First-Time Viewing
The Concert for Bangladesh
Release Date:March 23, 1972
Running Time:103 min
Genres:Documentary, Music
Director
Cast
George HarrisonRingo StarrEric ClaptonRavi ShankarBob DylanBilly PrestonLeon RussellKlaus VoormannClaudia Lennear
Top billed cast (via TMDB).
Synopsis
A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.
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