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True to the nature of this event, Bob Geldof hung a sign on the door of the recording studio which said "Leave Your Ego At The Door". Prince (notorious for both his ego and his tantrums) reportedly drove away after seeing the sign. This viodeo is a documentary of the making of this most famous song/video.
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Ground breaking for its time,
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This review is from: We Are the World: The Video Event ( USA for Africa - Collector's Edition) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
In January, 1985, the celebrities in the "ME GENERATION" stepped outside their comfort zones to offer up this music video to raise money for the less fortunate in Africa and other parts of the globe. Thanks to Quincy Jones' superb leadership, world famous artists gathered together to create this inspirational and uplifting song and video, WE ARE THE WORLD, which reached people of all races worldwide. In an effort to end hunger, 8000 radio stations actually played the song together at the same hour to get the message out. For those of us who came of age during this time period, we remember well how much we scrambled to find the video being aired on MTV, that is how exciting this project was. It literally caught fire and since that time, many other artists have copied this concept, i.e. Live Aid, Band Aid, and countless more. But none came close to compiling as many super stars as WE ARE THE WORLD did nearly twenty years ago. Narrated by Jane Fonda, you'll enjoy seeing a young Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson (before his weird facial transformation), Kenny Loggins, Paul Simon, Steve Perry, Huey Lewis, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Hall & Oates, The Pointer Sisters, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, and the star studded list goes on and on. None of the people in this video were paid for their work, which even back then was a powerful statement of how much this cause meant to them. The videotape quality has eroded significantly over time, so hopefully a DVD version will be issued on its 25th anniversary in the year 2010. A must have for music fans and philanthropists of all generations.
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Michael Jackson's "We Are the World" from the 80s,
By Beverly A. Kingma "BEVERLY KINGMA 'BOOK WORM" (SAN BERNARDINO, CA.USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: We Are the World: The Video Event ( USA for Africa - Collector's Edition) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I had to have! Just for the memories! Loved it then, love it now! Nothing compares to the original!
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Great seeing it again...,
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This review is from: We Are the World: The Video Event ( USA for Africa - Collector's Edition) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I've had this for some time now and thanks to Amazon, I found one for a friend who wanted one. We watched it together and I still enjoyed it.
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