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Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement. He was one of the most prominent Muslim leaders to support Hindu-Muslim unity, opposing the partition of India on communal lines. Following India's independence, he became the first Minister of Education in the Indian government. He is commonly remembered as Maulana Azad; he had adopted Azad (Free) as his pen name.
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Alan W. Pollack
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Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, poet, and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel. In particular, he is remembered for being the lead singer on the #1 hit single, "Bridge Over Troubled Water". Highlights of his solo career include a top ten hit, three top twenty hits, six top forty hits, fourteen Adult Contemporary top 30 singles, Five Adult Contemporary number ones, two UK number ones, a Golden Globe nomination and a People's Choice Award.
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Artie Kornfeld (born Arthur Lawrence Kornfeld, 9 September 1942, Brooklyn, New York) is an American musician, record producer and music executive. He is perhaps best known as the music promoter for the Woodstock Festival held in 1969.
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Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter acclaimed for his expressive singing and guitar playing.
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Bhagwan Das (January 12, 1869 - September 18, 1958) was an Indian theosophist and public figure. For a time he served in the Central Legislative Assembly of British India. He became allied with the Hindustani Culture Society and was active in opposing rioting as a form of protest. As an advocate for national freedom from the British rule, he was often in danger of reprisals from the Colonial government.
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Bidhan Chandra Roy
Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, M.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. (; 1 July 1882–1 July 1962) was the second Chief Minister of West Bengal in India. He remained in his post for 14 years as a Indian National Congress candidate, from 1948 until his death in 1962. He was a highly respected physician and a renowned freedom fighter. Bidhan Roy is often considered as the great architect of West Bengal, who had founded two eminent cities Kalyani and Bidhannagar. He was an alumnus of the Medical College Calcutta of the University of Calcutta. He is one of the few people who completed both F.R.C.S. and M.R.C.P. simultaneously within only two years and three months. In India, the ''National Doctor's Day'' is celebrated on the date of his birth (and death) July 1 every year. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy constituted a trust for his properties at Patna for social service and made eminent nationalist Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha) the trustee. He won the Bharat Ratna in 4 February 1961, India's highest civilian honour.
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Bill Harry
Bill Harry (born in Liverpool, England) is the creator of Mersey Beat, an important newspaper of the early 1960s, which focused on the Liverpool music scene. Harry had started various magazines and newspapers before attending the Liverpool College of Art, with fellow students John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe, who both later performed with The Beatles.
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Brian Epstein
Brian Samuel Epstein () (19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967) was a British music entrepreneur, and the manager of The Beatles. He also managed several other musical artists such as Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Cilla Black, The Remo Four & The Cyrkle. His management company was named NEMS Enterprises, after his family's music stores, called NEMS (North End Music Stores).
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Brian Jones
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Bruce Spizer
David "Bruce" Spizer (born July 2, 1955) is a tax attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana, who is also recognized as an expert on The Beatles. He has published seven books, and is frequently quoted as an authority on the history of the band and its recordings.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of Heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
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Bruno Koschmider
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C. Rajagopalachari
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari () (10 December 1878 - 25 December 1972), informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist, politician, writer, statesman and leader of the Indian National Congress who was the last Governor-General of India. He served as the Premier of the Madras Presidency, Governor of West Bengal, Minister for Home Affairs of the Indian Union and Chief Minister of Madras state. He was the founder of the Swatantra Party and was one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. Rajaji vehemently opposed the use of nuclear weapons and was a proponent of world peace and disarmament. He was also nicknamed the Mango of Salem.
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C. V. Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS () (7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognised for his work on the molecular scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect, which is named after him. Raman had significant contributions to the quantum photon spin, acousto-optic effect, acoustics of Indian musical instruments.
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Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Rolling Stone named Santana number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
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Carole King
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two-dozen hits during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King's album Tapestry topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks, in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
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Chas Newby
'''Charles 'Chas' Newby''' (born 18 June 1941, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England), was temporarily the bassist for The Beatles in December 1960, following the departure of Stuart Sutcliffe. When The Beatles returned from Germany for the first time, they were short of a bass guitarist. Pete Best suggested Chas Newby. Chas had been with The Blackjacks (Pete Best's group), and was now attending university, but was on vacation and so agreed to play with The Beatles. He appeared with them for three engagements in December 1960. John Lennon asked him to go to Germany, for the Beatles' second trip, but he chose to return to university.
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Chatur Lal
Chatur Lal (1925 - October 1965), was an Indian tabla player. Lal toured with Ravi Shankar, Aashish Khan, Vasant Rai, and Ali Akbar Khan in the 1950s and early 60s and helped popularize the tabla in Western countries. Chatur Lal was born 1925 in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Lal died October 1965. His legacy is maintained by the Pandit Chatur Lal Memorial Society and his elder son Charanjit Chaturlal, his daughter-in-law Meeta Lal, his granddaughter Shruti Lal, and his grandson Pranshu Lal.
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Christine McVie
Christine McVie (born Christine Anne Perfect, 12 July 1943, near Greenodd, Cumbria) is an English rock singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac though she has also released three solo albums. McVie has a contralto vocal range. In 2006, Paste Magazine named McVie the 83rd greatest living songwriter.
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Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe McDonald (born Joseph Allen McDonald; January 1, 1942) was the lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe & the Fish.
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Cynthia Lennon
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Dave Dexter, Jr.
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. (1915-1990) was a music journalist, record company executive, and producer known primarily for his long association with Capitol Records. He worked with many important figures in jazz and traditional popular music, including Count Basie, Peggy Lee, Duke Ellington, and Frank Sinatra. He is also known for his role in packaging and sometimes altering the recordings of The Beatles for the American market.
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David Clayton-Thomas
David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett; 13 September, 1941) is a Canadian musician and singer. As the lead vocalist for the band, Blood, Sweat & Tears he rose to fame, and maintained a busy solo career over the years as well.
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David Shire
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals and film and television scores. The soundtrack to the movie The Taking of Pelham 123 and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as Night on Disco Mountain, an adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, are some of his best know of his best known works. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.
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Derek Taylor
Derek Taylor (7 May 1932 – 8 September 1997) was a British journalist, writer and publicist, best known for his work as press officer for The Beatles. He had started his career as a local journalist in Liverpool working for the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo - then becoming a North England-based writer for national British newspapers including the News Chronicle, the Sunday Dispatch, the Sunday Express. He also served as a regular columnist and theatre critic for the Daily Express.
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Dick Halligan
Richard (Dick) Halligan (born August 29, 1943 in Troy, New York) is an American musician and composer, best known as a founding member of the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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Donovan
Donovan (Donovan Philips Leitch, born 10 May 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow), is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music.
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Earl Young (drummer)
Earl Young (born 1940, Philadelphia) is a Philadelphia-based drummer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s as part of the Philly Soul sound. Young is best known as the founder and leader of The Trammps who had a hit record with "Disco Inferno". Young, along with Ronnie Baker and Norman Harris, was the owner of the Golden Fleece record label. Young is seen as the inventor of the disco style of rock drumming (in Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes's "The Love I Lost" from 1973), as he was the first to make extensive and distinctive use of the Hi Hat cymbal throughout the playing time of an R & B recording. This is turn led to DJ's favoring his recordings because they could hear the cymbal quite easily in their headphones as they "cued up" records to be mixed. Young would feature prominently on many Gamble and Huff recordings before moving on to Salsoul Records as part of the house band for the label. He recorded extensively at Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios.
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Edgar Winter
Edgar Holland Winter (born December 28, 1947), is an American musician. Edgar is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on the keyboards, and as a vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock. He was most successful in the 1970s with his band, The Edgar Winter Group. He is easily recognized by his albinism.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the reigning queen and head of state of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and, as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grande Ufficiale OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
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Francie Schwartz
Francie Schwartz, born 1944, is an American scriptwriter and the former girlfriend, during the late 1960s, of Paul McCartney, who referred to her as "Franny". At the time, McCartney was engaged to the actress Jane Asher who broke off the engagement when she found them in bed together, although Schwartz claims otherwise. One of the fans who used to hang around McCartney's Cavendish Avenue house says that "...Paul brought this American girl home...[and a little while later]...another car turned into Cavendish Avenue - it was Jane. She'd come back...earlier than she was supposed to. Jane went into the house. A bit later on she came storming out again and drove away." Later on, Jane's mother arrived to retrieve Jane's things.
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Fred Lipsius
Fred Lipsius (born 19 November 1943, The Bronx, New York, U.S.) was the original saxophonist and arranger for the jazz-rock band, Blood, Sweat and Tears, for which he played alto saxophone and piano. He was with the band from 1967 to 1971.
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Freddie Perren
Frederick "Freddie" Perren (May 15, 1943 – December 16, 2004) was an American songwriter, record producer, arranger, and orchestra conductor.
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Geoff Emerick
Geoffrey Emerick (born 1946 in London) is a recording studio audio engineer, who is best known for his work with The Beatles' albums Revolver, ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Abbey Road''. He is widely regarded as one of the best engineers in all of recording history .
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George Dunning
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George Harrison
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George Martin
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George Toogood Smith
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he also became the only President of the United States who was elected neither President nor Vice-President.
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Giles Martin
Giles Martin (born 9 October 1969) is an English record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the son of Sir George Martin, famed producer of almost all of The Beatles' records.
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Glyn Johns
Glyn Johns (born 15 February 1942 in Epsom, Surrey, England) is a musician, recording engineer and record producer.
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Gopinath Bordoloi
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Govind Ballabh Pant
Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant (September 10, 1887 - March 7, 1961) was a statesman of India, an , and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand (then in United Provinces) and of the movement to establish Hindi as the national language of India.
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Gulzarilal Nanda
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György Ligeti
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Harry Nilsson
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Harry Wayne Casey
Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey (born January 31, 1951) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is most famous for his group, KC and the Sunshine Band and as a producer of several hits for other artists.
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Horst Fascher
Horst Fascher (born 5 February 1936, Hamburg) was a German nightclub bouncer, and a friend of The Beatles during their days playing in Hamburg, Germany.
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Hunter Davies
Edward Hunter Davies (born 7 January 1936) is a prolific British author, journalist and broadcaster, perhaps best known for writing the only authorised biography of The Beatles.
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Indira Gandhi
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Isaac Stern
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Ivan Vaughan
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Jane Asher
Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress. She has also developed a second career as a cake decorator and cake shop proprietor.
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Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004, and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Jayaprakash Narayan
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Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey "Jeff" Lynne (born 30 December 1947; Shard End, Birmingham) is an English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist, and record producer who gained fame as the leader and sole constant member of Electric Light Orchestra and was a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys. Lynne has produced recordings for artists such as The Beatles, Brian Wilson, Roy Orbison, Del Shannon and Tom Petty. He has co-written songs with Petty and also with George Harrison whose 1987 album Cloud Nine was co-produced by Lynne and Harrison. His compositions include "Do Ya", "Livin' Thing", "Evil Woman", "Turn to Stone", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", "Telephone Line", "Mr. Blue Sky", "Hold on Tight" and "Don't Bring Me Down".
