CHICAGO - The Fox News web headline Wednesday morning captured something in the air despite its utter wrongness: "Beatles' sitar player Ravi Shankar dies at 92." Well, first, the Beatles' sitar player was George Harrison. Shankar, who died Tuesday in his Southern California home a week after heart valve replacement surgery, never performed on a Beatles album. He also didn't introduce the Beatles to the sitar, directly at least. Harrison played it on "Norwegian Wood" in 1965 after first seeing the complex Indian stringed instrument on the set of the Beatles movie "Help!" - though, as the story goes, David Crosby is the one who actually got Harrison interested in the sitar as well as Shankar's...
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