Nov 6, 2022 · George Harrison thought Bob Geldof's Live Aid was 'brilliant.' However, he knew what Geldof went through after it was all over. Without George Harrison, Live Aid might never have happened....

Dec 23, 2021 · Inspired by George’s efforts more than 10 years later, Geldof formed Band Aid, a supergroup full of some of Britain’s musical elite. They recorded the famous Christmas hit, “Do They Know It’s...

The Concert for Bangladesh (or Bangla Desh, as the country's name was originally spelt) [1] was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar.

Aug 1, 2021 · George Harrison’s 1971 Concert for Bangladesh was a groundbreaking exercise in altruism that paved the way for charitable spectaculars such as Live Aid that would appear over the coming decades. It was the finest example of the brilliance and resourcefulness of the former Beatles guitarist.

Oct 9, 2022 · Long before Band Aid 1984 released 'Do They Know It's Christmas', George Harrison released the first ever charity single in aid of the Bangladeshi people.

George Harrison and master sitar musician Ravi Shankar met in early summer of 1971 in Los Angeles, where they birthed the idea for The Concert For Bangla Desh. “I told George and George wanted to help me,” Shankar explained to me in his San Diego area home in a 1997 interview published in HITS Magazine.

By August 1971, when George Harrison, Ravi Shankar and friends took the stage at Madison Square Garden to play The Concert for Bangladesh, 10 million East Pakistani refugees had fled over the border into India with scant hope of surviving inevitable hunger and disease.

Feb 9, 2023 · A single by Harrison, ‘Bangla Desh’, was recorded in Los Angeles in early July 1971, and released at the end of the month just before the Madison Square Garden shows. It became the first ever rock ‘n’ roll charity single. Harrison’s first contacts for the show were the three other former Beatles.

Nov 25, 2014 · "Band Aid and Live Aid were a great contradiction to what people thought, another side of the decade," says Boy George. "The Eighties were about greed and excess – we were called Thatcher's Children."

Nov 19, 2021 · In the summer of 1971, Harrison corralled his musical friends to answer the call for humanitarian aid to Bangladesh. Two of his closest companions nearly left him hanging.