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Jimi Hendrix
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Jimmie Nicol
James George "Jimmie"/"Jimmy" Nicol (b. 3 August 1939), is a British drummer, best known for temporarily replacing Ringo Starr in The Beatles for a number of concerts during the height of Beatlemania in 1964. He went from relative obscurity to worldwide fame and back in the space of a fortnight. Nicol hoped that his period with The Beatles would advance his career, but found that the spotlight moved away from him once Starr returned to the group. His subsequent lack of commercial success led him to bankruptcy in 1965. After then working with a number of different bands, he finally left the music business altogether to pursue a variety of employment. Nicol would later refuse to discuss his brief period with The Beatles, and has not sought monetary gain from it. He has a son, Howard, who is a BAFTA award-winning sound engineer.
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Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.
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Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (born 20 May 1944, Sheffield, England) is an English rock/blues musician, composer and actor who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles. He is the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his song "Up Where We Belong", a duet which he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked #97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list.
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Joel Rosenman
Joel Rosenman (born 1942), conceived and co-created the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Rosenman thought of the idea for the three-day concert when he and business partner John Roberts evaluated a recording studio proposal brought forward by Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld. The four went on to create the event; Rosenman and Roberts are the co-authors of Young Men with Unlimited Capital, a non-fiction account of their exploits as producers of Woodstock.
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John Coltrane
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John Gardner Ford
John "Jack" Gardner Ford (born March 16, 1952) is the second child and second son of U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.
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John McVie
John Graham McVie (born on 26 November 1945) is a British bass guitarist best known as a member of the rock group Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of Mick Fleetwood, was the inspiration for the band's name. He joined Fleetwood Mac shortly after its formation by guitarist Peter Green in 1967, replacing temporary bassist Bob Brunning.
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John Sebastian
John Benson Sebastian, Jr. (March 17, 1944, in Greenwich Village, New York City) is an American songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. His tie-dyed denim jacket is prominently displayed there.
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is a prolific American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning six decades, he has composed many of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including those for Jaws, the Star Wars Saga, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Jurassic Park, ''Schindler's List, Home Alone, and three Harry Potter'' films. He has composed the music for all but two of director Steven Spielberg's feature films.
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Johnny Hutchinson
Johnny Hutchinson (born 18 July 1940 in Malta), also known as Johnny Hutch, was a Liverpudlian rock and roll drummer of the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the same time that The Beatles rose through the ranks of British rock bands. Hutch's group, The Big Three, were rivals of the Beatles, and his opinions of them were not the highest; one early remark he made was that the Beatles "weren't worth a carrot."
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Johnny Winter
John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III (born 23 February 1944) is an American blues guitarist, singer and producer.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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José Antonio Abreu
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Julia Lennon
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Jürgen Vollmer
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K. Kamaraj
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Keef Hartley
Keef Hartley (born Keith Hartley, 8 April 1944, Preston, Lancashire, England) is a British drummer and bandleader.
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist/composer who has performed in both jazz and classical music.
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Ken Caillat
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Ken Mansfield
Ken Mansfield is a Grammy Award-winning record producer, former U.S. Manager of Apple Records, a high-ranking executive for several record labels, songwriter and the author of three books.
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Ken Scott
Ken Scott (born 20 April 1947 in London) is an English record producer and recording engineer.
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Ken Townsend
Ken Townsend MBE is a renowned sound engineer who played an important role at Abbey Road Studios. He worked on several Beatles albums, such as Rubber Soul, Revolver and ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. In 1966 he invented automatic double tracking (ADT). He spent his whole working career at Abbey Road, and retired as the Chairman of the Studio Group after 42 years of service.
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Lakshmi Shankar
Lakshmi Shankar (born 1926) is a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Patiala Gharana. She is known for her performances of khyal, thumri, and bhajans.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shrivastav Shastri (, pronounced ; 2 October 1904 - 11 January 1966) was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.
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Larry Parnes
Laurence Maurice "Larry" Parnes (1930 Willesden, London - 4 August 1989, in London) Was an English pop manager and impresario. He was jocularly known as "Parnes, shillings and pence", because of his known reticence in paying performers their worth.
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Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar (; born September 28, 1929) is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Bollywood movies and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, but primarily in Hindi. She is the elder sister of Asha Bhosle and brother Hridayanath Mangeshkar and sisters Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. She is the second vocalist ever to have received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
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Lee Eastman
Lee Eastman, born Leopold Vail Epstein, (12 January 1910 - 30 July 1991) was a New York show business attorney, and art collector the son of Louis (b. Russia ~1887, imm. 1906) and Stella (Freyer) Epstein. His sisters were Emmaline and Rose. He married Louise Lindner, heiress to the Lindner Department Store fortune; they had four children, including John Eastman and Linda (Eastman) McCartney, the late wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney. Eastman became McCartney's business manager shortly before the breakup of The Beatles while his son John represented McCartney during his 1970 lawsuit to legally dissolve the Beatles. He is the maternal grandfather of potter Heather McCartney, photographer Mary McCartney, fashion designer Stella McCartney, and musician/sculptor James Louis McCartney.
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942; Lawton, Oklahoma), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
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Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released five solo albums and a live album. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
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Lou Adler
Lou Adler (born December 13, 1933) is an American record producer, manager, and director.
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M. G. Ramachandran
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M. S. Subbulakshmi
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi ( 16 September, 1916 – 11 December, 2004), also known as M.S., was a renowned Carnatic vocalist. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. She is the first Indian musician to receive
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Magic Alex
Yanni (later John) Alexis Mardas (born May 5, 1942, Athens, Greece), better known as Magic Alex, the name given him by The Beatles when he knew the group between 1965 and 1969, is a self-styled electronics wizard and one-time head of The Beatles' Apple Electronics.
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Mal Evans
'''Malcolm Frederick 'Mal' Evans''' (27 May 1935 - 5 January 1976) is best known as the road manager, assistant, and a friend of The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.
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Mark Lewisohn
Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) is an English author and historian, regarded as the world's leading authority on British rock band The Beatles.
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Maureen Starkey
Maureen Starkey "Mo" Tigrett (4 August 1946 – 30 December 1994) was the first wife of The Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr. They married in 1965 and divorced in 1975. The couple had three children, Zak, Jason and Lee.
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Max Yasgur
Max B. Yasgur (December 15, 1919—February 9, 1973) was an American farmer, best known as the owner of the dairy farm in Bethel, New York at which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held between August 15 and August 18, 1969.
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Melanie Safka
Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Mick Fleetwood
Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician and actor best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band, The Rolling Stones. Jagger has also acted in and produced several films.
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Mimi Smith
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Mona Best
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Morarji Desai
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Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (26 August 19105 September 1997), born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (pronounced ), was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.
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Murray the K
Murray Kaufman (February 14, 1922 – February 21, 1982), professionally known as Murray the K, was an influential rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. During the early days of Beatlemania, he frequently referred to himself as the fifth Beatle.
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Neil Aspinall
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Nicholas Schaffner
Nicholas Schaffner (January 28, 1953 – August 28, 1991) was an American non-fiction author, journalist, and singer-songwriter. As an author, his works include the biographies The Beatles Forever and A Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey as well as the children's book The Boys from Liverpool: John, Paul, George, Ringo. Schaffner also wrote articles for Rolling Stone, Musician, The Village Voice, and Trouser Press. He was the grandson of Imagist poet Hilda Doolittle, better known as H.D..
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Nicky Hopkins
Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist.
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt ('''Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt''') (born 6 December 1929) is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier.
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Pandurang Vaman Kane
Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane (pronounced Kaa-nay) () (1880-1972) was a notable Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. He was born in a conservative Chitpavan Brahmin family in the Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra, India. Eminent Historian Professor R.S. Sharma writes of him in the following words: "Pandurang Vaman Kane, a great Sanskritist wedded to social reform, continued the earlier tradition of scholarship. His monumental work entitled the "History of the Dharmasastra", published in five volumes in the twentieth century, is an encyclopedia of ancient social laws and customs. This enables us to study the social processes in ancient India.Was awarded Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in 1963."
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Pattie Boyd
Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model and photographer, and the former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton. She was the inspiration for love songs written by both musicians, Harrison's "Something," "For You Blue" and "Isn't It a Pity" and Clapton's "Layla," "Wonderful Tonight" and "Bell Bottom Blues."
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Paul McCartney
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Peter Gabriel
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Peter Shotton
Peter Shotton (born 4 August 1941) is an British businessman best known for his long friendship with John Lennon of The Beatles. Generally referred to as "Pete", he was a close childhood friend of Lennon's, and attended Dovedale Infants School and Quarry Bank Grammar School at the same time as the future Beatle. The two boys were frequently in trouble with their teachers and with their headmaster, and they came to be known at Quarry Bank as "Shennon and Lotton" or "Lotton and Shennon."
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Phil McDonald
Philip McDonald is an English recording studio audio engineer, best known as the engineer for EMI and later for Apple during The Beatles studio years alongside with Neil Aspinall, Geoff Emerick, Mal Evans, and others. In Apple, McDonald joined as senior balance engineer. He was just 25. He was responsible at EMI for engineering work on albums by John Lennon, The Shadows, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Roy Harper and George Harrison.
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Phil Spector
Harvey Philip Spector (born December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter. The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl group sound and produced over 25 Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965 alone. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim.
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Philip Glass
Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (along with precursors such as Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein).
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez () (born March 26, 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music and a conductor.
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Quincy Jones
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Rajendra Prasad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad () (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was the youngest son of Mahadev Sahay from the village Ziradei, then the Saran district of Bihar. Dr. Prasad is considered to be one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of India.
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Rajiv Gandhi
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Ralph MacDonald
Ralph MacDonald is an American percussionist and song-writer born in Harlem, New York, in 1944. He joined Harry Belafonte's band at age 17. He wrote the Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song "Where is the Love" with songwriting partner William Salter. Probably his best-known composition is the Grover Washington, Jr. - Bill Withers hit "Just the Two of Us", which has since been covered by many artists, including Will Smith.
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Ravi Coltrane
Ravi Coltrane (b. August 6, 1965 in Long Island, New York) is an American post-bop jazz saxophonist. Co-owner of the record label RKM Music, he has produced artists such as pianist Luis Perdomo, guitarist David Gilmore and trumpeter Ralph Alessi.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Ray Connolly
Ray Connolly (born 1941 in Lancashire) is an English novelist, screenwriter and journalist.
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Renée Fleming
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Richard Dashut
Richard Dashut (born 1951) is a record producer who produced several Fleetwood Mac albums including their popular Rumours and Tusk, and later an album by Matthew Sweet, Altered Beast. Dashut also co-wrote several songs with Lindsey Buckingham during his time with Fleetwood Mac. Dashut was born in West Hollywood, California, and started his career sweeping floors in a recording studio.
