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Hillary Clinton: Meet The Beatles

From the March 3 2008 Meet The Press:

MR. RUSSERT: Bob Shrum, it is tough trying to figure out these primaries. For example, that poll in Texas estimates the black turnout at about 22 percent...

MR. BOB SHRUM: Right.

MR. RUSSERT: ...of Obama's overall. In 2004 it was 21 percent. The Obama camp will say it might be higher because of the energy in the campaign.

MR. SHRUM: Well, it will be. 2004 was a non event. John Kerry was already the Democratic nominee for president. No one, no one really cared. I think Mike's on to something here when what we're really seeing is a generational struggle inside the Democratic Party. We've seen this before. I think Senator Clinton is a little like the Beach Boys and has the same kind of reaction as when The Beatles arrived in America. She can't believe that someone's taking her place.

03.3.2008 • Beach Boys • 3 feedbacks » • PermalinkPermalink

Mile Love Talks Maharishi Circa 1972

The man Maharishi is doing a role, his role is to train teachers of meditation. His whole day is geared to that. The problem was that here was a man who was totally devoted to this – here is a rock group and they meet head on.

They gain from each other, the Maharishi gained from the Beatles what he wanted, i.e. publicity, he wanted more people to be meditating. This aroused a whole interest in meditation, intellectuals tried it, and investigated it, some dropped out, some kept it up, and some got a little more interested and wanted to become teachers.

When the Beatles came back and said we're not into his scene, a lot of people may have thought it was a complete denial of the validity of meditation, but it wasn't, because they thought meditation was a good thing but they weren't into Maharishi.

Soon meditation will be part of the syllabus of universities all over the world. Twelve years ago there was one teacher of meditation, now there are over two thousand. It's increased by 100 per cent each year.

When the Beatles came back from India, they went into doing Apple records, instead of putting their careers aside to pursue meditation. So they weren't really into it.

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02.11.2008 • Mike Love • Send feedback » • PermalinkPermalink

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1918-2008

The obituary from the Guardian:

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, often known simply as "Maharishi" or "The Maharishi," achieved world renown as the Indian guru who inspired the Beatles and was said to have persuaded them to give up drugs. He has died has died at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, and is believed to have been around 90.

In the summer of 1967, the year of Flower Power and Sergeant Pepper, he made headlines when the four Beatles, with their wives and girlfriends, as well as Mick Jagger, Jane Asher and Marianne Faithful, followed the whiskered Swami from London to Bangor in Wales to sit very publicly at his feet imbibing his message of universal love and peace. The Beatles announced that they had decided to abandon LSD: "We think we're finding new ways of getting there."

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02.6.2008 • Mike Love • 1 feedback » • PermalinkPermalink