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The Concert for Bangladesh (1971)

19711h 15mdir. Saul SwimmerUnited Statesdocumentary film

Note: this print runs 75 minutes against a recorded 95 to 98 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann

Directed by Saul Swimmer

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The Concert for Bangladesh is a film directed by Saul Swimmer and released in 1972. The film documents the two benefit concerts that were organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar to raise funds for refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War, and were held on Sunday, 1 August 1971 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. As well as notable performances from Harrison and Shankar, the film includes "main performer" contributions from Harrison's fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, Billy Preston and Leon Russell, and a surprise walk-on from Bob Dylan. Other contributing musicians include Ali Akbar Khan, Eric Clapton, the band Badfinger, Klaus Voormann, Jesse Ed Davis, Jim Horn and Jim Keltner.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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