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May 31, 1972 · The Concert for Bangladesh: Directed by Saul Swimmer. With George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr. The first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise humanitarian relief funds for the refugees of Bangladesh of 1971 war.
George Harrison and Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Complete (Audience Recording) - YouTube. 0:00 / 2:54:21. August 1st, 1971, Madison Square Garden, NY, USAudience Recording in 1971 so...
Jul 30, 2021 · George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Leon Russell perform at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. GAB Archive/Redferns. Fifty years ago, on August 1, 1971, the music world descended on Madison Square...
Concert for Bangladesh. By August 1971, when George Harrison, Ravi Shankar and friends took the stage at Madison Square Garden to play The Concert for Bangladesh, 10 million East Pakistani refugees had fled over the border into India with scant hope of surviving inevitable hunger and disease.
The Concert for Bangladesh was one of the most ambitious humanitarian efforts in rock music history, and focused global attention on the crisis in Bangladesh while raising new awareness of UNICEF and its role in the developing world. It pioneered the all-star concert benefit model.
Aug 1, 1971 · On this day in 1971, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar staged two concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden that brought together a star-studded cast of musicians to alert the world to the plight of the Bangladeshi people, victims of simultaneous floods, famine and civil war.
Jul 31, 2021 · 50 years ago, on August 1, 1971, the Concert for Bangladesh, led by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, raised funds — and awareness — for Bengali refugees. What's the legacy of this landmark...
