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Long before Katrina and tsunami relief, Live 8 and Live AID, former Beatle George Harrison assembled an all-star concert that cast the mould for celebrity charity.

The 1971 concert in New York’s Madison Square Garden featured Harrison, fellow Beatle Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Billy Preston and sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, Harrison’s Indian music mentor.

The pair of shows, one afternoon and one evening, benefited UNICEF and raised $250,000 (140,000 pounds) from ticket sales alone. While that may seem a small sum compared to tens of millions raised for Katrina relief or in the Live 8 concerts to raise awareness of poverty in Africa, it was a huge amount at the time.

All the performers worked for free to aid refugees from Bangladesh, the former East Pakistan, who fled into India to escape political strife. They suffered from starvation and disease in the process.

And with a new DVD and remixed songs, The Concert for Bangladesh is raising money again.

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The films include A Fistful of Dollars, The Blues Brothers and Quadrophenia.

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