Rikhi Ram And Sons: Inside The Mini-Mecca Of Music History In Delhi

We’d recorded the Norwegian Wood backing track and it needed something. We would usually start looking through the cupboard to see if we could come up with something, a new sound, and I picked the sitar up - it was just lying around; I hadn’t really figured out what to do with it. It was quite spontaneous: I found the notes that played the lick. It fitted and it worked.”- George Harrison, The Beatles Anthologies.

The flirty twang of a ‘crummy’ sitar singing away on the widely popular Beatles’ track was paramount in perfectly chronicling John Lennon’s musical ode to an extramarital affair that had left its mark on the legend.
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