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Concert for Bangladesh. By August 1971, when George Harrison, Ravi Shankar and friends took the stage at Madison Square Garden to play The Concert for Bangladesh, 10 million East Pakistani refugees had fled over the border into India with scant hope of surviving inevitable hunger and disease.
Sales of the DVD and CD of the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh continue to benefit the cause, now known as the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF. In popular culture. The Concert for Bangladesh was satirised in two episodes of The Simpsons: "Like Father, Like Clown" and "I'm with Cupid".
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 musicians to alert the world to the...
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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.
Nov 26, 2023 · Wah Wah by George Harrison Performed by Wonderous Stories and Friends. Final Concert for Bangladesh Revisted 2023 at The Space in Westbury .Kenny Forgione To...
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Nov 2, 2005 · Concert for Bangladesh Revisited with George Harrison and Friends: Directed by Claire Ferguson. With Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jim Keltner.
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.
