George Harrison takes a Selfie in Front of the Taj Mahal, 1966
Long before the selfie stick or reverse camera were created, people were taking selfies, and one of the coolest happened right in front of the Taj Mahal. Right after The Beatles’ final tour of America, George Harrison immersed himself in Indian culture. He visited the country several times to study with sitar Ravi Shankar and to work on his yoga moves with wife, Pattie.
He said this about his first visit, “I went to India in September 1966. When I had first come across a record of Ravi Shankar’s I had a feeling that, somewhere, I was going to meet him. It happened that I met him in London in June, at the house of Ayana Deva Angadi, founder of the Asian Music Circle… He also came round to my house, and I had a couple of lessons from him on how to sit and hold the sitar.”