"for [Shankar's] fans"" on the occasion of his 90th birthday, and ""worthy of a man of such esteemed stature"". Mital concludes of the partnership: ""The diligence of Harrison brought Ravi Shankar, Indian music and Eastern spirituality soundly into Western collective consciousness."" All selections are traditional, adapted by Ravi Shankar, except where noted. All selections written by Shankar. All selections written by Shankar. All selections written by Shankar. ""Concert film"" ""Concert audio"" Collaborations (Ravi Shankar and George Harrison album) Collaborations is a four-disc compilation box set by Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar and former Beatle George Harrison. Released in October 2010"
"to anything thirty years later and expect it to be how you would want it now."" Harrison responded to a request from Ravi Shankar by organising a charity event, the Concert for Bangladesh, which took place on 1 August 1971. The event drew over 40,000 people to two shows in New York's Madison Square Garden. The goal of the event was to raise money to aid starving refugees during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Shankar opened the show, which featured popular musicians such as Dylan, Clapton, Leon Russell, Badfinger, Preston and Starr. A triple album, ""The Concert for Bangladesh"", was released"
"Lord"" and ""What Is Life"". In the spring of 1971, Harrison learned from his friend and mentor, Ravi Shankar, about the desperate people of Bangladesh, who had been devastated both by military violence and a vicious cyclone. Harrison immediately set about organizing an event which would take place in Madison Square Garden within just five weeks—the Concert for Bangladesh—from which a live album could raise further funds for the Bangladeshi refugees. Klein hustled to get the invited artists, including Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton, to play for free while donating their shares of royalties to charity, and convinced Capitol Records"
"on stage at Madison Square Garden, New York, in August 1971 for the Concert for Bangladesh, organised by Harrison. Just over a year afterwards, on 8 October 1972, Shankar and Khan were recorded at another New York venue, the Philharmonic (now Avery Fisher) Hall, accompanied again by Rakha. Shankar often commented on the warm reception afforded him by audiences in America, where New York had been the first Western city to embrace Indian music.<ref name=""Clark/RS interview"">Sue C. Clark, ""Ravi Shankar: The ""Rolling Stone"" Interview"", ""Rolling Stone"", 9 March 1968 (retrieved 25 November 2013).</ref> As at the Bangladesh shows, there was"
"Concert for Bangladesh at New York's Madison Square Garden on August 1, 1971. The two-show charity event was organized by Harrison and featured Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar and Badfinger. In 1975, with his EMI Records contract due to expire, Lennon asked Bennett to reach out to CBS head Walter Yetnikoff to see if the label was interested in the former Beatle coming on board. Before serious negotiations began, Lennon chose to take a career break. Michael Jackson heard of these discussions and asked Bennett if he could open a door to CBS for himself and"
"of New York, the University of California, Los Angeles, and being guest lecturer at other colleges and universities, including the Ali Akbar College of Music. In late 1970, the London Symphony Orchestra invited Shankar to compose a concerto with ""sitar"". ""Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra"" was performed with André Previn as conductor and Shankar playing the ""sitar"". Shankar performed at the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971, held at Madison Square Garden in New York. After the musicians had tuned up on stage for over a minute, the crowd of rock-music fans broke into applause, to which the amused Shankar"
"Madison Square Garden in New York City to raise funds for Bangladeshi refugees. The first major benefit concert in history, it was organized by Harrison and Indian Bengali sitarist Ravi Shankar. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, Bengali nationalists declared independence and formed the Mukti Bahini (the Bangladeshi National Liberation Army). The Provisional Government of Bangladesh was established on 17 April 1971, converting the 469 elected members of the Pakistani national assembly and East Pakistani provincial assembly into the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh. The provisional government issued the Proclamation of the Independence of Bangladeshi, which was the country's interim constitution and"
"Shankar stage a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden for the newly created state of Bangladesh, which was undergoing extreme famine conditions. The resulting Concert for Bangladesh, with appearances by Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and others was the first benefit concert of this magnitude in world history. The concert, record and film have raised millions of dollars for UNICEF. In a documentary about the concert, Taplin tells the famous story of trying to get Eric Clapton (undergoing heroin withdrawal) on stage. In early 1973, Taplin moved to Los Angeles where he was introduced to a young film"
