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[man 1] Nothing will ever
be the same after tonight.

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-[applause intensifies]
-[man 1] Nothing!

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Some of the artists, some of the people,
some of the personalities…

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Tonight is gonna be one of the most
unreal nights we've ever experienced,

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and I'm glad I have a good seat
'cause I don't wanna miss a thing.

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[loud chatter echoing]

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-[man 2] Your timing is perfect.
-[man 1] God, hey.

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-[man 2] Bruce, Lionel, you're all good?
-Good. Yeah.

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[man 2] Bruce… Oh, Smokey's here too.

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-[woman] Happy new year, baby.
-[man 2] Steve!

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[Lionel] The greatest artists
of a generation came together…

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[inaudible dialogue]

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…with all of our ego…

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-[does vocal exercise]
-…with all of our talent,

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to save some lives.

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Must be in a dream, huh?

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Okay, guys.

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Hello. Hello.

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[Lionel] But we only had one night.
They're not coming back tomorrow.

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Let's go! Now, here's what we're gonna do.

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[Bruce] It was busy and buzzy,

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and people didn't know
what we were gonna be doing.

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You're exhilarated, you know,
just from the unusualness of the evening.

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[man clapping] ♪ We are the world ♪

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[Lionel] There was nothing more chaotic

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than trying to rope
this creative ball of energy together.

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This was history happening right now.

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-One, two. [clears throat]
-[man] Let's put it on tape!

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♪ One, two, three, four! ♪

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[funky rock music playing]

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[Bruce] All right, let's go!

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[man] Legends of rock music.

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[woman] The most super of superstars.

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Are you ready for me?

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[thunderous applause]

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[man 2] Here is a unique young singer.

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[crowd roars]

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[man 3] The most exciting superstars
in the music world today.

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[music climaxes]

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[music fading]

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[music ends]

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[footsteps approaching]

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I'm comin' in.

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Comin' in hot.

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[clears throat]

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All right.

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Let's get this party started.

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-♪ All night long ♪
-♪ All night ♪

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-♪ All night… ♪
-♪ All night… ♪

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[Richie] I will try to take you back
as far as I can remember.

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♪ Feel good, feel good! ♪

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In the early '80s,
I'd left the Commodores.

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Ken Kragen, my new manager,

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he said, "Well, first of all,
your songs are more famous than you are,

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so we're gonna stick your face
next to all of those wonderful songs."

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Mr. Lionel Richie!

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[cheering]

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[Richie] My solo album
and stuff was happening,

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and so the career was taking off.

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I'm a night person,

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so everything in life was happening
after one o'clock in the morning.

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-[tires screech]
-[music ends]

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[Richie] And then, one night,
I received this call from Ken

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that changed everything.

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[ambient music playing]

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[woman 1] Ken Kragen ran
a talent management company.

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[phone ringing]

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He had the most stellar reputation.

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[man] Ken Kragen!

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[woman 2] Ken was a superstar.

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He was as much a superstar as the artist,

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but he was a superstar
in the business of music.

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One morning,
there was an unplanned meeting.

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We walked in,
and we're greeted by Harry Belafonte.

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That stops you in your tracks.

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You're looking at Hollywood royalty.

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He's legendary.

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I just knew something big
was about to happen.

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♪ Day-o… ♪

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[thunderous applause]

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♪ Day-o ♪

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♪ Daylight come and me wan' go home ♪

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[man] Harry Belafonte
was an elder statesman.

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He had graduated
from being a working actor and singer.

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He was still doing all that stuff,

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but, for the most part,
we looked at him as this iconic figure,

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and he had such social impact.

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[Belafonte] We believe that artists
have a valuable function in any society,

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since it is the artists
who reveal the society to itself.

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[Sternberg] Much like civil rights
needed to be amplified,

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Harry Belafonte felt that the issues
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certainly in Africa, needed to be told.

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[anchor] For some time now,
we have been hearing reports

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of another famine in Africa,
this time in Ethiopia.

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But with all else
that's going on these days,

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so often those reports
don't have much impact.

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[Ivory] People starving in Africa

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was as far away from us as you could be.

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It was just something that we saw
on commercials or in documentaries.

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[anchor 2] This mother
and the baby she bore two months ago

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wrapped together in death.

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[Belafonte] A hungry child dies silently.

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In Africa, they're dying by the thousands.

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How do you look
at all this overwhelming force

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of need and hunger?

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Something must be done.

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Harry Belafonte said,
"Let's do a concert,"

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and Bob Geldof had already done
the Band Aid single

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about, oh, a month or so before.

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♪ Let them know it's Christmas time… ♪

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I said, "Harry, let's just take
the idea that Bob already gave us.

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Let's do it. But let's get
the greatest stars in America to do it."

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[Richie] Kragen said, "I just got
off the phone with Harry Belafonte."

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And, uh, basically what he said was,
"I need you."

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[ambient music playing]

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[Richie] Harry said,
"We have white folks saving Black folks."

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"We don't have Black folks
saving Black folks."

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"That's a problem."

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"We need to save
our own people from hunger."

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He was trying to get us,
the younger group,

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involved in what was happening in Africa.

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I said, "Of course."

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It's not that I didn't have enough to do.

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I mean, I was hosting
the American Music Awards.

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Had just been offered that invitation.

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I'm about to go on my big solo tour.

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The one thing for sure I knew,
I wanted Quincy involved because

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he's the master orchestrator.

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[jazz music playing]

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[TV host] He's a successful performer,

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but he's better known
as a producer and composer

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who's worked with everyone
from Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra

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to Little Richard and Paul Simon

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to Diana Ross and Michael Jackson,

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Mr. Quincy Jones.

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[music continues]

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[Richie] At that particular time,
you could not be a producer

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and be any hotter.

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He had the respect
of every musician on the planet.

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[music climaxes, ends]

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It'd been something
I had been thinking about a lot before,

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you know, and Lionel called,
and, uh, he said, "Let's go."

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You really had felt the need for that
of all times, you know,

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'cause this is the most
the world's ever needed each other.

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It started from there,
and we went on to the obvious phrase of

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"Who's gonna do this thing?"

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[dynamic music playing]

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[Kragen] Lionel and I got into his limo,
which happened to have a phone in it.

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I said, "Let's get you and Stevie Wonder
to write a song."

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We called Stevie. We couldn't find Stevie.

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[phone ringing]

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[Kragen] Lionel continued to try Stevie
all through the night.

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[Sternberg] They all wanted Stevie Wonder.
Who wouldn't?

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He already had that soulful,
epic, legendary status.

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And also they were all close with Stevie.

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But when Stevie says,
"I'll call you back,"

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you just wait for him to call you back
on whatever timetable it's going to be.

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And after that, I had Quincy on the phone.

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He says,
"Well, I'll see Michael tomorrow."

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"I'll run it by him, see what he thinks."

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♪ I said you wanna be
Startin' somethin' … ♪

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[anchor] The man whose record,
Thriller, has just become

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the biggest-selling album ever,

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who earned more Grammy nominations
this year than anyone in history.

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Michael Jackson is the man of the '80s.

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[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
Michael Jackson!

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[fans screaming]

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[music ends]

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Michael and I
go back to the early Stone Age days.

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We were brought up in Motown,

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and, as lead singer of the Commodores
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we bonded right away.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[Jackson] I've been working on this…

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Been hidin' out. That's what
you been doin', I know you have.

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[present] When he first learned
how to drive,

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the first place he drove
was over to my house.

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But he couldn't drive on the freeway
because he was scared to death,

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so he knew every backstreet
in the world to get to my house.

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But Stevie wouldn't call me back,

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so Michael and I
needed to start writing without Stevie.

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I said to Michael,

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"I can write the song by myself.
You can write the song by yourself."

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"But if we gonna do this together
with Quincy Jones, it has to be huge."

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[music fades out]

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[Richie] This is my first time
in the Jackson household.

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-[Jackson] That's when you do Vegas?
-[laughter]

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[gentle piano music playing]

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[Richie present] I realized
we'd never written anything together,

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and we've never spent time together.

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-[Jackson] However you wanna do it.
-[Richie] Doesn't bother.

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-[Jackson] There's a choice.
-[Richie] I've got 'em.

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-This is the Sonny & Cher team, hear this.
-[Jackson chuckles]

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I realize he can't play,
so he hums every part,

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tapes and tapes of "dum, dum, dum, dum,
dum, dum, dum, dum…"

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Excuse me? I mean, it's just layered
and layered of him humming.

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It was pretty… amazing.

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[ambient music playing]

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[Richie] We had to identify right away
what kind of song do we want.

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[stamping in time to music]
♪ Oh, don't you need me? ♪

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Do you want one of those?
Or do you want an anthem?

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[stamping, vocalizing
"The Star-Spangled Banner"]

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No. That's not what we were looking for.

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[stamping, vocalizing "Rule Britannia"]

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There it is. There's your template.

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And once you have that,
now what are we gonna put on top of it?

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We went through various songs
we thought were just sausage.

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His line was, "Where's the jelly?"

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He called me "Lion-el."

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[impersonates Jackson]
"Lion-el, I want you to check out

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Bubbles the chimp."

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But I don't wanna hold the chimp.

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Meanwhile, there's a full-on fight
going on downstairs.

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[impersonates a dog]

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"Shut up. Shut up. Shut up."

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"Shut up! Shut up!"

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"What's happening
in the kitchen, Michael?"

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He says, "Ah, yeah, Ricky the mynah bird
is having a fight with the dog."

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'Cause the bird can talk,
and the dog is mad at the bird.

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Meanwhile, I've got someone calling
on the phone.

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"Lionel, they're sending a script over
for the American Music Awards."

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Michael's, of course,
working on his songs,

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and we're really not taking it
that serious, because we'll get to it.

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There are ways to make this thing
bigger and bigger and bigger

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in terms of what it can generate, and, um…

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[Sternberg] We didn't have a song,
and we didn't have a date,

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but, because we had
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Ken realized that they had dynamite,
and they could call anybody.

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It would be epic.

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[ambient music playing]

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Back then, we had no technology.

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We didn't have cell phones.

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Things didn't move quickly.

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Thankfully, Ken's Rolodex was massive.

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I used to travel with a gigantic suitcase
that was just Rolodexes.

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[Kraken] I said to Belafonte, "We oughtn't
just limit this to the Black artists."

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He said, "Sure. That's a good idea."

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I said, "I represent Kenny Rogers
who would, I think, do this in a minute."

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[Sternberg] Kenny Rogers
was a really big deal,

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and we asked the other artists
that we had on our roster,

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like Kim Carnes and Lindsey Buckingham,

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but any artist schedule
takes months of planning.

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Everything is a logistical nightmare.

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[TV presenter] Monday,
it's the American Music Awards!

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Three hot hours of the best
of country, soul, and rock and roll!

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Lionel Richie hosts
the American Music Awards,

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live, Monday at 8/7 Central.

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[Sternberg] Because Lionel was hosting
the American Music Awards,

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we looked at that date

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and realized that would bring
so many artists into Los Angeles,

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expenses paid,
plotted already on their schedules.

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That was the pivotal point

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where it was like, "Who's coming to
the American Music Awards, Larry Klein?"

257
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['80s-style music playing]

258
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Back then, the American Music Awards
was a big fuckin' deal.

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I had Diana Ross and Hall & Oates.

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I mean, I had these people booked.
Prince was, Madonna was, and Cyndi Lauper.

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[Kragen] I'm currently after Hall & Oates.

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[Klein] Ken Kragen called me.

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He said, "I wanna put together
a group of superstars,

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as many people as I can get,
to be on the song."

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But to get these people in a room
recording together,

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it had to be the night of the AMAs.
There was no choice.

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[Sternberg] It was less than a month.
We were looking at the top charts

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and saying,
"Who could sell the most records?"

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[Richie] Please welcome
his Royal Badness, Prince!

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[Klein] Prince was one
that they wanted badly.

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He had "Purple Rain."

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What are you looking forward
to seeing in this film?

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Prince.

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Anything more specific than that?

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Prince.

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-And anything else?
-Prince.

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[interviewer laughs]

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[Sternberg] Prince was in love
with Sheila E.

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Sheila E!

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[Sternberg] She was his percussionist,
and she was also a great singer.

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['80s-style music playing]

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[Sternberg] I think we needed
a little bit of everything.

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[Rees] Steve Perry, the lead singer
of Journey, had the third-highest single.

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[Sternberg] I wanted Madonna.

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"Material Girl"
and all of the things she did

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would bring a really different audience,

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but Ken wanted Cyndi.

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We had a fight about that.

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Can you get my Barbie doll?

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[present] I felt, you know,
it was an important thing to do.

291
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I do believe
that rock and roll can save the world.

292
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Or we should try.

293
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[Kragen] The next really critical move
I made was to go after Springsteen.

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♪ Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A. ♪

295
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♪ I was born in the U.S.A.… ♪

296
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Okay. This chair?

297
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-Okay.
-[music fades out]

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1985, I was… top of the world! [laughs]

299
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Yeah, we were very popular,
and we had a great tour.

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♪ Can't start a fire, you can't start… ♪

301
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[Sternberg] Springsteen was a rocket ship,
but he wasn't going to the AMAs.

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♪ Even if we're just dancing in the dark ♪

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[Kragen] We called Springsteen's manager,
Jon Landau,

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and he said to me, "Look,
he's finishing the tour the night before."

305
00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:10,469
"He never, ever flies
the day after a concert."

306
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He said, "Let me talk to him,
and we'll see."

307
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[music fades out]

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[Springsteen] Famine relief was important.
I knew it hadn't been addressed, you know,

309
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and you're always sitting there like,
"What can I do about it?" You know?

310
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It was a little soon.

311
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I normally wouldn't have done it,
but it looked important.

312
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Then it was like,
"Well, you have Bruce Springsteen."

313
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"You could call Bob Dylan."

314
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♪ The answer my friend
Is a-blowin' in the wind ♪

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♪ The answer is blowin' in the wind ♪

316
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[Klein] It was Bob Dylan.

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He was doing "Blowin' in the Wind."
When hasn't he been a legend?

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[man] Bob Dylan was known as
the concerned musician.

319
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He'd be a more natural fit than anyone,

320
00:16:52,928 --> 00:16:56,765
but the mid-'80s
was maybe not the best period for him.