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Richard Lester
Richard Lester (born 19 January 1932) is an American-born British-based film director notable for his work with The Beatles in the 1960s and his work on the Superman film series in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Richie Havens
Richard P. "Richie" Havens (born January 21, 1941) is an American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense rhythmic guitar style (in open tuning), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr belonged to another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became the Beatles' drummer in 1962, taking over from Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead singer on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally") and as songwriter with the songs "Don't Pass Me By", "What Goes On" and "Octopus's Garden".
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Robert Moog
Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (, respell|), commonly called Bob Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
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Robin Gibb
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Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott (28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.
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Rory Storm
Rory Storm (21 September 1939 - 28 September 1972) was an English singer and musician. He was born Alan Caldwell in Liverpool. Storm was the singer and leader of Rory Storm and The Hurricanes, a Liverpudlian band who were contemporaries of The Beatles in the late 1950s, and early 1960s. Ringo Starr was the drummer for the Hurricanes before joining The Beatles in August 1962.
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Roy Halee
Roy Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon and Garfunkel.
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Satyajit Ray
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single "The Sounds of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness.
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Sofia Gubaidulina
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Sonny Rollins
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Steve Reich
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Stevie Nicks
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Stevie Wonder
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Tim Hardin
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Tony Sheridan
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Uday Shankar
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V. K. Narayana Menon
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V. V. Giri
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Valery Gergiev
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Vinoba Bhave
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Visvesvaraya
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Witold Lutosławski
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Yehudi Menuhin
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Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music, and is also considered a pioneer and major influence of the 1970s new wave genre. She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
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Yvonne Elliman
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Zubin Mehta
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Shankar, Ravi Filmography
- George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
- El Hindú (2011)
- Music (2010)
- Ravi Shankar, l'extraordinaire leçon (2010)
- Woodstock: Now & Then (2009)
- Rahman magyar barátai (2009)
- Wisdom (2008)
- Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2007)
- Hit for Six (2007)
- Concert for Bangladesh Revisited with George Harrison and Friends (2005)
- The Song of the Little Road (2003)
- Concert for George (2003)
- Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds (2001)
- George Harrison - Der sanfte Beatle (2001)
- Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds (2001)
- Tenussian Vacuvasco (2000)
- Sixties Summer Songs (1999)
- Yehudi Menuhin: The Violin of the Century (1996)
- Rock & Roll (1995)
- Woodstock Diary (1994)
- Genesis (1986)
- Gandhi (1982)
- Meera (1979)
- The Concert for Bangladesh (1972)
- Raga (1971)
- Unterwegs nach Kathmandu (1971)
- Unterwegs nach Kathmandu (1971)
- Raga (1971)
- Ravi Shankar (1970)
- Sex and the Animals (1969)
- The Best on Record (1968)
- Monterey Pop (1968)
- Charly (1968)
- Niet genoeg (1968)
- Viola (1967)
- Chappaqua (1966)
- Ravi Shankar Plays for Alice (1966)
- Alice in Wonderland (1966)
- Chappaqua (1966)
- The Psychedelics (1966)
- Ghoom Bhangar Gaan (1965)
- Ustad Alauddin Khan (1963)
- Godaan (1963)
- Dheuer Pare Dheu (1962)
- Megh (1961)
- Anuradha (1961)
- Apur Sansar (1959)
- En djungelsaga (1959)
- The Sword and the Flute (1959)
- Parash Pathar (1958)
- Kabuliwala (1957)
- A Chairy Tale (1957)
- Aparajito (1956)
- Mastera Indiyskogo iskusstva (1955)
- Pather Panchali (1955)
- Dharti Ke Lal (1946)
- Neecha Nagar (1946)
Shankar, Ravi Filmography
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- Vandanaa Trayee
- Omkaaraaya Namaha
- Vedic Chanting One
- Asato Maa
- Sahanaa Vavatu
- Poornamadah
- Gaayatri
- Mahaa Mrityunjaya
- Veenaa-Murali
- Geetaa
- Mangalam
- Hari Om
- Svara Mantra
- Vedic Chanting Two
- Prabhujee
- Sarve Shaam
- Prabhati
- Swara-Kakali
- Raga Piloo
- Dhun
- Twilight Mood
- Raga Kaushi Kanhara: Alap-Jor-Jhala
- Raga Kaushi Kanhara: Gat in Dhamar
- Kathakali Katthak
- Transmigration
- Misha Piloo
- Dhun Man Pasand
- Dhun In Devgiri Bilawal
- Reflection
- Raga Patdeep / Gat Sitarkhani Taal
- Tabla Solo (feat. Zakir Hussain)
- Bilashkani Todi (feat. Ali Akbar Khan)
- Genesis Theme
- Woman Reminiscing
- Fair
- Return From the Fair
- Passion
- Jealousy and Fighting
- Variation on Genesis
- Bounty Full Crops
- Song in the Fair
- Swing
- Camel
- Title
- Raga Private Instruction
- David Frost Show
- All Things Must Pass
- 'I like a lot of music'
- Ride Rajbun
- Yin & Yang
- All Things Must Pass
- Bangladesh
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- Anoushka
- 40 Years
- Here Comes The Sun
- Homeward Bound
- Mo
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- Rockline Radio Medley
- Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
- Don't Try To Own Me
- Here Comes Emerson
- Your True Love
- All Things Must Pass
- Sandhya Raga
- Chase
- West Eats Meat
- Ragas in Minor Scale
- Tarana
- Tana Mana
- Sadhanipa
- Friar Park
- Reunion
- Prashanti
- Shanti-Mantra
- Jane Kaise Spnon Mein
- Kaise Din Beete
- Sun Mere Lal
- Sanware Sanware
- O Bedardi Kyon Tadpaye
- Janam Liyo Lalna
- Hiya Jarat Rahat Din Rain
- Pipra Ke Patwa Sarikhe Dole Manva
- Raaga Ahir Lalit
- Raaga Nat Bhairav
- Raaga Bhatiyar
- Raaga Yamani Bilawal
- Raaga Hemant
- Raaga Marwa
- Raaga Puriya Kalyan
- Raaga Bangla Kirtan
- Raga Sindhu Bhairavi
- Improvisations on the theme music from 'Panther Panchali'
- Fire Night
- Karnataki
- Raga Rageshri - Part 1 (Alap)
- Raga Rageshri - Part 2 (Jor)
- Raga Rageshri - Part 3 (Gat)
- Vandanaa Trayee
- Omkaaraaya Namaha
- Vedic Chanting (one)
- Asato Maa
- Sahanaa Vavatu
- Poornamadah
- Gaayatri
- Mahaa Mrityunjaya
- Veenaa-Murali
- Geetaa
- Mangalam
- Hari Om
- Svara Mantra
- Vedic Chanting (two)
- Prabhujee
- Sarve Shaam
- 31st of January 1948
- South Africa - The Beginning
- Bands of the Raj
- Discovery of India
- Villages of Bihar
- Massacre at Amritsar and the Aftermath
- Intermission
- Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram and Reflections of Early Days
- Salt
- Partition
- End of the Fast
- Remember This Always
- For All Mankind
- (I) Lalit (presto)
- (II) Bairagi (Moderato)
- (III) Yaman Kalyan (Largo Moderato)
- (IV) Mian Ki Malhar (Allegro)
- I Am Missing You
- Kahan Gayelava Shyam Saloné
- Supané Mé Ayé Preetam Sainya
- I am Missing You (reprise)
- Jaya Jagadish Haré
- Dream, Nightmare & Dawn: Overture
- Part One - Dream: Festivity & Joy
- Part One - Dream: Love - Dance Ecstasy
- Part Two - Nightmare: Lust (Raga Chandrakauns)
- Part Two - Nightmare: Dispute & Violence
- Part Two - Nightmare: Disillusionment & Frustration
- Part Two - Nightmare: Despair & Sorrow (Raga Marwa)
- Part Three - Dawn: Awakening
- Part Three - Dawn: Peace & Hope (Raga Bhatiyar)
- Padhasapa
- Kaharwa
- Improvisation on the Theme of "Rokudan"
- Namah Shivaya
- Tribute to Nippon
- Raga Hameer (Alap, Gat I, Gat II)
- Vandana
- Hey Nath
- Pather Panchali
- Supaney Mein Aye
- West Eats Meat
- Oh Bhagawan
- Friar Park
- Tana Mana
- I Am Missing You
- Ta Na Tom
- Fire Night
- Sanwaréy, Sanwaréy
- Dispute & Violence
- Shanti Mantra
- Raga Ahir Lalat
- Raga Puriya Dhanashri
- Raga Jansammohini
- Raga Mishra Gara
- Raga Parmeshwari
- Mishra Bhairavi
- An Introduction To Indian Music
- Dadra
- Kafi-Holi (Spring Festival Of Colors)
- Raga Des
- Raga Palas Kafi (Excerpt)
- Sitar Todi
- Dhun: Fast Teental (Excerpt)
- Raga-Tilak Shyam, Alaap & Gat Teentaal (Tabla-Kanai Dutt)
- Raga-Abhogi Kanada, Alap-Jod-Gat Roopak (Tabla-Kanai Dutt)
- Raga-Mishra Piloo Gat-Vilambit, Drut & Ati Drut Teentaal (Tabla-Ustad Alla Rakha)
- Raga: Jhinjhoti
- Raga: Patdeep
- Raga: Devgiri Bilawal
- Raga: Rasiya
- Raga: Rasia
- Farewell, 'my Friend' Raga: Rajya-Kalyan
- Padhasapa
- Kaharwa
- Improvisation on the Theme of "Rokudan"
- Namah Shivaya
- Tribute to Nippon
- Homage to Baba Allauddin (Raga Hemant)
- Main Title
- Charly Theme
- Scenic Tour
- Improvisation on Charly Theme - The Maze
- Termoil
- Reprise
- Love Montage
- Variations on Love Theme
- Self Pursuit
- Love Theme Transformation
- Charly Theme and Resolution
- Raga: Purlya Kalyan
- Swara-Kakali
- Raga Mala - A Garland of Ragas (I. Lalit (Presto))
- Raga Mala - A Garland of Ragas (II. Bairagi (Moderato))
- Raga Mala - A Garland of Ragas (III. Yaman Kalyan (Moderato))
- Raga Mala - A Garland of Ragas (IV. Mian Ki Malhar (Allegro))
- Raga Jansammohini - Vilampat
- Raga Nan (Aanandi)
- Raga Panchamse Gara
- Raga Megh
- Raga Bhatiyar
- Raga Kaushi Bhairav
- Raga Panch Drat
- Raga Kirwani (1968)
- Raga Hamir
- Raga Khamaj
- Raga Mishra Gara - Drut
- Vedic Hymn
- Raga Yemen in Teental
- Raga Kirwani
- Raga Rageshwar
- Raga Puryadhanashree
- Thumrin in Manj Khamaj, Talchanghar
- Thumrin in Mishra Khamaj
- Chase
- Tana Mana
- Village Dance
- Seven And 10 1/2
- Friar Park
- Romantic Voyage
- Memory Of Uday
- West Eats Meat
- Reunion
- Supplication
- Dhun Kafi
- Supaney Mein Aye
- 2nd Movement Sitar Concerto No. 1
- 3rd Movement Sitar Concerto No. 1
- West Eats Meat
- Tilak Shyam
- I Am Missing You
- Shanti Mantra
- Dawn To Dusk
- Vedic Hymns
- Baba Teaching
- Birth To Death
- Vinus House
- Gurur Bramha
- United Nations
- Raga Parameshwari
- Rangeswhari
- Banaras Ghat
- Bombay Studio
- Kinnara School
- Frenzy and Distortion
- Raga Desh
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Ravi Shankar
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- Duration: 18:37
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Ravi Shankar - Raga One - Alap & Jod From the album Ragas Varanasi www.amazon.com
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Ravi Shankar
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- Duration: 46:46
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
From 1964. Ripped from original vinyl LP. Liner notes and track listings: lh5.ggpht.com
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Ravi Shankar on the Dick Cavett Show
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- Duration: 4:46
- Updated: 15 Nov 2012
Ravi Shankar on the Dick Cavett Show
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Best Sitar/Tabla piece ever Ravi Shankar & Chatur Lal Raga Mishra Piloo In Thumri Style
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- Duration: 10:46
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
A veritable gem..with virtuoso tabla of Chatur Lal recorded in 1963 when Shankar had fire in his belly ..was in his early prime....the majestic start ...the meandering melody thus reconditions the soul inculcating in it a certain sense of levitation.. imbued with divinity..a kind of mantra..a dialogue with God...elevates you to Nirvana ..leads you to Valhalla and firmly deposits you there ... sempiternally...tabla solo in the middle ( 5:51 to 8:44) by Chatur Lal is simply mesmerizing! And 8:44 to 10-45 is probably one of the best and perfect sitar/tabla rapport ( jugalbandi) of all time! Don't miss 5:22 to 6:35 sitar engages in a dialogue with tabla then fades gracefully to make way for tabla solo....if ever there was a magical music tour this is it...this is it...and this is it...Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal here transport you to a world where music is redefined...and reinvented...... coruscating with a thousand nuances of vibrating colour...transforming the banal into a source of wonder.... and wonderment...
