USA for Africa, a supergroup of America's top popular musicians, recorded We Are the World, for raise money for the famine in Ethiopia January 28, 1985. It was the brain child of Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, who wrote the song, and Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian produced it.
Recording began about 10:30pm that night after the American Music Awards ceremony held that night. The final recording was made about 8am the following morning.
The song was released March 7 and became the eighth best-selling single of all time, with a sales in excess of 20 million copies. Among the performers that night were Billy Joel who had a short solo, and Anita, June, and Ruth Pointer were in the chorus.
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