When George Harrison and His Friends Decided to Help a Devastated Town: 55 Years From the Bangladesh Concert

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On August 1, 1971, the exbeatle and many other famous musicians went on stage at Madison Square Garden to make two presentations to raise funds to help the people of Bangladesh, devastated by a cyclone and a bloody war. John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s denials, Ringo Starr’s generosity, Bob Dylan’s doubts, Eric Clapton’s bad timing and the backsliding of the first solidarity mega-concert in history