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The Concert for Bangladesh (1972)

Music,Documentary

103 minutos

Music,Documentary

103 minutos

Director: Saul Swimmer

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

Fecha de Estreno: 1972-03-23

Sinopsis

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.