По битловским местам в Индии

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Шанкарачарьянагар это все-таки город такой в Индии. А вот праздник называется Холи.

Feb 1968, New Delhi, India --- New Delhi: The Beatles In India. Beatles George Harrison (Left) and John Lennon (right), sporting Indian attire and joined by Mike Love of the Beach Boys, stroll happily through a street in Shankaracharyyanagar in Northern India recently. The world-renowned British rock quartet is in India taking a two-month course at the Himalayan Meditational Camp. --- Image by В© Bettmann

Feb 1968, Lachmanjhoola, Rishikesh, Northern India --- Beatle Paul McCartney with his manager Mal Evans, shown on his arrival February 20th to join the other Beatles at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's transcendental meditation center.
Image by © Bettmann

Ринго, Морин и два чемодана консервов. По дороге в Ришикеш.

А вообще издана книга о путешествии Битлз в Ришикеш. В Китае, но на английском...

Очень качественные фото и очень крупный шрифт - как в букваре :)

Коли не в шелке японском издание завернуто, да и без СД и ДВД - брать не стоит :)). А вот Super Deluxe Limited Edition - самый то.

А отсюда рекламку можно скачать:
http://www.thebeatlesinindia.com/book_brochure/tbii_brochure.pdf

После того как Битлз появились в ашраме, Махариши отдал распоряжение закрыть двери и никого больше не впускать дабы не мешать его личной иммортализации в песнях ливерпульской чертверки.

Mr Saltzman left his native Toronto aged 23, heartbroken after his girlfriend left him, and headed to India seeking spiritual enlightenment.
He arrived in Rishikesh in February 1968 but found the Mahirishi's ashram closed because The Beatles and their entourage were inside.
Mr Saltzman slept in a tent outside for eight days until he was allowed in.
He was welcomed into a circle that included all four Beatles and their partners, the singer Donovan, Mike Love of the Beach Boys and actress Mia Farrow and her sister Prudence - immortalised in the White Album song Dear Prudence.
Mr Saltzman said: "There was no posing. I wasn't a photo-journalist and I didn't want anything from them.
"I'd never been a photographer before or since. I was just a kid with a camera.
"They were in an incredibly relaxed and at ease in a creative space - the historians say it was the single most creative capsule of time they ever spent."
Amazingly, his pictures lay unpublished for 30 years until his daughter asked him about his meeting with the group.

Интересно, а не было ль на том ДВД вот это фильма
February 15, 1968: The Beatles were filmed in a jam session in Rishikesh, India. The film was aired on Italian TV and has surfaced on bootleg.

LIMS]: What are some of your favorite memories from having spent time there?

[Paul Saltzman]: My most favorite memory is that I learned meditation in one half hour. The agony of a heartbreak changed to, and transformed genuinely into a loss. It was still a loss of someone that I loved, but the agony turned into a deeper understanding and a serenity. I realized that if she was really not happy with me, and if I really loved her, then it's good that she found somebody that she was happy with. It was deeply sincere, even though I still felt the loss, and I still missed her. Secondly, it was meeting the Beatles. They were unbelievably down to earth. I asked each of them individually if I could take the odd picture. And even though I was with them for a week, just hanging out, they each said "yes". And I knew, because it was like being in the inner circle for a week, they wouldn't mind if I took 500 pictures. I only took 54, in a week. Just meeting them, and the joy of chatting with people who's music I had loved, and their music had changed my life, as their music changes many peoples' lives.

[LIMS]:: The quality of the photography on display here is astounding. Tell us about the photography gear you were using at the time.

[Paul Saltzman]: I had a relatively inexpensive Pentax, with a 135-mm lens, and a 50-mm lens. I was not a photographer. I was just a tourist who liked taking pictures, so I would like taking my camera on trips. When I was home, I never took pictures. It's just when I went on a trip. (The pictures were good) partly because of the light there, and because they were in a space that was truly and profoundly mellow, and because I didn't want anything from them. When it comes to people that are really famous, their radar has to be pretty high as to when people want something from them, and then there's defenses. I never wanted anything from them, and that was so true that 32 years later when I first did this gallery show with the photography, somebody came up to me and said, "hey Paul, did you get your picture taken with the Beatles?". You could have hit me with a brick. I hadn't thought of my picture with them from the day I had met them, until 32 years later when this person had asked me. I never thought of asking for an autograph. The result was that the pictures are, well, one of the world's leading experts in rock memorabilia, Steven Maycock of Sotheby's auction house in London said that some of these pictures that I happened to take were the best intimate shots that he's ever seen of them. They were in a mellow place. I didn't want anything from them. They accepted me as one of their own, and so the nature of the pictures is really very intimate and candid. The method I used to reproduce them was Giclee printing, as opposed to Cibachrome. Giclee printing is archivally twice as long-lasting as Cibachrome, and it's a little more painter-ly of an image, than a hard photography image. Interestingly enough, I have people coming here today and saying that it feels like they're here. One person was looking at the large 30x40 blow-up of John, and saying that it's like you can feel his soul. So, it's really just the good fortune of all of those things coming together.

