HELP!
Help! is a 1965 musical comedy-adventure film directed by Richard Lester, starring the Beatles – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear, and Patrick Cargill. The second film starring The Beatles following Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night, Help! sees the group come up against an evil cult. The soundtrack was released as an album, also called Help!. While not reviewed at the time with the same high level of admiration as their first film, the film is regarded a half century later as being influential, including in the subsequent development of music videos. (More from Wikipedia)
George Harrison was the most spiritual of the Beatles. Along with the other Beatles, the Beach Boys, and many other celebrities, George Harrison spent time in 1968 with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; but his interest in Hinduism predated that experience by several years. Wikipedia mentions several earlier encounters: “During the filming of Help! in the Bahamas [in 1965], [the Beatles] met the founder of Sivananda Yoga, Swami Vishnu-Devananda, who gave each of them a signed copy of his book, The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga.”
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