321
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♪ Maybe a preacher
With your spiritual pride… ♪

322
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But, you know, he's Bob Dylan.
He's an enigma. [chuckles]

323
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[Sternberg] Once Bob Dylan
and Bruce Springsteen committed,

324
00:17:10,738 --> 00:17:12,531
it was just a wish list.

325
00:17:12,614 --> 00:17:15,325
I know David Byrne was unavailable.

326
00:17:15,409 --> 00:17:19,329
Van Halen was unavailable
because they were on tour.

327
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I wanted Bette Midler.

328
00:17:20,789 --> 00:17:22,166
I wanted Dan Aykroyd.

329
00:17:23,542 --> 00:17:26,962
[man] How I heard about it
was that Michael called me and said

330
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that he was planning on doing a big event
and would I wanna be a part of it?

331
00:17:31,592 --> 00:17:34,636
I wasn't that aware
of what was going on in Africa,

332
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,681
but at that time,
whatever Michael did turned to gold,

333
00:17:37,765 --> 00:17:39,516
so, of course, it was a no-brainer.

334
00:17:41,435 --> 00:17:44,855
Man, we got the most beautiful artists
in the world.

335
00:17:45,481 --> 00:17:48,692
Would be awful to produce the record
with this many great people on it

336
00:17:48,776 --> 00:17:51,278
and it not work
'cause you don't have the right song.

337
00:17:51,361 --> 00:17:53,697
We've got the cast now.
Now we need a script.

338
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[Richie] Michael and I
thought we had all the time in the world.

339
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We were kiddin' around…

340
00:18:01,163 --> 00:18:03,082
-[Kragen] This project…
-[Richie] Kragen calls.

341
00:18:03,165 --> 00:18:05,584
…I can hardly sleep.
I'm so excited about the project.

342
00:18:05,667 --> 00:18:08,962
"Well," he said, "there are
a lot of people waiting on this song."

343
00:18:09,797 --> 00:18:11,423
"It's not just the four of you."

344
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"Oh my God."

345
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[dynamic music playing]

346
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[Richie] He said,
"I think we have Billy Joel." [trills]

347
00:18:17,554 --> 00:18:19,056
"And we got Willie."

348
00:18:19,723 --> 00:18:23,435
"I think we have Tina. Huey Lewis,
Paul Simon, Diana Ross, Ray Charles."

349
00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:25,521
That's just pressure, pressure, pressure.

350
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"And we're gonna do this
the night of the American Music Awards."

351
00:18:29,942 --> 00:18:31,777
"What are you talking about?"

352
00:18:31,860 --> 00:18:33,695
And then Quincy comes by.

353
00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:35,989
Yeah. Here we go.

354
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So Quincy, very quietly,
just said, "I need a song."

355
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[music fades out]

356
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[Richie] You have to understand
the severity of this situation.

357
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The American Music Awards
are coming up next week,

358
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and Quincy has been
basically rendered null and void

359
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until we have a song.

360
00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:58,762
I don't know how it happened after that.
We were just possessed.

361
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[piano music playing]

362
00:19:00,264 --> 00:19:02,766
[Richie] Throwing things out
and whatever felt good.

363
00:19:03,767 --> 00:19:05,394
I came up with a few chords.

364
00:19:06,603 --> 00:19:09,273
♪ Say da-da, and all God's family ♪

365
00:19:09,356 --> 00:19:11,984
♪ We want it now
Da-da, and for all time ♪

366
00:19:12,067 --> 00:19:13,235
Michael said, "Whoa, whoa."

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♪ Da, na, na, na. Da, na, na ♪

368
00:19:15,362 --> 00:19:16,196
Okay.

369
00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:18,073
♪ Da, na, na, na ♪

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On top of ♪ Da, na, na, da, da, da ♪

371
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[snaps fingers] Magic.

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[Michael Jackson vocalizing]

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We now have a template with mumbles

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00:19:33,714 --> 00:19:34,840
and no words.

375
00:19:38,010 --> 00:19:41,805
"We are the world"
was probably a line from Michael.

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[Jackson] ♪ We are the world ♪

377
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♪ We are the children ♪

378
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"We are the what?" "We are the…"

379
00:19:47,978 --> 00:19:50,272
"We are the one…
We are the ones who make a brighter…"

380
00:19:51,231 --> 00:19:52,774
Out of the corner of my eye…

381
00:19:55,068 --> 00:19:57,196
I see some albums falling over.

382
00:19:57,279 --> 00:19:58,780
[unsettling music playing]

383
00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:00,949
And I hear… [long sigh]

384
00:20:01,950 --> 00:20:03,619
[long sigh]

385
00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,039
"What the heck?
What the hell is that? What the-- What--"

386
00:20:07,122 --> 00:20:09,249
I look over my shoulder. [clears throat]

387
00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:14,838
There's the biggest frickin' snake.

388
00:20:15,881 --> 00:20:19,635
Michael's going… [imitates Jackson]
"There he is, Lion-el. Oh my God."

389
00:20:19,718 --> 00:20:22,012
He lost the snake in the room.

390
00:20:22,512 --> 00:20:25,140
He came out… [imitates Jackson]
"when he heard us singing, Lion-el,

391
00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:28,435
and he wanted to meet you.
He wants to say hello to you."

392
00:20:28,518 --> 00:20:32,189
I mean, that's… [laughing]
"I gotta get outta here quick!"

393
00:20:32,272 --> 00:20:35,817
I am screaming like it's, it's, it's…
This is the end.

394
00:20:36,652 --> 00:20:39,988
I saw this horror movie,
and it's not good for the brother.

395
00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:42,074
[driving rock intro playing]

396
00:20:46,036 --> 00:20:50,499
[Sternberg] It was a very hectic lead-up
to the recording session,

397
00:20:50,582 --> 00:20:52,876
and the location was a really big deal.

398
00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:55,212
[Kragen] This paper
is highly confidential.

399
00:20:55,295 --> 00:20:58,298
The single most damaging leak
of information

400
00:20:58,382 --> 00:20:59,967
is where we're doing this.

401
00:21:00,467 --> 00:21:04,179
[Sternberg] We scouted
every single studio in Los Angeles,

402
00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:07,891
and A&M Studios had everything.

403
00:21:07,975 --> 00:21:09,142
A great location.

404
00:21:09,226 --> 00:21:11,645
The sound is phenomenal.

405
00:21:11,728 --> 00:21:12,771
Done.

406
00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:15,107
[Kragen] The moment that becomes
public knowledge,

407
00:21:15,190 --> 00:21:17,025
if that shows up in the press,

408
00:21:17,109 --> 00:21:19,069
that could totally destroy the project.

409
00:21:19,152 --> 00:21:23,073
The moment a Prince, a Michael Jackson,
a Bob Dylan drive up

410
00:21:23,156 --> 00:21:25,409
and see a mob,

411
00:21:25,492 --> 00:21:27,160
they will never come in.

412
00:21:27,244 --> 00:21:31,123
[Breskin] Kragen was really worried
about this leaking,

413
00:21:31,206 --> 00:21:33,709
and they were so paranoid about it.

414
00:21:33,792 --> 00:21:36,586
[Kragen] We've had numerous leaks
of information regarding this event

415
00:21:36,670 --> 00:21:39,464
that have not made it any easier to do.

416
00:21:39,548 --> 00:21:41,967
-Did you ever trace where the leak was?
-[Sternberg] Internal.

417
00:21:42,050 --> 00:21:44,011
-[Kragen] Internal here?
-[Sternberg] Gotta be careful.

418
00:21:44,094 --> 00:21:48,682
[Ivory] This was the biggest thing
happening in pop music right here in town,

419
00:21:48,765 --> 00:21:51,685
so you couldn't keep it that big a secret.

420
00:21:53,729 --> 00:21:55,188
[funk music playing]

421
00:22:01,194 --> 00:22:02,404
[music ends]

422
00:22:08,118 --> 00:22:08,952
[piano playing]

423
00:22:09,036 --> 00:22:11,246
[Richie] Michael and I
had finished writing the song,

424
00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:14,833
and finally turned it in to Quincy.

425
00:22:14,916 --> 00:22:17,169
"Does he like it?"
That's the first question.

426
00:22:18,587 --> 00:22:19,546
[Jones] Jesus Lord.

427
00:22:20,255 --> 00:22:23,592
I listened to it at the house
and absolutely fell on the floor.

428
00:22:24,634 --> 00:22:27,179
You know, I mean, fell--
I mean, it was so right.

429
00:22:27,262 --> 00:22:30,390
I was so happy. I mean,
it's like, "Thank you, God," you know?

430
00:22:30,974 --> 00:22:33,226
He loves it. Okay. Now,

431
00:22:34,436 --> 00:22:36,605
we needed to put the demo down

432
00:22:36,688 --> 00:22:40,817
so that the rest of the artists will have
an idea of what the song sounds like.

433
00:22:41,318 --> 00:22:44,321
[Richie vocalizing]

434
00:22:44,404 --> 00:22:45,489
[piano playing]

435
00:22:45,572 --> 00:22:47,783
-[man 1] The other one.
-[man 2] Ah!

436
00:22:48,450 --> 00:22:50,285
My name is Humberto Gatica.

437
00:22:51,286 --> 00:22:56,875
I was asked to be the engineer
in charge of this entire project

438
00:22:56,958 --> 00:22:58,085
by Quincy Jones.

439
00:22:58,168 --> 00:22:59,252
[phone ringing]

440
00:22:59,336 --> 00:23:00,170
Hello?

441
00:23:00,253 --> 00:23:01,338
[piano playing]

442
00:23:01,421 --> 00:23:04,716
-Hello? How you doin', Louis?
-[piano arpeggio plays]

443
00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:07,135
Man, are you kiddin'?

444
00:23:07,219 --> 00:23:08,804
[random piano chords playing]

445
00:23:08,887 --> 00:23:11,473
Okay, so we've got Michael
and Lionel over here.

446
00:23:11,556 --> 00:23:14,434
We're getting ready to cut the track.
We're gonna cut the basic now.

447
00:23:14,518 --> 00:23:16,686
One, two, three.

448
00:23:18,063 --> 00:23:20,524
[Richie] ♪ We can't go on ♪

449
00:23:21,274 --> 00:23:24,194
♪ Pretending day by day ♪

450
00:23:24,277 --> 00:23:29,282
♪ Someone, somewhere
Will soon make a change… ♪

451
00:23:29,366 --> 00:23:32,077
[Gatica] The idea was
to make something simple

452
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:33,912
because it was all about the singing,

453
00:23:33,995 --> 00:23:37,207
about what these voices
were gonna bring to this production.

454
00:23:37,290 --> 00:23:39,584
♪ We are the world ♪

455
00:23:40,794 --> 00:23:42,796
♪ We are the children ♪

456
00:23:43,964 --> 00:23:49,386
♪ We are the ones that make a brighter day
So let's start givin' ♪

457
00:23:50,011 --> 00:23:52,013
[Jackson] Sorry, one more.
Sorry, one more.

458
00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:54,891
[Richie] "It's true we make a better day."
I love that, man!

459
00:23:54,975 --> 00:23:57,727
[Jackson] It just seemed
so natural to say "brighter" again.

460
00:23:57,811 --> 00:24:00,856
[Richie] You get a stronger feeling,
though, if you use another word.

461
00:24:00,939 --> 00:24:02,482
-[Jackson] You think so?
-[Richie] Yeah.

462
00:24:02,566 --> 00:24:05,026
Right in the middle of the session,
in walks

463
00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:06,528
Stevie.

464
00:24:07,237 --> 00:24:09,072
He thought we were writing the song.

465
00:24:09,906 --> 00:24:12,242
And so Quincy said, "I'll talk to him,"

466
00:24:12,325 --> 00:24:15,745
and Quincy took him down the hall
to tell him, "We've finished writing it."

467
00:24:15,829 --> 00:24:17,497
"We're already putting the demo down."

468
00:24:17,581 --> 00:24:19,833
Of course, Stevie was,
"Oh, okay," you know?

469
00:24:19,916 --> 00:24:22,502
-♪ …chance we're taking ♪
-[Richie] "We're taking our own lives."

470
00:24:22,586 --> 00:24:24,921
♪ We're taking our own lives ♪

471
00:24:25,005 --> 00:24:27,674
-[Richie] "It's true we make…"
-♪ It's true we make a brighter day… ♪

472
00:24:27,757 --> 00:24:30,677
[Richie] You could see the shock was,
"How come somebody didn't tell me?"

473
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,138
Well, yeah, we did. We…
Three weeks, you know?

474
00:24:33,221 --> 00:24:36,266
But, at that moment,
the baby was about to get born.

475
00:24:36,349 --> 00:24:39,603
[Jackson] ♪ When you're down and out
There seems no hope at all ♪

476
00:24:42,105 --> 00:24:47,027
♪ But if you just believe ♪
You know that nothing can fall ♪

477
00:24:48,737 --> 00:24:51,448
♪ Do they realize ♪

478
00:24:52,365 --> 00:24:55,035
♪ That change is gonna come ♪

479
00:24:55,660 --> 00:25:00,999
♪ When we stand together as one… ♪

480
00:25:02,209 --> 00:25:04,294
[Richie] Tomorrow,
we gotta get lead sheets, a letter,

481
00:25:04,377 --> 00:25:06,087
and the cassettes out to all the artists.

482
00:25:06,171 --> 00:25:08,507
-[Wonder] Can I get it Monday sometime?
-[Richie] Of course.

483
00:25:08,590 --> 00:25:12,093
[Jones] I must have my tape by tomorrow.
It's imperative.

484
00:25:12,177 --> 00:25:13,887
[driving '80s music playing]

485
00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:20,894
[Sternberg] I got a stack
of 50 cassette tapes

486
00:25:20,977 --> 00:25:23,647
that went to managers.

487
00:25:23,730 --> 00:25:26,107
Some of them went directly to artists.

488
00:25:27,275 --> 00:25:31,404
[Lewis] It was an interesting time.
We had just had our first big hit record,

489
00:25:31,488 --> 00:25:34,449
and I received the tape,
the cassette tape in those days,

490
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:36,451
of the song and the invitation,

491
00:25:36,535 --> 00:25:38,328
and I played the demo in my car.

