The Concert for Bangladesh

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Release date : 1972-03-23

Production country :
United Kingdom, United States of America

Production company :
Apple Corps, 20th Century Fox, U.S. Committee for UNICEF

Durasi : 103 Min.

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7.90 Total Vote : 20

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.