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...Bangla-Desh. Charles Theater...
...also a year of re-vitalization and, if you will, resurrection. Bob Dylan appeared in public for the first time in years at the Concert for Bangla Desh, and Jeff Beck made a come-back with a new album and a new group. Even the Beach Boys were able to draw critical acclaim with the release of the surprising Surf...
...year on a pleasant note, the record companies decided to stop hassling and release The Concert for Bangla Desh. It served as a summation of hundreds of different musical statements, a dozen different roots. It gives one hope...
...national hero. All week long the capital had been electric with expectation. In the wake of the first reports that his arrival was imminent, Bengalis poured into the streets of Dacca, shouting, dancing, singing, firing rifles into the air and roaring the now-familiar cry of liberation "Joi Bangla." Many of the rejoicing citizens made a pilgrimage to the small bungalow where Mujib's wife and children had been held captive by the Pakistani army. The Begum had spent the day fasting. "When I heard the gun fire in March it was to kill the people of Bangladesh...
...this music history is available for $12.98. The price of the album has made many record distributors very unhappy. It seems as though they can't understand why the five dollar profit from each record has to go to some starving child in Bangla Desh rather than to him so he can put his son through Harvard. The price of the album has also made a lot of Harvard students unhappy. It seems as though it's a lot easier to give up a Tuesday night dinner than shell out an extra five bucks...