On the surface, Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh was him helping his friend Shankar get aid to his ancestral homeland. The former Beatle handled a lot of the organizing, including getting stars ...

Ticket proceeds for the Concert for Bangladesh totaled $243,418, which went to UNICEF. That seems modest in an age of megabenefits (Live Aid raised $60 million in a single day), but Olivia ...

Stream / purchase The Concert for Bangladesh"here. All net proceeds (after taxes), will be donated to the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

George said the Concert for Bangladesh was a ‘stroke of luck’ because there was no rehearsal . George consulted an Indian astrologer to find the perfect date for the benefit concert. He set it ...

George Harrison’s Grammy award-winning The Concert for Bangladesh has arrived on streaming platforms for the first time. Considered one of the most significant benefits of its day, the event ...

He knew what he should do and he went out and did it. The result was the first, and perhaps the greatest, concert-for-a-cause ever staged.

Considered the first real act of great benevolence by the rock community, the Concert for Bangladesh was held 50 years ago, on August 1st, at Madison Square Garden in New York.

By the summer of 1971, Bob Dylan was something of an apparition. He'd moved back to New York's Greenwich Village with his rapidly growing family, but ...

A triple album,The Concert For Bangladesh, was issued during December of 1971. It would reach the number two spot on the American album charts and attain the number one slot in The United Kingdom.

The Concert for Bangladesh was also the inspiration for the 1985 Live Aid concert organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure for those affected by the famine in Ethiopia. The George Harrison Fund for ...

George Harrison's 'Concert for Bangladesh' album cover. All net proceeds (after taxes), will be donated to the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.