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Fame not so fab
Speaking on Indian television, Shankar spoke fondly of the Fab Four as people, but explained that he never felt comfortable with the fame they brought with them.
"I became a pop star all of a sudden" He said."I was not happy at all. I would tell George, 'What have you done?'."
Shankar cancelled his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 after he saw The Who smashing up their instruments, and at Woodstock he asked “Who was listening to music? They were all stoned.”
Maybe he had a point. At the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, he and his band's tuning session received rapturous if misguided applause. Shankar thanked the audience, saying "If you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more."
Shankar, now 89, will return to Australia for a series of shows in April next year:
Tuesday 16 March • Sydney Opera House
Saturday 20 March • Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre
Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar will also headline at WOMADelaide on March 8
Source: Undercover 
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Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর Robi Shaunkor; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his...
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