"the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971. Three years later, with the new nation of Bangladesh still beset by problems, and conflict clouding the issue of friendship generally for Harrison, Inglis suggests that ""this is one friendship [Harrison] is determined to preserve"". The choruses therefore promise: """"I won't let him down ... I won't let him drown ..."""" Harrison later credited Shankar with being ""probably the person who has influenced my life the most"", since ""Indian music was like a stepping-stone to the spiritual path"". Inglis views the song as reflecting Harrison's commitment to ""all the things that India has"
"continued to massacre Bengali students, intellectuals, politicians, civil servants and military defectors in the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, while the Mukti Bahini and other Bengali guerilla forces created strong resistance throughout the country. During the war, an estimated 300,000 to three million people were killed and several million people took shelter in neighboring India. Global public opinion turned against Pakistan as news of the atrocities spread; the Bangladesh movement was supported by prominent political and cultural figures in the West, including Ted Kennedy, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Victoria Ocampo and André Malraux. The Concert for Bangladesh was held at"
"(1973), a soundtrack recorded in 1968 with French experimental percussionists Les Structures Sonores for the art film ""Viola"". Later in 1968, she, Lakshmi and Jitendra Abhisheki were the singers in Shankar's Festival from India ensemble, which recorded an eponymous double album in Los Angeles before touring the United States. In August 1971, Chakravarty accompanied Shankar, sarod master Ali Akbar Khan and Rakha at the Concert for Bangladesh, held at New York's Madison Square Garden. The success of the resulting live album and concert film gained Indian music its largest audience up to that point. Although she provided a minor role"
"on the Harrison-compiled """" box set (1996). A Bengali by birth, Ravi Shankar was deeply concerned by the plight of the cyclone- and war-ravaged people of East Pakistan during the first six months of 1971. To help raise funds to try to alleviate the misery, he turned to his friend George Harrison, then riding a wave of popularity with the success of his first post-Beatles solo album, ""All Things Must Pass"". Within six weeks, Madison Square Garden in New York was booked for two UNICEF shows on Sunday, 1 August; Western stars such as Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr"
"ex-Beatle George Harrison was inspired to organize The Concert for Bangladesh, in part from the 1970 Bhola Cyclone, and from the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide and Bangladesh Liberation War. Although it was the first benefit concert of its type, it was extremely successful in raising money, aid and awareness for the region's plight. In December, the League of Red Cross Societies drafted a plan for immediate use should a comparable event to the cyclone hit other ""disaster prone countries"". A Red Cross official stated some of the relief workers sent to East Pakistan were poorly trained, and the organisation would compile"
"In Concert 1972 In Concert 1972 is a double live album by sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and sarodya Ali Akbar Khan, released in 1973 on Apple Records. It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall, New York City, in October 1972, and is a noted example of the two Hindustani classical musicians' celebrated ""jugalbandi"" (duet) style of playing. With accompaniment from tabla player Alla Rakha, the performance reflects the two artists' sorrow at the recent death of their revered guru, and Khan's father, Allauddin Khan. The latter was responsible for many innovations in Indian music during the twentieth century, including the"
"the RIAA on 4 January 1972 for sales of over 500,000 units. In March 1973, ""The Concert for Bangladesh""s significance was further underlined when it won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In Harrison's absence, Ringo Starr attended the awards ceremony in Nashville and carried off a tray of Grammys, one for each of the featured performers. Author Peter Lavezzoli writes that, with the success of the live album and Saul Swimmer's concert documentary, which opened in US cinemas in March 1972, Indian classical music reached its largest Western audience to date through the Concert for Bangladesh. ""The"
"""The Concert for Bangladesh"". During his and Shankar's press conference in New York on 27 July, Harrison had stated that a live album might be ready for release within ten days of the shows. Although this estimate would turn out to be highly optimistic, the following year, in an effort to foil concert bootleggers, Elvis Presley succeeded in delivering a just eight days after his own, much-publicised Madison Square Garden shows. Harrison and co-producer Phil Spector began working on the Bangladesh recordings on 2 August, and work continued there at the Record Plant for around a week. Spector later talked"