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For Saltzman, it proved a week that changed his life. For eight days, he had slept in a tent outside the ashram which was out of bounds to most people because The Beatles were inside. Then he was allowed in, given a 10-minute crash course in meditation, and generally allowed to fend for himself. He spotted The Beatles and introduced himself.

As a boy in Canada, he was familiar with their music and had danced to She Loves You in the early 1960s, admired their album, Rubber Soul, and attended their concert in Toronto in 1964. But he was not a groupie. “I walked over and said, ‘Do you mind if I join you?’ And John looked over and said, ‘Sure, mate, pull up a chair.’ And Paul pulled a chair in next to him and said, ‘Come and sit here.’”

After a bit of banter, he was mysteriously absorbed into their group. Later, he asked the four, individually, whether he could take some pictures. “Paul said, ‘Go right ahead, no problem.’”

Saltzman, who was on his first trip to India because he was doing a little sound recording for a documentary being made by the Canadian Film Board, had an inexpensive Pentax plus 50mm and 135mm lenses. Over the next seven days, he took about 50 intimate photographs on Ektachrome 64 transparency of The Beatles, most of which are now going into his book, The Beatles in India. This is an updated version, with more text and pictures, of his first book, The Beatles in Rishikesh, which he brought out four years go. He was lucky that The Beatles, who clearly did not feel their privacy was being invaded by his presence, allowed Saltzman unfettered access. Most probably, they sympathised with the agony of a young man suffering the pain of a break-up.

In the ashram on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Ganges, The Beatles were busy making music, in between periods of meditation. “They were there for different reasons,” remembers Saltzman.

Harrison, who had by this time met Ravi Shankar and had spent months in Bombay learning the sitar from the maestro, “was there to go deeper into his spirituality and his understanding of the divine. John was there to get the secret of the meaning of life, which, of course, does not exist in that form. Paul was there because he was interested in meditation. It was helpful and fun to be all together. Ringo was there out of group togetherness, a bit of curiosity but he was not particularly interested in meditation.”

One moment remains etched in Saltzman’s memory. “George was practising the sitar and it was just the two of us sitting together. George said — he said this without any ego, (he was) a very calm, very wonderful man — ‘Like we are The Beatles, after all, aren’t we? We have all the money we could ever dream of, we have all the fame you could ever wish for, but it isn’t love, it isn’t health, it isn’t peace inside, is it?” For four working-class lads from Liverpool, this was probably the revelation at Rishikesh.

The four moved on to new women in their lives. And this year, Cynthia is publishing her revised biography of Lennon, while his second wife, Yoko Ono, is helping with the production of a musical on his life. Saltzman is providing his own account of The Beatles in India (the German publishing firm, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, is bringing out one edition, while the author is releasing a special box set, done up in Indian raw silk, through his own website).

“The sentence George said to me impacted on me hugely so I have never forgotten that,” says Saltzman.

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George Harrison plays the sitar in Bombay, India, Jan. 14, 1968. At right is British actress Rita Tushingham, who was making a motion picture in India.

George Harrison, right, and John Lennon sit by a river in Rishikesh, India, while studying transcendental meditation with their yogi in 1968.

01 Apr 1968, Rishikesh, India --- Mia Farrow, John Lennon, and George and Patty Harrison at Maharishi's ashram.

01 Apr 1968, Rishikesh, India --- (L-R) Patty Harrison, Nancy Cooke de Herrera, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, George Harrison, Johnny Farrow, Mia Farrow, Donovan Leitch, Jane Asher, and Cynthia Lennon at the ashram.

