Editing Sitar (section)

==World music influence==
[[File:Dia5275 Ravi Shankar.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Ravi Shankar]] in 1988]]
In the late 1950s and early 1960s [[Ravi Shankar]], along with his tabla player, [[Alla Rakha]], began a further introduction of Indian classical music to Western culture.

The sitar saw use in Western popular music when, guided by [[David Crosby]]'s championing of Shankar,<ref name="Gallo/Billboard">{{cite magazine| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1481439/ravi-shankars-impact-on-pop-music-an-appreciation|last=Gallo |first=Phil |title=Ravi Shankar's Impact on Pop Music: An Appreciation |date=12 December 2012 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|billboard.com]]}}</ref> [[George Harrison]] played it on [[the Beatles]]' songs "[[Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)]]", "[[Love You To]]" and "[[Within You Without You]]", recorded between 1965 and 1967. The Beatles' association with the instrument helped popularise Indian classical music among Western youth,<ref>{{cite book |last=Lavezzoli |first=Peter |title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West |publisher=Continuum |location=New York, NY |year=2006 |isbn=0-8264-2819-3 |pages=172–173, 180}}</ref><ref>''World Music: The Rough Guide (Volume 2: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific)'' (2000). London: Rough Guides/Penguin. p.&nbsp;109. {{ISBN|1-85828-636-0}}.</ref> particularly once Harrison began receiving tutelage from Shankar and the latter's protégé [[Shambhu Das]] in 1966.<ref>{{cite book |last=Everett |first=Walter |year=1999 |title=The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=0-19-512941-5 |page=71}}</ref> That same year, [[Brian Jones]] of [[the Rolling Stones]] used a sitar on "[[Paint It Black]]",<ref>{{Cite web |title=The first No. 1 hit to feature a sitar |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/06/21/sitar-rolling-stones|accessdate=17 September 2020 |publisher=[[KNOW-FM|MPR News]]}}</ref> while another English guitarist, [[Dave Mason]], played it on [[Traffic (band)|Traffic]]'s 1967 hits "[[Paper Sun]]" and "[[Hole in My Shoe]]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Lavezzoli |first=Peter |title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West |publisher=Continuum |location=New York, NY |year=2006 |isbn=0-8264-2819-3 |pages=174–175, 180}}</ref> These and other examples marked a trend of [[Sitar in popular music|featuring the instrument in pop songs]], which Shankar later described as "the great sitar explosion".<ref>{{cite book |first=Ravi |last=Shankar |title=My Music, My Life |publisher=Mandala Publishing |location=San Rafael, CA |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-60109-005-8 |page=100}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Lavezzoli |first=Peter |title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West |publisher=Continuum |location=New York, NY |year=2006 |isbn=0-8264-2819-3 |page=65}}</ref> Speaking to ''[[KRLA Beat]]'' in July 1967, he said: "Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple&nbsp;... It is now the 'in' thing."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://krlabeat.sakionline.net/issue/29july67.pdf |author=KRLA staff |title='My Music Not For Addicts' – Shankar |work=[[KRLA Beat]] |date=29 July 1967 |page=18 |access-date=19 August 2015}}</ref>

[[File:Star's Electric Sitar RD.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Star's electric sitar guitar]]
[[Led Zeppelin]]'s [[Jimmy Page]] talked about his love of [[Music of India|Indian music]], saying: "I went to India after I came back from a tour with [[the Yardbirds]] in the late sixties just so I could hear the music firsthand. Let's put it this way: I had a sitar before George Harrison got his. I wouldn't say I played it as well as he did, though..."<ref>{{cite book |title=Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page |last=Tolinski |first=Brad |year=2012 |publisher=Broadway Books |location=New York, NY |page=84 |isbn=978-0-307-98575-0}}</ref> [[Robbie Krieger]]'s guitar part on [[the Doors]]' 1967 track "[[The End (The Doors song)|The End]]" was heavily influenced by Indian ragas and features melodic and rhythmic qualities that suggest a sitar or [[veena]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Lavezzoli |first=Peter |title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West |publisher=Continuum |location=New York, NY |year=2006 |isbn=0-8264-2819-3 |page=158}}</ref> Many pop performances actually involve the [[electric sitar]],<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.hipwax.com/music/oddpop/sitar.html
|publisher=Hyp Records
|title=Odd Pop: Pop Sitar
|author=HypWax
|access-date=16 March 2021
}}</ref> which is a solid-body, guitar-like instrument and quite different from the traditional acoustic Indian instrument.

[[The Kinks]]' 1965 single "[[See My Friends]]" featured a "low-tuned drone guitar" that was widely mistaken to be a sitar.<ref name="Temple" /> Crosby's band, [[the Byrds]], had similarly incorporated elements of Indian music,<ref name="Gallo/Billboard" /> using "only Western instrumentation", on their songs "[[Eight Miles High]]" and "[[Why (The Byrds song)|Why]]" in 1966.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lavezzoli |first=Peter |title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West |publisher=Continuum |location=New York, NY |year=2006 |isbn=0-8264-2819-3 |pages=155–156}}</ref> [[Psychedelic music]] bands often used new recording techniques and effects and drew on non-Western sources such as the ragas and drones of Indian music. [[The Electric Prunes]] appeared in early ads for the [[Vox (musical equipment)|Vox]] [[Wah wah pedal]], which touted the effect's ability to make an electric guitar sound like a sitar.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKqSg-A2eRk |title=The Electric Prunes – Vox Wah Wah Commercial |access-date=18 April 2021 |publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>

[[Donovan|Donovan's]] personnel on his 1966 album ''[[Sunshine Superman (album)|Sunshine Superman]]'' included [[Shawn Phillips]] on sitar. Phillips also played sitar on one song on Donovan's next album ''[[Mellow Yellow (album)|Mellow Yellow]]'', produced in 1967.

Starting in the late 1970s, [[Pakistan International Airlines]] [[in-flight music]] featured the sitar to evoke feelings of nostalgia for the homeland among the [[Pakistani diaspora]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Huma Yusuf|title=Pakistan's flagship carrier needs a radical overhaul. The Karachi crash is the latest reminder |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/opinions/pakistan-airlines-crash-opinion-intl-hnk/index.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Singing on a jet plane: A brief history of Pakistan International Airlines' in-flight music|url=https://scroll.in/magazine/916624/singing-on-a-jet-plane-a-brief-history-of-pakistan-international-airlines-in-flight-music}}</ref>

[[Steve Howe]] of the British progressive rock band [[Yes (band)|Yes]] played a Danelectro sitar guitar on their album ''[[Close to the Edge]]'' as well as the song "To Be Over" from their 1974 album "[[Relayer]]". Deepak Khazanchi played sitar and [[tanpura]] on the song "[[It Can Happen]]", from Yes' 1983 album ''[[90125]]''.

[[Paul Young]]'s 1985 #1 Hit cover of [[Hall & Oates]]'s song [[Everytime You Go Away]] included an electric sitar played by [[John Turnbull (musician)|John Turnbull]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Behind The Vinyl: "Everytime You Go Away" with Paul Young |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDjZ7XNbljU |access-date=2023-12-05 |language=en}}</ref>