When it's time to find a pseudonym, Marionette Dish (who fancies herself to be a sexual guerilla making an assault on forbidden knowledge) decides to look through her Beatles CDs and song titles to help find just the right revolutionary moniker.
This page will not even begin to chronicle the major influence which the Beatles had on twentieth-century music, nor will it give a history of the group nor list their albums. It will simply suggest a few songs which you might want to listen to before reading The Erotic Manifesto. This is in no way mandatory for enjoying the novel, but it might tune up the cerebral cortex of some music fans so that they can have an enhanced literary encounter of the most enjoyable kind. The songs have been chosen for their Eastern flavor. Marionette's journey, after all, is one which she regards as highly mystical.
Tomorrow Never Knows
This is one of Lennon's weirdest, and appears on the album Revolver. 
He wrote it after reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead. He wanted his voice to sound like the Dalai Lama chanting on a hilltop, and his voice was filtered through the speaker of a Hammond organ to create the illusion of distance. The song is very mystical, with a strange mix of sound effects and tape speeds. Lennon said that his original concept included taping a thousand monks chanting, an idea that wasn't deemed feasible at the time. He later regretted not pursuing this approach, being dissatisfied with the final version of the song.
Within You, Without You
If it's Eastern mysticism you're looking for, you can't go wrong with this Harrison song from Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. If the sitar 
can't lull you into a trance, then there's little hope that you will attain Nirvana. The song, however, was first composed by Harrison while at the home of Klaus Voorman, the designer of the Revolver album cover, on a keyboard instrument called the harmonium. Other instruments featured on the song are the dilruba, the tamboura, the tabla, and the swordmandel. Harrison added sounds of laughter at the song's end to lighten the rather serious mood created by the piece. Lennon believed this to be one of George's very best songs. Stephen Stills also hailed it as a great song.
Across the Universe
This is one of Lennon's best acoustic songs and features a few Hindu phrases along the way. One version begins with birds' wings flapping, and 
was used for a charity album put out by the World Wildlife Fund. The other version was re-mixed by Phil Spector for the Let It Be album. It's soothing, and the lyrics are pure poetry. The title alone is transcendnt. Lennon regarded it as one of his best songs, but thought that those present at the recording sessions were not taking it seriously enough. Fans from outside the studio (they were nicknamed Apple Scruffs) were used as a choir, but according to Lennon, they sang off-key.
Love You Too
Another sitar tune from Harrison, this one also appearing on Revolver. It was the first time that he sat down to compose a song for the sitar. The use of the sitar on "Norwegian Wood" is described by the Beatles as "an accident." Anil Bhagwat played tabla for the track. No other Beatle performed for this song.
Other song titles appear in the novel, and some have been surreptitiously included in the prose and will be recognized only by people familiar with The Beatles. Those who do not share in Marionette's musical tastes will not find their reading of The Erotic Manifesto impaired and will hardly notice that the Beatles are even mentioned in the novel. How's that for pleasing everyone?
