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George Harrison, Ravi Shankar. The Concert for Bangladesh (or Bangla Desh, as the country's name was originally spelt) [1] was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New ...
- 1 August 1971
- Madison Square Garden, New York City, US
The Concert for Bangladesh (originally spelt The Concert for Bangla Desh) [2] is a live triple album credited to " George Harrison & Friends" [3] [4] and released on Apple Records in December 1971 in the United States and January 1972 in the United Kingdom. The album followed the two concerts of the same name, held on 1 August 1971 at New York ...
- 1 August 1971
- 20 December 1971
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Jun 13, 2020 · August 1st, 1971, Madison Square Garden, NY, USAudience Recording in 1971 so quality is not as expected.Ravi Shankar's perfomance is not included.Hare Krishn...
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.
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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.
Jul 30, 2021 · George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Leon Russell perform at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. Fifty years ago, on August 1, 1971, the music world descended on Madison Square Garden for an event like ...
- 5 min
- Phil Harrell,Scott Saloway