VINTAGE 1971 GEORGE HARRISON THE CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH ORIG 3 RECORD BOX SET NM
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Description
VINTAGE
1971
GEORGE HARRISON
THE CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH
COMPLETE 3-RECORD BOX SET
APPLE STCX 3385
ORIGINAL VINYL PRESSING
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CONDITION
BOX: NM
VINYLS: NM
SLEEVES: NM
BOOKLET: NM
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The Concert for Bangladesh (or Bangla Desh as the country name was originally spelled) was the name for two benefit concerts organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, held at 2.30 and 8 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, playing to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The shows were organized to raise international awareness and fund relief efforts for refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), following the 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the civil war-related Bangladesh atrocities. The concerts were followed by this 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 concert 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 another legend of Indian music, Ali Akbar Khan, performed a separate set. 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 occasion ..."A must have original box set for record collectors and Beatles collectors.
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