Rolling Stone The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn’t Know
A ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie pitch, the genesis of the White Album and other trivia from the band’s historic stay in Rishikesh
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By 1968, despite, or maybe because of, their huge popularity and success, the Beatles found themselves spiritually exhausted. “We’d been the Beatles, which was marvelous,” Paul McCartney later recalled in
The Beatles Anthology. “We’d tried for it not to go to our heads and we were doing quite well – we weren’t getting too spaced out or big-headed – but I think generally there was a feeling of: ‘Yeah, well, it’s great to be famous, it’s great to be rich – but what it’s all for? ”