The Beatles in India: Deluxe Limited Edition

Early in 1968, at the height of their popularity, the Beatles traveled to India to find something that all their fame and fortune could not give them: inner peace.  For eight weeks, they disappeared into an ashram to study meditation.  No press or visitors were allowed.  A young Canadian filmmaker, Paul Saltzman, had also traveled to India the year before.  He and the Beatles met by chance at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram, striking up an immediate friendship.  The Beatles allowed Saltzman to photograph them while they meditated and wrote music.  Thirty years later, Saltzman looked at his rolls of film and discovered a unique record of rock's favored sons.

Paul Saltzman is an international award-winning film director, writer and producer of both dramas and documentaries.  Before meeting and photographing the Beatles in India, he produced Leonard Cohen concerts attended by many folk and rock performances and danced a lot.  He is currently doing film work and writing a new book.  He has one daughter and lives in Toronto, where he plays ice hockey several times a week.  The Beatles in India is his second book.