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George Harrison - Concert For Bangladesh ---From Wikipedia - - - 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 Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide. 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 of such a magnitude and featured a supergroup of performers that included Harrison, fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and the band Badfinger. In addition, Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan – both of whom had ancestral roots in Bangladesh – performed an opening set of Indian classical music. The concerts were attended by a total of 40,000 people, and the initial gate receipts raised close to $250,000 for Bangladesh relief, which was administered by UNICEF. After collecting the musicians easily, Harrison found it extremely difficult to get the recording industry to release the rights for performers to share the stage, and millions of dollars raised from the album and film were tied up in IRS tax escrow accounts for years, but the concert has been recognised as a highly successful and influential humanitarian aid project, generating both awareness and considerable funds as well as providing valuable lessons and inspiration for projects that followed, such as Live Aid By 1985, through revenue raised from the Concert for Bangladesh live album and film, an estimated $12 million had been sent to Bangladesh, and sales of the live album and DVD release of the film continue to benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF. Decades later, Shankar would say of the overwhelming success of the event: "In one day, the whole world knew the name of Bangladesh. It was a fantastic occasionTrack listing Original release Side one No. Title Writer(s) Performer(s) Length 1. "George Harrison/Ravi Shankar Introduction" — George Harrison, Ravi Shankar 5:19 2. "Bangla Dhun" Shankar Shankar 16:40 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Performer(s) Length 1. "Wah-Wah" Harrison Harrison 3:30 2. "My Sweet Lord" Harrison Harrison 4:36 3. "Awaiting on You All" Harrison Harrison 3:00 4. "That's the Way God Planned It" Billy Preston Preston 4:20 Side three No. Title Writer(s) Performer(s) Length 1. "It Don't Come Easy" Richard Starkey Ringo Starr 3:01 2. "Beware of Darkness" Harrison Harrison, Leon Russell 3:36 3. "Band Introduction" — Harrison 2:39 4. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Harrison Harrison 4:53 Side four No. Title Writer(s) Performer(s) Length 1. "Medley: Jumpin' Jack Flash/Young Blood" Mick Jagger, Keith Richards/Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Doc Pomus Russell 9:27 2. "Here Comes the Sun" Harrison Harrison 2:59 Side five No. Title Writer(s) Performer(s) Length 1. "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" Bob Dylan Dylan 5:44 2. "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" Dylan Dylan 3:07 3. "Blowin' in the Wind" Dylan Dylan 4:07 4. "Mr. Tambourine Man" Dylan Dylan 4:45 5. "Just Like a Woman" Dylan Dylan 4:49 Side six No. Title Writer(s) Performer(s) Length 1. "Something" Harrison Harrison 3:42 2. "Bangla Desh" Harrison Harrison 4:55 Personnel "The Artists" George Harrison – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals Ravi Shankar – sitar Bob Dylan – vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica Leon Russell – piano, vocals, bass, backing vocals Ringo Starr – drums, vocals, tambourine Billy Preston – Hammond organ, vocals Eric Clapton – electric guitar Ali Akbar Khan – sarod Alla Rakha – tabla Kamala Chakravarty – tambura "The Band" Jesse Ed Davis – electric guitar Klaus Voormann – bass Jim Keltner – drums Pete Ham – acoustic guitar Tom Evans – twelve-string acoustic guitar Joey Molland – acoustic guitar Mike Gibbins – tambourine, maracas Don Preston – electric guitar, vocals (on "Jumpin' Jack Flash"/"Young Blood" and "Bangla Desh" only) Carl Radle – bass (on "Jumpin' Jack Flash"/"Young Blood" only) The Hollywood Horns Jim Horn – saxophones, horn arrangements Chuck Findley – trumpet Jackie Kelso – saxophones Allan Beutler – saxophones Lou McCreary – trombone Ollie Mitchell – trumpet The Soul Choir Claudia Lennear, Joe Greene, Jeanie Greene, Marlin Greene, Dolores Hall, Don Nix, Don Preston – backing vocals, percussion

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