1st August 1971 - George plays "Here Comes The Sun" to a sold out audience at The Concert For Bangladesh

George plays "Here Comes The Sun" to a sold out audience at The Concert For Bangladesh, Madison Square Garden on August 1st, accompanied by Pete Ham of Badfinger.

Alerted to the scale of the suffering by his friend Ravi Shankar, George Harrison organised The Concert For Bangladesh, with proceeds going to UNICEF.   Two sold out concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden brought together an extraordinary assemblage of major artists collaborating for a common humanitarian goal – setting the precedent that music could be used to serve a higher cause.

The all-star line-up of fellow artists included Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, and, of course, Ravi Shankar.

“The musicians were great. I mean they completely put down their own egos to play together and to do something because the whole vibe of that concert was that it was something bigger than the lot of us.” – George Harrison

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