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The Concert for Bangladesh

Release Date: 1971

Cast: Klaus Voormann, Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Billy Preston, Bob Dylan

Categories: Movies, Music, Concert film, Social issues, Culture & Society

The Concert for Bangladesh (or Bangla Desh, as the country name was misspelled originally) was the name for two benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, held at noon and at 7pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, playing to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The shows were organised to raise international awareness and fund relief efforts for refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) following the 1970 Bhola cyclone and atrocities during Bangladesh Liberation War. The event was the first ever benefit concert of such a magnitude. It featured... MORE

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