The Concert for Bangladesh
1972
- Saul Swimmer
- 1h 43m
- March 23, 1972 · United Kingdom, United States of America
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 23, 1972
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Cast
- Leon Russell,Eric Clapton,Klaus Voormann,Ravi Shankar,Ringo Starr,Claudia Lennear,Billy Preston,George Harrison,Bob Dylan
- Director
- Saul Swimmer
- Producer
- George Harrison,Allen Klein
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
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