Talk:The Beach Boys' 1968 US tour with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Misleading

There is nothing in the article (or The Beatles in India) that suggests the public had any idea that the Beatles changed their opinions on the Maharishi until after the tour had failed. --Ilovetopaint (talk) 12:39, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@JG66: "Alterman's article mentions that the Beatles had become disillusioned with Maharishi, so it's well known way before the Carson show appearanc" – Since I can't access the article, I've searched "Beatles" through Google snippet view to try to find some excerpts. The only thing I can manage to retrieve is a string that refers to the Maharishi as "the Beatles' favorite guru", which is odd if everyone knew the band was "disillusioned" by then. Where is any hint in the article that the Beatles had changed their views on the Maharishi? Ilovetopaint (talk) 13:50, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"some may have heard that the Beatles became disillusioned with their holy man." With or without that comment from Alterman, though, there's nothing in the text that warrants the dubious tag. (This is just another example of your inability to grasp a situation and incompetence, therefore Wikipedia has to come to a halt because prat Paint doesn't get it.) The British press, eager to doubt the Maharishi's worth, jumped on Ringo Starr's exit from Rishikesh in early March, forcing him to restate his dedication to TM. George Harrison was quoted, on arrival at Heathrow in late April, as saying the Beatles had finished with the Maharishi.

Not only that but, as mentioned in the comment with this edit, the Maharishi was a co-headliner on the tour and his immediate backstory is therefore relevant. What's not yet mentioned in the article is that he carried out a very successful world tour in late '67, as the self-styled "Beatles' Guru", and The Village Voice reported in November on students in US universities flocking to sign up for his TM initiation programs. He lectured to capacity crowds at the Felt Forum and at Harvard in early '68, before the teachers' course began at Rishikesh in February. All of that shows a "performer" at the peak of his popularity. He then goes back to college campuses in May with the Beach Boys and ... JG66 (talk) 14:31, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Ilovetopaint (talk) 22:47, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Name, not title.

Maharishi is NOT a title. He was Maharishi, NOT "the" Maharishi! 174.63.170.70 (talk) 17:06, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]