"tracks from side four to side six of the original release, together with: A download-only version of the album per the 2005 remaster, with a second bonus track exclusive to iTunes:<ref name=""Marchese/SecondDisc"">Joe Marchese, ""Harrison and Shankar's 'Concert For Bangladesh' Goes Digital"", The Second Disc, 26 July 2011 (retrieved 3 March 2016).</ref> ""The Artists"" ""The Band"" The Hollywood Horns The Soul Choir Original release 2005 reissue The Concert for Bangladesh (album) The Concert for Bangladesh (originally titled The Concert for Bangla Desh) is a live triple album by George Harrison and celebrity friends, released on Apple Records in December 1971 in"
"music, said: ""Allah Rakha is the Einstein, the Picasso; he is the highest form of rhythmic development on this planet."" Rakha also collaborated with jazz drummer Buddy Rich on their 1968 album ""Rich à la Rakha"". Rakha was part of the ensemble accompanying Ravi Shankar during George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh shows, held in New York City in August 1971. The success of the live album and concert film from this event presented Indian classical music to a wide audience in the West. Rakha was awarded the Padma Shri in 1977 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1982. He"
"doing something for a cause"". It was also the first time that Keltner played on a George Harrison session, the two musicians having already worked together on Lennon's ""Imagine"" album (1971). The ""Bangla Desh"" session was the beginning of a lifelong friendship, with the pair remaining ""as brothers"", Keltner has said, until Harrison's death in 2001. Together with Clapton, Preston, Bob Dylan and the group Badfinger, all these musicians joined Harrison and Shankar on stage at Madison Square Garden. Ravi Shankar cut a benefit disc of his own at this time, the Harrison-produced ""Joi Bangla"" EP. The A-side featured two"
"was released on """", while another New York City performance, recorded one year later, appeared on """". Dylan performed the song in August 1971 at The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar. The concert was organized for East Pakistan refugee relief (now independent Bangladesh) after the 1970 Bhola cyclone and during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. On December 4, 1975, at the Forum de Montreal, Canada, Dylan recorded an upbeat version of the song, which appears on """" album. On May 23, 1994, Dylan performed the song at ""The Great Music Experience"" festival in Japan, backed"
"and their associated releases as ""the George Harrison Moment"", while Gary Tillery has written: ""The Concert for Bangladesh sealed Harrison's stature as something more than just a major celebrity ... He changed the perception of recording artists, making it clear they could be good world citizens too – willing to set aside their egos and paychecks in order to help people who were suffering."" Politically, as Bangladeshi historian Farida Majid would note, the ""warmth, care and goodwill"" of the August 1971 concerts ""echoed all over the world"", inspiring volunteers to approach UNICEF and offer their assistance, as well as eliciting"
"3, 2007. Saul Swimmer Saul Swimmer (April 25, 1936 – March 3, 2007) was an American documentary film director and producer best known for the movie ""The Concert for Bangladesh"" (1972), the George Harrison-led Madison Square Garden show that was one of the first all-star benefits in rock music. He was also a co-producer of The Beatles' 1970 documentary ""Let It Be"". Born to a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, family that included a sister, Esther, and three brothers, Wolford and Alvin, and Herbert, Swimmer earned a bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University in nearby Pittsburgh. He began directing in his early twenties,"
"Shankar consulted Harrison about how to provide aid to the people of Bangladesh after the 1970 Bhola cyclone and the Bangladesh Liberation War. Harrison hastily wrote and recorded the song ""Bangla Desh"", which became pop music's first charity single when issued by Apple Records in late July. He also pushed Apple to release Shankar's ""Joi Bangla"" EP in an effort to raise further awareness for the cause.<ref name=""Dooley/Gibson""></ref> Shankar asked for Harrison's advice about planning a small charity event in the US. Harrison responded by organising the Concert for Bangladesh, which raised more than $240,000. Around $13.5 million was generated"
"Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra is a studio album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) conducted by André Previn. It was premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall on 28 January 1971, and subsequently released in Britain and America. Shankar began composing the work, his first concerto, after receiving a commission from the LSO in mid November 1970. The idea of creating an Indian classical work for a full Western orchestra, accompanied by his sitar, appealed to Shankar following his forays into chamber music with violinist Yehudi Menuhin –"
"Bangla Desh (song) ""Bangla Desh"" is a song by English musician George Harrison. It was released as a non-album single in July 1971, to raise awareness for the millions of refugees from the country formerly known as East Pakistan, following the 1970 Bhola cyclone and the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War. Harrison's inspiration for the song came from his friend Ravi Shankar, a Bengali musician, who approached Harrison for help in trying to alleviate the suffering. ""Bangla Desh"" has been described as ""one of the most cogent social statements in music history"" and helped gain international support for Bangladeshi"
