Catalogue information

LastDodo number
908711
Area
Vinyl records and CDs
Title
The Concert for Bangla Desh
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STCX 3385
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Year
1971
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ON AUGUST 1, 1971 More than 40,000 people in New York City's Madison Square Garden saw how the true giants of pop music pooled their talent and energy for the benefit of the helpless refugees at the other end of the world. THE CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH, produced by George Harrison and Allan Klein, each gives a box seat to this historic show, hosted by Harrison and Klein to support the United Nations Special Children's Fund to aid refugee children from Bangla Desh. Deeply moved by a suggestion from his friend and teacher, the great Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, Harrison gathered an astonishing array of musical superstars in just two weeks. George Harrison and fellow Beatle Ringo Starr had not performed live together since 1966, and Bob Dylan had not been in front of the audience in two years. There can be no doubt that it was the Beatles and Dylan who steered the whole course of contemporary music and youth culture. THE CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH certifies the very first time these creative geniuses performed together. After a brief rendition of Harrison's press conference announcing the charity character and an intriguing glimpse of the Harrison and Dylan rehearsals, the film takes us to the concert itself, where the crowd welcomes Harrison with a deafening burst of enthusiasm. He introduces Ravi Shankar and his. Indian fellow musicians, who together make a Playing "raga", dedicated to the people of Bangla Desh. Harrison then comes on with his friends, a true "who's who" of contemporary music: Ringo Starr, who saw a million sales of his own single "It Don't Come Easy", guitarist Eric Clapton, considered the best rock guitarist in the world; guitarist and pianist Leon RusselI, who recorded with all the big names present (Beatles, Dylan, Rolling Stones); organist Billy Preston, former protégé of Ray Charles; bassist Klaus Voormann, who had played with John and Yoko Lennon's Plastic Ono Band; and Badfinger, the English top group. Harrison delighted fans with the performance of his own original songs such as "Something" and "My Sweet Lord" - songs he had never performed live before. Ringo Starr, Leon Russeli and Billy Preston each contribute to the musical highlights with solo songs. Dylan's performance, unannounced, comes as the show's dramatic surprise. Harrison, in turn, takes the show to an emotional climax with his "Bangla Desh", which he wrote and recorded to raise money for the refugees. Lennaert Nijgh has made an eventful translation for the film in the Netherlands. Director Saul Swimmer oversaw half a dozen cameramen who had taken strategic positions on and around the stage. Both Harrison and Dylan spent an enormous amount of time in the editing room ensuring that the film and soundtrack conveyed the soul and spontaneity of the film. spectacular show. Apple, the Beatles company that filmed the concert, together with Twentieth Century .: Fox, is distributing the film for the entire world. The two shows on August 1 raised nearly $ 250,000 for the fund and the APPLE STCX 3385 record album (3 LPs in box) and the concert's tape raised $ 4,500,000 in the first ten days of world sales for the relief effort and It is predicted to raise $ 15,000,000 in due course for the United Nations Children's Fund to aid the refugee children of BanglaDesh.

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A 01: Introduction (5:19)
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A 02: Bangla Dhun (16:40)

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B 01: Wah-Wah (3:30)
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B 02: My Sweet Lord (4:36)
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B 03: Awaiting on You All (3:00)
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