Forty years after the first charity rock mega-show, George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh, The Guardian explores the legacy of such events as ways to raise cash and attention for causes.
As a concert, album, and film, the 1971 New York show—organized by Mr. Harrison and featuring Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, and other icons to benefit the victims of a cyclone and civil war in Bangladesh—has raised more than $17-million over the years, with aid going via Unicef to other trouble spots.
The concert inspired subsequent charity pop spectaculars, most notably Bob Geldof’s Live Aid and Live 8, which raised tens of millions of dollars to combat hunger and poverty in Africa.
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