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Ravi & Anoushka Shankar - Raga Anandi Kalyan
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- Duration: 9:15
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Ravi & Anoushka Shankar - Raga Anandi Kalyan
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Pandit Ravi Shankar- Raga Rasia (রবি শংকর- রাগঃ রসিয়া)
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- Duration: 20:59
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
পণ্ডিত রবি শংকরের সেতঁারে রাগঃ রসিয়া...
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Ravi Shankar Raga Parameshwari
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- Duration: 44:21
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Raga Parameshwari ( 43.80 ) a) Alap & Vilambit Jod ( 22.52 ) b ) Madh & Drut Jod, Gat in Tala Dhamar ( 21.28 ) Ravi Shankar - Sitar Alla Rakha - Tablas From Ravi Shankar 70.
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Ravi Shankar & Anoushka Shankar Live: Raag Khamaj (1997)
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- Duration: 11:12
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
As part of India & Pakistan's Golden Jubilee celebrations, Pandit Ravi Shankar, accompanied by his daughter Anoushka Shankar, perform live for the BBC at The Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
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Ravi Shankar : raga puriy-Kalyan
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- Duration: 31:01
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Radio France le jeudi 26 juin 1986 au studio 106 de la maison de la radio a)Alapa b)jod(Vilambita,Madhya,Druta,Jhata) i)solo ii)avec tabla en cautala Ravi Shankar : Sitar Kumar Bose : Tabla Vidya Bataju : Tampura Jeevan Govinda : Tampura
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Ravi Shankar, Alla Rakha - Rag Charukeshi
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- Duration: 6:33
- Updated: 15 Nov 2012
Aochar, Rupak
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Ravi Shankar, Alla Rakha - Tabla Solo in Jhaptal
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- Duration: 8:25
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
french subtitle - sous-titres en français
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Secrets of Marriage - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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- Duration: 7:06
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
www.artofliving.org - 3 secrets for a successful marriage or relationship. 1 for women, 1 for men and the last secret for both. Read the entire transcript of the talk www.artofliving.org An excerpt of satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on 12 August 2012 at the Bangalore International Center, India.
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Ravi Shankar - Mangalam
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- Duration: 4:01
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Artist: The one and only Ravi Shankar Album: Chants of India (with George Harrison) Track: Mangalam Enjoy!
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Ravi Shankar - Raga Bhimpalasi (Live at Monterey)
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- Duration: 27:19
- Updated: 13 Nov 2012
Artist: Ravi Shankar Album: Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival
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Sitar Legend Pt. Ravi Shankar & his lovely Daughter Anoushka
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- Duration: 6:22
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Unfortunately, I had to disable comments on this video because of the many ignorant and immature comments that didn't capture the spirit of this video at all. It's not about who is/was the greatest sitar player ever! Some people even didn't notice that Ravi Shankar was around 90 years of age when this video was made, so of course he couldn't sing as well as he used to do when he was much younger. But again, that's not the point. Check out this too: 1. youtu.be 2. youtu.be 3. youtu.be 4. youtu.be 5. youtu.be 6. youtu.be
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Pt. Ravi Shankar & Pt. Kumar Bose - Raga Sindhi Bhairavi
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- Duration: 34:16
- Updated: 09 Nov 2012
Sitar solo - Pandit Ravi Shankar Tabla Accompaniment - Pandit Kumar Bose Raga - Sindhi Bhairavi Taal - Teen Taal High Quality Record Pandit Ravi Shankar plays a Thumri style composition in raga Sindhi Bhairavi. Pandit Kumar Bose provides him tabla accompaniment. There is also a brilliant tabla solo piece of 8 min. in the record by Kumar Bose.
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Pt Ravi Shankar at Woodstock
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- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 13 Nov 2012
As far as we know, the only footage shot of Pt Ravi Shankar's final pop concert performance ever, at Woodstock. Even the Pandit himself didn't know this existed when I met him in Delhi on Republic day 2009.
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Ravi Shankar - Gat Kirwani
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- Duration: 2:36
- Updated: 15 Nov 2012
Ravi Shankar - Gat Kirwani. The best sitar player in the world
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Ravi Shankar - Morning Love 2.2
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- Duration: 9:29
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Amazin Sitare (Indian) & Flute (Rampal)
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Ravi Shankar - West Eats Meat!
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- Duration: 6:12
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
The Track is taken from Ravi Shankar's Album "Tana Mana" (resp. "Bridges - the best of Ravi Shankar" (2001)). Ravi Shankar, THE greatest Indian musician of the 20th century, has produced a lot of stunning masterpieces with genius. This is only one example of these. Listen & Enjoy it.
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Ravi Shankar against drugs
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- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 14 Sep 2012
Ravi Shankar says that drugs impair enlightenment, hippies are lame but the beatles are awesome.
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Ravi Shankar Pancham Se Gara Monterey-1967 (part one)
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- Duration: 9:21
- Updated: 15 Nov 2012
The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Monterey was the first widely-promoted and heavily-attended rock festival, attracting an estimated 55000 total attendees with to 90000 people present at the event's peak at midnight on Sunday.It was notable as hosting the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who, as well as the first major public performances of Janis Joplin and Otis Redding.The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the themes of California as a focal point for the counterculture and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967.It also became the template for future music festivals, notably the Woodstock Festival two years later. Ravi Shankar was another artist who was introduced to America at the Monterey festival. Eighteen minutes of Dhun (Dadra and Fast Teental) an excerpt from Shankar's four-hour performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, concluded the Monterey Pop film, introducing the artist to a new generation of music fans.
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Pt Ravi Shankar Explanations on Raag
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
Ptji explain what a raag is
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Ravi Shankar & Anoushka Shankar Live: Raag Khamaj (1997)
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- Duration: 11:12
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
As part of India & Pakistan's Golden Jubilee celebrations, Pandit Ravi Shankar, accompanied by his daughter Anoushka Shankar, perform live for the BBC at The Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
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Ravi Shankar Live Madison Square Gardens Aug, 1971.wmv
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- Duration: 9:43
- Updated: 31 Aug 2012
Ravi Shankar playing a Bangla dhun at famous concert for Bangladesh, Madison Square Gardens - Part 1.
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Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan Live at the Carnegie Hall 1982
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- Duration: 56:02
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
Raga Mishra Piloo ( 55.64 ) Duet for Sitar & Sarod 1) ( 26.35 ) 2) ( 29.29 ) Ravi Shankar - Sitar Ali Akbar Khan - Sarod Alla Rakha - Tablas Zakir Hussain - Tablas Live at the Carnegie Hall 1982
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Ravi Shankar - Raga Bhimpalasi (Live at Monterey)
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- Duration: 27:19
- Updated: 02 Oct 2012
Artist: Ravi Shankar Album: Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival
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Value of the Human Life - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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- Duration: 18:31
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar answers a wide range of questions from audience on 25th February 2010 at Vishalakshi Mantap, The Art of Living International Center, Bangalore. To read the english transcript of the talk visit the Wisdom Blog wisdomfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com
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The Secret of Life - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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- Duration: 7:32
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
The secret of life for love, trust, relationships and other topics. An excerpt from a talk by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Irkutsk, Russia. (With Russian translation). www.artofliving.org Subscribe for more interesting videos. Check out brilliant videos on www.youtube.com www.youtube.com/artoflivingsatsang
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ravi shankar live 2002
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- Duration: 14:27
- Updated: 20 Aug 2012
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Ravi Shankar's live Madison Square Gardens Aug 1971 Video_.flv
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- Duration: 9:44
- Updated: 27 Jun 2012
http://wn.com/Ravi_Shankar's_live_Madison_Square_Gardens_Aug_1971_Video_flv
Concert for Bangladesh ♥ Bangla Dhun ♠ Ravi Shankar☮Live 08.01.71
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:53
- Updated: 21 Sep 2012
Ancient raga music for the enlightenment of modern people.Kept and Saved by traditional master to pupil teaching through the times.Ravi Shankar(Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920) Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.Some of the musicians that played with him were. Alla Rakha on Tabla, Ali Akbar Khan on Sarod, Kamala Chakravarty on Tamboura.
http://wn.com/Concert_for_Bangladesh_♥_Bangla_Dhun_♠_Ravi_Shankar☮Live_080171
Bangla Dhun (Live in New York City 1971) - Ravi Shankar And Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:32
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
http://wn.com/Bangla_Dhun_Live_in_New_York_City_1971_Ravi_Shankar_And_Ustad_Ali_Akbar_Khan
Ravi Shankar/George Harrison - I am missing you (Rare Live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:37
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Ravi Shankar/George Harrison - I am missing you (Rare Live)
http://wn.com/Ravi_Shankar_George_Harrison_I_am_missing_you_Rare_Live
HQ Pandit Ravi Shankar Anoushka Shankar Live BBC Raag Khamaj YouTube
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 11:12
- Updated: 01 Sep 2012
http://wn.com/HQ_Pandit_Ravi_Shankar_Anoushka_Shankar_Live_BBC_Raag_Khamaj_YouTube
Evening Raga - Ravi Shankar & Alla Rakha (Live at Woodstock)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
Woodstock Festival / Friday, August 15th 1969.
