On release, The Concert for Bangladesh was a live triple album by George Harrison and celebrity friends. Eric Clapton played a very significant role in composing the music for this concert. Overall the album obtained major critical and commercial success, topping albums charts around the world. It was able to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in March 1973.

With the Concert for Bangladesh, it was the collective name for two benefit concerts organized by former Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar.

Eric Clapton who was invited to the concert to be the show's lead guitarist was in such bad shape while dealing with a heroin addiction that Taj Mahal's Jesse Ed Davis was deputized to play and pick up whatever musical slack Clapton might leave behind. It worked out.

Pattie Boyd, who after her divorce from Harrison went on to marry Clapton in 1979, recalled that everyone was worried about his health at the time: "I remember that it was a pretty major, wonderful show, fantastic show. But there was a bit of concern about Eric when he flew in because of the problems that he had at that time, and everyone was really concerned. And I think this sense of concern was everywhere, really."

In retrospective reviews, The Concert for Bangladesh is now continually viewed in a highly favorable light by music critics.

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