492
00:25:38,912 --> 00:25:41,122
I'd never met Lionel or Michael,

493
00:25:41,206 --> 00:25:44,417
so, you know,
it was just an amazing invite to get.

494
00:25:44,501 --> 00:25:48,213
And then, I remember thinking,
"Oh yeah, this… this is gonna be a hit."

495
00:25:49,130 --> 00:25:51,716
I remember how I heard about it
'cause Lionel called me.

496
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,343
Lionel was my brother-brother.

497
00:25:53,426 --> 00:25:55,470
So that was it. That was enough for me.

498
00:25:55,554 --> 00:25:57,973
I didn't have to be coaxed
or anything like that.

499
00:25:58,056 --> 00:26:00,058
[Loggins] Quincy's office sent me a copy.

500
00:26:00,141 --> 00:26:04,229
I listened to it a couple of times,
and it definitely had a memorable chorus.

501
00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:08,483
[Springsteen] When I first heard it,
I thought it was very broad, you know,

502
00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:10,360
as music that's gonna carry

503
00:26:11,027 --> 00:26:13,905
all those voices usually has to be,

504
00:26:13,989 --> 00:26:16,199
so I said, "Okay, that's-- that's cool."

505
00:26:17,158 --> 00:26:21,454
[Lewis] In the letter that was sent out,
one of the lines was blacked out.

506
00:26:21,538 --> 00:26:24,666
[Jones] That was where it was.
It says that A&M studios…

507
00:26:24,749 --> 00:26:27,377
Ken said, "No, you can't let anybody
know it's there, man."

508
00:26:27,460 --> 00:26:31,673
For him to give me details at that time
would be… unnecessary.

509
00:26:32,257 --> 00:26:35,885
I, like many artists that I know,
don't remember shit. [chuckles]

510
00:26:36,511 --> 00:26:38,638
[phone rings, stops]

511
00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:40,515
[man] Quincy called me,

512
00:26:41,099 --> 00:26:45,395
and he said, "We're gonna do a new song,
but I want you to handle the voices."

513
00:26:45,979 --> 00:26:49,065
He said "Come on over. I wanna talk to you
about it. We haven't got much time."

514
00:26:49,149 --> 00:26:50,942
[gospel music playing]

515
00:26:51,026 --> 00:26:54,112
[Bahler] Quincy and I met back in 1973.

516
00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:57,907
I was a white boy
raised in a Black gospel church.

517
00:26:57,991 --> 00:27:01,745
Quincy heard some arrangements
that I had done for Sarah Vaughan,

518
00:27:01,828 --> 00:27:03,788
and he invited me to his home,

519
00:27:03,872 --> 00:27:06,583
and he came to the front door,
and he looks up, and he goes,

520
00:27:07,334 --> 00:27:08,460
"You're not white."

521
00:27:08,543 --> 00:27:11,254
-[ambient music playing]
-And that started us off.

522
00:27:12,339 --> 00:27:15,925
We artistically fell in love
and became brothers,

523
00:27:16,009 --> 00:27:17,844
but Quincy was the general.

524
00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:19,721
[music intensifies]

525
00:27:22,182 --> 00:27:24,100
[Richie] We ended up at my house.

526
00:27:24,184 --> 00:27:26,811
Tom Bahler was there, with Quincy,

527
00:27:26,895 --> 00:27:28,897
and they're in my living room.

528
00:27:29,773 --> 00:27:30,940
They had a fan.

529
00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:37,238
They had names
of all of the artists on the floor.

530
00:27:37,322 --> 00:27:41,701
Now, we have to go through the process
of the arrangement of the vocals.

531
00:27:41,785 --> 00:27:45,372
We had to select who's gonna do the solos,

532
00:27:45,455 --> 00:27:47,707
which only have a half a line to sing,

533
00:27:47,791 --> 00:27:52,837
and it has to be your sound,
your style, your key in a half a line.

534
00:27:52,921 --> 00:27:54,589
["Born in the U.S.A."
playing indistinctly]

535
00:27:54,673 --> 00:27:58,301
[Bahler] I started listening to
every artist that was gonna sing a solo…

536
00:27:58,385 --> 00:27:59,594
[music intensifies]

537
00:28:00,512 --> 00:28:03,598
…looking for differences, contrasts.

538
00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:07,102
♪ Born down in a dead man's town… ♪

539
00:28:07,185 --> 00:28:09,020
[Bahler] The Boss has a dirty sound.

540
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,565
And I thought of Kenny Loggins next.

541
00:28:12,649 --> 00:28:15,276
♪ Loose, footloose… ♪

542
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,362
[Bahler] Kenny has a clean sound

543
00:28:17,445 --> 00:28:20,615
that was perfect after Springsteen.

544
00:28:20,699 --> 00:28:22,117
♪ Shake it, shake it for-- ♪

545
00:28:23,034 --> 00:28:25,620
[Breskin] Bahler was studying
people's vocal ranges

546
00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:29,290
because he wanted to make sure
they would be really comfortable

547
00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:31,042
with what they had to sing.

548
00:28:32,544 --> 00:28:34,629
[Bahler] Having worked with Tina before,

549
00:28:34,713 --> 00:28:39,426
I put her very low
because she's got such warmth down there.

550
00:28:39,509 --> 00:28:42,053
["What's Love Got to Do with it" playing]

551
00:28:42,137 --> 00:28:43,930
["Don't Stop Believin'"
by Journey playing]

552
00:28:44,013 --> 00:28:46,182
[Bahler] And then you go to Steve Perry.

553
00:28:47,308 --> 00:28:50,979
His range, I mean,
he's electrifying in that place.

554
00:28:54,232 --> 00:28:56,943
[Bahler] Cyndi, her voice is forceful.

555
00:28:57,444 --> 00:28:59,362
Even in "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."

556
00:28:59,446 --> 00:29:03,366
["Girls Just Want to Have Fun" cross-fades
into "The Heart of Rock & Roll"]

557
00:29:03,450 --> 00:29:05,201
Oh God, I Love Huey,

558
00:29:05,785 --> 00:29:08,663
but not every artist
was gonna sing a solo.

559
00:29:09,873 --> 00:29:13,793
[Breskin] Also, he was worried about
who they were gonna be standing next to,

560
00:29:13,877 --> 00:29:15,962
and that led
to some interesting discussions

561
00:29:16,045 --> 00:29:18,506
about how people were gonna get combined.

562
00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:21,843
[Richie] I thought what we were gonna do
was have everybody come in,

563
00:29:21,926 --> 00:29:23,887
one by one, go in the booth, sing it.

564
00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:27,223
Quincy says, "No, no, no. We'll be here
for the next three weeks."

565
00:29:27,807 --> 00:29:30,059
"We'll put a circle in the room
of all mics,

566
00:29:31,060 --> 00:29:33,521
and everyone will sing it
looking at each other."

567
00:29:34,022 --> 00:29:35,023
"Ooh!"

568
00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:36,524
[gentle piano music playing]

569
00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:38,860
[Jones] Some of these artists
are troublemakers.

570
00:29:38,943 --> 00:29:42,572
[Bahler] There were people in there,
troublemakers. Cyndi Lauper was one.

571
00:29:42,655 --> 00:29:44,449
Stevie Wonder is another one.

572
00:29:44,532 --> 00:29:47,243
[Jones] I'm not afraid,
but it's just deep water, man.

573
00:29:47,327 --> 00:29:50,330
[Bahler] Quincy said, "Let's start
at the beginning. What's gonna happen

574
00:29:50,413 --> 00:29:51,873
when they come in the studio?"

575
00:29:51,956 --> 00:29:54,918
We need to be able to handle
whoever comes in,

576
00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:57,086
and we wanted no downtime.

577
00:29:57,170 --> 00:30:00,882
This has gotta be seamless
because if we stop for a minute,

578
00:30:01,925 --> 00:30:03,510
this thing's gonna be chaos.

579
00:30:05,595 --> 00:30:08,598
[Richie] I'm looking at these names.
Great artists.

580
00:30:10,016 --> 00:30:11,518
And I was one of them.

581
00:30:11,601 --> 00:30:14,270
[music intensifies, ends]

582
00:30:14,354 --> 00:30:17,857
"What am I doing? What-- What--
And what on Earth

583
00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:19,943
am I doing here?"

584
00:30:21,736 --> 00:30:22,987
It's pretty daunting.

585
00:30:25,323 --> 00:30:26,574
And then, all of a sudden…

586
00:30:28,993 --> 00:30:29,994
it's time.

587
00:30:30,078 --> 00:30:32,247
[dramatic '80s music playing]

588
00:30:35,208 --> 00:30:39,462
[Sternberg] I was at the Shrine Auditorium
when Lionel arrived in the early morning.

589
00:30:39,546 --> 00:30:43,466
Your artist is hosting
the biggest prime-time show on a network,

590
00:30:43,550 --> 00:30:46,386
when network TV
was the only thing that was happening.

591
00:30:46,469 --> 00:30:48,388
We really worried about Lionel.

592
00:30:48,972 --> 00:30:52,600
I tell you right now, there's more dialog
than I've ever handled before in my life.

593
00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:55,562
It's fun though. Lot of fun.
It's always an exciting show,

594
00:30:55,645 --> 00:30:57,188
and I'm looking forward to it.

595
00:30:57,272 --> 00:30:58,481
If I can stay awake!

596
00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:02,986
[Sternberg] But also,
we have the setup for the studio.

597
00:31:03,528 --> 00:31:06,155
[man] I got the call
to volunteer to light it.

598
00:31:06,739 --> 00:31:10,493
I was able to get some friends
in the lighting industry to volunteer,

599
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,037
and I got the equipment for free.

600
00:31:13,580 --> 00:31:17,750
To be honest with you, I don't think they
even knew who was actually gonna come.

601
00:31:17,834 --> 00:31:20,044
[optimistic '80s music playing]

602
00:31:20,128 --> 00:31:24,299
[Sternberg] There was a lot of questions
about artists who didn't come to the AMAs.

603
00:31:25,258 --> 00:31:27,510
[woman] I was called by Quincy Jones.

604
00:31:27,594 --> 00:31:30,763
All he said was, "You will be
in Los Angeles tomorrow night,"

605
00:31:30,847 --> 00:31:33,433
and I said, "No, I won't.
I'll be in Las Vegas."

606
00:31:33,516 --> 00:31:37,353
[Dickinson] Stevie was in Philadelphia,
two o'clock, the day of the event.

607
00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:39,230
We'll be seeing you in the summer!

608
00:31:39,314 --> 00:31:42,483
[Dickinson] Bruce Springsteen
had just finished his tour in Buffalo.

609
00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:45,987
I'd heard what the weather was about
back there. So we got nervous.

610
00:31:48,156 --> 00:31:49,198
[fans screaming]

611
00:31:49,282 --> 00:31:53,119
[Richie] You realize that you have
no control of what's happening right now.

612
00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:56,331
It was an evening
where you just… you're floating.

613
00:31:56,414 --> 00:31:57,749
Hi, I'm Lionel Richie.

614
00:31:57,832 --> 00:32:00,001
Tonight, we're back
at the Shrine Auditorium

615
00:32:00,084 --> 00:32:01,419
in Los Angeles, California

616
00:32:01,502 --> 00:32:03,713
for the American Music Awards!

617
00:32:03,796 --> 00:32:07,425
Look out! We're gonna be running
with the night! Whoo!

618
00:32:07,508 --> 00:32:09,552
[upbeat funk music playing]

619
00:32:10,762 --> 00:32:14,390
[Klein] Lionel, that night,
he had his responsibilities as a host.

620
00:32:14,474 --> 00:32:16,100
He's the leader of the show.

621
00:32:16,601 --> 00:32:22,815
Nothing! Nothing will ever
be the same after tonight.

622
00:32:23,524 --> 00:32:25,735
[Klein] He performed twice,

623
00:32:26,861 --> 00:32:28,154
and he swept the awards.

624
00:32:28,237 --> 00:32:29,072
Lionel Richie!

625
00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:31,032
-Lionel Richie!
-Lionel Richie.

626
00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:32,575
-Lionel Richie.
-Lionel Richie!

627
00:32:32,659 --> 00:32:34,035
-Lionel Richie.
-"Hello."

628
00:32:36,329 --> 00:32:40,416
I think I won six awards
that night while hosting.

629
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:42,335
I forgot, I'm working here.

630
00:32:42,418 --> 00:32:45,254
[Klein] When he was backstage,
he was talking about "We Are the World."

631
00:32:45,338 --> 00:32:47,715
But you only got 30 seconds.
Gotta be back on the stage.

632
00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:51,427
1984 saw her explode into a solo career

633
00:32:51,511 --> 00:32:53,721
with her new album, The Glamorous Life.

634
00:32:53,805 --> 00:32:56,683
Just wait till you see Sheila E.!

635
00:32:56,766 --> 00:32:58,267
["The Glamorous Life" playing]

636
00:32:58,351 --> 00:33:01,104
[Sheila E.] At that time,
I was on the Purple Rain Tour.

637
00:33:01,187 --> 00:33:02,271
It was nonstop.

638
00:33:03,439 --> 00:33:07,860
By the time I got to the AMAs,
I-- I was delirious.

639
00:33:07,944 --> 00:33:09,862
♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪

640
00:33:09,946 --> 00:33:10,822
Sing it!

641
00:33:10,905 --> 00:33:12,657
♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la… ♪

642
00:33:12,740 --> 00:33:14,909
[present] And I was nervous as heck.

643
00:33:16,536 --> 00:33:19,205
I looked into the audience,
which is the wrong thing to do,

644
00:33:19,288 --> 00:33:23,501
'cause you look at the first five rows,
you're like, "Oh my God!"

645
00:33:23,584 --> 00:33:25,044
Come on, everybody, sing it!

646
00:33:25,128 --> 00:33:28,381
[present] I remember Lionel telling me,
"After the AMAs,

647
00:33:28,464 --> 00:33:33,094
everyone's gonna go sing this song,
and I want you to sing one of the verses."

648
00:33:33,177 --> 00:33:35,179
And so I was like, "Oh, absolutely."

649
00:33:36,431 --> 00:33:38,558
-[music ends]
-[thunderous applause]

650
00:33:39,392 --> 00:33:43,021
[Sheila E.] Lionel had said he was hoping
Prince would also sing a verse.

651
00:33:43,104 --> 00:33:47,400
I was like, "Cool, but, you know,
he's gonna do it on his own time."

