#the concert for bangladesh

[ilovedig]

Drop what you're doing and go to whatever streaming service you prefer and go listen to "The Concert for Bangladesh"

"Wah Wah" on the album is great, BUT LIVE? AT THIS CONCERT? It's on a totally different level.

Same with "My Sweet Lord" and "Bangladesh"

And if you're a Dylan fan, he sounds better than ever

And if you're not a Dylan fan, you might be after listening to this.

I seriously cannot recommend it enough.

GO NOW!

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Bob Dylan “The Concert For Bangladesh” Film Poster.

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

[nedison]

The Concert For Bangladesh is now on streaming services, featuring that dreadful revised cover from 2005 that totally misses the point of the whole event.

☝️ This is what the cover SHOULD look like you cowards. George wouldn't have budged on that.

To paraphrase Billy Preston: That's the way George planned it, that's the way George wants it to be...

[rastronomicals]

10:34 PM EST December 25, 2024:

Bob Dylan -   "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (Live)" From the album The Concert for Bangladesh (December 20, 1971)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[muzaktomyears]

love that the first benefit concert is just George Harrison and his assorted boyfriends

[ultra-francesca-mercury]

august 1st

1971

George Harrison hosts the Concert For Bangladesh, the first major charity concert and the precursor to Live Aid. Guests include Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston and Ringo Starr.

[illustraction]

The CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH (1972) - BOB DYLAN POSTERS (Part 9/10)

When George Harrison decided to put together a live concert, the FIRST benefit rock concert ever assembled to help the Bengali people after the devastating floods, he put together an All-Star band helmed by Leon Russel and invited Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Badfinger, Ravi Shankar, his fellow Beatle Ringo Starr ...and persuaded Bob Dylan to come out of semi retirement as he hadn’t played live since 1969. The result is one of the best ever recorded and filmed live concert with a level of musicianship and camaraderie rarely equalled.

Check all the various posters above from the US, Japan, Sweden and France (click on each for details)

Director: Saul Swimmer Actors: Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr

All our BOB DYLAN POSTERS ARE HERE

If you like this entry, check the other 9 parts of this week’s Blog as well as our Blog Archives

All our NEW POSTERS are here All our ON SALE posters are here

The posters above courtesy of ILLUSTRACTION GALLERY

[ilovedig]

He smiled in that first gif and I just knew he was looking at Bob, even before seeing the gif bob is actually in.

━ [footage of the rehearsal for the concert for bangladesh, ‘71]

[thefab4archive]

Ringo Starr playing at the Concert for Bangladesh, 1971.

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

George Harrison & Bob Dylan “If Not For You” Concert For Bangladesh rehearsal, July 31, 1971.

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

[harrisonarchive]

Photo by Henry Daniels.

“[Harrison] insisted that he was an ‘extremely reluctant Great One.’ Typical of George that he doesn’t consider himself a brilliant talent — either as guitarist or composer. […] [H]e said: ‘Talking about COMPOSING songs sounds funny. I don’t really COMPOSE and I don’t see myself as a composer. I don’t write songs at all, really; just get a few bits of tunes together and a few dumb lyrics. And that’s all.’” - Record Mirror, January 1, 1972 Derek Taylor: “This positioning [as the youngest member of the Harrison family and of The Beatles] might have made him the Baby, all the more surprising, and nicer therefore that he should turn out to be a Very Old Soul. […] Bob Dylan, Leon, and Billy Preston, Klaus, Eric and Ringo, Claudia Linnear, Ravi Shankar, all on one stage on one night and the man with the strength to do it, and the character to do it so well was George Harrison. […] There are few people who could have pulled this off. George is one of them. His love begins at home, began in his childhood home. He is an example of what a man can be if he wills it.I guess that really he is a great one, and not the tenth in my list.” - ibid Doris Troy: “George is the greatest as far as I’m concerned. As a musician he is fine and he’s already a good producer, but I think his real bag would be as a missionary or a leader of people. He has great heart and soul, a really beautiful person who is able to communicate peace and joy.” - ibid (x)

[rastronomicals]

December 20:

And,

On the 20th of December, 1971, A bevy of then-popular artists, including George Harrison and Bob Dylan sprung upon us The Concert for Bangladesh, their triple live concert album.

[nikidontsurf]

GEORGE HARRISON and BOB DYLAN rehearsing "If Not For You" for the CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH