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August 1, 2021, marked the 50th anniversary of the Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organized by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison that took place in New York City at Madison Square Garden. The shows were staged in order to raise awareness and fund relief for millions of East Pakistan refugees, after the Bangladesh Liberation ...
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 York City, to raise international ...
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While welcoming the noisy New York audience for the afternoon show, Harrison, who was always known for his modesty said, “We’ve got a good show lined up… I hope so anyway.” The concert began with a Hindustani classical music section. The crowd cheered loudly on hearing Ravi Shankar’s name, who was accompanied on the stage by Ali Akbar Khan on the s...
Harrison then walked on stage to a roaring applause with more than 20 of his friends including Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston and Leon Russel. They started the Western part of the concert with Harrison’s Wah Wah, followed by The Beatles’ Something. Other popular songs performed included Ringo Starr’s It Don’t Come Easy and the Rolling Sto...
“The concert made $250,000, which actually is really very small in terms of the amount of money from the record… that way we can feed the starving people, and that’s it, it just snowballed,” Harrison said in the film. The proceeds from the concert were given to UNICEF to aid the Bangladeshi refugees. The release of The Concert for Bangladeshlive al...
Oct 1, 2016 · As Ravi's wife Sukanya Shankar attested, this performance most certainly sowed the seed for the overwhelmingly successful Concert for Bangladesh. Now, 45 years later, an album of that previously ...
Apr 7, 2020 · Quoted from “The Concert for Bangladesh” by Ravi Shankar, which is included in The Bangladesh reader: History, culture, politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013, pp. 508–09). Today would have been Ravi Shankar’s 100th birthday! Above and below, moments from the documentary. BONUS: The full performance, from the concert album.
