideal performer for any festival or late-night television program. He appeared on The Dick Cavett Show the same year he performed at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, introducing traditional Indian music to the American public.
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