http://wn.com/Evening_Raga_Ravi_Shankar_Alla_Rakha_Live_at_Woodstock
Rag Charukeshi, Ravi Shankar & Alla Rakha
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:34
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
Uma apresentação exclusiva do famoso músico Indiano e sua cítara...
http://wn.com/Rag_Charukeshi,_Ravi_Shankar_Alla_Rakha
Ravi Shankar (1) Live at his home in 1969
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 28:15
- Updated: 05 Jun 2012
Raga Kaunsi Kanada ( 28.14 ) Live recording from a private party at Ravi Shankar`s North Vista home in Los Angeles, 1969. " On many occasions at the North Vista house, I would give impromptu concerts, and this recording is one of them, played with dear Alla Rakha on tabla, on august 29, 1969, just one week after we played the Woodstock Music Festival. Unlike our stage performances, it was more relaxed and informal and one can hear the experimental and fun spirit in it." Ravi Shankar
http://wn.com/Ravi_Shankar_1_Live_at_his_home_in_1969
Rain Clouds, Ravi Shankar at Woodstock, 1969
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:49
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
Images of clouds taken by me in June 2008 at Jammu winter capital of Jammu And Kashmir. Music thanks to Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Alla Rakha at Woodstock 1969. Audio credit: www.youtube.com An interesting footnote: George Harrison visited Kashmir in 1966 along with Ravi Shankar to learn Sitar. The story: 8ate.blogspot.com
http://wn.com/Rain_Clouds,_Ravi_Shankar_at_Woodstock,_1969
Ravi Shankar Live Part 1.mov
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:46
- Updated: 03 Sep 2011
Master Ravi Shankar Live at the Barbican on the 21st June 2011. He was accompanied and supported by: Tanmoy Bose: Tabla Ravichandra Kulur: Flute Parimal Sadaphal: Sitar Pirashanna Thevarajah: Mridangam
http://wn.com/Ravi_Shankar_Live_Part_1mov
" ravi shankar live 1974 - bbctv " - (pt 5 of 6).
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:00
- Updated: 09 Jun 2012
here is part five of our concert....
http://wn.com/_ravi_shankar_live_1974_bbctv_pt_5_of_6
Ravi Shankar live at Shiraz Arts Festival in the 1970s
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:50
- Updated: 11 Aug 2012
Ravi Shankar live at Shiraz Arts Festival in the in Iran. incredibly bad video quality, but audio is okay. en.wikipedia.org
http://wn.com/Ravi_Shankar_live_at_Shiraz_Arts_Festival_in_the_1970s
Ravi Shankar (2) Live at his home in 1969
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 39:23
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
Raga Bihag ( 39.22 ) Live recording from a private party at Ravi Shankar`s North Vista home in 1969. " On many occasions at the North Vista house, I would give impromptu concerts, and this is one of them, played with dear Alla Rakha accompanying me on Tabla, on august 29, 1969, just one week after we played the Woodstock Music Festival. Unlike our stage performances, it was more relaxed and informal and one can hear the experimental and fun in it. " Ravi Shankar
http://wn.com/Ravi_Shankar_2_Live_at_his_home_in_1969
Ustad Allah Rakha and Ravi Shankar Live In France
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:38
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
http://wn.com/Ustad_Allah_Rakha_and_Ravi_Shankar_Live_In_France
Sitar Legend Pt. Ravi Shankar & his lovely Daughter Anoushka
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:22
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
Check out this too: 1. youtu.be 2. youtu.be 3. youtu.be 4. youtu.be 5. youtu.be 6. youtu.be
http://wn.com/Sitar_Legend_Pt_Ravi_Shankar_his_lovely_Daughter_Anoushka
George Harrison & Ravi Shankar
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:56
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Interview with George and Ravi about their meeting and life working together. Interview from the late 90`s.
http://wn.com/George_Harrison_Ravi_Shankar
11:12
Ravi Shankar & Anoushka Shankar Live: Raag Khamaj (1997)
As part of India & Pakistan's Golden Jubilee celebrations, Pandit Ravi Shankar, ac...
published: 21 Sep 2011
author: TangibleEmotions
Ravi Shankar & Anoushka Shankar Live: Raag Khamaj (1997)
As part of India & Pakistan's Golden Jubilee celebrations, Pandit Ravi Shankar, accompanied by his daughter Anoushka Shankar, perform live for the BBC at The Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
published: 21 Sep 2011
author:
TangibleEmotions
9:43
Ravi Shankar Live Madison Square Gardens Aug, 1971.wmv
Ravi Shankar playing a Bangla dhun at famous concert for Bangladesh, Madison Square Garden...
published: 14 May 2010
author: tdsmapper
Ravi Shankar Live Madison Square Gardens Aug, 1971.wmv
Ravi Shankar playing a Bangla dhun at famous concert for Bangladesh, Madison Square Gardens - Part 1.
published: 14 May 2010
author:
tdsmapper
56:02
Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan Live at the Carnegie Hall 1982
Raga Mishra Piloo ( 55.64 ) Duet for Sitar & Sarod 1) ( 26.35 ) 2) ( 29.29 ) Ravi Shan...
published: 01 Feb 2012
author: rliesky56
Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan Live at the Carnegie Hall 1982
Raga Mishra Piloo ( 55.64 ) Duet for Sitar & Sarod 1) ( 26.35 ) 2) ( 29.29 ) Ravi Shankar - Sitar Ali Akbar Khan - Sarod Alla Rakha - Tablas Zakir Hussain - Tablas Live at the Carnegie Hall 1982
published: 01 Feb 2012
author:
rliesky56
27:19
Ravi Shankar - Raga Bhimpalasi (Live at Monterey)
Artist: Ravi Shankar Album: Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival...
published: 04 Jul 2011
author: gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Ravi Shankar - Raga Bhimpalasi (Live at Monterey)
Artist: Ravi Shankar Album: Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival
published: 04 Jul 2011
author:
gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
18:31
Value of the Human Life - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar answers a wide range of questions from audience on 25th February 2010...
published: 01 Mar 2010
author: ArtOfLivingTV
Value of the Human Life - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar answers a wide range of questions from audience on 25th February 2010 at Vishalakshi Mantap, The Art of Living International Center, Bangalore. To read the english transcript of the talk visit the Wisdom Blog wisdomfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com
published: 01 Mar 2010
author:
ArtOfLivingTV
7:32
The Secret of Life - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The secret of life for love, trust, relationships and other topics. An excerpt from a talk...
published: 19 Sep 2010
author: ArtOfLivingTV
The Secret of Life - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The secret of life for love, trust, relationships and other topics. An excerpt from a talk by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Irkutsk, Russia. (With Russian translation). www.artofliving.org Subscribe for more interesting videos. Check out brilliant videos on www.youtube.com www.youtube.com/artoflivingsatsang
published: 19 Sep 2010
author:
ArtOfLivingTV
9:44
Ravi Shankar's live Madison Square Gardens Aug 1971 Video_.flv
...
published: 05 Jun 2010
author: saikiadibrugarh
Ravi Shankar's live Madison Square Gardens Aug 1971 Video_.flv
8:53
Concert for Bangladesh ♥ Bangla Dhun ♠ Ravi Shankar☮Live 08.01.71
Ancient raga music for the enlightenment of modern people.Kept and Saved by traditional ma...
published: 02 Nov 2011
author: Edmirth3
Concert for Bangladesh ♥ Bangla Dhun ♠ Ravi Shankar☮Live 08.01.71
Ancient raga music for the enlightenment of modern people.Kept and Saved by traditional master to pupil teaching through the times.Ravi Shankar(Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920) Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.Some of the musicians that played with him were. Alla Rakha on Tabla, Ali Akbar Khan on Sarod, Kamala Chakravarty on Tamboura.
published: 02 Nov 2011
author:
Edmirth3
14:32
Bangla Dhun (Live in New York City 1971) - Ravi Shankar And Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
...
published: 12 Mar 2012
author: Balraj Jittla
Bangla Dhun (Live in New York City 1971) - Ravi Shankar And Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
6:37
Ravi Shankar/George Harrison - I am missing you (Rare Live)
Ravi Shankar/George Harrison - I am missing you (Rare Live)...
published: 20 Apr 2009
author: BobsArtGallery
Ravi Shankar/George Harrison - I am missing you (Rare Live)
Ravi Shankar/George Harrison - I am missing you (Rare Live)
published: 20 Apr 2009
author:
BobsArtGallery
11:12
HQ Pandit Ravi Shankar Anoushka Shankar Live BBC Raag Khamaj YouTube
...
published: 01 Mar 2012
author: appaji1969
HQ Pandit Ravi Shankar Anoushka Shankar Live BBC Raag Khamaj YouTube
3:54
Evening Raga - Ravi Shankar & Alla Rakha (Live at Woodstock)
Woodstock Festival / Friday, August 15th 1969....
published: 05 Apr 2011
author: FloydTerrapin
Evening Raga - Ravi Shankar & Alla Rakha (Live at Woodstock)
6:34
Rag Charukeshi, Ravi Shankar & Alla Rakha
Uma apresentação exclusiva do famoso músico Indiano e sua cíta...
published: 04 Sep 2010
author: inations
Rag Charukeshi, Ravi Shankar & Alla Rakha
Uma apresentação exclusiva do famoso músico Indiano e sua cítara...
published: 04 Sep 2010
author:
inations
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2:37
Palolem
Shots from Palolem, Goa, southern India.
Dedicated to all of the beautiful and hospitable...
published: 10 Apr 2010
author: Phoric
Palolem
Shots from Palolem, Goa, southern India.
Dedicated to all of the beautiful and hospitable people I met in and around this former Portuguese colony.
Music is a Peace Incantation by the great Ravi Shankar.
2:39
The Nature of Existence - Original Trailer
All the Mysteries of Human Existence - Explained in One Movie.
What if you asked the spir...
published: 29 Apr 2010
author: Roger Nygard
The Nature of Existence - Original Trailer
All the Mysteries of Human Existence - Explained in One Movie.
What if you asked the spiritual leaders, gurus, scientists, artists, and everyday people of the world why we exist, and what are we supposed to do about it? What started the Universe, and was it a mistake? Does God exist, and why does he seem so interested in our sex lives?
After exploring the phenomenon of STAR TREK fans in the acclaimed documentary TREKKIES, filmmaker Roger Nygard is taking on THE NATURE OF EXISTENCE, traveling the globe to the source of the world's philosophies, religions, and belief systems, interviewing spiritual leaders, scholars, scientists, artists and others who have influenced, inspired, or freaked out humanity, such as: Indian holy man Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (The Art of Living), evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), 24th generation Chinese Taoist Master Zhang Chengda, Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind (co-discoverer of string theory), wrestler Rob Adonis (founder of Ultimate Christian Wrestling), confrontational evangelist Brother Jed Smock, novelist Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), director Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back), Stonehenge Druids Rollo Maughfling & King Arthur Pendragon and many more...
