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Nothing Is Real - Season 5 Episode 4 - The Concert for Bangladesh: Part Two

Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast

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4.8677 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The Concert for Bangladesh: Part Two


It’s Monday, July 26th, 1971 and rehearsals start for the George Harrison & Friends gig due to happen the following Sunday. Will Eric get on a plane? Is Bob going to be there? Has Allen cleared everything with the taxman? 


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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0:00.0

Welcome to Nothing's Real a podcast about the Beatles. Everybody thinks they know the Beatles,

0:07.0

but how much do we really know?

0:09.0

My name is Jason Carty. My name is Stephen Corkroft.

0:21.2

And we're live on tape from Dublin and Belfast.

0:24.0

This is part two of our look at George Harrison and Friends, otherwise known as the concert for Bangladesh.

0:30.5

When you left us last time on a cliffhanger, it was very exciting.

0:33.8

It was Monday, the 26th of July.

0:36.0

Rehearsals were starting for a concert that was happening at the end of that week on Sunday, the 26th of July. Rehearsals were starting for a concert that was happening

0:38.0

at the end of that week on Sunday, the 1st of August. And as we mentioned last week, when rehearsals

0:44.1

do start, it's not really a, they're not really dealing with a full deck. It's George, Klaus,

0:49.2

the horn section, and Badfinger. Yes. Yes. So these are just the initial rehearsals,

0:56.0

and I think that these are taking place in a rehearsal space at Carnegie Hall.

1:00.9

Oh, right. Okay.

1:02.2

And in the documentary on the 2005 DVD,

1:05.1

there are film clips here from various stages of these rehearsals. So it does seem to me that

1:13.5

there is a lot of material there, filmed material, that we haven't seen yet. Yeah. And that's just

1:21.7

waiting for a Peter Jackson type. Exactly. Exactly. So it's a busy, yeah.

1:29.3

I was going to say you think if we hadn't had all things must pass delayed by a year,

1:33.3

would there have been a 50th anniversary?

1:35.8

Well, it's still possible.

1:37.3

Uber, Uber box.

1:39.2

Let's collate all our knowledge and by the end we'll decree on what a super deluxe concert from

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