Beatles Concert for Bangladesh George Harrison Original

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Konzert für Bangladesch (engl.: Concert for Bangladesh) ist die Bezeichnung für zwei Konzerte, die am Nachmittag und Abend des 1. August 1971 im Madison Square Garden in New York vor 40.000 Zuschauern stattfanden.

Der im indischen Varanasi geborene Ravi Shankar, dessen Familie aber aus dem heutigen Upazila Kalia im Distrikt Narail, nahe Jessore in Bangladesch stammte, organisierte das Konzert mit seinem Freund George Harrison, um Gelder für Hilfsmittel für Bangladesch-Flüchtlinge, deren Anzahl in Folge des Bangladesch-Krieges auf 10 Millionen Menschen angewachsen war, aufzutreiben. Harrison nahm als Werbung für das geplante Konzert die Single Bangla Desh auf. Er veranlasste außerdem Apple Records, Ravi Shankars Single Joi Bangla herauszubringen.

Ravi Shankar (Sitar) eröffnete gemeinsam mit Ali Akbar Khan (Sarod) das Konzert mit einem 25-minütigen Reigen indischer Musik, die für viele Zuhörer immer noch eine neue Erfahrung war. So kam es zu Shankars Kommentar zum Beifall nach dem Stimmen der Instrumente: „Thank you. If you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more“. Eric Clapton trat nach einer fünfmonatigen Tournee mit Derek and the Dominos auf. Er war zu dieser Zeit heroinabhängig und brauchte die Droge, bevor er seinen Auftritt beginnen konnte. Dennoch hatte er einen Zusammenbruch und musste mit Methadon wieder auf die Beine gebracht werden.

Es gab musikalische Unterstützung von Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Klaus Voormann und Badfinger (zusammen mit Jim Horn, Carl Radle, Jesse Ed Davis, Don Preston sowie zahlreichen Background-Sängern).

Bob Dylan trat erstmals seit dem Isle of Wight Festival im August 1969 auf. Abgesehen von einem kurzen Auftritt mit The Band an Neujahr 1972 spielte er erst wieder im Januar 1974 live.

Das Konzert wurde aufgenommen und als Box mit drei LPs (später auf zwei CDs) herausgegeben, produziert von George Harrison und Phil Spector. Das Cover gestaltete Tom Wilkes, der auch künstlerischer Leiter und Fotograf des Festivals war. Auch ein Film des Konzerts wurde produziert, der als Video und DVD erhältlich ist.

Afternoon show

• "Wah-Wah"
• "Something"
• "Awaiting On You All"
• "That's The Way God Planned It"
• "It Don't Come Easy"
• "Beware Of Darkness"
• "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
• "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
• "Youngblood"
• "Here Comes The Sun"
• "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
• "Blowin' In The Wind"
• "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"
• "Love Minus Zero/No Limit"
• "Just Like A Woman"
• "Hear Me Lord"
• "My Sweet Lord"
• "Bangla Desh"

[edit] Evening show

• "Wah-Wah"
• "My Sweet Lord"
• "That's The Way God Planned It"
• "It Don't Come Easy"
• "Beware Of Darkness"
• "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
• "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
• "Youngblood"
• "Here Comes The Sun"
• "Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
• "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"
• "Blowin' In The Wind"
• "Mr. Tambourine Man"
• "Just Like A Woman"
• "Something"
• "Bangla Desh"

[edit] Performers

• Ravi Shankar, sitar and Ali Akbar Khan, sarod
  • Backed by Alla Rakha, tabla, and Kamala Chakravarty, Tanpura
• George Harrison – Vocals, guitars
• Ringo Starr – Vocals, Drums, tambourine
• Leon Russell – Vocals, piano, bass guitar
• Billy Preston – Vocals, organ
• Eric Clapton – Lead guitar
• Bob Dylan – Vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Klaus Voorman - Bass guitar
• Jim Keltner – Drums
• Badfinger – Rhythm guitars, backing vocals
  • Pete Ham, Tom Evans, Joey Molland and Mike Gibbins (percussion)
• Jesse Ed Davis – Lead guitar
• Don Preston – Lead guitar, vocals
• Carl Radle – Bass guitar
• The Hollywood Horns: Jim Horn, Allan Beutler, Chuck Findley, Jackie Kelso, Lou McCreary, Ollie Mitchell
• Backing vocalists: Don Nix, Jo Green, Jeanie Greene, Marlin Greene, Dolores Hall, Claudia Linnear

• "Bangla Dhun" – traditional raga, performed by Ravi Shankar, sitar; Ali Akbar Khan, sarod; Alla Rakha, tabla; Kamala Chakravarty, tamboura

• "Wah-Wah"
• "My Sweet Lord"
• "Awaiting On You All"
• "That's The Way God Planned It" – Composed and performed by Billy Preston
• "It Don't Come Easy" – Composed and performed by Ringo Starr
• "Beware of Darkness" – Featuring Leon Russell on guest vocals
• "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" – Featuring Eric Clapton on lead guitar
• "Jumpin' Jack Flash"/"Young Blood" – Composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards/Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller and Doc Pomus; performed by Leon Russell, with additional vocals by George Harrison and Don Preston on "Youngblood"
• "Here Comes the Sun" – Featuring Pete Ham

All songs written and performed by Bob Dylan, with George Harrison on Fender Stratocaster, Leon Russell on Klaus Voormann's custom-painted Fender Precision Bass and Ringo Starr on tambourine.

• "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall"
• "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"
• "Blowin' in the Wind"
• "Just Like A Woman"

Songs composed and performed by George Harrison and band.

• "Something"
• "Bangla Desh"

The Concert For Bangladesh was the event title for two benefit concerts organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, held at noon and at 7:00 p.m. on August 1, 1971, playing to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Organized for the relief of refugees from East Pakistan (now independent Bangladesh) after the 1970 Bhola cyclone and during the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities and Bangladesh Liberation War, the event was the first benefit concert of this magnitude in world history. It featured an all-star supergroup of performers that included Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Badfinger, and Ringo Starr.

An album was released later in 1971 and a concert film was released in 1972, with later releases for home video. In 2005, the film was re-issued on DVD accompanied by a new documentary.

The concert raised US$243,418.51 for Bangladesh relief, which was administered by UNICEF. Sales of the album and DVD continue to benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF

Concert programme

Ravi Shankar and the sarodist Ali Akbar Khan opened the concert with recital of Indian music consisting of the dhun, "Bangla Dhun".

Except for back-up roles in support of both the Delaney & Bonnie Blues Band and John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, it was the first live appearance for George Harrison since the breakup of The Beatles. Eric Clapton made his first public appearance since the end of the five-month Derek and the Dominos tour the previous December. Clapton was still in the grip of a heroin addiction, and had been unable to attend any rehearsals until the final soundcheck. This was the first live performance of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and may have been the first time the general public was made aware that it was Clapton who played the solo on The Beatles' recording.[citation needed]

Musical help was also on hand from Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Klaus Voormann, Jim Keltner, Badfinger, a large horn section put together by Jim Horn and other musicians, including Carl Radle, Jesse Ed Davis, Don Preston and a host of backing singers organized by Don Nix.

Bob Dylan made his first stage appearance since the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1969. Apart from sitting in for a few numbers with The Band on New Year 1972 and an unannounced appearance backing John Prine on harmonica at a Greenwich Village club, he did not play live again until January 1974.

The songs played and their sequence differ slightly between the afternoon and evening show.

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