How would YOU answer the questions? What journey is more important than one that takes us closer to finding meaning in our existence?
16:06
RideThePlanet. Kashmir
Third episode from russian RideThePlanet freeride film project.
It was shot in the mountai...
published: 09 Mar 2011
author: Konstantin Galat
RideThePlanet. Kashmir
Third episode from russian RideThePlanet freeride film project.
It was shot in the mountains of Kashmir, India. Gulmarg region.
Riders: Alexander Baydaev, Konstantin Galat, Egor Drujinin, Veronika Sorokina.
Camera: Konstantin Churakov, Konstantin Galat, Daria Pudenko.
Music: Kuba, The Hype, Mochipet, NOjoMOreno, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,
Zakir Hussain and Ravi Shankar.
Третий эпизод российского фрирайд-проекта RideThePlanet.
Фильм снят в горах Кашмира в индийских Гималаях, район Гульмарг.
Райдеры: Александр Байдаев, Константин Галат, Егор Дружинин, Вероника Сорокина.
Операторы: Константин Чураков, Константин Галат и Дарья Пуденко.
Музыка: Kuba, The Hype, Mochipet, NOjoMOreno, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,
Zakir Hussain, Ravi Shankar.
(c)RideThePlanet
http://www.ridetheplanet.ru
27:49
"THE BALLAD OF SANDEEP" - A Short Film Starring Deep Roy
The Ballad of Sandeep is an award winning comedic short film starring the illustrious and ...
published: 16 Jan 2012
author: Derek Frey
"THE BALLAD OF SANDEEP" - A Short Film Starring Deep Roy
The Ballad of Sandeep is an award winning comedic short film starring the illustrious and magnanimous Deep Roy (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Eastbound and Down).
It's written by and co-starring The Minor Prophets and directed by Derek Frey. The Ballad of Sandeep is the tragicomic story of computer programmer Sandeep Majumdar: slave, clown, hero. The Ballad of Sandeep was filmed in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
*A feature film version of THE BALLAD OF SANDEEP is currently in development.*
http://www.theballadofsandeep.com/
BEST FEATURETTE - 2011 Vegas Cinefest.
BEST DIRECTOR OF A SHORT FILM - Derek Frey - Independent FIlm Quarterly and New Media Festival
BEST COMEDY SHORT - 2011 Mockfest
BEST SHORT FILM - 2012 Freestyle Film Exhibition
BEST WRITING - The Minor Prophets - 2011 Mockfest
BEST ACTOR - Deep Roy - The Sunset International Film Festival - Los Angeles
BEST ACTOR - Deep Roy - The 2011 Colorado Film Festival
BEST COMEDY SHORT - 2011 Jersey Shore FIlm Festival
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - 2012 International Film Festival For Peace, Inspiration, Equality
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - 2012 Best Shorts Competition
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - 2012 RINCON International Film Festival - Puerto Rico
AWARD OF MERIT - Lead Actor Deep Roy - 2012 Best Shorts Competition
AWARD OF MERIT - Accolade Film Festival
HONORABLE MENTION - 10th annual DIY Film Festival
BRONZE AWARD WINNER - 2012 Prestige Film Awards
FINALIST - International Film Festival for Peace, Inspiration & Equality
SEMI-FINALIST - NEXT TV Film Festival
VOTED 1 OF THE TOP 3 SHORT FILMS - SIlicon Valley Film Festival
FINALIST - Moondance International Film Festival
Official Selections: Albuquerque Film Festival, The Other Venice Film Festival, Twin Cities Film Festival, Atlanta Short Fest, Rumschpringe Film Festival, New York Hell's Kitchen Film Festival, Lucerne International Film Festival, The OffShoot Film Festival and the Independent Film Quarterly Film & New Media Festival in NYC, Mockfest Film Fest, Irvine International Film Festival, Big Easy International Film & Music Festival, India International Film Festival - Tampa Bay, Winter Film Awards - NYC, New Hope Film Festival, Big Island Film Festival - Hawaii, Workers Unite Film Festival, International Freethought Film Festival, Costa Rica International Film Festival.
Starring DEEP ROY, GIL DAMON, DAVID AMADIO, STEVE KUZMICK, BRIAN GILLIN, BUD DAMON
Written/ Screenplay by THE MINOR PROPHETS ( DAVID AMADIO, GIL DAMON, STEVE KUZMICK, BRIAN GILLIN)
Directed and Produced by DEREK FREY
Music by MIKE HIGHAM and ANDY RICHARDS
The Ballad of Sandeep Theme Song by MATT AMADIO & DAVID AMADIO
Edited by DEREK FREY
Synopsis:
When his IT job is outsourced to Bangalore, Indian-born Sandeep Majumdar finds himself unemployed for the first time in eighteen years. In an attempt to get his old job back, he sets up a remote access in his apartment, tricking his former company into believing that he is really working from India. His performance is so impressive that the boss of the company-the same man who fired him two months prior-requests an interview with Sandeep to discuss a big promotion.
Director's Comments:
The Ballad of Sandeep is the result of many talented people I've known through my life. It marks the third film I've collaborated with The Minor Prophets, Philadelphia's premiere Comedy Troupe. Two of the prophets were childhood friends from my hometown in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. We lost touch after high school but were reunited in 2005, which led to the creation of 4th and 99, a short film that was accepted into the 2007 Festival de Cannes. Deep Roy and I have been friends since working together on Planet of the Apes in 2001. We later worked together on Big Fish, Corpse Bride and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Over the years Deep and I spoke numerous times of creating a film with him specifically in mind. When I read the script for The Ballad of Sandeep I knew it was time to make it happen The Minor Prophets took upon themselves the task of writing a script which would revolve around Deep as a man rather than as a character hidden behind a mask.. The story touches upon many truths about Deep. His career is filled with so many memorable characters, however from behind the makeup and costumes we never get to see him as a true person. The story also touches upon the aftermath of difficult economic times in the United States. Many Americans have recently faced the harsh reality of having their jobs outsourced to countries such as India. The Prophets, having encountered this reality in their own jobs, turned this idea on its head. Behind the humor of The Ballad of Sandeep is a poignant tale.
Filming on a shoestring budget, with minimal crew at multiple locations took place in and around Philadelphia, PA in August of 2010. The opportunity to return to my hometown to direct Deep Roy in this film was quite an amazing and surreal experience. Once production and editing was complete, maestros Mike Higham
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28:15
Ravi Shankar (1) Live at his home in 1969
Raga Kaunsi Kanada ( 28.14 ) Live recording from a private party at Ravi Shankar`s North V...
published: 13 Feb 2012
author: rliesky56
Ravi Shankar (1) Live at his home in 1969
Raga Kaunsi Kanada ( 28.14 ) Live recording from a private party at Ravi Shankar`s North Vista home in Los Angeles, 1969. " On many occasions at the North Vista house, I would give impromptu concerts, and this recording is one of them, played with dear Alla Rakha on tabla, on august 29, 1969, just one week after we played the Woodstock Music Festival. Unlike our stage performances, it was more relaxed and informal and one can hear the experimental and fun spirit in it." Ravi Shankar
published: 13 Feb 2012
author:
rliesky56
3:49
Rain Clouds, Ravi Shankar at Woodstock, 1969
Images of clouds taken by me in June 2008 at Jammu winter capital of Jammu And Kashmir. Mu...
published: 13 Dec 2008
author: vinayak8ate
Rain Clouds, Ravi Shankar at Woodstock, 1969
Images of clouds taken by me in June 2008 at Jammu winter capital of Jammu And Kashmir. Music thanks to Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Alla Rakha at Woodstock 1969. Audio credit: www.youtube.com An interesting footnote: George Harrison visited Kashmir in 1966 along with Ravi Shankar to learn Sitar. The story: 8ate.blogspot.com
published: 13 Dec 2008
author:
vinayak8ate
14:46
Ravi Shankar Live Part 1.mov
Master Ravi Shankar Live at the Barbican on the 21st June 2011. He was accompanied and sup...
published: 23 Jun 2011
author: mantra1333
Ravi Shankar Live Part 1.mov
Master Ravi Shankar Live at the Barbican on the 21st June 2011. He was accompanied and supported by: Tanmoy Bose: Tabla Ravichandra Kulur: Flute Parimal Sadaphal: Sitar Pirashanna Thevarajah: Mridangam
published: 23 Jun 2011
author:
mantra1333
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" ravi shankar live 1974 - bbctv " - (pt 5 of 6).
here is part five of our concert.......
published: 20 May 2011
author: puresandoz25
" ravi shankar live 1974 - bbctv " - (pt 5 of 6).
Photo: AP / Na Son Nguyen
15 Nov 2012
As President Barak Obama resettles in the Oval Office and casts his gaze again beyond US politics, he may well be reminded that few eyes were on the ball when the Arab uprisings appeared to erupt...
Photo: US DoD / MCS1 Chad J. McNeeley
14 Nov 2012
By Kimberly Dozier and Nancy Benac The Associated PressAssociated Press Posted: 11/14/2012 07:12:03 AM PST November 14, 2012 3:23 PM GMTUpdated: 11/14/2012 07:14:50 AM PST Jill Kelley...
Photo: AP / Adel Hana
14 Nov 2012
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the...
Photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
16 Nov 2012
November 16, 2012 -- Updated 1244 GMT (2044 HKT) Palestinians extinguish a fire after Israeli airstrikes targeted the Interior Ministry building in Gaza City Friday. Israelis take cover in a lpipe...
Photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
16 Nov 2012
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest near the Israeli embassy in central London on November 15 2012, which took place amid escalating tensions between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)...
