The Indian Who Took The Beatles Home For Tea
06/04/21 AT 6:54 AM
Ajit Singh, the Indian music shop owner who befriended the Beatles during their magical mystery trip in Rishikesh over half a century ago, has died aged 88.
In February 1968 the Fab Four fetched up at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi s ashram (retreat) in northern India, seeking spirituality, new experiences and refuge from Beatlemania back home.
Energised by their new surroundings overlooking the Ganges river, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr wrote much of their seminal White Album there.
Turbaned, thin and with a croaky voice, Singh recalled in an interview with AFP in 2019 the band wandering into his musical instrument shop in nearby Dehradun one day.