George Harrison & Friends - Concert for Bangladesh
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Free Music Review: for fans
Hit: 5 Stars
A fantastic document of the 70,s: The greatest music stars, all together. Good music in pure state.Free Music Review: not just anykind of musici saw this on a&e
Hit: 5 Stars
I saw this in A&E ,I Bought it,his music is one of a kind.Free Music Review: Harrison & Friends Lend A Hand
Hit: 4 Stars
The Concert for Bangladesh was the first rock charity concert and the forerunner for shows like No Nukes, The Concert for Kampuchea, Live Aid and more recently, Live 8. Spearheaded by George Harrison who was spurred into action by Ravi Shankar's appeal to help the homeless Bengali refugees of the 1971 India-Pakistan war, he gathered a group of friends including Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Badfinger and Bob Dylan for a concert to raise money for UNICEF at Madison Square Garden. The most notable friend was Mr. Dylan who was at the height of reclusiveness and rarely made public appearances. His set perfectly captured the essence of the show featuring old protest warhorses "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry" and "Blowin' In The Wind", the pretty "Just Like A Woman" and a tip of the cap to Mr. Harrison with "Mr. Tambourine Man". Mr. Clapton guests with Mr. Harrison on a driving guitar duet "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Mr. Starr sings "It Don't Come Easy" totally off-key, but his lack of pretense and sense of humor shines through to make it a fun performance. Mr. Russell & Mr. Preston were either unknown to many or known as backing musicians at the time, but there electrify performances of "Jumping Jack Flash/Youngblood" & "That's The Way God Planned It" respectively helped catapult them to mainstream success. Mr. Shankar's opening "Bangla Dhun" is a fine piece of sitar music, but at over seventeen minutes long, it makes it tough for repeat listenings. This is Mr. Harrison's show and his songs are the spiritual backbone of the concert. Featuring tracks from the Beatles like a tender performance of "Here Comes The Sun" (backed beautifully by Badfinger living up to their Beatles comparisons) to tracks from his then new album All Things Must Pass. "Wah Wah" is the opening rock song of the show and he slides nicely into solid versions of "My Sweet Lord" and "Awaiting All On You". "Beware Of Darkness" is a duet with Mr. Russell that might well be the best track on the album. Mr. Harrison closes his set with a superb version of "Something" which leads into the group performance of a new song "Bangla Desh" which closes the concert on a high note. The new version of album features a bonus track, "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" by Bob Dylan. The album was a big hit peaking at number two and won the 1972 Album of the Year Grammy Award.Free Music Review: Rewriting history
Hit: 4 Stars
The Bangladesh benefit concert was the first of its kind. Before any other rock aid concert, George invented how to do it here. The album that followed has always been a classic, the cover image one of the most striking and immediatley identifable of all time, to have that non-commercial shot as the cover of the album required a lot of guts from George, and it says more than a 1000 words about why you had to buy that album. So, WHERE IS THE ORIGINAL ALBUM COVER!!!??? Why change it??? Ill tell you why: Putting the recently deceased George on the cover to sell more copies to the younger generation. George would be mad and embarrased at this shameless excercise of capitalism.Free Music Review: Probably the greatest amalgamation of musicians ever!
Hit: 4 Stars
As Jann Wenner said about this concert, this is the Wall Of Sound, and there is no better way to present the Wall Of Sound in a live setting than with the music of George Harrison. What else can I say about this that hasn't been said already. My only qualm with the album is that the cut up shortened version of "Wah-Wah" that completely neglects to include the amazing Jim Horn sax solo that is included in the movie.