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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, ... Leon Russell had committed also, but on the proviso that he be supported by members of his tour band. [38]
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.
Ravi Shankar, Leon Russell and fellow Beatle Ringo Starr, Harrison staged a pair of sold-out dates at New York City’s Madison Square Garden that effectively birthed the modern all-star charity ...
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.
Leon Russell wrote a handful of modern standards and worked with artists from Dylan to Clapton to Streisand to Elton. A new tribute LP heralds the Leonaissance.
He recorded in the 1970s with Leon Russell on Leon Russell and the Shelter People and other albums, and with Joe Cocker on Mad Dogs and Englishmen. He backed Russell at George Harrison 's Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971 and appeared in the documentary film and on the live album The Concert for Bangladesh .
After guesting with Russell on Bob Dylan's 1971 single "Watching the River Flow", and collaborating in Albert King’s Lovejoy, Davis went on to work with George Harrison, performing at the ex-Beatle's 1971 Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden, along with Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Russell, Keltner, Clapton and others. [22]