George Harrison’s 1971 charity shindig “The Concert for Bangladesh,” a rock extravaganza that paved the way for all-star benefits and set a new low for fiscal mismanagement, is coming to DVD for the ...

Harrison had also invented the superstar benefit concert, a milestone immortalized in the documentary filmed that day and its Grammy-winning soundtrack. This month, The Concert for Bangladesh is ...

The Concert for Bangladesh featured performances by Harrison, Shankar, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, and Leon Russell. Eric Clapton made a guest appearance on Harrison’s rendition of the ...

Nov. 24 2005 — -- Before Live 8 and Live AID, there was George Harrison. In 1971, the former Beatle organized a benefit concert for the suffering nation of Bangladesh. He brought in an all-star ...

Fifty years ago, on August 1, 1971, the music world descended on Madison Square Garden for an event like no other. It was the first major charity concert of its kind — the Concert for Bangladesh. In ...

The groundbreaking charity concert features legendary performances Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and more Bettmann/Getty On Aug. 1, 1971, George Harrison leveraged his status as one ...

Benefit concerts for the victims of natural — and, increasingly, human-made — disasters are now so commonplace that it somehow feels unnatural not to see one come together on the heels of a crisis.

Just two short years after the Beatles officially split, George Harrison embarked on a massive solo project unlike anything the Fab Four had ever done previously. Harrison took the initial benefit ...

In 1971, legendary sitarist, Ravi Shankar, asked his long-time friend, George Harrison, to help with a humanitarian crisis happening in his native Bangladesh; the result was the Concert for Bangladesh ...

Fifty years ago, on August 1, 1971, the music world descended on Madison Square Garden for an event like no other. It was the first major charity concert of its kind — the Concert for Bangladesh. In ...