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‘Bangla Desh’ was a single released by George Harrison in 1971.

The first rock charity single, Harrison intended ‘Bangla Desh’ to raise awareness for refugees from the country following the 1970 Bhola cyclone and the Bangladesh Liberation War. See more…

It must have been in 1971 when I was in Los Angeles doing the Raga soundtrack album. Ravi [Shakar] was talking to me and telling me how he wanted to do a concert, but bigger than he normally did, so that he could raise maybe 25,000 dollars for the starving in Bangla Desh. He asked if I could think of some way of helping, say for instance for me to come on and introduce it or maybe bring in Peter Sellers… something to help, anyway.

Then he started to give me cuttings from magazines and newspapers, articles on the war and the poverty and I began to learn what it was about, and I thought, ‘Well, maybe I should help him do it.’

The Beatles had been trained to the view that if you’re going to do it, you might as well do it big and why not make a million dollars.