The thing to remember about them is that they were made and recorded at a time when people genuinely believed that the Lord had again come. Thus they responded with their greatest possible artistry and emotion.

The Blue Aquarius album was recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, which most people here probably attended, and, I believe, received very good or decent revues from the music press.

Now that we see things very differently historically, I don't think for a moment this prejudices the great love, devotion and artistry of then.

As for 'Who Is Guru Maharaji?', I always regarded this as somewhat pukey. For a start, it didn't scan.
I always saw it as cloying tripe.
I remember too at Millennium how someone (I believe Charles Cameron) stood there full of enthusiasm and told us how we would all come to live in some great future city of imagination like some totally weird shit from Aldous Huxley.
It frightened the shit out of me - I was craving for the good old.

Now that I am older, and have examined all the previous incarnations of Godliness, it seems to me that all were quite fallible, sometimes great channels of aspirations, but often tainted or insufficent too.

The exception I would possibly make is Jesus, who 'walked the walk' as neville reminds us, but who also didn't mind telling people a lot about hell, too, I would add.

At the end of the day, however, I perceive that there is a great power of love inside us, and a great power of craziness.

The eventual message, I believe is love - to try to experience this and act it out towards others.

Love is everything at the end of day. Being decent and human, and maybe filling in the gaps left by all the legendary teachers. Through our personal love and actions we fulfil the ongoing story of human aspiration, without ponciness, stupid ego or preciosity.