652
00:33:47,483 --> 00:33:49,068
[applause continues]

653
00:33:49,152 --> 00:33:53,406
And now, let's see what record
will make it as Favorite Black Single.

654
00:33:53,489 --> 00:33:57,702
Nominees are Prince, "When Doves Cry,"
Michael Jackson, "Thriller."

655
00:33:57,785 --> 00:34:00,621
In a couple categories,
it was Prince versus Michael.

656
00:34:00,705 --> 00:34:02,415
The rivalry was real.

657
00:34:02,498 --> 00:34:06,461
It would be great if Michael and Prince
were together singing.

658
00:34:06,544 --> 00:34:09,630
It was a great statement to make,
that even these two guys,

659
00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:12,550
"For saving lives,
we can come together to do this."

660
00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:14,927
"When Doves Cry," Prince.

661
00:34:16,971 --> 00:34:19,390
[Klein] Prince,
his bodyguard's name was Chick,

662
00:34:20,099 --> 00:34:22,185
and Chick was scarier than hell!

663
00:34:22,268 --> 00:34:25,521
He was just a massively huge person,

664
00:34:25,605 --> 00:34:28,900
and when Prince would win an award,
Chick would walk up onstage with him.

665
00:34:28,983 --> 00:34:30,443
[rapturous applause]

666
00:34:32,111 --> 00:34:35,073
No one's gonna attack him
walking up on stage!

667
00:34:35,156 --> 00:34:37,075
Well, maybe that's different nowadays.

668
00:34:37,158 --> 00:34:38,659
Outrageous!

669
00:34:38,743 --> 00:34:39,869
[audience cheers]

670
00:34:39,952 --> 00:34:41,287
Outrageous!

671
00:34:42,121 --> 00:34:44,415
[Klein] Prince won those big awards.
Michael didn't.

672
00:34:44,499 --> 00:34:48,628
Michael wasn't there of course.
He was at A&M Studios doin' his thing.

673
00:34:49,629 --> 00:34:52,465
[Jackson acoustic] ♪ As God has shown us ♪

674
00:34:52,548 --> 00:34:56,511
♪ By turning stone to bread ♪ Hmm.

675
00:34:56,594 --> 00:34:57,970
-[Jones] Michael?
-Yes?

676
00:34:58,554 --> 00:35:01,265
[Jones] "There's a choice we're making.
We're saving our own lives."

677
00:35:01,349 --> 00:35:03,935
Could you just leave that line
out of the chorus, please?

678
00:35:04,018 --> 00:35:07,355
So leave out "There's a choice…"?
Can somebody bring me a lyric?

679
00:35:07,855 --> 00:35:10,316
I'll leave it out,
but I-- I just might forget.

680
00:35:11,526 --> 00:35:14,737
[Gatica] The first person
who showed up here was Michael Jackson.

681
00:35:15,238 --> 00:35:18,866
Put him right in the middle of that room.
We're using a C12 microphone.

682
00:35:19,659 --> 00:35:21,035
Can we take one?

683
00:35:25,957 --> 00:35:27,250
[Gatica] He got himself

684
00:35:27,333 --> 00:35:30,503
that he felt
that he was in sync with the music.

685
00:35:31,212 --> 00:35:32,588
[Jackson humming]

686
00:35:35,091 --> 00:35:39,470
♪ …your love
So they know that someone cares ♪

687
00:35:39,554 --> 00:35:42,431
[Bahler] Could we just have balance
before he holds the note from there?

688
00:35:42,515 --> 00:35:44,016
-Without the track?
-Sure.

689
00:35:45,518 --> 00:35:48,146
[Dickinson] I was here,
adjusting some lights,

690
00:35:48,229 --> 00:35:50,773
and Michael Jackson is listening,

691
00:35:51,941 --> 00:35:54,152
and he suddenly sings…

692
00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:56,529
♪ We are the world ♪

693
00:35:57,572 --> 00:35:59,991
♪ We are the children ♪

694
00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:05,663
♪ We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start givin' ♪

695
00:36:06,372 --> 00:36:09,250
[Dickinson] This is
the most remarkable voice

696
00:36:09,333 --> 00:36:11,085
I have ever heard in my life.

697
00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:13,671
♪ We are the world ♪

698
00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:17,091
♪ We are the children ♪

699
00:36:17,967 --> 00:36:23,556
♪ We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start givin' ♪

700
00:36:25,558 --> 00:36:26,517
[giggles] Sorry.

701
00:36:28,644 --> 00:36:33,065
I didn't say "better." I kept on saying
"brighter" and "brighter." I forgot.

702
00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:38,362
[interview] When I was asked
to write this by Quincy

703
00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:41,073
about, you know, for world hunger,

704
00:36:41,824 --> 00:36:44,577
I put my heart and my soul into it.

705
00:36:44,660 --> 00:36:46,871
♪ We'll make a better day ♪

706
00:36:46,954 --> 00:36:49,165
[interview] …to say something
because… [chuckles]

707
00:36:49,248 --> 00:36:51,751
…it's so much easier
for me to talk through the song.

708
00:36:51,834 --> 00:36:53,252
That's really my statement.

709
00:36:55,504 --> 00:36:57,006
Quincy, do you think--

710
00:36:57,632 --> 00:37:02,011
Uh, I'm saying, "you…" Should I say,
"you and me" or "you and I" at the end?

711
00:37:03,012 --> 00:37:04,639
-[Jones] I like, "you and me."
-Okay.

712
00:37:04,722 --> 00:37:06,807
-It's much more soulful.
-[Jones] More soulful, yeah.

713
00:37:06,891 --> 00:37:08,601
-Yeah.
-[Jones] Country, man.

714
00:37:08,684 --> 00:37:10,311
-Yeah. Country.
-[Jones] Love it, man.

715
00:37:10,394 --> 00:37:11,562
That's what it's all about.

716
00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:14,398
[Breskin] What was so interesting
about Michael

717
00:37:14,482 --> 00:37:18,152
is that, originally,
Michael only wanted to write a song.

718
00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:22,031
[Jones] At first, Michael
didn't wanna sing or be on the video.

719
00:37:22,114 --> 00:37:24,116
He thought it was overexposure at first.

720
00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:27,578
I talked Michael
into being on the thing, you know?

721
00:37:27,662 --> 00:37:29,956
That would've been
one of the biggest mistakes of his career

722
00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:31,165
if he hadn't showed up.

723
00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:32,792
♪ There's a… ♪

724
00:37:33,459 --> 00:37:36,295
[Jones] But he was there, man.
He was more than there.

725
00:37:37,505 --> 00:37:40,341
-[Jackson] How did it sound?
-[Jones] Sounds great, man.

726
00:37:43,678 --> 00:37:45,096
[engineer] Fantastic, Mike.

727
00:37:45,179 --> 00:37:46,764
[applause fading in]

728
00:37:46,847 --> 00:37:49,600
[announcer] Still to come,
exciting performances by Tina Turner,

729
00:37:49,684 --> 00:37:51,435
Cyndi Lauper, and Prince.

730
00:37:51,936 --> 00:37:54,021
[Klein] Kenny Kragen was at the show,
in the first row,

731
00:37:54,105 --> 00:37:56,482
and every time it went to commercial…

732
00:37:56,565 --> 00:37:59,318
Kenny… Kenny leapt out the seat
and ran backstage.

733
00:37:59,402 --> 00:38:02,113
You stay in your seat, babes.
You stay in your seat.

734
00:38:03,072 --> 00:38:06,575
I went to him, and I said,
"We have a situation happening here."

735
00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:08,160
Cyndi Lauper.

736
00:38:08,661 --> 00:38:09,870
[raucous applause]

737
00:38:10,454 --> 00:38:13,541
[Richie] Backstage,
Cyndi Lauper came over to me and said,

738
00:38:13,624 --> 00:38:15,793
"My boyfriend heard the song."

739
00:38:15,876 --> 00:38:19,171
"I'm not gonna be able to come,
because he doesn't think it's a hit."

740
00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:21,549
[Lauper] Well, nobody knew.

741
00:38:22,049 --> 00:38:25,136
It certainly was a group of great people,

742
00:38:25,219 --> 00:38:28,222
but I was so punch-drunk tired.

743
00:38:28,306 --> 00:38:30,474
Well, it's some year, huh?

744
00:38:32,393 --> 00:38:36,480
[present] And after the show, it was like,
"All right, you have to just go there."

745
00:38:37,064 --> 00:38:38,274
[Richie] I said, "Cyndi,

746
00:38:38,357 --> 00:38:41,402
it's pretty important
for you to make the right decision."

747
00:38:41,485 --> 00:38:43,654
"Don't miss the session tonight."

748
00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:45,156
[applause continues]

749
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:46,240
What a night!

750
00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:49,243
What a night!

751
00:38:50,578 --> 00:38:52,788
[Klein] I said to the artists,
"Don't hang out here."

752
00:38:52,872 --> 00:38:54,874
"Hit the road and get to A&M Studios."

753
00:38:55,374 --> 00:38:57,251
[ambient music playing]

754
00:38:57,335 --> 00:39:00,546
[anchor1] Can you talk about your feelings
about this record being made tonight?

755
00:39:00,629 --> 00:39:02,298
[Richie] I don't know what's happening.

756
00:39:02,381 --> 00:39:05,217
Quincy's over there biting his nails.
I wanna get over there and find out.

757
00:39:05,301 --> 00:39:07,345
-I don't know. Yeah.
-[anchor 1] And the name of it?

758
00:39:07,428 --> 00:39:08,512
"We Are the World."

759
00:39:08,929 --> 00:39:12,808
[anchor 2] There's a rumor that Prince
and James Brown may be included in this.

760
00:39:12,892 --> 00:39:14,727
-No comment.
-[anchor 2] Why? Why not?

761
00:39:14,810 --> 00:39:16,103
I'm not allowed to talk about it.

762
00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:18,397
[man 1] Ladies and gents,
we have to move on. Thank you.

763
00:39:18,481 --> 00:39:19,815
[Lewis] Thanks a lot, everyone.

764
00:39:19,899 --> 00:39:22,902
When I left the AMAs,
I just knew there was a car there for me.

765
00:39:23,486 --> 00:39:24,820
And then we show up.

766
00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:26,822
I had no clue who was gonna be there.

767
00:39:28,866 --> 00:39:32,745
[Warwick] I knew nothing about what
the project was till I got to Los Angeles.

768
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:35,414
Quincy means an awful lot to people,

769
00:39:35,498 --> 00:39:39,752
and when he's doing a project,
it's something well worth being a part of.

770
00:39:41,462 --> 00:39:43,422
[Gatica] Pretty much everything
was ready to go.

771
00:39:43,506 --> 00:39:48,511
Quincy asked me for a piece of paper,
and he decided to write the greatest line.

772
00:39:49,261 --> 00:39:50,888
"Check your ego at the door."

773
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,726
[man] I was lucky enough
to be one of the cameramen,

774
00:39:55,810 --> 00:39:58,396
but I was just the rookie of the bunch.

775
00:39:58,479 --> 00:40:00,398
I'd only moved out here
three years before.

776
00:40:01,482 --> 00:40:05,277
The producer said, "Go out front.
They're gonna start arriving pretty soon."

777
00:40:06,195 --> 00:40:09,281
[Richie] The question is
who was actually gonna show up.

778
00:40:09,782 --> 00:40:12,118
["Party Animal" by James Ingram playing]

779
00:40:15,204 --> 00:40:16,914
[2-way radio] We got Kenny Rogers
coming in.

780
00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:25,548
[Loggins] When I arrived at the studio,
I realized it was the cream of the crop

781
00:40:25,631 --> 00:40:27,466
of pop music for that time.

782
00:40:28,050 --> 00:40:30,594
-[2-way radio] Ray Charles, car coming in.
-[man 1] Oh my God!

783
00:40:30,678 --> 00:40:32,555
-[man 2] Bette Midler.
-[man 1] I think it is.

784
00:40:33,264 --> 00:40:36,434
-[man 3] Christie Brinkley. Oh my gosh!
-[2-way] Anyone have eyes on Billy Joel?

785
00:40:36,517 --> 00:40:38,227
It was overwhelming.

786
00:40:38,310 --> 00:40:39,353
[music continues]

787
00:40:41,522 --> 00:40:44,066
[Rees] Walkie-talkies
is how we communicated.

788
00:40:44,567 --> 00:40:46,944
Who was showing up?
Who was here? Who just got here?

789
00:40:47,027 --> 00:40:48,821
[2-way radio] Kim Carnes just arriving.

790
00:40:51,157 --> 00:40:55,327
This guy pulls up across the street.
in this old Pontiac GTO.

791
00:40:55,411 --> 00:40:59,206
Guy gets out and it's Bruce Springsteen.
I'm like, "Wow, it is on."

792
00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:03,711
[Joel] "That's Ray. That's really him."

793
00:41:03,794 --> 00:41:05,629
That's like
the Statue of Liberty walking in.

794
00:41:05,713 --> 00:41:07,715
[excited chatter]

795
00:41:09,925 --> 00:41:14,472
To me, Diana Ross was like, "Whoa.
We've hit a different echelon here."

796
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:18,058
[Sheila E.] I almost felt
like I was in a dream.

797
00:41:18,767 --> 00:41:20,352
Everyone was a legend to me.

798
00:41:20,436 --> 00:41:24,732
Bob Dylan? I mean, I think I just said hi
and walked away 'cause I was scared.

799
00:41:24,815 --> 00:41:26,734
[Lewis] Nobody else was allowed
in the studio

800
00:41:26,817 --> 00:41:29,653
except the artists themselves,
so nobody had assistants.

801
00:41:29,737 --> 00:41:32,198
And then,
we get to interact with each other,

802
00:41:32,281 --> 00:41:33,991
and that was really the thrill.

803
00:41:34,575 --> 00:41:38,204
[Springsteen] It was intoxicating
just to be around that group of people.

804
00:41:39,079 --> 00:41:42,791
[Lauper] I felt like I was underdressed.
I was worried.

805
00:41:42,875 --> 00:41:46,170
I knew Billy Joel,
so I went right over to him.

