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Silver Screen magazine, February 1939

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023 - Dear Prudence | The Beatles

Prudence è la sorella di Mia Farrow. Ci sono anche loro in India con i Beatles a meditare dal Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Solo che Prudence l’ha presa molto seriamente, troppo. A un certo punto per due settimane non lascia il suo bungalow, si chiude dentro “per cercare di raggiungere Dio prima di tutti gli altri”, diranno Lennon e Pattie Boyd, la moglie di George Harrison, anche lei a Rishikesh.La…

023 - Dear Prudence | The Beatles

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Prudence Farrow [20.01.48]

In 1968, Prudence Farrow traveled to India with her sister Mia to study transcendental meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. During her four-month stay in Rishikesh, Farrow spent time with The Beatles, who also were studying meditation. Farrow’s unwavering dedication to her meditation practices inspired John Lennon to write the song “Dear Prudence”. At 19, Farrow inquired about joining a retreat with the Maharishi but was told she was too young and would have to finish college.

“My sister Mia was just divorcing Frank Sinatra at the time, and The Beatles were also starting their mediation in ‘67, and Mia heard The Beatles would be traveling to India too, and she called me, wanting to go.”

“The Beatles being there — I can honestly say — did not mean anything to me. But those two people that I met, John and George, I really liked them, and they were very much up my alley.”

“It epitomized what the Sixties were about in many ways. What it’s saying is very beautiful; it’s very positive. I think it’s an important song. I thought it was one their least popular and more obscure songs. I feel that it does capture that essence of the course, that slightly exotic part of being in India where we went through that silence and meditation.” - on the song.

“Dear Prudence is me. Written in India. A song about Mia Farrow’s sister, who seemed to go slightly barmy, meditating too long, and couldn’t come out of the little hut that we were livin’ in. They selected me and George to try and bring her out because she would trust us. If she’d been in the West, they would have put her away. We got her out of the house. She’d been locked in for three weeks and wouldn’t come out, trying to reach God quicker than anybody else. That was the competition in Maharishi’s camp: who was going to get cosmic first. What I didn’t know was I was already cosmic.” - John Lennon

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LECTURE 18: COMING APART (PART 1): John Lennon contributed a number of outstanding songs to the White Album (1968), including “Glass Onion,” “Happiness is a Warm Gun,” and “Julia” (a loving track about his mother, posted earlier this term on the History 207 Beatles History Blog). “Dear Prudence” is also regarded as a Lennon White Album psychedelic masterpiece. It’s about Prudence Farrow, younger sister of actress Mia Farrow, who became a dedicated follower of guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his practice of Transcendental Meditation. So dedicated, in fact, she would often lock herself away in seclusion for hours at a time to practice the guru, Maharishi’s spiritual teachings. Lennon became worried about Farrow because she also suffered from severe depression, and he wrote the song both to coax her out of seclusion and to cheer her up. “All the people around were very worried about the girl because she was going insane. So, we sang to her,” Lennon told an interviewer years later. But Prudence Farrow saw things differently. She simply regarded herself as a zealous practitioner of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and she wanted to be alone to think about his teachings. Decades later, she admitted that she loved the song, but she thought the Beatles had no reason to worry about her well-being. Incidentally, the British new wave / gothic rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees did a magnificent cover version of the song in 1983, one of the best Beatles covers ever recorded in the humble opinion of this blogger.