Newstrack India
Tweet Kochi, Nov. 17 (ANI): Expressing resentment over the death of Indian national Savita Halappanavar after doctors denied her an abortion, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi on Saturday urged the Government of Ireland to make some amendments to the abortion law without hurting the...(size: 3.5Kb)
Recipe: Jacket potato with garlic mushrooms
17 Nov 2012
The Times of India
Ravi Sharma owner of Elbo Room in Mumbai shows you how to prepare this dish for an early morning snack Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 60 minutes Serves: 2 Oven temperature: 200˚C Ingredients: 2 large baking potatoes 2 spring onions, finely chopped 15g butter...(size: 1.7Kb)
Akshay Kumar to inaugurate film festival
17 Nov 2012
Gulf News
Bollywood star Akshay Kumar will kick off the 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) at a football ground in Panaji later this month, organisers said, adding that over 70 films would be premiered at the 10-day event. “Akshay Kumar will be inaugurating the IFFI at the football stadium...(size: 18.7Kb)
Narayanasamy plays down PM's dinner diplomacy
17 Nov 2012
Newstrack India
Tweet Chennai, Nov. 17 (ANI): Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V. Narayanasamy on Saturday played down Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's dinner diplomacy, saying the meeting with the leaders of various political outfits was aimed at ensuring that the upcoming Winter Session of...(size: 4.3Kb)
Media report on Kochi Metro baseless: Chandy
17 Nov 2012
Newstrack India
Tweet Kannur (Kerala), Nov 17 (IANS) Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Saturday pointed out that the media is playing spoilsport by coming out with baseless reports on the proposed Kochi Metro project. "There is no controversy at all in the Kochi Metro project. The issues are being unnecessarily created...(size: 2.5Kb)
Bangladesh 2-45, chasing Windies Test win
17 Nov 2012
Canberra Times
Bangladesh, needing 245 to win, were 2-45 at lunch on the fifth and final day in the first Test against the West Indies in Dhaka on Saturday. Shahriar Nafees...(size: 1.0Kb)
The Times of India
DHAKA: Spinner Sohag Gazi took six wickets on debut but Bangladesh lost both openers in pursuit of a 245-run target that left the result of the first Test against the West Indies wide open on Saturday. Scorecard The 21-year-old finished with 6/74 in an impressive...(size: 1.7Kb)
The Times of India
BEIJING: The leadership change in Beijing is likely to have a huge impact on India's relationship with China, for, retiring along with president Hu Jintao's team is state councillor Dai Bingguo, the chief negotiator in border talks with India since Atal Behari Vajpayee's Beijing visit as Prime...(size: 2.3Kb)
Viswaroopam songs coming soon in Sony
17 Nov 2012
The Times of India
Kamal Hassan has officially confirmed from his side the the music right for Viswaroopam is bagged by Sony and the fans can expect to audio to be available...(size: 1.0Kb)
Only 4 Muslims & 3 Brahmins
17 Nov 2012
Deccan Chronicle
The Samajwadi Party’s first list of 55 names for the Lok Sabha elections has only four Muslim candidates whereas there are eight Yadav candidates. Muslim candidates have been fielded in Kairana, Moradabad, Amroha and Sultanpur seats while Yadav candidates have been nominated for the Mainpuri,...(size: 2.0Kb)
Indian hero Pujara writes off England batsmen
17 Nov 2012
DNA India
India have already made up their mind about England's "fragile" batting line-up and Samit Patel acknowledged the team would have to "stand up and be counted" after it took little more than an hour for fears to grow of another tour of torment against spin. The 70-minute session that England batted at...(size: 3.4Kb)
Excited kids go on 'space talk' with Sunita
17 Nov 2012
The Times of India
AHMEDABAD: Fourteen students got a chance to talk to Sunita Williams, the US astronaut of Indian origin, through HAM radio on Wednesday, the first day of the Gujarati new year. Sunita fielded questions about her life aboard the International Space Station (ISS), her future plans, factors that...(size: 2.2Kb)
The Times of India
HUBLI: Loyalists of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa have urged chief minister Jagadish Shettar to attend the convention organized for the launch of Karnataka Janata Party on December 9 in Haveri. At a meeting of KJP's youth wing on...(size: 1.6Kb)
For other people named Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation).
| Ravi Shankar | |
|---|---|
 Shankar performs in Delhi in March 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury |
| Born | (1920-04-07) 7 April 1920 (age 92) Varanasi, United Provinces, Indian Empire |
| Genres | Hindustani classical music |
| Occupations | composer, musician |
| Instruments | sitar |
| Years active | 1939–present |
| Associated acts | Uday Shankar, Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Lakshmi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, Chatur Lal, Alla Rakha, George Harrison, Anoushka Shankar, Beatles |
| Website | RaviShankar.org |
Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the most known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.[1]
Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.
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Early life[link]
Shankar was born 7 April 1920 in Varanasi to a Bengali Brahmin family as the youngest of seven brothers.[2][3][4] Shankar's Bengali birth name was Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury.[2] His father, Shyam Shankar, an administrator for the Maharaja of Jhalawar, used the Sanskrit spelling of the family name and removed its last part.[2][5] Shyam was married to Shankar's mother Hemangini Devi, but later worked as a lawyer in London.[2] There he married a second time while Devi raised Shankar in Varanasi, and did not meet his son until he was eight years old.[2] Shankar shortened the Sanskrit version of his first name, Ravindra, to Ravi, for "sun".[2]
At the age of ten, after spending his first decade in Varanasi, Shankar went to Paris with the dance group of his brother, choreographer Uday Shankar.[6][7] By the age of 13 he had become a member of the group, accompanied its members on tour and learned to dance and play various Indian instruments.[3][4] Uday's dance group toured Europe and America in the early to mid-1930s and Shankar learned French, discovered Western classical music, jazz, and cinema, and became acquainted with Western customs.[8] Shankar heard the lead musician for the Maihar court, Allauddin Khan, in December 1934 at a music conference in Kolkata and Uday convinced the Maharaja of Maihar in 1935 to allow Khan to become his group's soloist for a tour of Europe.[8] Shankar was sporadically trained by Khan on tour, and Khan offered Shankar training to become a serious musician under the condition that he abandon touring and come to Maihar.[8]
Career[link]
Training and work in India[link]
Shankar's parents had died by the time he returned from the European tour, and touring the West had become difficult due to political conflicts that would lead to World War II.[9] Shankar gave up his dancing career in 1938 to go to Maihar and study Indian classical music as Khan's pupil, living with his family in the traditional gurukul system.[6] Khan was a rigorous teacher and Shankar had training on sitar and surbahar, learned ragas and the musical styles dhrupad, dhamar, and khyal, and was taught the techniques of the instruments rudra veena, rubab, and sursingar.[6][10] He often studied with Khan's children Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna Devi.[9] Shankar began to perform publicly on sitar in December 1939 and his debut performance was a jugalbandi (duet) with Ali Akbar Khan, who played the string instrument sarod.[11]
Shankar completed his training in 1944.[3] Following his training, he moved to Mumbai and joined the Indian People's Theatre Association, for whom he composed music for ballets in 1945 and 1946.[3][12] Shankar recomposed the music for the popular song "Sare Jahan Se Achcha" at the age of 25.[13][14] He began to record music for HMV India and worked as a music director for All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi, from February 1949 to January 1956.[3] Shankar founded the Indian National Orchestra at AIR and composed for it; his compositions experimented with a combination of Western instruments and classical Indian instrumentation.[15] Beginning in the mid-1950s he composed the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, which became internationally acclaimed.[4][16]
International career 1956–1969[link]
V. K. Narayana Menon, director of AIR Delhi, introduced the Western violinist Yehudi Menuhin to Shankar during Menuhin's first visit to India in 1952.[17] Shankar had performed as part of a cultural delegation in the Soviet Union in 1954 and Menuhin invited Shankar in 1955 to perform in New York City for a demonstration of Indian classical music, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.[18][19] Shankar declined to attend due to problems in his marriage, but recommended Ali Akbar Khan to play instead.[19] Khan reluctantly accepted and performed with tabla (percussion) player Chatur Lal in the Museum of Modern Art, and he later became the first Indian classical musician to perform on American television and record a full raga performance, for Angel Records.[20]
Shankar heard about the positive response Khan received and resigned from AIR in 1956 to tour the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States.[21] He played for smaller audiences and educated them about Indian music, incorporating ragas from the South Indian Carnatic music in his performances, and recorded his first LP album Three Ragas in London, released in 1956.[21] In 1958, Shankar participated in the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations and UNESCO music festival in Paris.[12] From 1961, he toured Europe, the United States, and Australia, and became the first Indian to compose music for non-Indian films.[12] Chatur Lal accompanied Shankar on tabla until 1962, when Alla Rakha assumed the role.[21] Shankar founded the Kinnara School of Music in Mumbai in 1962.[22]
Shankar befriended Richard Bock, founder of World Pacific Records, on his first American tour and recorded most of his albums in the 1950s and 1960s for Bock's label.[21] The Byrds recorded at the same studio and heard Shankar's music, which led them to incorporate some of its elements in theirs, introducing the genre to their friend George Harrison of The Beatles.[23] Harrison became interested in Indian classical music, bought a sitar and used it to record the song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)".[24] This led to Indian music being used by other musicians and created the raga rock trend.[24]
Harrison met Shankar in London in 1966 and visited India for six weeks to study sitar under Shankar in Srinagar.[14][25][26] During the visit, a documentary film about Shankar named Raga was shot by Howard Worth, and released in 1971.[27] Shankar's association with Harrison greatly increased Shankar's popularity and Ken Hunt of Allmusic would state that Shankar had become "the most famous Indian musician on the planet" by 1966.[3][25] In 1967, he performed at the Monterey Pop Festival and won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for West Meets East, a collaboration with Yehudi Menuhin.[25][28] The same year, the Beatles won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band which included "Within You Without You" by Harrison, a song that was influenced by Indian classical music.[26][28] Shankar opened a Western branch of the Kinnara School of Music in Los Angeles, California, in May 1967, and published an autobiography, My Music, My Life, in 1968.[12][22] He performed at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969, and found he disliked the venue.[25] In the 1970s Shankar distanced himself from the hippie movement.[29]
International career 1970–present[link]
In October 1970 Shankar became chair of the department of Indian music of the California Institute of the Arts after previously teaching at the City College of New York, the University of California, Los Angeles, and being guest lecturer at other colleges and universities, including the Ali Akbar College of Music.[12][30][31] In late 1970, the London Symphony Orchestra invited Shankar to compose a concerto with sitar; Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra was performed with André Previn as conductor and Shankar playing the sitar.[4][32] Hans Neuhoff of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart has criticized the usage of the orchestra in this concert as "amateurish".[1] George Harrison organized the charity Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971, in which Shankar participated.[25] Interest in Indian music had decreased in the early 1970s, but the concert album became one of the best-selling recordings featuring it and won Shankar a second Grammy Award.[28][31]
During the 1970s, Shankar and Harrison worked together again, recording Shankar Family & Friends in 1973 and touring North America the following year to a mixed response after Shankar had toured Europe with the Harrison-sponsored Music Festival from India.[33] The demanding schedule weakened Shankar, and he suffered a heart attack in Chicago in November 1974, causing him to miss a portion of the tour.[34] In his absence, Shankar's sister-in-law, singer Lakshmi Shankar, conducted the touring orchestra.[34] The touring band visited the White House on invitation of John Gardner Ford, son of U.S. President Gerald Ford.[34] Shankar toured and taught for the remainder of the 1970s and the 1980s and released his second concerto, Raga Mala, conducted by Zubin Mehta, in 1981.[35][36] Shankar was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for his work on the 1982 movie Gandhi, but lost to John Williams' E.T.[37] He served as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India, from 12 May 1986 to 11 May 1992, after being nominated by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.[14][38] Shankar composed the dance drama Ghanashyam in 1989.[22] His liberal views on musical cooperation led him to collaboration with contemporary composer Philip Glass, with whom he released an album, Passages, in 1990.[6]