"reissue of Saul Swimmer's ""Concert for Bangladesh"" film, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan acknowledged Harrison and Shankar as ""pioneers"" in their efforts for the people of Bangladesh, and credited the song's opening verse for personalising the crisis by showing ""the man behind the music"".<ref name=""CFBD/Annan"">Interview with Kofi Annan, in ""The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited"".</ref> Thirty-three years before this, on 5 June 1972, UNICEF officially recognised Harrison and Shankar with its annual Child Is the Father of the Man award. In 2004, ""Bangla Desh"" was played during the final episode of the BBC television series ""Himalaya with Michael Palin"", in which Palin"
"Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India was an Indian classical music revue led by sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar intended for Western concert audiences and performed in 1974. Its presentation was the first project undertaken by the Material World Charitable Foundation, set up the previous year by ex-Beatle George Harrison. Long a champion of Indian music, Harrison also produced an eponymous studio album by the Music Festival orchestra, which was released in 1976 on his Dark Horse record label. Both the CD format of the Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India album and a"
"as an encore at both of the Madison Square Garden shows on 1 August 1971, with the evening performance being selected for inclusion on the ""Concert for Bangladesh"" triple live album. After the familiar introduction to the song, the band ""threw their full weight behind Harrison"", Lavezzoli writes, ""playing the darkest and heaviest music of the show"". On release that December, Jon Landau of ""Rolling Stone"" identified the song as ""the concert's single greatest performance by all concerned"", and added that by the close of the show, the lyrics to Harrison's single were ""no longer an expression of intent but"
"magazine cuttings – Harrison was back in LA to finish the ""Raga"" album in late June. By then, the ""Sunday Times"" in London had just published an influential article by Pakistani journalist Anthony Mascarenhas, which exposed the full horror of the Bangladesh atrocities, and a distraught Shankar approached Harrison for help in trying to alleviate the suffering. Harrison later talked of spending ""three months"" on the phone organising the Concert for Bangladesh, implying that efforts were under way from late April onwards; it is widely acknowledged that the project began in earnest during the last week of June 1971, however,"
"to staging the Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden, New York, on Sunday, 1 August. Six weeks of frantic activity ensued as Harrison flew between New York, Los Angeles and London, making preparations and recruiting other musicians to join him and Shankar for the shows. While conceding that Harrison was no ""natural sloganeer"" in the manner of his former bandmate John Lennon, author Robert Rodriguez has written: ""if any ex-Fab had the cachet with his fan base to solicit good works, it was the spiritual Beatle."" Foreign journalists had been deported from East Pakistan shortly before the Pakistani army's"
"and drugs"", Walcott created a piece titled ""Frenzy and Distortion"", using ""a profusion of electronic sounds"". In June and through to July 1971, Harrison, as producer, prepared the recordings for release in conjunction with the movie. While Shankar and Harrison were working in Los Angeles, news broke of the atrocities being committed by West Pakistan against the people of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan, and before that, East Bengal). In response to a plea for assistance from Shankar, a Bengali by birth, Harrison set about organising the Concert for Bangladesh, held at Madison Square Garden, New York, on 1 August. Work"
"writes of the track: ""'Awaiting on You All' has a timeless exuberance that even Beatles-haters should experience."" ""Awaiting on You All"" was one of the songs Harrison played at the Concert for Bangladesh, held at Madison Square Garden, New York, on 1 August 1971. Featuring backing from a band including Clapton, Voormann, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Jim Keltner and Jim Horn, Harrison performed the song at both the afternoon and the evening shows. The latter performance was included on the ""Concert for Bangladesh"" live album, which Spector again co-produced, and in the film of the concert. Joshua Greene"
"a deluxe-edition CD/DVD set that included film clips of four songs. George Harrison's 1971–72 humanitarian aid project for the new nation of Bangladesh had left him an international hero, but also exhausted and frustrated in his efforts to ensure that the money raised would find its way to those in need. Rather than record a follow-up to his acclaimed 1970 triple album, ""All Things Must Pass"", Harrison put his solo career on hold for over a year following the two Concert for Bangladesh shows, held at Madison Square Garden, New York, in August 1971. In an interview with ""Disc and"