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Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performed at the “Change Begins
Within” concert on Saturday in New York.

 McCartney and Starr reunite in NYC for meditation
Sun Apr 5, 2009 12:37am EDTBy Mark Egan

NEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - The surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo
Starr, performed together on Saturday to raise money to help kids learn a
meditation technique the 1960s icons practiced at the height of their fame.

McCartney was joined onstage by Starr for a rousing rendition of "With a Little
Help From My Friends" at Radio City Music Hall at the Change Begins Within
concert for the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes Transcendental
Meditation.

The Beatles helped popularize Transcendental Meditation -- described as a simple
mental technique to combat stress -- in 1967 when they sought spiritual guidance
from an Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

"It started for us when we met the Maharishi in India and it's going to get
bigger and bigger and rule the world," McCartney said after playing his
post-Beatles hit "Jet."

McCartney's set topped an evening that included performances by Starr, Sheryl
Crow, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper and others.

McCartney's choice of songs included Beatles classics such as "Let it Be," "Lady
Madonna" and "Blackbird" and the concert was rife with nostalgia for the two
dead Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison.

McCartney and Starr last played together in November 2002 at the Concert for
George in London's Royal Albert Hall after Harrison's death from cancer at the
age of 58.

"I love New York and John loved New York. Let's hear it for John," McCartney
said before playing the plaintive "Here Today," a song he wrote after Lennon's
murder in 1980 and which appeared on his 1982 "Tug of War" album.

Earlier, after playing his hit "It Don't Come Easy," Starr said, "I wrote that
song with George Harrison and you know he would have been here tonight."

Starr also played Beatles favorites "Yellow Submarine" and "Boys."

Folk singer Donovan, who was also in India with the Beatles said, "George is
here in spirit."

The highlight of the evening was McCartney introducing Starr, invoking the name
of the imaginary singer from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Billy Shears," McCartney said as his former drummer
walked onstage to join him at the microphone.

Starr remained on stage for an encore, playing drums on a song written by
McCartney while in India, "And Remember to be ... Cosmically Conscious," and "I
Saw Her Standing There."

Filmmaker David Lynch's foundation says that since 2005 it has provided
scholarships for more than 100,000 at-risk young people, teachers and parents in
30 countries to learn Transcendental Meditation.

The concert was intended to raise money to help 1 million children learn to
meditate. (Editing by Bill Trott)
 
 
Stephen Chernin/Associated Press




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