Prem Rawat - A Life in Song - click here for: The Early Years

Prem Rawat, a minor though controversial guru of the 1970s, lives in sordid luxury in his Malibu mansion surrounded by a group of sycophants, his mistress and his dysfunctional family. He has a life publicised on the internet by his relatively small group of devotees which is far greater than his actual public life in which he continues on a roundabout of speeches to his declining, dying devotees left over from His brief early 1970's Lord of the Universe Guru Maharaj Ji persona.

In late 1982 He closed the ashrams sending His most devoted followers into the street, ordered all DLM materials destroyed, ordered all satsang meetings to end, ordered His followers not to talk about Him or His Knowledge and to drop His capitalisation and he changed his name and went underground in his Malibu bunker. This had a significant effect on his bottom line and no new music was produced or at least recorded and distributed from then (as far as I can tell) until 1987 and for years the number of new songs was very small.

The 1988 Contact video contained a new song, Need to Feel It, by Kim O'Leary supposedly recorded under the supervision of Rawat. In 1989 a cassette of 7 of One Foundation "greatest hits" was released called Encore. There were a couple of songs on Rawatism videos. One Foundation releases on CD commenced in 1994.

There were rerecordings of some of Guru Maharaj Ji's Greatest Hits usually with bowdlerised lyrics where necessary. This allowed the listeners, nearly all of whom were long-terms devotees initially swept up in the early 1970s excitement, to relive their youthful emotions without disturbing any new people who might be present as "PWKs (People Without Knowledge" as they became known.

Only songs with lyrics that are general without specific words of worship of Prem Rawat as the divine Guru Maharaj Ji, the Lord of the Universe and Revealer of the Knowledge of God were released on CDs and Videos if they were allowed to be seen or heard by People Without Knowledge. Élan Vital assigned materials according to the audiences that were allowed to see or hear them: People With Knowledge, Aspirants and New People. In 1999 "Lovin Times" a compilation of 1970s songs was released.

In 2001 "Heartfelt" the last One Foundation CD was released. Joe Creighton and Ross Hannaford had left the Lotus Feet long before and this might be when Kim O'Leary also parted company with Prem Rawat and as she informed me in 2019 a "large settlement from the PR admin was given to me years ago regarding the use of my music" in her own words. She certainly deserved more for what she and the other One Foundation members had done for Him!

Two years later I was sued by Prem Rawat's minions for whistle-blowing, my premie wife and I divorced and so I was no longer having new premie music arriving at my home.

Most of the new music being performed and available by followers of Rawat since the year 2001 seems mediocre "New Age" trivia though Tim Hain, Cara Tower and the Ingui brothers stand out from the crowd (IMHO). A range is available at Eversound Music.