Paul and Ringo leave for India - February 19, 1968
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| Event | |
| Date | February 19, 1968 |
| Short description | Paul and Ringo leave for India. |
| Location | Delhi, India |
Paul and Ringo arrive in Delhi. Ringo was also surpised about how little attention he got when arriving in India. He later said, "Usually, when I tell people that I want to get somewhere quietly, it turns out that everyone knows. A hundred people are in on the secret. And I know what it is: the airline likes to get you photographed with the name. But this time, we just drove into Delhi, got a ticket, and that was it. We stopped off in Tehran and this bloke from the airline came up and said, ‘Excuse me, are you one of The Beatles?’ So I said, ‘No,’ and he just walked away and that was that. I guess we’re not too big in Tehran." Donovan remembers the first lesson with all four Beatles. He said, "The Maharishi was quite a relaxed guy, but there was an embarrassing silence. It was just the four Beatles, Mia Farrow, Mike Love and myself. We had all just arrived and nobody was saying anything. We were all wondering what to say. John was so funny and so direct that, to break the silence, he went up to the Maharishi, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor, patted him on the head, and said, ‘There’s a good little Guru!’ We all laughed. It was so funny. John was always very funny."