806
00:41:46,253 --> 00:41:48,214
[music continues]

807
00:41:48,297 --> 00:41:51,634
[Robinson] Everyone felt the magic.
Everybody that you can think of

808
00:41:51,717 --> 00:41:54,261
who was in show business at that time
is at that recording.

809
00:41:54,762 --> 00:41:56,305
[Loggins] We're on the risers.

810
00:41:56,388 --> 00:41:58,891
Paul is on one of the lower steps,
and he looks up,

811
00:41:58,974 --> 00:42:03,687
and he goes, "Whoa. If a bomb lands
on this place, John Denver's back on top."

812
00:42:06,190 --> 00:42:07,316
[music stops abruptly]

813
00:42:10,819 --> 00:42:12,238
[indistinct chatter]

814
00:42:22,373 --> 00:42:25,376
-It's beautiful. So beautiful, man.
-Incredible, isn't it?

815
00:42:25,459 --> 00:42:28,671
[Loggins] We could feel the energy
in the room was really high.

816
00:42:28,754 --> 00:42:31,215
[Richie] Ray and Willie
are gonna do some singing.

817
00:42:31,298 --> 00:42:36,136
[Loggins] But at the same time,
under it is a low hum of competition.

818
00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:39,265
The egos were still there.
Let's not pretend that they weren't there.

819
00:42:39,932 --> 00:42:42,142
[Dickinson] Celebrities can be
very difficult

820
00:42:42,226 --> 00:42:46,689
when they're surrounded
by managers, agents, and glam squad,

821
00:42:47,523 --> 00:42:49,942
but they were not in that environment.

822
00:42:50,025 --> 00:42:52,152
[whimsical music playing]

823
00:42:52,236 --> 00:42:55,573
[Dickinson] The biggest stars in music
found it disarming.

824
00:42:56,407 --> 00:42:58,617
They seemed almost timid.

825
00:43:02,955 --> 00:43:05,457
[Richie] It was like
first day of kindergarten.

826
00:43:05,958 --> 00:43:07,251
Okay, guys.

827
00:43:08,043 --> 00:43:10,379
Can we have everybody clear out
so we can make…

828
00:43:10,462 --> 00:43:12,381
-[raucous chatter]
-Please.

829
00:43:13,382 --> 00:43:14,967
Hello. Hello. Hello.

830
00:43:17,177 --> 00:43:19,555
Listen. Guys. Guys.

831
00:43:19,638 --> 00:43:23,100
[Richie] Quincy had to
pull all of these kids together.

832
00:43:24,059 --> 00:43:25,769
[chatter continues]

833
00:43:30,190 --> 00:43:32,443
First, I'd like you to meet Bob Geldof

834
00:43:32,526 --> 00:43:35,404
who is really the inspiration
for this whole thing.

835
00:43:35,487 --> 00:43:37,615
This is the man who put Band Aid together.

836
00:43:38,365 --> 00:43:39,658
[woman] Game on!

837
00:43:39,742 --> 00:43:43,120
And he just came back from Ethiopia,
and he'd like to talk to you.

838
00:43:43,203 --> 00:43:44,079
Oh. Would I?

839
00:43:44,163 --> 00:43:45,748
-[people laughing]
-[man] Sweet.

840
00:43:45,831 --> 00:43:47,833
Um… Well, maybe,

841
00:43:48,959 --> 00:43:52,755
to put you in the mood
of the song you're about to sing,

842
00:43:52,838 --> 00:43:56,675
which hopefully
will save millions of lives,

843
00:43:56,759 --> 00:43:59,887
I think it's best to remember
that the price for life this year

844
00:43:59,970 --> 00:44:03,599
is a piece of plastic seven inches wide
with a hole in the middle.

845
00:44:05,184 --> 00:44:09,355
And I don't know if we in particular
can conceive of "nothing."

846
00:44:10,230 --> 00:44:13,525
But "nothing" is not having water.

847
00:44:14,234 --> 00:44:19,823
On some of the camps, you'll see
15 bags of flour for 27,500 people,

848
00:44:19,907 --> 00:44:23,410
and you see meningitis
and malaria and typhoid

849
00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:24,828
buzzing around in the air,

850
00:44:24,912 --> 00:44:27,247
and you see dead bodies
lying side by side.

851
00:44:29,083 --> 00:44:31,585
And it's that that we're here for,

852
00:44:32,086 --> 00:44:34,046
and I assume
that's why we're all here tonight.

853
00:44:34,129 --> 00:44:36,090
And I don't want to bring anybody down,

854
00:44:36,173 --> 00:44:39,343
but maybe it's the best way
of making what you really feel,

855
00:44:39,426 --> 00:44:42,262
why you're really here tonight,
come out through this song.

856
00:44:42,346 --> 00:44:45,015
So thanks a lot, everybody,
and let's hope it works.

857
00:44:45,099 --> 00:44:46,433
[applause]

858
00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:55,567
[Breskin] Quincy is so savvy.

859
00:44:55,651 --> 00:45:01,532
He used the Geldof speech to get people
to focus on what it was about.

860
00:45:02,449 --> 00:45:04,785
"We're having a good time here, but, like,

861
00:45:04,868 --> 00:45:08,080
I want you to put what you feel
into the song."

862
00:45:09,415 --> 00:45:13,544
I'd just performed at the AMAs.
You know, everyone having a great time,

863
00:45:13,627 --> 00:45:17,965
and then the reality
of him explaining why we're here,

864
00:45:18,048 --> 00:45:19,925
you just kinda go, "Wow."

865
00:45:20,926 --> 00:45:23,429
[Jones] Everything sung in this room
will be unison,

866
00:45:23,512 --> 00:45:25,347
on each take,
on harmony parts and everything,

867
00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:28,225
so we don't have to stumble
with harmony inside the room.

868
00:45:28,308 --> 00:45:31,979
The first thing I like to do
is the lead to the choruses, okay?

869
00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:33,272
[indistinct chatter]

870
00:45:33,355 --> 00:45:37,109
Can we hear about four bars without--
but without the track? Acapulco!

871
00:45:37,192 --> 00:45:38,694
One, two…

872
00:45:39,236 --> 00:45:41,530
♪ We are the world ♪

873
00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:45,033
♪ We are the children ♪

874
00:45:46,034 --> 00:45:48,871
♪ We are the ones
Who make a brighter day ♪

875
00:45:48,954 --> 00:45:50,831
♪ So let's start givin' ♪

876
00:45:50,914 --> 00:45:52,291
Hold it, everybody, please.

877
00:45:52,374 --> 00:45:55,294
[Bahler] If everybody could groove
from their knees instead of their feet.

878
00:45:55,377 --> 00:45:58,338
We're getting an awful lot
of feet pounding on those risers.

879
00:45:59,757 --> 00:46:03,594
[Gatica] The tension was there because
we're not gonna have a lot of time.

880
00:46:03,677 --> 00:46:07,222
Technically, we need to be
really together, and we gotta move fast.

881
00:46:07,306 --> 00:46:08,974
Once again, guys, please.

882
00:46:09,057 --> 00:46:10,768
♪ We are the world… ♪

883
00:46:10,851 --> 00:46:12,811
[Springsteen] We had to learn the song.

884
00:46:12,895 --> 00:46:16,774
You know, you had to rough it out
and go over it. And, uh, it was like that.

885
00:46:16,857 --> 00:46:18,984
♪ …ones who make a brighter day ♪

886
00:46:19,067 --> 00:46:21,612
♪ So let's start givin' ♪

887
00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:25,699
♪ There's a choice we're makin'… ♪

888
00:46:25,783 --> 00:46:29,453
[Richie] The pressure was on us,
as the production group,

889
00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:32,956
to make sure,
when we let Springsteen go home,

890
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,751
when we let all these guys go home,
it's done, right?

891
00:46:35,834 --> 00:46:37,044
One night only

892
00:46:38,462 --> 00:46:40,088
to get this right.

893
00:46:41,548 --> 00:46:44,009
[Jones] Right, now,
we'll do that all the way through,

894
00:46:44,092 --> 00:46:46,553
and up in the same octave
as Michael's singing it.

895
00:46:46,637 --> 00:46:49,515
Everybody that can't sing it that high,
just lay out.

896
00:46:49,598 --> 00:46:52,351
Just the high singers.
I don't wanna get octaves on this part.

897
00:46:52,434 --> 00:46:53,811
We're gonna do low octaves later.

898
00:46:53,894 --> 00:46:56,980
So, if it's too high for anybody,
they can just rest on the stack,

899
00:46:57,064 --> 00:46:59,817
and then we'll come back
and put it away. Okay?

900
00:47:00,442 --> 00:47:01,360
[woman] All right.

901
00:47:01,443 --> 00:47:04,238
So we'll play--
We'll make a playback, and we'll start…

902
00:47:04,321 --> 00:47:06,448
we'll start chopping wood, okay?

903
00:47:06,532 --> 00:47:09,493
-[laughter, chatter]
-Can I hear it, Hum?

904
00:47:13,372 --> 00:47:14,915
Everybody have cans?

905
00:47:16,291 --> 00:47:19,002
♪ We are the world ♪

906
00:47:19,753 --> 00:47:22,422
♪ We are the children ♪

907
00:47:23,507 --> 00:47:26,343
♪ We are the ones
Who make a brighter day ♪

908
00:47:26,426 --> 00:47:29,304
♪ So let's start givin' ♪

909
00:47:30,305 --> 00:47:33,600
♪ There's a choice we're makin' ♪

910
00:47:34,101 --> 00:47:37,104
♪ We're savin' our own lives… ♪

911
00:47:37,187 --> 00:47:39,481
[Breskin] Bob Dylan knows himself

912
00:47:39,565 --> 00:47:43,735
he's not a singer
in the way that Stevie Wonder is.

913
00:47:43,819 --> 00:47:45,821
♪ We are the world ♪

914
00:47:47,030 --> 00:47:49,199
♪ We are the children… ♪

915
00:47:49,283 --> 00:47:52,369
[Breskin] So Dylan
was probably more uncomfortable

916
00:47:52,452 --> 00:47:54,705
than any other person that was here.

917
00:47:56,540 --> 00:47:58,542
[cheers and applause]

918
00:47:59,251 --> 00:48:01,295
[people whooping]

919
00:48:01,378 --> 00:48:03,547
[Jones] Somebody's
still singing an octave.

920
00:48:04,631 --> 00:48:07,217
The octaves… We really can't do
the octaves on this take.

921
00:48:07,301 --> 00:48:08,635
-[indistinct dialogue]
-[Jones] Huh?

922
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:09,970
-Just for them?
-[Jones] Yes.

923
00:48:10,053 --> 00:48:12,431
Some of the singers were saying,
"That's not in my range."

924
00:48:12,514 --> 00:48:14,641
-[man 1] How about you?
-[man 2] I can't do it.

925
00:48:14,725 --> 00:48:15,976
[man 1] Can't, right?

926
00:48:16,059 --> 00:48:19,062
[Loggins] If it was out of your range,
you're trying to figure out,

927
00:48:19,146 --> 00:48:22,274
"Well, maybe I can sing a harmony,"
but they didn't want any of that.

928
00:48:22,357 --> 00:48:24,651
They just wanted that solid unison.

929
00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:27,738
[Bahler] There's a singers' old saying,
"Suck along quietly."

930
00:48:27,821 --> 00:48:29,865
Sing it while it's in your range.

931
00:48:29,948 --> 00:48:31,909
When it gets out of your range, stop.

932
00:48:32,659 --> 00:48:35,078
You know, there are so many voices.
Nobody's gonna miss you.

933
00:48:35,162 --> 00:48:37,247
[Jones] One, two, three.

934
00:48:37,331 --> 00:48:39,541
♪ We are the world… ♪

935
00:48:39,625 --> 00:48:42,210
[Dickinson] There's probably
60 or 70 people in the room.

936
00:48:42,711 --> 00:48:44,963
It was getting pretty ripe.

937
00:48:45,047 --> 00:48:49,760
My lights were big 5,000-watt,
fire-breathing instruments,

938
00:48:49,843 --> 00:48:52,763
so it got very warm in here.

939
00:48:54,264 --> 00:48:57,309
And that added to the tension.

940
00:48:58,143 --> 00:49:00,854
[Woo] We had all the lighting guys
and four cameramen,

941
00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:04,358
and so you had to be really careful
to not get your cables tangled up

942
00:49:04,441 --> 00:49:06,318
and you had to be quiet.

943
00:49:06,985 --> 00:49:08,236
[Bahler] Wait a minute. [whistles]

944
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,114
-[engineer] Guys, you gotta keep it down.
-[Bahler] You gotta keep it quiet.

945
00:49:11,198 --> 00:49:13,659
We gotta stop making noise
in the takes, please.

946
00:49:16,787 --> 00:49:18,455
[Richie] We're shooting the video

947
00:49:19,247 --> 00:49:20,123
and

948
00:49:21,041 --> 00:49:23,543
putting the song together
at the same time.

949
00:49:24,044 --> 00:49:26,296
Can anything go wrong? Absolutely!

950
00:49:27,172 --> 00:49:29,216
We were flying by the seat of our pants.

951
00:49:29,299 --> 00:49:31,718
[tense dramatic music playing]

952
00:49:31,802 --> 00:49:35,305
[Richie] The clock is ticking.
Quincy's worrying about the big picture.

953
00:49:35,389 --> 00:49:39,059
My job was,
if there was any problems on the floor,

954
00:49:39,142 --> 00:49:40,227
solve it.

955
00:49:40,310 --> 00:49:42,980
-Maybe a change.
-No, I think it should be "brighter."

956
00:49:43,063 --> 00:49:45,190
I feel like
everyone was singing "brighter."

957
00:49:45,273 --> 00:49:47,359
-This is "brighter"?
-Not "better," "brighter."

958
00:49:47,442 --> 00:49:49,277
Don't open a can of worms.
Stay with "brighter."

959
00:49:49,361 --> 00:49:50,696
Wanna do "better" or "brighter"?

960
00:49:50,779 --> 00:49:52,739
"Brighter" is the one
everyone's leaning to, right?

961
00:49:53,573 --> 00:49:58,036
Lionel Richie is the guy
to bring everyone together.

962
00:49:59,371 --> 00:50:03,500
[Richie] I'm walking around
each little camp putting out fire.

963
00:50:04,751 --> 00:50:06,420
[Sheila E.] He was on adrenaline.

