George Harrison‘s The Concert for Bangladesh was a seminal moment in the history of classic rock. John Lennon said it wouldn’t have happened if The Beatles didn’t break up. Subsequently, Yoko Ono ...

The capital's Manik Mia Avenue was teeming with people from all walks of life since yesterday afternoon, as they waited to catch a glimpse of their favourite artistes. Even though concerts are a ...

George Harrison helped redefine pop music as part of The Beatles. As the band changed its sound, Harrison found ways to incorporate Indian music (“Within You Without You”), his slide guitar talents ...

Not published in LIFE. George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, the Concert for Bangladesh, Madison Square Garden, 1971. Benefit concerts for the victims of natural — and, increasingly, human-made — ...

On Aug. 1, 1971, George Harrison leveraged his status as one of the biggest rock ‘n’ roll stars on the planet to help fight a humanitarian crisis that few in the Western hemisphere knew anything about ...

Forty years ago today, George Harrison took to the stage with a host of his celebrity friends for what is regarded as the first large scale multi-artist benefit concert – The Concert For Bangladesh.

Hasan, who was once one of Bangladesh’s most beloved and influential rock singers, made a long-awaited return to the stage on December 16, on the nation’s Victory Day. The rock icon had been absent ...

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 ...

A Pakistani band, Jal, returned to Bangladesh after 14 years, performing at a concert that spiralled into chaos, forcing the organisers to call in the army to control the crowd, according to Express ...

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 ...

In Dhaka, the sprawling capital of Bangladesh, a small museum on a quiet side road commemorates the country’s war of liberation — a war that, though now dimly remembered, stands among the greatest ...

A concert by popular Bangladeshi rockstar James, also known as Nagar Baul, was cancelled on Friday night after a “mob attack” at the Faridpur Zila School campus reportedly left at least 25 people ...