Who organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden with Ravi Shankar?
The Concert for Bangladesh the United Nations General Assembly, performing the song "Freedom". The Concert for Bangladesh The Concert for Bangladesh (or Bangla Desh, as the country name was originally spelt) was the name given to two benefit concerts organised by former Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar. The concerts were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The shows were organised to raise international awareness and fund relief efforts for refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide. The concerts were followed
In Concert 1972 on stage at Madison Square Garden, New York, in August 1971 for the Concert for Bangladesh, organised by Harrison. Just over a year afterwards, on 8 October 1972, Shankar and Khan were recorded at another New York venue, the Philharmonic (now Avery Fisher) Hall, accompanied again by Rakha. Shankar often commented on the warm reception afforded him by audiences in America, where New York had been the first Western city to embrace Indian music.<ref name="Clark/RS interview">Sue C. Clark, "Ravi Shankar: The "Rolling Stone" Interview", "Rolling Stone", 9 March 1968 (retrieved 25 November 2013).</ref> As at the Bangladesh shows, there was