In a postcard written to Starr, who returned to England prior to the others, Lennon wrote: “We’ve got about two LPs worth of songs now, so get your drums out. ![]() Much of the initial songwriting for what was eventually known as the “White Album” (because of its stark colourless cover) was initiated between February and April 1968, when Beatles’ members George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr travelled to India to join a training course at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Academy of Transcendental Meditation. On their return to England towards the end of May the Beatles met at Kinfauns, George Harrisons house in Esher, Surrey. This was back in 1968, a time when my parents spoke about the Beatles in a hallowed voice about a band whose music was revolutionising the world, especially following their sojourn, earlier that year, to Rishikesh. ![]() On October 18, I listened to several outtakes of George Harrison’s composition for the Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps - namely, the Esher demo (so known as the song, among others, was recorded at Harrison’s bungalow, Kinfauns, in Esher, Surrey), and Take 2 - bringing in a rush of memories from my school days. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1.
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