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(Friday, July 19, 1968, 7:30 p.m.-4:00 a.m. BST) — The Beatles began recording “Sexy Sadie,” John Lennon’s barbed tribute to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, tonight at EMI Studio 2 in London, recording rehearsals and 21 proper takes.

Lennon was disillusioned after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had allegedly made a sexual advance towards actress Mia Farrow attending the course the Maharishi was teaching at his ashram in India.

George Harrison and Paul McCartney of The Beatles and Lennon’s first wife, Cynthia, later said that they thought the story, which had come from Alexis Mardas, head of the electronics division of the band’s new company, Apple Corps, had been fabricated.

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