Video courtesy: bluearmyfr
The video shows the legendary song “Bangladesh” sang by George Harrison in his charity concert “The Concert for Bangladesh”. This was the first concert for world humanity, which raised more than $25000 to help the Bangalee refugees who took shelter in India during the Liberation War, 1971.
It all started when pandit Ravi Shankar went to George Harrison with an idea to raise fund to buy medicine, food and clothes for the Bangalee refugees, later on superstars like Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and Bob Dylan also joined them…and the rest is history which occurred on 1st August 1971 at Madison Square Garden. The message of the song is simple, and only talked of the common people’s plight. It did not say anything relevant with politics, or war between two nations. It did not say a word about the Liberation War or justify the Bangalees’ cause to fight back.
