Ringo and David Lynch recently got together to discuss the former Beatle's career, as the filmmaker readied the release of an album capturing songs from the tribute concert his foundation held in Ringo's honor
last year. They discussed Bettye LaVette's bluesy interpretation of "It
Don't Come Easy" ("[She] took my song and turned it into something
else, which was so incredible," the Beatle said), Joe Walsh's boogie-ing
"Back Off Boogaloo" ("Nobody plays better than Joe") and Ben Harper's
"Walk With You" ("He loves to play"), among others.
Those songs, along with covers by Ben Folds, Brendan Benson and the
Head and Heart, and an appearance by Starr himself, feature on The Lifetime of Peace & Love Tribute Concert,
which comes out today. The band for the night featured Don Was, Peter
Frampton, Steve Lukather and Kenny Aranoff, among others. Proceeds will
benefit the David Lynch Foundation, a organization that raises awareness
of transcendental meditation.
"Transcendental meditation is a unique form of meditation — an
ancient form of meditation – brought back by Mahareshi Mahesh Yogi,"
Lynch explains at one point in the above video. "Transcendental
meditation takes you from the surface to the deepest level of life and
it takes you there easily and effortlessly. You transcend."
"When you reach any depth, it is unbelievable," says Ringo, who studied with Yogi along with the other Beatles and
continues to practice transcendental meditation. "You only know when
you come out that you've actually gone somewhere else. ... Mahareshi had
this great thing about how close we are together, all living things.
And everything living will support you as long as you're doing something
for good. And I love those principles. My dream is one day at noon on
my birthday, when I go 'peace and love,' that the whole world will do
it, and that will be a beautiful time."
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