How John Lennon created one of his greatest post-Beatles songs – with a little help from Yoko

One day during The Beatles’ 1968 visit to Rishikesh in India to study Transcendental Meditation, John Lennon and Paul McCartney attended a lecture about nature. It inspired Lennon and McCartney to each write a song.

The lecture was given by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the guru in whose ashram they were staying and whose teachings had so influenced George Harrison in particular.

The ashram was positioned on top of a 150-ft high cliff, amid lush riverbank forest in the foothills of the Himalayas, overlooking the sacred River Ganges.

Afterwards, McCartney duly penned Mother Nature’s Son, which appeared on the 1968 album The Beatles, or as it became better known, ‘The White Album’. Lennon, meanwhile, wrote a song called Child Of Nature, and both his and McCartney’s compositions were demoed at Harrison’s house in Esher, Surrey on their return to the UK.

Source: musicradar.com/Neil Crossley

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