Do you remember?

@Jaego It was a concert in the early 1970s set up by George Harrison. It had several big name performers, like Ringo, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, and Eric Clapton. The proceeds went to feed the starving people in Bangladesh....

@originnone George invited John, too, but John insisted on bringing Yoko onstage with him, which was a no-go with George.

@graphite I didn't know that! I remember the sitar portion, which was really bad...

@originnone Apparently, Paul also was invited but cited the band's ongoing legal problems related to the breakup (that had just happened) in not appearing.

@graphite I never thought I'd say this, but I'm sort of glad they didn't get back together. They were so great that anything they did later would be disappointing. That "Free as a Bird" thing was terrible. I think what George did post Beatles was great and never would have happened with Paul in charge....

@originnone I thought "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" were pretty good and didn't taint their legacy at all. The only down side (other than John's absence) is I don't think George really wanted to be there but was having financial problems and it was an easy, very large paycheck.

@graphite I didn't know that about George's finances. I was young enough that Wings already had a greatest hits album before I realized it wasn't the Beatles. I remember George's "All thing must past" album. I wanted it so badly, but it was $14....

@originnone The other school of though is George did "Anthology" because he wanted the Beatles' story told properly, FWIW. I suppose he was able to tolerate working with Paul again provided it was not under the old John-and-Paul-in-charge Beatles format. The two of them - Paul and George - had known each other since 1955 or something like that. FWIW, I have vague recollections of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 and used to watch the Beatles cartoons. Yes, they had their own cartoon show (although I don't think any of them was personally involved in producing it. One guy did Paul and Ringo's voices and another did John and George.)

@graphite I remember the cartoon, and I think there were trading cards. I remember having an album called "something new," but I've never heard mention of it outside of actually having it passed down to me. I read once where John felt dissed by George because George mentioned all the people who helped him learn to be a songwriter and never mentioned John.

@originnone "Something New" was their 3rd album, I think. Yes, George wrote a bio where John said George credited every two-bit sax player for his success but didn't mention John. George responded that this worked both ways, with George doing things like writing an uncredited line in "Come Together" and stuff like that. (Supposedly George wrote the signature first four notes of "And I Love Her," once again with no writing credit.)

@graphite I always wondered how they do credits for writing songs....like with Clapton basically writing the guitar solo of "while my guitar..." I once heard Mike Love wanted credit for writing "I get around" because he wrote the "round round get around" part in the beginning.