964
00:50:06,503 --> 00:50:09,047
He was just nonstop,
but he's like that anyway.

965
00:50:09,131 --> 00:50:11,591
He has stories to tell. "Let's do this."

966
00:50:11,675 --> 00:50:14,261
"Let me tell you something."
He's making people laugh.

967
00:50:14,344 --> 00:50:17,514
He's just making the water flow
in the right way.

968
00:50:18,265 --> 00:50:22,019
One line you can never use in life.

969
00:50:23,270 --> 00:50:25,355
"I'm not sure about this.
What do you think?"

970
00:50:25,439 --> 00:50:26,690
"Better" has more bite.

971
00:50:27,607 --> 00:50:30,610
[Richie] We have 47 artists.

972
00:50:30,694 --> 00:50:35,657
If you say that, you'll have 47 different
versions of "We Are the World."

973
00:50:35,741 --> 00:50:37,784
So my job was to make sure,

974
00:50:37,868 --> 00:50:41,705
under no circumstances,
do we veer off what it is.

975
00:50:42,205 --> 00:50:44,624
[Wonder] ♪ Ulimwengu ♪

976
00:50:46,126 --> 00:50:48,170
♪ Latoto ♪

977
00:50:48,879 --> 00:50:50,547
[inaudible dialogue]

978
00:50:50,630 --> 00:50:52,632
[man 1] What are you doin'? What are you--

979
00:50:52,716 --> 00:50:54,468
[Lauper] What is it? What does it mean?

980
00:50:54,551 --> 00:50:56,678
[Wonder] That's the translation
for "We Are the World."

981
00:50:56,762 --> 00:50:57,637
[indistinct dialogue]

982
00:50:57,721 --> 00:51:02,267
Stevie said, "I think we need to have
some Swahili somewhere in the song."

983
00:51:02,350 --> 00:51:05,520
"I think we should sing…" [speaks Swahili]

984
00:51:05,604 --> 00:51:07,522
-In what language?
-[Wonder] Kiswahili.

985
00:51:07,606 --> 00:51:09,524
Okay, thank you very much.

986
00:51:09,608 --> 00:51:12,986
[man 2] One, two, three, four. One…

987
00:51:13,070 --> 00:51:18,492
-[feet stamping rhythmically]
-[Wonder] ♪ Ulimwangu Latoto ♪

988
00:51:20,243 --> 00:51:22,245
Not "mwangu," "mwengu."

989
00:51:22,913 --> 00:51:27,918
[all chattering, vocalizing]

990
00:51:28,001 --> 00:51:29,669
♪ Ulimwengu ♪

991
00:51:29,753 --> 00:51:31,755
[Gatica] If we do this,
we're gonna run out of time,

992
00:51:31,838 --> 00:51:34,800
and if we run out of time,
it won't be good.

993
00:51:35,759 --> 00:51:37,260
[Woo] I was in the corner of the room,

994
00:51:37,344 --> 00:51:39,888
happened to be
pretty close to Waylon Jennings,

995
00:51:39,971 --> 00:51:41,640
and I just heard him go…

996
00:51:41,723 --> 00:51:44,518
"Well, ain't no good 'ol boy
ever sung Swahili. Think I'm outta here."

997
00:51:44,601 --> 00:51:45,727
"I think I'm outta here."

998
00:51:45,811 --> 00:51:47,854
["Good Ol' Boy"
by Waylon Jennings playing]

999
00:51:50,565 --> 00:51:52,275
[Richie] Waylon walks out of the door.

1000
00:51:52,359 --> 00:51:54,778
"I'm not dealing with this.
I don't know what that means,

1001
00:51:54,861 --> 00:51:58,031
but I am not gonna say it,"
and we lost Waylon right there.

1002
00:51:58,615 --> 00:52:01,701
[man 1] We're listening now.
Listening now.

1003
00:52:03,995 --> 00:52:05,247
[music fades out]

1004
00:52:06,498 --> 00:52:08,708
[man 2] They don't speak Swahili, he says.

1005
00:52:08,792 --> 00:52:12,546
[Lewis] Someone said, "Stevie,
they don't speak Swahili in Ethiopia."

1006
00:52:12,629 --> 00:52:16,675
[Wonder] Well, there's a translation
in Swahili and a translation in Amharic.

1007
00:52:16,758 --> 00:52:21,513
You could see the potential
for a 17-car linguistic pileup.

1008
00:52:21,596 --> 00:52:23,723
[Geldof] I just think
that what you're trying to do is…

1009
00:52:23,807 --> 00:52:26,309
There's no point talking
to the people who are starving,

1010
00:52:26,393 --> 00:52:28,728
we're talking to the people
who've got the money to give.

1011
00:52:28,812 --> 00:52:32,774
And, you know, it's gonna… If it turns on
one person, it turns off two, maybe.

1012
00:52:32,858 --> 00:52:35,068
-[Jones] But what words do we use?
-[Geldof] I don't know…

1013
00:52:35,152 --> 00:52:37,445
-[Jones] If we don't have lines…
-…but they speak Amharic.

1014
00:52:37,529 --> 00:52:39,573
[Jones] The problem is
we don't have any lyrics there.

1015
00:52:39,656 --> 00:52:41,741
The whole point is,
is it saying "we are the world"?

1016
00:52:41,825 --> 00:52:43,160
[Jones] What do we got, Smelly?

1017
00:52:43,660 --> 00:52:46,997
[Lewis] I remember at that point,
'cause I'm shadowing Ray Charles,

1018
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:51,209
and Ray goes, "Ring the bell, Quincy!
Ring the bell!" [laughing]

1019
00:52:52,460 --> 00:52:54,462
Which meant, "Let's get goin' here."

1020
00:52:54,546 --> 00:52:56,339
[inaudible dialogue]

1021
00:52:56,423 --> 00:52:59,050
[Woo] A lot of people were getting
kind of impatient about it.

1022
00:52:59,134 --> 00:53:00,343
Everybody's tired.

1023
00:53:01,261 --> 00:53:03,889
People wanted to get on and get it done,

1024
00:53:03,972 --> 00:53:07,976
and I think that's kinda where
"sha-la sha-lin-gay" may have come up.

1025
00:53:08,935 --> 00:53:13,565
♪ We are the world, sha-la
We are the children ♪

1026
00:53:13,648 --> 00:53:14,900
♪ Sha-lin-gay ♪

1027
00:53:14,983 --> 00:53:17,569
♪ We are the world, sha-la ♪

1028
00:53:19,029 --> 00:53:20,780
♪ This is what we're givin' ♪

1029
00:53:20,864 --> 00:53:22,574
I guess it was Michael's idea

1030
00:53:22,657 --> 00:53:25,285
of how we can get something
cultural sounding in here.

1031
00:53:25,368 --> 00:53:30,707
[Jones] "Sha-la. Sha-lin-gay. Sha-la.
'Cause that's what they're giving."

1032
00:53:30,790 --> 00:53:33,501
[Robinson] Hey, wait, wait.
Excuse me. Excuse me.

1033
00:53:33,585 --> 00:53:35,503
[loud chatter]

1034
00:53:35,587 --> 00:53:37,923
One second. One second.

1035
00:53:38,757 --> 00:53:40,884
-[man 2] Hold it! Hold it!
-[wolf whistle]

1036
00:53:40,967 --> 00:53:42,344
[chatter stops]

1037
00:53:42,427 --> 00:53:45,138
What we're saying is,
"'Cause that's what we're giving."

1038
00:53:45,222 --> 00:53:46,389
What's what we're giving?

1039
00:53:46,473 --> 00:53:49,017
[Robinson] I'm one of the few people
who'd say anything to Michael.

1040
00:53:49,100 --> 00:53:51,144
-Doesn't make sense.
-[man 3] "So let's start giving."

1041
00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:53,355
Yeah. "So let's start giving"
would be better.

1042
00:53:54,856 --> 00:53:57,525
[present] I've known Michael Jackson
since he was ten years old

1043
00:53:57,609 --> 00:53:59,986
when he first came to audition
to be a Motown member.

1044
00:54:00,070 --> 00:54:02,405
He was singing and dancing
his butt off at ten years old.

1045
00:54:02,489 --> 00:54:04,115
Wait, what do you wanna do?

1046
00:54:04,199 --> 00:54:06,534
[Robinson] Michael's one of
the greatest artists we've ever had.

1047
00:54:06,618 --> 00:54:08,578
One of the greatest songwriters ever.

1048
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:11,665
So people were afraid to say,
"No, we shouldn't do that,"

1049
00:54:11,748 --> 00:54:13,375
or, "That don't sound good."

1050
00:54:13,458 --> 00:54:16,336
Well, you tell me
what "sha-la sha-lin-gay" means!

1051
00:54:16,419 --> 00:54:17,254
[laughter]

1052
00:54:17,337 --> 00:54:20,090
[Robinson] When you grew up in Motown,
that's how we did each other,

1053
00:54:20,173 --> 00:54:21,800
and we all love each other.

1054
00:54:22,342 --> 00:54:25,136
[Jones] Does everybody
like the lyric "one world"?

1055
00:54:25,220 --> 00:54:26,721
-[various] Yeah!
-[man 1] It's great.

1056
00:54:26,805 --> 00:54:29,099
-[Jones] "One world."
-[Lauper] "One world."

1057
00:54:29,182 --> 00:54:32,560
[Richie] "One world, our children.
One world, so let's start giving."

1058
00:54:32,644 --> 00:54:35,313
-Yeah.
-[Richie] Everybody. [claps] Okay.

1059
00:54:36,690 --> 00:54:37,691
Guys, one minute.

1060
00:54:37,774 --> 00:54:40,652
Please don't change it
'cause my hearing's getting bad as well.

1061
00:54:40,735 --> 00:54:41,653
[laughter]

1062
00:54:41,736 --> 00:54:44,864
-Let's put it on the tape!
-[man] Well if you can, it's there.

1063
00:54:44,948 --> 00:54:46,866
-Hit it!
-[man] It's there.

1064
00:54:46,950 --> 00:54:48,827
[indistinct chatter]

1065
00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:52,414
All right, hit it.

1066
00:54:52,497 --> 00:54:54,499
♪ One world ♪

1067
00:54:55,709 --> 00:54:58,003
♪ Our children ♪

1068
00:54:59,296 --> 00:55:00,964
♪ One world ♪

1069
00:55:02,048 --> 00:55:04,301
♪ So let's start givin' ♪

1070
00:55:04,968 --> 00:55:09,139
[vocalizing]

1071
00:55:10,890 --> 00:55:12,350
[whooping, applauding]

1072
00:55:13,393 --> 00:55:15,645
[Richie] Finally,
we finished singing the chorus.

1073
00:55:15,729 --> 00:55:16,980
You know it!

1074
00:55:17,063 --> 00:55:20,233
And Quincy
wants to say thank you to Harry Belafonte.

1075
00:55:20,317 --> 00:55:24,112
[Jones] Remember the guy who started
this whole thing, Harry Bela…

1076
00:55:24,195 --> 00:55:26,114
[all laughing cheering]

1077
00:55:26,197 --> 00:55:29,826
[Richie] Then, all of a sudden,
the most amazing thing happens.

1078
00:55:29,909 --> 00:55:30,744
-♪ Day ♪
-♪ Day ♪

1079
00:55:30,827 --> 00:55:33,621
-♪ Day ♪
-♪ Is a day-o! ♪

1080
00:55:33,705 --> 00:55:36,416
♪ Daylight come and me wanna go home… ♪

1081
00:55:36,499 --> 00:55:38,835
[Robinson] Harry Belafonte was
the most inspirational person

1082
00:55:38,918 --> 00:55:40,420
for all of us who were there.

1083
00:55:40,503 --> 00:55:42,213
♪ Is a day-o! ♪

1084
00:55:43,006 --> 00:55:46,051
♪ Daylight come and me wanna go home… ♪

1085
00:55:46,134 --> 00:55:48,970
[Bahler] Al Jarreau
started singing Harry Belafonte's song.

1086
00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:50,889
All of a sudden, everybody jumps in.

1087
00:55:50,972 --> 00:55:54,309
♪ Daylight come and me wanna go home ♪

1088
00:55:54,392 --> 00:55:57,771
♪ I drank too much, I have to say ♪

1089
00:55:58,396 --> 00:56:01,483
♪ Daylight come and me wanna go home ♪

1090
00:56:01,566 --> 00:56:05,612
[Wonder] ♪ But you have to be driven home
By me or Ray ♪

1091
00:56:06,196 --> 00:56:09,407
♪ Daylight come and me wanna go home ♪

1092
00:56:09,491 --> 00:56:13,745
♪ Sing day-o, day-o, sing day-oh ♪

1093
00:56:13,828 --> 00:56:17,457
♪ Daylight come and me wanna go home ♪

1094
00:56:17,540 --> 00:56:19,376
[descending into laughter]

1095
00:56:21,336 --> 00:56:25,423
♪ Daylight come and me wanna go home ♪

1096
00:56:25,507 --> 00:56:27,509
-[man trills]
-[all cheering, applauding]

1097
00:56:31,846 --> 00:56:33,014
[wolf whistle]

1098
00:56:34,724 --> 00:56:35,850
[mouthing] Thank you.

1099
00:56:35,934 --> 00:56:37,936
[playing "We Are the World"]

1100
00:56:45,735 --> 00:56:46,986
[Richie] In between the breaks,

1101
00:56:47,070 --> 00:56:49,739
Ray would play another version
of "We Are the World,"

1102
00:56:49,823 --> 00:56:53,076
the gospel version,
the "Georgia on My Mind" version.

1103
00:56:54,911 --> 00:56:59,541
And so, at that moment,
I overhear Ray and Stevie talking.

1104
00:56:59,624 --> 00:57:01,626
And Ray says,
"I got to go to the bathroom,"

1105
00:57:01,709 --> 00:57:04,379
and then Stevie said,
"I'll show you where it is."

1106
00:57:04,462 --> 00:57:06,673
He just grabbed him by the arm
and they walk,

1107
00:57:06,756 --> 00:57:09,634
and everybody said,
"The blind really is leading the blind,"

1108
00:57:09,717 --> 00:57:11,970
and we were all just bursting laughing.

1109
00:57:14,931 --> 00:57:20,437
Fish burger. Fish burger! [vocalizing]

1110
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:21,604
[Gatica] People were hungry.

