George Harrison: Living in the Material World Page #6

Have they changed

because of all this?

Altered...developed, perhaps,

but not...um...

not changed too much. They're not

in any way contaminated by it.

Not nearly as seriously contaminated

as many of the people who...

um...occasionally surround us.

They remain very calm

and bland and simple.

And they don't know

what it's all about.

They simply want to play

their music and write it.

They're very normal. Thank goodness.

I came home one day with the kids and

Derek said, "Brian's just phoned."

Brian Epstein. "And he's having

a housewarming in Sussex,

"and he wants us to go. He wants

all his friends to be there."

So we rallied all

our babysitters together

and we found ourselves on a plane.

And we arrived at Heathrow,

and waiting for us

was John and George.

And they were dressed

in this exotic way.

They had silk shirts, and they

were this incredible colour.

And they hugged us and

they kissed us, and they...

All of a sudden, it's like there are

no barriers. No handshakes, it's...

.."What's happening?"

And we were swept out to this...

to outside Heathrow Airport,

where John's Rolls-Royce,

like a Romany caravan,

was waiting for us.

George, in his Mini,

and us in the Rolls-Royce, with Procol

Harum playing Whiter Shade Of Pale,

driving along

the English country roads

from Surrey to Sussex.

And Brian was waiting for us.

And there were all sorts of his

friends, famous and not-so-famous.

And George gave Derek acid

and John gave me acid.

And then John gave Derek acid.

So Derek had a double dose.

And we spent the whole night

with them...

on this mind adventure,

which Paul had described to us

as "controlled weirdness".

I'm not quite sure how controlled

it was, but it was weird.

But it was wonderful, and it bonded

us, because they were so kind to us.

And we came through it

and we walked out into

this English country garden

with the night receding

and the sun coming.

Sitting in an English garden

waiting for the sun - well,

that was what happened,

literally, what happened.

When we took the notorious

wonder drug LSD...

Yes.

..it was... We didn't

know we were having it.

John and I had this drug

and it was given...

We were having dinner

with our dentist...

..and he put it in our

coffee and never told us.

And we'd we never heard of it.

I mean, it's a good job

we hadn't heard of

it, because there's

been so much paranoia

created around the drug,

that people now, if they take it,

they're already on a bad trip

before they start.

Whereas for us, we didn't

know anything. We were so naive.

So we had it and we went out

to a club and it was incredible.

It was really incredible.

Something like

a very concentrated version

of the best feeling

I'd ever had in my life.

It was just, like, fantastic.

I just felt, like, in love.

But not with anything in particular,

or anybody, just with everything.

Just everything was perfect.

And we walked and things weren't

the same that night as they'd been.

It was... All this Alice In

Wonderland stuff was going on,

but strange things.

I remember Pattie was,

you know, half playfully,

but half kind of crazy,

was trying to smash a shop window.

And I was kind of being like,

"Come on now, don't be silly.

"This way."

And we got round this corner

and there were all

these lights and taxis.

It looked like there was a

big film premiere going on.

It was probably just the

doorway to the nightclub.

It seemed like, you know,

it looked very bright.

And all these people with makeup that

was like, this thick on their faces.

You know, like masks.

I had this lingering thought

that just stayed with me after that.

And this thought was

the Yogis of the Himalayas.

I don't know why. It just...

I'd never thought about them

for the rest of my life.

But suddenly this thought was in

the back of my consciousness.

It was like somebody was

whispering to me, you know.

"The Yogis of the Himalayas."

Prabhujee

Dayaa karo

Prabhujee dayaa karo

Maname aana baso

Maname aana baso

Prabhujee.

Interview du Mister George Harrison

et Ravi Shankar par Michel Guillard.

Sound is God.

And through sound,

or that is true good music,

there can be also music

which can be devil.

I don't want to name which music.

But music can excite you

and make you, ahh, and go mad.

People go, you know, crazy.

That is also music.

But it didn't...doesn't lead you

spiritually towards God.

But music has this power,

whether it is through

the Gregorian chants

or beautiful Baroque music,

or Indian music,

or even folk songs,

beautifully sung by people

with beautiful voices.

Our music has been handed down

from person to person.

It's an oral tradition.

It's not a written-down music.

And the guru passes

not just the technique,

but the whole spiritual, uh, aspect.

All the meaning of life, philosophy,

everything is passed along

with the music.

The fact that I met so many people,

I can meet anybody, you know.

You could go in all the film stars'

houses and Elvis and everybody.

And we met a lot of really

good people, but we didn't...

I never met one person

who really impressed me.

The first person who ever

impressed me in my life

was Ravi Shankar and he was the only

person who didn't try to impress me.

Why did he impress you?

Because it was by his being.

He taught me so much without

actually saying a word.

It's by example.

Now try to count five, five and six.

Five, five makes ten. Yeah.

And six makes 16.

Nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14.

One, two, three, four, five.

One, two, three, four, five. One two,

three, four, five. One, two.

Five. One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven.

One, two, three,

four, five, six.

What you can do, if it is

difficult for you to touch,

one, two, three, four. Just...

It's very difficult.

Two, three, four, one, two,

three, four, one, two, three, four,

one, two... No, one.

One, two, three...

If you're trying to find something,

to find the source of that thing

is very difficult,

but my blessing was to be able

to have Ravi as my, uh, patchcord.

He could plug me in

to the real thing,

so my experience of it

was always the best quality.

Each day just goes so fast

I turn around, it's past

You don't get time

to hang a sign on me

Love me while you can

Before I'm a dead old man...

Ravi and the sitar was kind of

like an excuse to try and find

this spiritual connection.

I read stuff by various

holy men and Swamis

and mystics and I went around

and looked for them.

Ravi and his brother gave me a lot

of books by some wise men.

One of the books, which was

by a Swami Vivekananda, who said,

"If there's a God you must see Him

"and if there's a soul,

we must perceive it.

"Otherwise it's better

not to believe.

"It's better to be an outspoken

atheist than a hypocrite."

And after all my life

I've been brought up,

well, they tried to bring

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