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By 1985, through revenue raised from the Concert for Bangladesh live album and film, an estimated $12 million had been sent to Bangladesh, [6] and sales of the live album and DVD release of the film continue to benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF. Decades later, Shankar would say of the overwhelming success of the event: "In one day ...
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 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.
On Aug. 1, 1971, George Harrison leveraged his status as one of the biggest rock ‘n’ roll stars on the planet to help fight a humanitarian crisis that few in the Western hemisphere knew ...
In 1971 he backed Russell and other musicians at George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden in New York City. [8] Preston continued to tour with Russell and appeared on the albums Carney, Leon Live, Stop All That Jazz and Will o' the Wisp. He also played on three albums by the influential Texas blues legend Freddie King.
Harrison performed "Beware of Darkness" with Leon Russell at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. Eric Clapton performed it in tribute to Harrison at the Concert for George in 2002. The song has also been recorded by Leon Russell, Marianne Faithfull, Spock's Beard, Concrete Blonde, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, and Sheryl Crow.
English: Three incidental non-successive video still frame pictures presented for informational and identification purposes only and for means of subject review and educational considerations, as extracted from the historical 1971 half-hour long half-inch reel to reel motion picture sound videotape of the afternoon benefit charity show for humanitarian relief known as the Concert for Bangla ...
According to USA Today, Molland also worked on various solo Beatles projects, including George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" and "The Concert for Bangladesh," as well as John Lennon's 1971 ...