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''The Concert for Bangladesh'' – originally titled ''The Concert for Bangla Desh'' – is a live triple album by George Harrison and celebrity friends, released on Apple Records in December 1971 in America and January 1972 in Britain. The album followed the two concerts of the same name, held on 1 August 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden, featuring Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and Eric Clapton. The shows were a pioneering charity event, in aid of the homeless Bengali refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War, and set the model for future multi-artist rock benefits such as Live Aid (1985) and the Concert for New York City (2001). Co-produced by Phil Spector and featuring the latter's signature Wall of Sound in a live setting, the fundraiser album was delayed for three months due to protracted negotiations between Harrison and two record companies keen to protect their business interests, Capitol and Columbia/CBS. Besides the main performers, the musicians and singers on the recording include Badfinger, Jim Horn, Klaus Voormann, Alla Rakha, Jim Keltner, Jesse Ed Davis and Claudia Linnear. The box set's original packaging included a 64-page book containing photos from the concerts; the album cover, designed by Tom Wilkes, consisted of an image of a malnourished child sitting beside an empty food bowl. On release, ''The Concert for Bangladesh'' was a major critical and commercial success, topping albums charts around the world, and went on to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in March 1973. Together with the 1972 Apple concert film directed by Saul Swimmer, the album gained Indian classical music its largest Western audience up until that time. The album was reissued in 2005, in remastered form, featuring a new cover. Among the many words of acclaim that have been written about ''The Concert for Bangladesh'' since its release, author Tom Moon describes it as an album to play "whenever your faith in the power of music begins to wane".〔Tom Moon, ''1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die'', Workman Publishing Company (New York, NY, 2008); quoted in The Super Seventies "Classic 500", (''The Concert For Bangla Desh'' – George Harrison and Friends ) (retrieved 24 May 2012).〕 Sales of ''The Concert for Bangladesh'' continue to benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF, which raised $1.2 million for children in the Horn of Africa, in a 2011 campaign marking the album's 40th anniversary. == The concerts == (詳細はEast Pakistan by friend and musician Ravi Shankar,〔Lavezzoli, p. 187.〕 George Harrison set about organising two fundraising concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York, to aid the war-ravaged and disaster-stricken country.〔Clayson, p. 308.〕 In the middle of these hurried preparations,〔Lavezzoli, p. 189.〕 he composed the song "Bangla Desh" in order to call further attention to the Bengalis' cause, and rush-released it as a charity single four days before the shows.〔Leng, pp. 112, 114.〕〔Madinger & Easter, pp. 434–35.〕 Riding high with the recent success of his ''All Things Must Pass'' triple album,〔Neal Alpert, ("George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh" ), Gadfly Online, 3 December 2001 (retrieved 12 March 2013).〕〔Lavezzoli, pp. 187, 189.〕 Harrison then headlined the all-star UNICEF benefit concerts, backed by a 24-piece〔 band of musicians and singers, on Sunday, 1 August 1971.〔Leng, p. 115.〕 Equally notable were appearances by fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr and Bob Dylan, both of whom, like Harrison, had been mostly unavailable to concert audiences for several years.〔Schaffner, pp. 146–47.〕〔Interview with Jann Wenner, in ''The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited.〕 In Dylan's case, it was his first appearance on a major US concert stage in five years,〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 154.〕 and his participation in the event had been uncertain until he walked on for his segment midway through the afternoon show.〔 The concerts were highly successful in raising international awareness of the plight of the refugees〔Tillery, p. 99.〕〔Interviews with Kofi Annan and Charles J. Lyons, in ''The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited''.〕 – thought to number up to 10 million〔 – and a cheque for over US$243,000 was soon sent to UNICEF for relief.〔 The media lavished praise on Harrison as an ambassador for rock altruism〔Inglis, p. 36.〕〔Tillery, pp. 100–01.〕 and hailed the event as proof that "the Utopian spirit of the Sixties was still flickering", as ''Rolling Stone'' magazine put it.〔Schaffner, p. 148.〕 With concert recording having been carried out at Madison Square Garden by Gary Kellgren,〔Badman, p. 45.〕 using the Record Plant's 16-track mobile unit,〔 Harrison intended to raise significantly more money via a live album of the event, to be issued on the Beatles' Apple Records label,〔 followed by Apple Films' concert documentary, also to be titled ''The Concert for Bangladesh''.〔Rodriguez, p. 51.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Concert for Bangladesh (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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