Musical is first to perform Lennon’s ‘India, India’

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Yoko Ono, the almighty creator of cacophony and destroyer of institutions, allows a Broadway-bound musical to perform a pair of unpublished songs written by her late husband, Beatle John Lennon. One of those songs, “India, India,” received yesterday its first-ever public performance:

Lennon wrote ‘India, India’ in the late 1970s for a musical of his own writing named after his song The Ballad of John and Yoko. However, the show was never performed and the track remained unheard. It seems likely that in ‘India, India’ Lennon was writing about his 1968 visit to India, when the Beatles indulged their spiritual side at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh. [Apun Ka Choice]

Apun Ka Choice: Lennon’s ‘India, India’ on Broadway
Times of India: India, India lyrics

2 thoughts on “Musical is first to perform Lennon’s ‘India, India’”

  1. Weird, since the girl he left behind he then really left behind.

    Something about that Om at the end of the first verse totally cracked me up. Like, “Hmm, I dunno how to end this verse. . . .I know! Om!” Never fails.

  2. Loved the intro to Yoko. However I hate to admit but I still think the majority of Lennon’s best writing happened in the Beatles.

    But as far as I remember, both Lennon and McCartney, as enamored as they were with Maharishi yogi, came away from the experience disenchanted?

    Anyone heard the song?