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‘Concert For Bangladesh’ Finally Coming To DVD
The George Harrison-led “Concert for Bangladesh” will make its DVD debut Oct. 25 via Rhino, the same day Capitol releases a remixed, remastered CD of the project. Rhino is also creating a deluxe edition set with a reproduction of Harrison’s handwritten lyrics for the then-new song “Bangla Desh,” a postcard set, a sticker and a print of the original show poster.
Staged on Aug. 1, 1971, at New York’s Madison Square Garden, the show raised funds via UNICEF for Bangladeshi refugees caught in the middle of the country’s battle for independence from Pakistan.
It featured Harrison performing alongside Bob Dylan (making a rare public appearance in the wake of a serious motorcycle accident), Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston, Badfinger and Leon Russell. The event was chronicled the following year on a triple-LP set and a feature film.
Rhino’s DVD restores the original 99-minute movie in 5.1 sound and tacks on a wealth of extras, including a rehearsal performance of “If Not for You” with Harrison and Dylan and a soundcheck take on “Come on in My Kitchen” with Harrison, Clapton and Russell, plus Dylan performing “Love Minus Zero/No Limit,” an outtake from the theatrical release.
The DVD will also include a 45-minute documentary, “The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited 2005,” which features interviews with Bob Geldof and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Artist royalties from the sale of the “Bangladesh” DVD will be donated to UNICEF.
Here is the track list for “The Concert for Bangladesh”:
“Bangla Dhun”
“Wah-Wah”
“My Sweet Lord”
“Awaiting on You All”
“That’s the Way God Planned It”
“It Don’t Come Easy”
“Beware of Darkness”
Band Introduction
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
“Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
“Youngblood”
“Here Comes the Sun”
“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
“It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry”
“Blowin’ in the Wind”
“Just Like a Woman”
“Something”
“Bangla Desh”