In 1968, Paul Saltzman was a lost soul. “There was a feeling of: ‘It’s great to be famous [and] rich,” said McCartney, “but what it’s all for?’”“I didn’t even know the Beatles were in India,” Saltzman says. “You can tell the Beatles’ story so many different ways,” says Indian film director, Ajoy Bose, when I mention Saltzman’s story. So the Beatles, with their long hair and jokes, really blew our minds.”Rather than presenting the Beatles’ relationship with India as one of cultural appropriation, Bose insists it was something closer to cultural exchange. India gave the Beatles a philosophical state of mind; India matured them, India helped them become individuals.

Source: The Guardian June 03, 2021 12:01 UTC