George Harrison's Grammy-winning humanitarian project, The Concert for Bangladesh ... Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube. The project was organized at the Madison Square Garden in New York, on August ...

It was the first major charity concert of its kind — the Concert for Bangladesh. In that corner of South Asia, civil war, cyclone and floods had created a humanitarian disaster. "There are six ...

Today, we revisit 1971’s Concert for Bangladesh, an era-defining event and live album that set the template for the large-scale benefit concert as we know it today. Roughly in tandem with these ...

George said (per Rolling Stone), “The Concert for Bangladesh was just a moral stance. These kinds of things have grown over the years, but what we did showed the musicians and people are more ...

Long before the triumph of Live Aid in 1985 there was the Concert for Bangladesh. Comparatively modest in scope, the historic August 1971 concerts marked perhaps George Harrison’s finest moment ...

You can finally listen to George Harrison‘s star-studded Concert for Bangladesh album on the major streaming services. The acclaimed benefit concert, which took place at New York’s Madison ...

George Harrison‘s The Concert for Bangladesh was a seminal moment in the history of classic rock. John Lennon said it wouldn’t have happened if The Beatles didn’t break up. Subsequently ...

George Harrison organized the Concert for Bangladesh -- the first, and perhaps the greatest, concert-for-a-cause that rock 'n' rollers ever staged. "Rock reaching its manhood," Rolling Stone said ...

A poster outside the famous arena’s box office made it clear that a person could only purchase four tickets for the so-called Concert for Bangladesh. At a time when Americans knew precious little ...

On this day in 1971, the whole world learnt the name of Bangladesh and the then yet unborn nation's bloody fight for freedom through a pop concert organised by George Harrison and sitar maestro Ravi ...

Here, on the anniversary of the landmark event, LIFE.com presents photos — none of which ran in LIFE magazine — from the first-ever rock ‘n’ roll benefit show: the Concert for Bangladesh.

It was the first major charity concert of its kind — the Concert for Bangladesh. In that corner of South Asia, civil war, cyclone and floods had created a humanitarian disaster. "There are six ...