The Beatles in Rishikesh

Paul Saltzman reminisces about the time he was privy to the Beatles during their 1968 visit to Rishikesh, and his cache of charmingly intimate photographs of the four legends. Paul Saltzman loves to tell the story of his trip to Rishikesh in February 1968 to learn mediation from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Quite by chance, he arrived in Rishikesh when the Beatles were guests at the Maharishi’s ashram. And, for a week, the Beatles welcomed the 24-year-old Saltzman in their group. Most importantly, they let him shoot their pictures. Experts have claimed that the 54 pictures that Saltzman took in Rishikesh are some of the best intimate shots of the Beatles. But Saltzman’s story also involves his daughter – Devyani (her mother, filmmaker Deepa Mehta, and Saltzman are divorced), who encouraged her father to share his pictures with the world. Saltzman published two books based on the pictures – The Beatles in Rishikesh and the recent limited collectors' edition, The Beatles in India. Last month, Saltzman, 62, was in New York where he spoke about his stay in Rishikesh at the Apple Store in Soho. ''These photos are so intimate and are, in their own, such an important moment in history,'' Saltzman later said from his home in Toronto. “The way people respond to them is really exciting, fulfilling and delightful. I take the pictures to galleries around the world and people always look at them, smiling. It is really lovely.''

Saltzman came to India in 1967 on a film project. His path may have been slightly different than that of the many westerners who travelled to India in those days, seeking higher knowledge or just cheap drugs. “I had no connection with India, no interest in meditation or mysticism, no knowledge of any of those things,” Saltzman said. When he arrived in India, he received a letter from his girlfriend in Canada saying that she was breaking up with him. “I was heartbroken and someone suggested ‘Why don’t you try meditation for the heartbreak?’”

Saltzman heard a lecture by the Maharishi at Delhi University, and later travelled to Rishikesh. But since the Beatles were staying at the ashram, it took Saltzman eight days to convince the Maharishi’s handlers that he was not just a fan. Finally, he was allowed to enter the ashram and was given a lesson in meditation by one of the Maharishi’s disciples.

“The next day, I was walking to the ashram, and I wasn’t even thinking of the Beatles,” Saltzman recalled. “And I saw the four Beatles sitting by a table, in a shade, by a cliff, overlooking the Ganges, which is where we would hang out for the next week. And I walked over.”

“They realised somebody was standing there. John Lennon looked up at me and I said ‘May I join you?’ John said ‘Sure mate, pull up a chair,’ and Paul McCartney pulled a chair next to him and said ‘Come and sit down.’”

The Beatles – nearly the same age as Saltzman - teased him when they realised that he was a Canadian. “John turned to the group and said in his dry and very wonderfully witty way, ‘Ah, he is from one of the colonies’. And they all started laughing.”

The next day, Saltzman saw Ringo Starr and George Harrison taking pictures of each other. Saltzman pulled out his cheap Pentax and asked if he could also take pictures and they told him to go ahead. “I was just a kid with a camera,” he said. “But I never said ‘Hey Paul, hey John, click’. They were just sitting around.”

He had a memorable time alone with Harrison, listening to him play the sitar. Harrison then discussed with Saltzman the importance of inner peace and the benefits of meditation. And, one day, Lennon and Saltzman talked about love and heartache. “He said ‘Ah yes, love can be very tough on us sometimes,’” Saltzman recalled. “And then he said, ‘You know, Paul, the good thing about love is that you always get a second chance.’” Two months after Saltzman returned to Canada, he read about Lennon breaking up with his wife Cynthia. The singer/songwriter was in a relationship with Yoko Ono.
When he returned to Toronto, he boxed his photos, and then life took over and he forgot about their existence. He never spoke about his very personal experience in Rishikesh with anyone, including Mehta — his future wife. But he did tell occasional bedtime stories to his daughter Devyani about the time he spent with the Beatles in India.
In 1999, the 18-year old Devyani asked her father to show her the pictures. Saltzman managed to find the boxes that he had put away decades ago. “When I showed her pictures, she said ‘You know Dad, they are great. You should do something with them.’”
In the last few years, Saltzman has shown the pictures to Harrison’s first wife Patti, Starr and Cynthia Lennon. “I spent an hour-and-a-half with her (Cynthia) and her husband (in Berlin). She said ‘You know that picture of John’s finger touching his ear? That is the best picture I have seen of him.’ And then she paused and said, ‘Except maybe for his baby pictures.’”

The long and winding road to Rishikesh
Photographer shares rare look at The Beatles in book, photo exhibit

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