![]() ![]() I was leaving the Maharishi with a bad taste. I just called him 'Sexy Sadie' instead of (sings) 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool.' I was just using the situation to write a song, rather calculatingly but also to express what I felt. It was the last piece I wrote before I left India. I wrote it when we had our bags packed and were leaving. Lennon once said of the song: "That was inspired by Maharishi. Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Cynthia Lennon later said that they thought the story, which had come from Alexis Mardas, also known as "Magic Alex", had been fabricated. Lennon was disillusioned after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had allegedly made a sexual advance on Mia Farrow, who was attending a course the Maharishi was teaching at his ashram in Rishikesh, India. Lennon originally wanted to title the song " Maharishi", but changed the title to "Sexy Sadie" at George Harrison's request. ![]()
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