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The Concert for Bangladesh is a film directed by Saul Swimmer and released in 1972. The film documents the two benefit concerts that were organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar to raise funds for refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War , and were held on Sunday, 1 August 1971 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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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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 ...
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 mu...
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- The Beatles
The film opens at a press conference in which former Beatle George Harrison explains that he decided to organize a charity concert to benefit the refugees of Bangladesh when his friend, Bengali musician Ravi Shankar, voiced his concern about the inhumane conditions the refugees had to endure because of the country's poverty and political turmoil.
- Saul Swimmer
- Eric Clapton
Jan 30, 2020 · Advertise With Us. Moved by news reports of a famine in Bangladesh, George Harrison organized arguably the very first all-star charity rock concert with this August 1971 show at New York City's ...
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The Concert for Bangladesh is a film directed by Saul Swimmer and released in 1972. The film documents the two benefit concerts that were organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar to raise funds for refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War, and were held on Sunday, 1 August 1971 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
