Rikhi Ram & Sons: another Now and Then Beatles story

Sometimes I would think that my father was just boasting about meeting The Beatles, about them being here in our shop... But it is all true, of course,” said 56-year-old Ajay Sharma, with a laugh, seated inside his cosy musical instruments shop in Delhi’s Connaught Place (CP).On a dull July afternoon in 1966 – seven months before Sharma was born – the Fab Four walked into Rikhi Ram & Sons in CP. They understood music well, even knew the stringed instruments that dotted the shop.

But little did Bishan Dass, Sharma’s father, know at the time that the four men standing in his modest store that afternoon were Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. “Minutes later, my father’s friend told him who they were. They were The Beatles. And as news spread, it all went crazy, and more people thronged the shop,” said Sharma, who now helms the 103-year-old store, which sells Indian musical instruments .


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