And it wasn’t – even though I’m saying “ I want to see you Lord, but it takes so long”. It was just an acknowledgment of the Lord for me and a way of singing the names of the Lord. Roger McGuinn – I read him saying something, and he was probably one of the few people who realised what it was. You see, and Krishna is another word for God who lives within the heart of everybody. Because since it became known about the meditation and My Sweet Lord and all that, I’ve had every organisation under the sun all trying to hip me to who the greatest guru in the world is.įreeman: And who do you think the greatest guru in the world is? And all the societies – the this the that and the other. And this is another thing which I learned through the Maharishis and all the gurus that there are. He taught me so much without actually saying a word. The first person who ever impressed me in me life was Ravi Shankar, and he was the only person who didn’t try to impress me. was a lot to do with the fact that I’d met so many people – I could meet anybody, you know? You could go in all the film stars’ houses and Elvis and everybody, and we met a lot of really good people, but we didn’t – I never met one person who really impressed me. We met everybody – and all the film stars and everybody – and this is the point where you know, say, for Ravi Shankar, why his association with me was so strong. You know, it’s not everybody who has the chance of that adulation or meeting all those Presidents and Kings and Queens and Princesses and Dukes and Earls and Police Chiefs and this and that. When you grow it under hot-house conditions you make it grow much quicker than it would naturally, and we went through more experiences in six years than I think most people have gone through in their lives. It was like we were forced grown, like rhubarb. George: Well the change…it used to make us laugh in The Beatles when we’d read people saying, “Well the problem with The Beatles is that when we were all growing up they were all on tour and so they missed the growing up period.” But the truth to it was that we were snatched out of our youth, out of our school days – or we snatched ourselves out. Other parts here.Īlan Freeman: George, from jumping around singing, “ She loves you y eah yeah yeah” when did you notice the change? When – or were you even at that stage? Thinking as you think now without really knowing it. ![]() ![]() This interview was used quite a bit in the Living in the Material World documentary by Martin Scorsese. Part 2 of George Harrison’s interview on Rock Around the World with Alan Freeman (18 Oct.
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