There is a moment, at the start of every sitar performance, when nothing has quite begun yet. The sitarist settles the instrument against his knee. He plucks one string, not to play a melody, but ...

A distracted and stoned George Harrison found himself watching an Indian band performing in a restaurant and was aroused by ...

In the mid-1960s, George met sitar legend Ravi Shankar and immediately began receiving lessons from him. Indian music took hold of George so much that he left his guitar behind. However, George ...

You can praise The Beatles for a lot of reasons. High on that list should be the fact that they refused to settle on strategies that worked for them in early successes. Instead, they kept pushing the ...

Ed Sheeran, during his India tour, shared a video of himself playing the sitar for the first time, delighting fans by performing a sitar rendition of 'Shape of You.' Guided by Indian sitar player ...

The pair spent weeks together, starting the lessons at Harrison's house in England and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California. Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, ...

NEW DELHI - With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2012 file photo, Indian musician Ravi Shankar laughs as he speaks during a concert in Bangalore, India.