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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.
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 the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar.
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.
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 ...
The Concert for Bangladesh, which celebrates its 50th anniversary on August 1st, gives us a timely opportunity to make the case. ... The post Behind Bangladesh: The Day That George Harrison Became ...
In 1971 Harrison recorded pop music's first charity single, "Bangla Desh", [6] and released the Concert for Bangladesh triple live album (credited to George Harrison & Friends) to raise further funds for refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War.
"Bangla Desh" is a song by English musician George Harrison. It was released as a non-album single in July 1971, to raise awareness for the millions of refugees from the country Bangladesh, formerly known as East Pakistan, following the 1970 Bhola cyclone and the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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.