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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094633588028
Format: Live, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Sales Rank: 5496
Studio: Capitol

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Ravi Shankar planted the seed, but it was George Harrison who turned this historic benefit concert into reality. The publicity-shy former Beatle could've easily written a check and forgotten all about the matter--impoverished East Pakistani refugees stranded in India--but instead recruited some of his most talented and compassionate friends and created an event remembered as much for the quality of its music as the purity of its intent. (The two-part engagement itself raised $250,000.) The players include Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and Bob Dylan, while the backing band includes Jim Keltner, Klaus Voormann, and the up-and-coming Apple band Badfinger (Phil Spector and Harrison produced). The concert took place on August 1, 1971 at Madison Square Garden and was released as a triple-album boxed set that December and a feature film in 1972. That year, it won the Grammy for best album. The program begins with Shankar and his trio ('Bangla Dhun') and ends with a song Harrison wrote for the occasion ('Bangla Desh'). Highlights include Billy Preston's rousing 'That's the Way God Planned It' and Dylan's heartfelt five-song set, starting with 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall.' The remaster adds an additional Dylan track, 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit,' from the afternoon show. Although the cover art has been changed to a picture of Harrison, the original iconic image of a sad-eyed child remains prominent in the CD and DVD packaging. As with previous versions of The Concert for Bangladesh, all artist royalties go to UNICEF or, as Harrison notes in his band introduction, 'Nobody's gettin' paid for anything.' --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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- Revive the moment
If you were listening to music when this was released years ago you will be thrilled at having the recording again. If you've never heard this incredible concert then you will be amazed at the display of talent and variation of music found in one sitting. A necessary recording for all Harrison fans as well as for any Dylan fan.

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- Before Ringo, there was George Harrison and his All-Star Band
This 1971 album was the first of the all-star benefit albums. And arguably the best. In a nut shell, George Harrison, fresh off his success with "All Things Must Pass" raised his profile even further when he joined with Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar for 2 benefit shows at Madison Square Garden. At the time, Bangladesh was ½ a world away and largely unknown and forgotten by Americans and the rest of the world for that matter. Plus it had been born out of a war between religions and torn apart ... Read More

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- a great improvement over the vinyl box set
Besides the upgraded sound, the great thing about this cd edition is that all the music fits on two discs. The vinyl version averabed about fifteen minutes of music on a side, so you had to keep changing records to hear it. If I remember, the final side of vinyl was only two songs. Maybe ten minutes of music?

George Harrison is OUTSTANDING on this album. When he performs "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," you get the closest thing there is to a live Beatles performance at the end of their ... Read More

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- Holy shnike, what a concert
This is right up there with 'The Last Waltz,' Joe Cocker's 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' and the Dead closing the Winterland in '78 in my pantheon of concert DVDs, and it might be better than all of them. Two drummers are always better than one, even if one of those drummers IS Ringo Starr, rocking the freakiest beard I've ever seen (I'm actually reviewing the DVD, but it's the same songs, soooo...).

But the setlist just rocks all to hell. It kicks into high gear with "Wah Wah," as Harrison ... Read More

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- Concert for Bangledessh
Wow dose this bring me back it is sad that George n friends are all but forgotten by most
This show was epic and a wonderful snapshot in time

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