The Concert for Bangladesh and its charity pop legacy

The Concert for Bangladesh was rock's first big act of philanthropy, and the model for Live Aid. But how much good do these things really do?Ravi Shankar may be 91 years old, but the memory of June 1971 remains vivid. "I was in Los Angeles," says India's greatest classical musician, "hearing about this terrible tragedy: 100,000 refugees coming into Kolkata, and yet almost nobody knew about it."The previous November, the Bhola cyclone had ravaged East Pakistan and West Bengal, killing 500,000 p...

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