But Beatlemania ensured that anything a member dabbled in became a cultural phenomenon. The DVD will also include a 45-minute documentary, “The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited 2005,” which features interviews with Bob Geldof and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.Īrtist royalties from the sale of the “Bangladesh” DVD will be donated to UNICEF.Harrison and the Beatles were not the first Western musicians to find inspiration in Indian classical music- John Coltrane and Philip Glass both studied the tala, its metric cycle Glass’ fellow minimalist composers Terry Riley and La Monte Young experimented with drones rock bands like the Yardbirds, the Kinks, and the Byrds used their guitars to emulate the sitar’s distinctive tone. Rhino’s DVD restores the original 99-minute movie in 5.1 sound and tacks on a wealth of extras, including a rehearsal performance of “If Not for You” with Harrison and Dylan and a soundcheck take on “Come on in My Kitchen” with Harrison, Clapton and Russell, plus Dylan performing “Love Minus Zero/No Limit,” an outtake from the theatrical release. The event was chronicled the following year on a triple-LP set and a feature film. It featured Harrison performing alongside Bob Dylan (making a rare public appearance in the wake of a serious motorcycle accident), Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston, Badfinger and Leon Russell. 1, 1971, at New York’s Madison Square Garden, the show raised funds via UNICEF for Bangladeshi refugees caught in the middle of the country’s battle for independence from Pakistan.
Rhino is also creating a deluxe edition set with a reproduction of Harrison’s handwritten lyrics for the then-new song “Bangla Desh,” a postcard set, a sticker and a print of the original show poster.
25 via Rhino, the same day Capitol releases a remixed, remastered CD of the project. The George Harrison-led “Concert for Bangladesh” will make its DVD debut Oct.
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