George Harrison & Friends: The 1971 Concert for Bangladesh

Ed Newman
5 min readOct 14, 2018

Unremembered backstory on a monumental disaster.

Madison Square Garden poster. Fair Use

For Dylan fans it was one of his rare public appearances between the Woodstock motorcycle incident and the Rolling Thunder Revue. The Concert for Bangladesh, initiated by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, served two important functions. First, it drew attention to a major catastrophe in a remote region that few…

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