The Concert for Bangladesh
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The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sun
Poster outside the Madison Square Garden box office, July 1971
The Madison Square Garden marquee, pictured in 2011
Ravi Shankar (pictured in 1969)
Scene from the concert
The Concert for Bangladesh is a live triple album credited to "George Harrison & Friends" and released on Apple Records in December 1971 in the United States and January 1972 in the United Kingdom. Th
The Concert for Bangladesh
…from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide and the 1970 Bhola cyclone. The concerts were followed by a bestselling live album, a boxed three-record set, and Apple Films' concert documentary, which opened in cinemas in the spring of 1972. The event was the first-ever benefit…
Cover for the 2005 remastered release
The Concert For Bangla Desh
Capitol Records' headquarters, in Hollywood, California
The album booklet's back cover, showing a cheque for the concerts' box-office takings above a guitar case packed with emergency supplies; copyright Apple Records