![]() "There was a meeting and John walked into it, and the other Beatles and me were in this room and John walked in and said, 'I'm leaving The Beatles.'. I think we wondered whether would get together again, and when it didn't, it left us all, in one way, without a job, because this had been our job. So that was very good for us, particularly post-psychedelic." You were finding the truth or the calmness, I would say, inside yourself. It was calming, which I think all of us needed, and it was spiritual, although it wasn't like you were worshipping a god. And we ended up going out to India, to Rishikesh, for a retreat kind of thing. So when Maharishi arrived on the scene, as he did in London after he was doing the kind of world tour trying to sell the idea of meditation, we went to see him and it was like a breath of fresh air because instead of just getting crazy, this was the opposite. And so we were in the London scene and it was getting a little bit wearing, really, so I remember feeling very tired. "Everyone, including us, was doing a lot of drugs and that can burn you out, as anyone who's done it knows. On The Beatles' time in India to learn meditation The Beatles and their family and friends visit with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the Rishikesh in India in 1968. It ended up, as you know, if you listen to it, it's very chaotic and it's really quite crazy. Pepper's Band, this is a completely new idea. "Anyway, so I got in the studio and said to each musician, start on your lowest note of your instrument and go up till you reach your highest note, but go in your own time. It's time! We're allowed a symphony orchestra!'. "Because I'd been listening to a lot of avant-garde music at that time, just for my own pleasure and just to examine the scene and just see if I liked it, I thought that this orchestral cascade, this sort of mountain of orchestra and kind of quite chaotic, would be a good idea at this point in the song 'A Day in the Life.' So I came into the studio and said, 'OK, this is what we'd like you to do,' because we had a big symphony orchestra, which George Martin had sort of said, 'Oh no, we don't need that!' And we said, 'No, come on, George! We're The Beatles. On experimenting with an orchestra in Sgt. It was a guy out of this strange band, and in some way, it was just liberating." So the idea was so that when you stepped up to a microphone, it was not now John Lennon Beatle doing his song. ![]() We can sing like whoever they saw the band is. So it meant now anything goes, we don't have to sing like The Beatles. "I don't think it really was terrifying or even boring, but I had this idea to just change our identity and make ourselves think that we were kind of another band. Pepper's' At 50: Why The Beatles' Masterpiece Can't Be Replicated And also when you stepped up to a microphone, you were conscious of all that background of, 'I'm Beatle Paul, and I'm going to do a Beatle Paul song.' So we can't get too far out because people just go, 'What the hell's going on? They've gone mad!' So you had certain standards for Beatles records you were always trying to advance those standards, but there were limits that you felt. And when you made a record, you knew you were making a Beatles record, and so you imposed certain parameters on it. "We'd been The Beatles for quite a while. On why they chose to go with a persona on Sgt. And we couldn't because it was just a million seagulls screaming." It was like, OK, it would be quite nice to be able to hear the song we're playing. "Later then, it got a bit worrying because now the first sort of flush of the excitement had been going for quite a few years and we were maturing and we were sort of out of that phase. On how the screaming of Beatlemania got old It really was just we young guys trying to get laid, as Americans would say." It was the fulfillment of all our dreams. ![]() It was kind of the opposite for us, so I suppose, as we got more and more popular and the girls started screaming, to tell you the truth, we just enjoyed it. We didn't mind, as long as we were attractive, because as kids, we were apparently not very attractive and we certainly weren't the big kind of quarterback who attracted all the girls in town. ![]() So as we got fans, that became our motivation, which was, we were trying to be attractive in any way you like - visually, physically, sexually. We just wanted to have a girlfriend and basically do as much as we could, was the idea. On the Beatles going from normal teenage boys to being the most desired men on the planet
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