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George Harrison’s Star-Studded ‘Concert for Bangladesh’ Finally Hits Streaming Services

George Harrison's 'Concert for Bangladesh' album compilation is finally available to stream.

The acclaimed benefit concert, which took place at New York’s Madison Square Garden in 1971, featured Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, and many others joining forces to raise money for UNICEF and raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis that followed the previous year’s Bangladesh Liberation War. A short trailer for the film shows Harrison singing his final performance of the night, “Bangla Desh,” and highlights the artists who joined him. A triple-LP box set of the album came out before the year was up, and a concert film of the event, directed by Saul Swimmer, opened in theaters in 1972.

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