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Pandit Ravi Shankar and George Harrison pulled off a coup of sorts when they managed to get Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and other stars to play a healing note for a new and anguished nation

* George Harrison, Bob Geldof and Quincy Jones have given object lessons on how music can make a difference in the real world

* The first substantial name on the list of collaborations that helped raise a nation out of despair is the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971

* The venue was to be the most iconic in America — the Madison Square Garden

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As both nature and man attack the human race, as wildfires, floods and armed strife burn, inundate and ravage the world, it is perhaps time to hark back to the times when discordant notes being struck all around us were assuaged by the melody of music.

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Source: Their guitars gently wept for Bangladesh – The Hindu BusinessLine