Shankar underwent an angioplasty in 1992 due to heart problems, after which George Harrison involved himself in several of Shankar's projects.[39] Because of the positive response to Shankar's 1996 career compilation In Celebration, Shankar wrote a second autobiography, Raga Mala, with Harrison as editor.[39] He performed in between 25 and 40 concerts every year during the late 1990s.[6] Shankar taught his daughter Anoushka Shankar to play sitar and in 1997 became a Regent's Lecturer at University of California, San Diego.[40] In the 2000s, he won a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album for Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 and toured with Anoushka, who released a book about her father, Bapi: Love of My Life, in 2002.[28][41] Anoushka performed a composition by Shankar for the 2002 Harrison memorial Concert for George and Shankar wrote a third concerto for sitar and orchestra for Anoushka and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.[42][43] In June 2008, Shankar played what was billed as his last European concert,[29] but his 2011 tour includes dates in the United Kingdom.[44]
Style and contributions[link]
Shankar developed a style distinct from that of his contemporaries and incorporated influences from rhythm practices of Carnatic music.[6] His performances begin with solo alap, jor, and jhala (introduction and performances with pulse and rapid pulse) influenced by the slow and serious dhrupad genre, followed by a section with tabla accompaniment featuring compositions associated with the prevalent khyal style.[6] Shankar often closes his performances with a piece inspired by the light-classical thumri genre.[6]
Shankar has been considered one of the top sitar players of the second half of the 20th century.[1] He popularized performing on the bass octave of the sitar for the alap section and became known for a distinctive playing style in the middle and high registers that uses quick and short deviations of the playing string and his sound creation through stops and strikes on the main playing string.[1][6] Narayana Menon of The New Grove Dictionary noted Shankar's liking for rhythmic novelties, among them the use of unconventional rhythmic cycles.[45] Hans Neuhoff of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart has argued that Shankar's playing style was not widely adopted and that he was surpassed by other sitar players in the performance of melodic passages.[1] Shankar's interplay with Alla Rakha improved appreciation for tabla playing in Hindustani classical music.[1] Shankar promoted the jugalbandi duet concert style and introduced new ragas, including Tilak Shyam, Nat Bhairav and Bairagi.[6]
Recognition[link]
Shankar won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury at the 1957 Berlin International Film Festival for composing the music for the movie Kabuliwala.[46] He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1962,[47] and was named a Fellow of the academy for 1975.[48] Shankar was awarded the three highest national civil honors of India: Padma Bhushan, in 1967, Padma Vibhushan, in 1981, and Bharat Ratna, in 1999.[49] He received the music award of the UNESCO International Music Council in 1975, three Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award.[12][28][37] Shankar was awarded honorary degrees from universities in India and the United States.[12] He received the Kalidas Samman from the Government of Madhya Pradesh for 1987–88, the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 1991, the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1992, and the Polar Music Prize in 1998.[50][51][52][53] In 2001, Shankar was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Elizabeth II for his "services to music".[54] Shankar is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1997 received the Praemium Imperiale for music from the Japan Art Association.[6] The American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane named his son Ravi Coltrane after Shankar.[55]
Personal life and family[link]
Shankar married Allauddin Khan's daughter Annapurna Devi in 1941 and a son, Shubhendra Shankar, was born in 1942.[10] Shankar separated from Devi during the 1940s and had a relationship with Kamala Shastri, a dancer, beginning in the late 1940s.[56] An affair with Sue Jones, a New York concert producer, led to the birth of Norah Jones in 1979.[56] In 1981, Anoushka Shankar was born to Shankar and Sukanya Rajan, whom Shankar had known since the 1970s.[56] After separating from Kamala Shastri in 1981, Shankar lived with Sue Jones until 1986. He married Sukanya Rajan in 1989.[56]
Shubhendra "Shubho" Shankar often accompanied his father on tours.[57] He could play the sitar and surbahar, but elected not to pursue a solo career and died in 1992.[57] Norah Jones became a successful musician in the 2000s, winning eight Grammy Awards in 2003.[58] Anoushka Shankar was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2003.[58]
Shankar is a Hindu and a vegetarian.[59][60] He lives with Sukanya in Encinitas, California.[61]
Discography[link]
Main article: Ravi Shankar discography
Bibliography[link]
- Shankar, Ravi (1968). My Music, My Life. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-20113-1.
- Shankar, Ravi (1979). Learning Indian Music: A Systematic Approach. Onomatopoeia. OCLC 21376688.
- Shankar, Ravi (1997). Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar. Genesis Publications. ISBN 0-904351-46-7.
Notes[link]
- ^ a b c d e f Neuhoff 2006, pp. 672–673
- ^ a b c d e f Lavezzoli 2006, p. 48
- ^ a b c d e f Hunt, Ken. "Ravi Shankar – Biography". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ravi-shankar-p3434/biography. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
- ^ a b c d Massey 1996, p. 159
- ^ Ghosh 1983, p. 7
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Slawek 2001, pp. 202–203
- ^ Ghosh 1983, p. 55
- ^ a b c Lavezzoli 2006, p. 50
- ^ a b Lavezzoli 2006, p. 51
- ^ a b Lavezzoli 2006, p. 52
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 53
- ^ a b c d e f g Ghosh 1983, p. 57
- ^ Sharma 2007, pp. 163–164
- ^ a b c Deb, Arunabha (26 February 2009). "Ravi Shankar: 10 interesting facts". Mint. http://www.livemint.com/2009/02/26212701/Ravi-Shankar-10-interesting-f.html. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 56
- ^ Schickel, Richard (12 February 2005). "The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)". TIME. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953094_1953142_1953289,00.html. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 47
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 57
- ^ a b Lavezzoli 2006, p. 58
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, pp. 58–59
- ^ a b c d Lavezzoli 2006, p. 61
- ^ a b c Brockhaus, p. 199
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 62
- ^ a b Schaffner 1980, p. 64
- ^ a b c d e Glass, Philip (9 December 2001). "George Harrison, World-Music Catalyst And Great-Souled Man; Open to the Influence Of Unfamiliar Cultures". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/arts/george-harrison-world-music-catalyst-great-souled-man-open-influence-unfamiliar.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
- ^ a b Kozinn, Allan (1 December 2001). "George Harrison, 'Quiet Beatle' And Lead Guitarist, Dies at 58". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/arts/george-harrison-quiet-beatle-and-lead-guitarist-dies-at-58.html. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ Thompson, Howard (24 November 1971). "Screen: Ravi Shankar; ' Raga,' a Documentary, at Carnegie Cinema". The New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50810F93D591A7493C6AB178AD95F458785F9. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
- ^ a b c d e "Past Winners Search". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=Shankar&title=&year=All&genre=All. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
- ^ a b O'Mahony, John (8 June 2008). "Ravi Shankar bids Europe adieu". The Taipei Times (UK). http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2008/06/08/2003414118. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ Ghosh 1983, p. 56
- ^ a b Lavezzoli 2006, p. 66
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 221
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 195
- ^ a b c Lavezzoli 2006, p. 196
- ^ Rogers, Adam (8 August 1994). "Where Are They Now?". Newsweek. http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/NWEC/lib00285,0EC05F4D76C65508.html. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 222
- ^ a b Piccoli, Sean (19 April 2005). "Ravi Shankar remains true to his Eastern musical ethos". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-9117516.html. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "'Rajya Sabha Members'/Biographical Sketches 1952 – 2003" (PDF). Rajya Sabha. 6 January 2004. http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/r.pdf. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ a b Lavezzoli 2006, p. 197
- ^ "Shankar advances her music". The Washington Times. 16 November 1999. http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/WT/lib00179,0EB0F3E288AD65E1.html. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
- ^ Lavezzoli 2006, p. 411
- ^ Idato, Michael (9 April 2004). "Concert for George". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/08/1081326843156.html. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "Anoushka enthralls at New York show". The Hindu (India). 4 February 2009. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200902041040.htm. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ Barnett, Laura (6 June 2011). "Portrait of the artist: Ravi Shankar, musician". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/06/ravi-shankar-musician. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
- ^ Menon 1995, p. 220
- ^ "Archive > Annual Archives > 1957 > Prize Winners". Berlin International Film Festival. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1957/03_preistr_ger_1957/03_Preistraeger_1957.html. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- ^ "SNA: List of Akademi Awardees – Instrumental – Sitar". Sangeet Natak Akademi. http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm#InstrumentalSitar. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ "SNA: List of Akademi Fellows". Sangeet Natak Akademi. http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/fellowslist.htm#1980. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ "Padma Awards". Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. http://india.gov.in/myindia/advsearch_awards.php?start=0&award_year=&state=&field=3&p_name=Ravi&award=All. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
- ^ "राष्ट्रीय कालिदास सम्मान [Rashtriya Kalidas Samman]" (in Hindi). Department of Public Relations of Madhya Pradesh. 2006. http://www.mpinfo.org/mpinfonew/hindi/award/kalidas.asp. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ "Ravi Shankar – The 2nd Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes 1991". Asian Month. 2009. http://asianmonth.com/prize/english/winner/. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "Citation for Ravi Shankar". Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation. http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationShankarRav.htm. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ van Gelder, Lawrence (14 May 1998). "Footlights". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/14/books/footlights.html. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "Sir Ravi". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 113 (19): 14. 12 May 2001. ISSN 0006-2510. http://books.google.com/?id=FikEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14.
- ^ Watrous, Peter (16 June 1998). "Pop Review; Just Music, No Oedipal Problems". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/16/arts/pop-review-just-music-no-oedipal-problems.html. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Hard to say no to free love: Ravi Shankar". Press Trust of India. Rediff.com. 13 May 2003. http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/may/13ravi.htm. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ a b Lindgren, Kristina (21 September 1992). "Shubho Shankar Dies After Long Illness at 50". Los Angeles Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61210384.html?FMT=ABS. Retrieved 31 August 2009.
- ^ a b Venugopal, Bijoy (24 February 2003). "Norah's night at the Grammys". Rediff.com. http://www.rediff.com/us/2003/feb/24grammy.htm. Retrieved 5 November 2009.
- ^ Melwani, Lavina (24 December 1999). "In Her Father's Footsteps". Rediff.com. http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/24us1.htm. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "Signing up for the veg revolution". Screen. 8 December 2000. http://www.screenindia.com/old/20001208/shtakes.htm. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
- ^ Varga, George (10 April 2011). "At 91, Ravi Shankar seeks new musical vistas". signonsandiego.com. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/apr/10/91-ravi-shankar-seeks-new-musical-vistas/. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
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- Ghosh, Dibyendu (December 1983). "A Humble Homage to the Superb". In Ghosh, Dibyendu. The Great Shankars. Kolkata: Agee Prakashani. p. 7. OCLC 15483971.
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- Lavezzoli, Peter (2006). The Dawn of Indian Music in the West. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1815-5.
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| Name | Shankar, Ravi |
| Alternative names | রবি শঙ্কর (Bengali); Shôngkor, Robi (Bengali transliteration) |
| Short description | Indian classical musician |
| Date of birth | 7 April 1920 |
| Place of birth | Varanasi, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British Raj |
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