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Beatles & Entourage Trek to India, Study TM with Maharishi [14min @38:00]

Bob Spitz is the author of The Beatles: The Biography. He tells Anne Strainchamps why John, Paul George and Ringo joined the Maharishi in Rishikesh, India. He says it was a vacation for some of them; they wrote The White Album while they were there; Ringo hated the food; and a sex scandal eventually sent them all packing. And we hear lots of music.
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