1111
00:57:21,688 --> 00:57:24,607
-[man 1] ♪ Summertime ♪
-[man 2] Waffles are ordered in-house.

1112
00:57:24,691 --> 00:57:27,610
[woman] Chicken and waffles!
Smothered chicken and waffles!

1113
00:57:27,694 --> 00:57:31,531
[Gatica] Everybody was ordering chicken
and waffles, you know, from Roscoe's.

1114
00:57:31,614 --> 00:57:34,993
And I never seen anybody who eats chicken
better than Lionel Richie.

1115
00:57:35,076 --> 00:57:36,995
He eats the last little piece of bone.

1116
00:57:37,078 --> 00:57:41,082
[sucks] He sucks it up, and he eats,
and he puts them on top of the other one,

1117
00:57:41,166 --> 00:57:44,919
so when he finishes, he has all these
little bones all layered properly.

1118
00:57:45,003 --> 00:57:48,673
I said, "Brother, there's nobody that
can eat chicken better than you." [laughs]

1119
00:57:51,342 --> 00:57:53,136
[Bahler] When that break came,

1120
00:57:54,596 --> 00:57:59,684
Diana walks up to Daryl Hall
with her music in her hands

1121
00:57:59,767 --> 00:58:02,729
and says, "Daryl, I'm your biggest fan."

1122
00:58:02,812 --> 00:58:05,899
"Would you sign my music for me?"

1123
00:58:06,399 --> 00:58:09,903
And we all looked around
and said, "Holy moly!"

1124
00:58:11,237 --> 00:58:14,741
[Woo] Soon as she did it, it just started
happening all over the room.

1125
00:58:14,824 --> 00:58:19,120
[Sheila E.] Seeing Cyndi Lauper
asking Lionel or the Boss,

1126
00:58:19,204 --> 00:58:22,707
you know, that's dope that they wanna
get each other's autograph.

1127
00:58:22,790 --> 00:58:26,419
And then, they come and ask me,
and I'm like, "They want my autograph?"

1128
00:58:26,503 --> 00:58:29,547
Like, "Wow, that's really cool," you know?

1129
00:58:30,632 --> 00:58:33,343
And so I called Prince to let him know
how it was going.

1130
00:58:33,426 --> 00:58:35,470
I said, "I think maybe you should come."

1131
00:58:35,553 --> 00:58:38,348
"It's pretty cool,
and, you know, everyone's hanging out."

1132
00:58:38,431 --> 00:58:39,891
"We're having a great time."

1133
00:58:43,770 --> 00:58:45,271
[funk music playing]

1134
00:58:49,984 --> 00:58:52,362
[Richie] I'm now on the phone with Prince.

1135
00:58:53,029 --> 00:58:54,822
He's at Carlos 'n Charlie's.

1136
00:58:54,906 --> 00:58:57,617
He said, "I-- I-- I want--
I wanna play a guitar solo."

1137
00:58:58,201 --> 00:58:59,285
"In another room."

1138
00:58:59,369 --> 00:59:02,372
I said, "No, no, no, it's…
We're all in the same room."

1139
00:59:02,455 --> 00:59:04,541
"I need you to come and sing."

1140
00:59:04,624 --> 00:59:06,292
[Jones] He wants to put a guitar,

1141
00:59:06,376 --> 00:59:09,045
you know, and we just happen
to not need guitar on it.

1142
00:59:10,922 --> 00:59:12,966
[Sheila E.] It was getting late.
I was looking forward

1143
00:59:13,049 --> 00:59:14,717
to singing one of the verses,

1144
00:59:14,801 --> 00:59:17,845
but they kept asking, "Well,
do you think you can get Prince here?"

1145
00:59:17,929 --> 00:59:19,389
I'm like, "Wow, this is weird."

1146
00:59:19,472 --> 00:59:23,935
And I just started feeling like,
"I feel like I'm being used, to be here,

1147
00:59:24,018 --> 00:59:26,271
because they want Prince to show up,

1148
00:59:26,354 --> 00:59:29,107
and the longer they keep me,
maybe Prince will show up."

1149
00:59:30,858 --> 00:59:33,861
[Dickinson] I'm sure they were waiting
for his limousine to pull up,

1150
00:59:34,362 --> 00:59:36,155
but he didn't show up.

1151
00:59:37,365 --> 00:59:40,868
I already knew he wasn't gonna come,
'cause there was too many people,

1152
00:59:40,952 --> 00:59:42,453
and he would feel uncomfortable.

1153
00:59:43,580 --> 00:59:45,373
I told Lionel, I said, "I'm gonna go."

1154
00:59:45,456 --> 00:59:47,834
They never intended
on having me sing a verse,

1155
00:59:48,334 --> 00:59:50,503
which was a little bit… heartbreaking.

1156
00:59:54,007 --> 00:59:57,635
[Richie] We had done the hook,
so we're now going into the solos.

1157
00:59:57,719 --> 00:59:59,178
♪ We are the world ♪

1158
00:59:59,262 --> 01:00:00,430
♪ We are… ♪

1159
01:00:01,889 --> 01:00:04,100
♪ We are the world. We are the children ♪

1160
01:00:04,183 --> 01:00:05,143
Your two lines.

1161
01:00:12,525 --> 01:00:15,194
[Loggins] Michael came to me
and said, "Prince isn't coming,

1162
01:00:15,278 --> 01:00:18,865
so we have a spot on the line
that needs a soloist."

1163
01:00:18,948 --> 01:00:21,784
"Who do you recommend?"
And I said, "Huey Lewis."

1164
01:00:21,868 --> 01:00:23,453
[Lewis squawking]

1165
01:00:23,536 --> 01:00:25,872
[Loggins] Huey Lewis
has a great solo voice.

1166
01:00:27,332 --> 01:00:29,876
Somebody tapped me and said,
"Quincy wants you."

1167
01:00:29,959 --> 01:00:33,087
They brought me to Quincy. He says,
"Smelly, come over here. Get Michael."

1168
01:00:33,838 --> 01:00:35,923
And he said, "Sing the line for Huey."

1169
01:00:36,007 --> 01:00:37,759
♪ There's no way we can fall ♪

1170
01:00:37,842 --> 01:00:40,345
♪ But if you just believe
No way we can fall ♪

1171
01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:44,557
So now I get Prince's line. I mean,
those are pretty big shoes to fill!

1172
01:00:44,641 --> 01:00:46,184
-Yeah!
-Can I go now? Oh no.

1173
01:00:46,267 --> 01:00:50,021
From that moment on,
I was nervous out of my brain.

1174
01:00:51,314 --> 01:00:52,148
[man 1] Okay?

1175
01:00:52,231 --> 01:00:54,192
[Jones] We got a line and waiting here.

1176
01:00:55,902 --> 01:00:57,612
Parts, parts, all done.

1177
01:00:57,695 --> 01:01:00,531
[Richie] By the time
we really got down to do some solos,

1178
01:01:01,032 --> 01:01:03,284
some people were asking,
"Why does he have that part?"

1179
01:01:03,368 --> 01:01:06,871
Or "Why does she have that part?"
And the answer was, "It fits their range."

1180
01:01:06,954 --> 01:01:09,207
[Jones] You've got that line here.
"Let us realize…"

1181
01:01:09,290 --> 01:01:12,335
[Warwick] Quincy told me
who I was gonna sing with,

1182
01:01:12,418 --> 01:01:15,880
and I said, "Willie Nelson?
Hmm. Interesting."

1183
01:01:17,632 --> 01:01:19,550
I was certainly surprised.

1184
01:01:22,470 --> 01:01:26,224
[Lewis] We all gathered around the piano,
and Stevie Wonder's playing the song,

1185
01:01:26,307 --> 01:01:28,017
and we sang it acoustically.

1186
01:01:28,601 --> 01:01:30,603
♪ As God has shown us ♪

1187
01:01:31,312 --> 01:01:33,648
♪ By turning stone to bread ♪

1188
01:01:34,232 --> 01:01:38,986
[Lewis] And Stevie Wonder, you could see
the different voices register in his face.

1189
01:01:39,070 --> 01:01:41,489
♪ So let's start givin' ♪

1190
01:01:42,990 --> 01:01:45,326
[Lewis] About halfway through,
as he's playing,

1191
01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:47,954
he's going, "Wow. So many stars."

1192
01:01:49,497 --> 01:01:54,043
♪ It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1193
01:01:54,127 --> 01:01:55,586
[various] Yeah!

1194
01:01:55,670 --> 01:01:57,839
[Lewis] The first run-through
around the piano,

1195
01:01:57,922 --> 01:02:01,384
that's when we first heard
what it was actually gonna sound like.

1196
01:02:02,051 --> 01:02:03,845
I'll never forget. It was amazing.

1197
01:02:03,928 --> 01:02:06,723
To hear all those personalities
on that thing

1198
01:02:06,806 --> 01:02:08,641
for the very first time on that song…

1199
01:02:09,225 --> 01:02:11,602
Hair stands up on my back
just thinkin' about it.

1200
01:02:11,686 --> 01:02:14,063
[playful wind instrument playing]

1201
01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:25,700
[Bahler] We'd marked tape on the floor
with the names,

1202
01:02:26,284 --> 01:02:27,869
so it was a big U shape.

1203
01:02:27,952 --> 01:02:31,080
It started here
and went all the way around.

1204
01:02:32,248 --> 01:02:35,084
I remember going through
and counting them.

1205
01:02:35,168 --> 01:02:38,254
"Okay, there's gonna be three here,
there'll be two here."

1206
01:02:38,838 --> 01:02:42,049
I'm looking at this list of names
on the floor.

1207
01:02:42,133 --> 01:02:45,178
I'm like, "This is gonna be unbelievable."

1208
01:02:45,261 --> 01:02:46,679
[music intensifies]

1209
01:02:47,513 --> 01:02:48,848
[Lewis] Springsteen was here.

1210
01:02:48,931 --> 01:02:49,891
Testing, one, two.

1211
01:02:49,974 --> 01:02:51,476
I was right there.

1212
01:02:52,518 --> 01:02:55,062
Michael Jackson's right here.
I sing right after Michael.

1213
01:02:55,146 --> 01:02:56,606
[man] We got you covered.

1214
01:02:56,689 --> 01:03:00,151
-[all laughing]
-[Gatica] You know it's with me, right?

1215
01:03:00,234 --> 01:03:03,237
[Richie] That circle
was the intimidating circle of life.

1216
01:03:03,321 --> 01:03:04,405
Quincy was right.

1217
01:03:04,489 --> 01:03:07,825
When it's time for your part to sing,
you are going to give 200%

1218
01:03:07,909 --> 01:03:10,036
because the class is looking at you.

1219
01:03:10,703 --> 01:03:14,999
And to see everyone's preparation
and vulnerability

1220
01:03:15,750 --> 01:03:18,711
was pretty… amazing.

1221
01:03:19,212 --> 01:03:21,380
-You were on your game at that point.
-[music stops]

1222
01:03:21,464 --> 01:03:23,591
What we do is we have mics in front of us,

1223
01:03:23,674 --> 01:03:26,469
but what we'll do is
you lean in on your part.

1224
01:03:27,220 --> 01:03:29,388
And then, when the other person comes in,

1225
01:03:29,472 --> 01:03:31,682
when you duet with someone,
whatever the case is,

1226
01:03:31,766 --> 01:03:33,559
when your part comes up, lean in.

1227
01:03:33,643 --> 01:03:36,729
Don't sing back here. You sing back here,
we'll never know your words.

1228
01:03:36,813 --> 01:03:38,856
-Step in or lean?
-No. Come on in.

1229
01:03:38,940 --> 01:03:41,442
-Even though your name's back here.
-[man] Do your regular thing.

1230
01:03:41,526 --> 01:03:42,819
-D'you follow?
-[man] Yeah.

1231
01:03:42,902 --> 01:03:44,946
This is real recording. It's just…

1232
01:03:45,029 --> 01:03:47,114
The names are back there,
but the mics are up here.

1233
01:03:47,198 --> 01:03:49,367
-Come to the microphone!
-[Wonder] Are we ready to do it?

1234
01:03:49,450 --> 01:03:51,953
-[Richie] Let me know when you're ready!
-[woman] Ready!

1235
01:03:52,995 --> 01:03:54,956
[piano playing]

1236
01:03:56,707 --> 01:03:58,709
♪ There comes a time ♪

1237
01:03:59,627 --> 01:04:02,129
♪ When we heed a certain call ♪

1238
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,926
♪ When the world
Must come together as one ♪

1239
01:04:07,009 --> 01:04:09,095
[softly] Can we do it again?
I messed my start.

1240
01:04:09,178 --> 01:04:10,513
-[music stops]
-[man] Okay.

1241
01:04:10,596 --> 01:04:12,098
Stevie says he's messed up.

1242
01:04:12,181 --> 01:04:15,560
[silly voice] Heh-heh!
I was flat. I was so flat.

1243
01:04:16,352 --> 01:04:17,645
How flat is that?

1244
01:04:18,229 --> 01:04:21,190
-Stevie messed up. How did he do that?
-[woman] Stevie.

1245
01:04:21,274 --> 01:04:23,025
-[Richie] Is that legal?
-Never!

1246
01:04:23,109 --> 01:04:27,071
[Lewis] Stevie screws it up playfully,
as only Stevie can.

1247
01:04:27,154 --> 01:04:29,198
Kinda almost on purpose,
kinda having fun with it.

1248
01:04:29,282 --> 01:04:30,700
Stevie was not nervous.

1249
01:04:30,783 --> 01:04:32,618
[Wonder] Never! I never mess my note.

1250
01:04:32,702 --> 01:04:34,996
-[Richie laughing]
-[huskily] It's my "thoat."

1251
01:04:37,081 --> 01:04:39,584
[Richie] Quincy raised his voice.
"We gotta get you there!"

1252
01:04:39,667 --> 01:04:40,918
He screamed at us.

1253
01:04:41,002 --> 01:04:41,961
[Jones] Please.

1254
01:04:42,670 --> 01:04:44,714
[Richie] I'd never seen him like that.

1255
01:04:45,715 --> 01:04:48,009
[silly voice] Quincy, Quincy, hey!

1256
01:04:48,092 --> 01:04:49,385
[piano playing]

1257
01:04:52,305 --> 01:04:54,640
[Gatica] Quincy Jones
was always very calm.

