Music from "Shankar Family & Friends" featured in the setlist for the Harrison–Shankar North American tour later that year, during which the Music Festival personnel were accompanied on stage by Harrison and members of his touring band, such as Scott and Richards. Harrison sponsored Shankar's Music Festival from India concerts through his Material World Charitable Foundation, for which the European tour was its debut event. The DVD issued on "Collaborations" is from the Music Festival's concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 23 September 1974, the first date of the tour. The footage was shot by director Stuart Cooper, whose film "Little Malcolm", made early the previous year, marked Harrison's first foray into film production. After Harrison introduces Shankar to the London audience, Shankar conducts the musicians during the performance. He plays sitar on the twenty-minute "Raga Yaman Kalyan", however, accompanied by Rakha. Author Simon Leng recognises the Music Festival from India as the first Indian orchestra to have played in Europe, while Harrison's widow Olivia, in her role as producer of the compilation, notes singer and mridangam player T.V. Gopalkrishnan among the musicians who went on to have "incredible careers of their own". Considerable restoration was required to prepare "Live at the Royal Albert Hall" for release in 2010, since much of Cooper's footage had been lost during the ensuing decades or damaged. Olivia Harrison explained: "We laid music where we had picture and we cheated a little bit with picture where only sound existed to create over an hour of the concert …" A separate selection on the DVD presents the audio for a more complete version of the performance, lasting over 90 minutes. Also included is a short segment where Anoushka Shankar and Paul Hicks, as remaster producers, work on the concert audio in a San Diego studio and are visited by Shankar and Olivia. "Collaborations" was presented in an unusually lavish package, designed by Drew Lorimer and Olivia Harrison. Housed in a hinged box, the four discs sit on cardboard bases inside album covers measuring 8½ by 8½ inches, with the enlargement from CD and DVD dimensions allowing for a closer replication of the original LP jackets. A limited-edition release, each copy of the box set came with an individually numbered certificate of authenticity. A 56-page, hardcover book contains quotes from Shankar and Harrison, commenting on their long friendship and the projects represented on the discs.