Los Angeles, March 6: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr of the legendary Beatles will reunite briefly next month, when they perform at a New York charity concert.
It will be the first performance of the breathing Beatles together since 2002, when they had converged at a memorial concert in London for the fallen bandmate George Harrison.
The concert ‘Change Begins Within’ will also feature Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Sheryl Crow, Donovan, Ben Harper, Paul Horn, Moby, Bettye Lavette, and My Morning Jacket's Jim James.
While McCartney will headline the fund-raiser, Starr will feature among the ‘special guests’.
As of now, the two are scheduled to play separate sets, and any plans for a joint performance would be announced later, said a spokeswoman.
The concert will be held at New York's Radio City Music Hall on April 4. It is intended to raise money for a program that encourages troubled children to meditate, said the organizers, The David Lynch Foundation.
Filmmaker David Lynch's foundation is expected to draw a huge benefit from the show. It claims to have provided scholarships for more than 60,000 students, parents, and teachers around the world since 2005, to help them learn to meditate.
The foundation, which promotes transcendental meditation in schools, says on its website that the practice “is a simple, natural, effortless, easily learned technique…. (during which) the mind settles down, experiencing finer levels of thought, until it transcends the finest level of thought and experiences the source of thought, pure consciousness -- the unified field -- the source of the unlimited creativity and intelligence expressed in human life and in nature.”
McCartney recently issued a statement about the show, saying, Transcendental Meditation helps him find "moments of serenity". Starr only said that the objective of the charity was "wonderful".
The Beatles’ connection to this form of meditation runs back to 1967, when the fab four sought spiritual guidance from an Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
The band members came back with different opinions about their experience. Starr was down with dietary concerns and an embittered John Lennon later slammed the guru in a song called ‘Maharishi’, which was later titled as ‘Sexy Sadie’.
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