The Concert For Bangladeshįollowing rehearsals in New York, the two concerts took place on August 1 at 2.30pm and 8pm in Manhattan in front of over 40,000 people. On the day of the single’s release, George and Ravi Shankar held a press conference to announce their ambitious concert. Five days before the concert, George released his single “Bangla Desh” on the Apple label, bringing this humanitarian crisis to the world’s attention in a way that only a world-famous former Beatle could. George had been deeply moved when Shankar had brought to his attention the plight of millions of starving refugees, in what was formerly East Pakistan, who were suffering the effects of the Bhola cyclone of 1970 and the “Liberation War” in their country. Well before Live Aid, on Augto be exact, George Harrison, along with his friend and mentor Ravi Shankar and a host of other stars, pulled off something that had never been achieved or even attempted before: the Concert For Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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