Filmmaker David Lynch and one fourth of the Beatles, Ringo Starr, recently met up to detail the singer's impressive career and discuss meditation as the Twin Peaks mastermind prepped the unveiling of a compilation album, The Lifetime of Peace & Love Tribute Concert, featuring performances from last year's Ringo Starr honorary gathering.
The duo reminisced on the night centered on the former Beatle, which brought about rousing performances like Ben Harper's "Walk With You," Joe Walsh's jiving spin on "Back Off Boogaloo" and Bettye LaVette's blues take on "It Don't Come Easy." "[She] took my song and turned it into something else, which was so incredible," Starr said of LaVette's enactment.
The Lifetime of Peace & Love Tribute Concert, which aired again yesterday on AXS, further includes covers by Brendan Benson, Ben Folds and the Head and the Heart while the tribute gig's house band was made up of Kenny Aranoff, Peter Frampton, Don Was and Steve Lukather, Rolling Stone notes. All monetary earnings from the album will go directly to the David Lynch Foundation which focuses on raising awareness of transcendental meditation.
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"Transcendental meditation is a unique form of meditation - an ancient form of meditation - brought back by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi," the Blue Velvet writer and director explains in the video above. "Transcendental meditation takes you from the surface to the deepest level of life and it takes you there easily and effortlessly. You transcend."
"When you reach any depth, it is unbelievable," Star added."You only know when you come out that you've actually gone somewhere else. ... Maharishi had this great thing about how close we are together, all living things. And everything living will support you as long as you're doing something for good. And I love those principles. My dream is one day at noon on my birthday, when I go 'peace and love,' that the whole world will do it, and that will be a beautiful time."
Recently, the "You're Sixteen" singer sold his drum kit and the very first pressing of The White Album for around $2 million.
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