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Concert For Bangladesh: How George Harrison formed the first ever all-star benefit rock… – Gold

    Concert For Bangladesh: How George Harrison formed the first ever all-star benefit rock… – Gold

A star-studded relief concert that transformed how people perceived musicians at the time, no longer were rock stars simply countercultural outsiders indulging in life’s many excesses.After George Harrison put together

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On This Day: The Concerts for Bangladesh – FREE Shipping

    On This Day: The Concerts for Bangladesh – FREE Shipping

On this day in 1971, a pair of benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar took place in Madison Square Garden to raise international awareness of, and fund

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The reason why Paul McCartney turned down George Harrison

    The reason why Paul McCartney turned down George Harrison

Following the split of The Beatles, each of the band members acrimoniously splintered off into their own directions and started from scratch. While Paul McCartney and George Harrison would later

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It Was 50 Years Ago Today – Concert For Bangla Desh!

    It Was 50 Years Ago Today – Concert For Bangla Desh!

This week, George’s All Things Must Pass gets its 50th Anniversary Deluxe treatment on both CD & Vinyl, and we can’t wait for it. He never toured for the album,

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Today in rock history; MTV is born, George’s concert for Bangladesh and more

    Today in rock history; MTV is born, George’s concert for Bangladesh and more

Today in rock history: on this date in 1980, post-punk giants Siouxsie and the Banshees released its third album, Kaleidoscope. Breaking away from the more jagged punk sound of earlier

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