1258
01:04:54,724 --> 01:04:56,642
His only concern was time.

1259
01:04:57,643 --> 01:04:59,562
We got a lot to do.
Still a long way to go.

1260
01:04:59,645 --> 01:05:02,607
♪ There are people dying ♪

1261
01:05:02,690 --> 01:05:06,736
♪ Oh, and it's time we lend a hand ♪

1262
01:05:06,819 --> 01:05:12,742
♪ To life, the greatest gift of all ♪

1263
01:05:13,492 --> 01:05:15,828
-[Simon] Can I help?
-[high voice] It's good!

1264
01:05:15,912 --> 01:05:17,872
-[Simon] It's tough because we're--
-I just get…

1265
01:05:17,955 --> 01:05:20,291
[Simon] We're far--
We're far apart. Can I help?

1266
01:05:20,374 --> 01:05:23,127
[Wonder] Then you go…
♪ Greatest gift of all… ♪

1267
01:05:23,210 --> 01:05:24,503
And you go… ♪ All ♪

1268
01:05:24,587 --> 01:05:26,631
Ah, that's my part.
♪ The greatest gift of… ♪

1269
01:05:26,714 --> 01:05:28,799
He's talking about switching parts.
I think I can do it.

1270
01:05:28,883 --> 01:05:30,718
-Switch parts with me?
-Step back, sing louder.

1271
01:05:30,801 --> 01:05:31,802
Just hard to sing it soft.

1272
01:05:31,886 --> 01:05:35,431
[Woo] It was 4 a.m. and they're singing
their most important part.

1273
01:05:35,514 --> 01:05:38,476
So you're gonna get a little testy.
You're gonna be a little tired.

1274
01:05:38,559 --> 01:05:41,270
[Simon] Gives me a weird jump,
though, after my melody, you know?

1275
01:05:41,354 --> 01:05:44,815
[Woo] In my camera, they're huge 'cause
I'm just right there underneath 'em.

1276
01:05:44,899 --> 01:05:46,943
You could reach out,
and you could touch that person.

1277
01:05:47,026 --> 01:05:48,194
They're just right there.

1278
01:05:48,277 --> 01:05:50,821
♪ There are people dyin' … ♪

1279
01:05:50,905 --> 01:05:52,740
[Woo] I was a big fan of Paul Simon.

1280
01:05:52,823 --> 01:05:55,368
♪ It's time we lend a hand… ♪

1281
01:05:55,451 --> 01:05:57,536
[Woo] Here he is, right here.
He's singing in my face.

1282
01:05:57,620 --> 01:05:59,622
♪ Greatest gift of all… ♪

1283
01:05:59,705 --> 01:06:01,958
Kenny Rogers, when he hits that high note,

1284
01:06:02,041 --> 01:06:06,087
and he just squeezes his face up,
it's like, "God, he just…" [grunts]

1285
01:06:06,587 --> 01:06:09,298
♪ You know love is all we need ♪

1286
01:06:09,382 --> 01:06:12,218
[Woo] At the time, I was thinking,
"I can't believe people are paying me

1287
01:06:12,301 --> 01:06:13,552
to shoot this incredible stuff."

1288
01:06:13,636 --> 01:06:17,223
♪ We're saving our own lives ♪

1289
01:06:17,306 --> 01:06:22,395
♪ It's true we make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1290
01:06:22,478 --> 01:06:26,482
[Gatica] Dionne Warwick's turn was up,
and we had a little technical problem.

1291
01:06:26,565 --> 01:06:28,943
♪ Won't you send them your heart ♪

1292
01:06:29,026 --> 01:06:31,112
-Yeah?
-[Jones] Are you hearing your own voice?

1293
01:06:31,195 --> 01:06:33,322
-[Warwick] Yes.
-[inaudible dialogue]

1294
01:06:34,031 --> 01:06:35,366
[music continues]

1295
01:06:38,119 --> 01:06:39,203
♪ Won't-- ♪

1296
01:06:40,037 --> 01:06:42,873
-[music stops]
-Indiana. Who is she? Get her outta here.

1297
01:06:43,541 --> 01:06:46,043
There was a little panic technically here.

1298
01:06:46,127 --> 01:06:48,713
We have some issue
with some noise in the playback.

1299
01:06:48,796 --> 01:06:52,133
At one point, I said, "Whatever it takes,
we gotta get this shit going."

1300
01:06:52,216 --> 01:06:54,802
This is… We gotta take off again,
no matter what.

1301
01:06:54,885 --> 01:06:56,595
-[Richie] Is it still there?
-[Gatica] Yeah.

1302
01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:59,056
-[Rogers] Suppose it's leakage--
-Could be someone else's mic.

1303
01:06:59,140 --> 01:07:00,808
[Gatica] All the other tracks are off.

1304
01:07:00,891 --> 01:07:02,935
[Rogers] Then there's really
no excuse for this.

1305
01:07:03,519 --> 01:07:06,772
-[Jones] Find out what the problem is.
-Shoulda used my studio.

1306
01:07:06,856 --> 01:07:07,732
[Richie laughs]

1307
01:07:07,815 --> 01:07:10,109
♪ We are the children ♪

1308
01:07:10,192 --> 01:07:11,444
[music starts]

1309
01:07:11,527 --> 01:07:14,155
♪ Whoa, just send them your heart ♪

1310
01:07:15,406 --> 01:07:17,700
♪ So they know that someone cares ♪

1311
01:07:18,367 --> 01:07:20,119
-Still hearing the other voice.
-[music stops]

1312
01:07:20,202 --> 01:07:22,329
-[engineer] Sorry. It's a mystery.
-[Gatica] Ghosts!

1313
01:07:22,830 --> 01:07:25,249
-[Rogers] So who you gonna call?
-She-- Ghostbusters!

1314
01:07:25,332 --> 01:07:26,667
[people laughing]

1315
01:07:26,751 --> 01:07:29,712
-[man 1] Aykroyd's in the echo chamber.
-[man 2] Aykroyd.

1316
01:07:29,795 --> 01:07:32,089
-[music restarts]
-[Gatica] It kinda put a little tension.

1317
01:07:32,590 --> 01:07:34,383
-It's gone.
-[Warwick] Yay.

1318
01:07:34,467 --> 01:07:36,218
[Jones] We found it that time
whatever it was.

1319
01:07:36,302 --> 01:07:39,847
[Gatica] It was a little tough,
but we went right back into our plan,

1320
01:07:39,930 --> 01:07:41,557
getting these vocals done.

1321
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:45,269
It's getting to that time in the morning
where we must be as accurate as possible.

1322
01:07:45,352 --> 01:07:46,479
[engineer] Here we go.

1323
01:07:47,021 --> 01:07:49,023
♪ As God has shown us ♪

1324
01:07:49,106 --> 01:07:50,274
[Richie] Yeah.

1325
01:07:50,357 --> 01:07:52,860
♪ By turning stone to bread ♪

1326
01:07:54,361 --> 01:07:55,696
[Richie] Al.

1327
01:07:55,780 --> 01:07:57,990
[vocalizing]

1328
01:07:58,074 --> 01:08:00,743
[Lewis] It goes all the way through
to Al Jarreau, who messes up,

1329
01:08:00,826 --> 01:08:02,828
and so they go, "Boom,"
and so they start again.

1330
01:08:02,912 --> 01:08:05,456
♪ Stronger and free ♪

1331
01:08:06,457 --> 01:08:09,376
-♪ We-- As God has shown us ♪
-♪ As God has shown us ♪

1332
01:08:10,002 --> 01:08:14,006
It's Al Jarreau, he was a little
over-the-top in-- in the

1333
01:08:14,715 --> 01:08:16,217
in the alcohol section.

1334
01:08:16,300 --> 01:08:19,428
-♪ And so we all m… ♪
-[Willie] ♪ As God has shown us ♪

1335
01:08:19,512 --> 01:08:20,346
[music stops]

1336
01:08:20,846 --> 01:08:22,223
Ha, ha, ha, ha.

1337
01:08:22,306 --> 01:08:23,933
I'm sorry. Oh man.

1338
01:08:24,016 --> 01:08:26,060
-[Warwick] That's Willie and me.
-[Jarreau] Right.

1339
01:08:26,143 --> 01:08:27,269
[Richie] Al was interesting.

1340
01:08:27,353 --> 01:08:29,605
Okay, I gotta tell you
the funny part about Al.

1341
01:08:29,688 --> 01:08:31,232
-[yelps]
-[sprinkled laughter]

1342
01:08:31,315 --> 01:08:32,191
[Jarreau squawks]

1343
01:08:32,274 --> 01:08:35,444
[Richie] Al wanted to celebrate
before we had done the song.

1344
01:08:35,528 --> 01:08:36,403
[squawks]

1345
01:08:37,071 --> 01:08:38,280
[Richie] He kept saying,

1346
01:08:38,364 --> 01:08:41,117
"Bring another bottle of wine in.
We're gonna celebrate."

1347
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:45,371
So every time another bottle came in,
I took the bottle back out.

1348
01:08:45,454 --> 01:08:47,289
Stevie, can we have the keyboard first.

1349
01:08:47,373 --> 01:08:49,667
We're gonna have you
rehearse that little part.

1350
01:08:49,750 --> 01:08:53,337
We had to work very hard to get

1351
01:08:54,213 --> 01:08:55,256
Al's part on

1352
01:08:55,339 --> 01:08:58,259
before Al couldn't remember
what his part was.

1353
01:08:59,051 --> 01:09:04,348
♪ So we all must lend a helping hand ♪

1354
01:09:04,431 --> 01:09:06,142
[Richie] Right. Yes.

1355
01:09:06,225 --> 01:09:08,102
Right. Again for me?

1356
01:09:08,185 --> 01:09:10,146
-[Bahler] Just play the track.
-Please?

1357
01:09:10,229 --> 01:09:12,982
That's enough.
As-- As it was there, it's enough.

1358
01:09:13,065 --> 01:09:15,985
[Gatica] Every time they go back
and rewind, it takes about five minutes.

1359
01:09:16,068 --> 01:09:18,779
So it's like you create a real tension
every time you rewind.

1360
01:09:18,863 --> 01:09:21,657
[Jarreau] ♪ By turning stone to bread ♪

1361
01:09:21,740 --> 01:09:28,122
♪ And so we all must lend a helping hand ♪

1362
01:09:28,205 --> 01:09:30,583
♪ We are the world ♪

1363
01:09:31,500 --> 01:09:34,170
♪ We are the children ♪

1364
01:09:34,753 --> 01:09:38,215
"What do I do after Bruce Springsteen?"
It's like… What would you do?

1365
01:09:38,299 --> 01:09:41,802
And then I went
for a sweeter kind of soul thing.

1366
01:09:41,886 --> 01:09:47,183
♪ We are the ones that make a brighter day
So let's start givin' ♪

1367
01:09:47,266 --> 01:09:48,726
[Woo] Kenny Loggins was awesome,

1368
01:09:48,809 --> 01:09:51,270
and they got to Steve Perry
and Daryl Hall, and it was like,

1369
01:09:51,353 --> 01:09:52,396
"Oh my God."

1370
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:55,941
♪ There's a choice we're making ♪

1371
01:09:56,442 --> 01:09:59,653
♪ We're savin' our own lives ♪

1372
01:09:59,737 --> 01:10:04,825
♪ It's true we make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1373
01:10:05,409 --> 01:10:07,119
-[man] All right!
-[woman] Hey.

1374
01:10:07,828 --> 01:10:11,999
Steve Perry can sing. [chuckles]
He's got that great voice,

1375
01:10:12,082 --> 01:10:13,792
up in that Sam Cooke territory.

1376
01:10:13,876 --> 01:10:16,086
[Jones] Gimme another one.
Gimme at least two more.

1377
01:10:16,170 --> 01:10:18,881
[Lewis] These guys are getting
three and four shots at their line.

1378
01:10:18,964 --> 01:10:22,551
Meanwhile, I'm over here on the end,
and I haven't even sung my line yet,

1379
01:10:22,635 --> 01:10:24,303
you know, and I'm freaked out.

1380
01:10:25,304 --> 01:10:28,974
[Lauper] I was watching
all of these people singing.

1381
01:10:29,058 --> 01:10:31,852
I just was trying to remember to breathe.

1382
01:10:31,936 --> 01:10:35,439
[Lewis] I said to Quincy and Humberto,
"Next time somebody screws up,

1383
01:10:35,522 --> 01:10:38,609
can you just kinda keep goin'
so we can rehearse our lines?"

1384
01:10:38,692 --> 01:10:39,735
"And the bridge?"

1385
01:10:39,818 --> 01:10:43,197
And he goes, "Oh yeah, okay, cool,"
and Michael, who was next to me,

1386
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:45,908
says, "That's a good idea."
I said, "Thanks, Mike."

1387
01:10:45,991 --> 01:10:48,535
-[man 1] Go for the bridge now?
-[man 2] You wanna go bridge?

1388
01:10:48,619 --> 01:10:51,038
-To the bridge. Take me to the bridge.
-[man 3] To the bridge.

1389
01:10:51,121 --> 01:10:52,957
-[Lauper] To the bridge.
-[man 4] The bridge.

1390
01:10:53,582 --> 01:10:55,292
[engineer] Everybody to the bridge.

1391
01:10:56,752 --> 01:10:58,963
[man 1] Okay, Huey.
It's your turn. [laughs]

1392
01:10:59,046 --> 01:11:00,798
-[light laughter]
-[dull thud]

1393
01:11:01,757 --> 01:11:04,260
[producer] Boy, you are effing ready
to go home.

1394
01:11:04,343 --> 01:11:08,222
[Loggins] Just in case something
might fuck up, and let it roll. [laughs]

1395
01:11:08,305 --> 01:11:11,934
[Lewis] I mean, it was just one line,
but my legs were literally shaking.

1396
01:11:12,893 --> 01:11:14,061
[music restarts]

1397
01:11:14,937 --> 01:11:19,566
♪ When you're down and out
And there seems no hope at all ♪

1398
01:11:21,610 --> 01:11:26,657
♪ But if you just believe
There's no way we can fall ♪

1399
01:11:26,740 --> 01:11:30,536
♪ Well, well, let us realize ♪

1400
01:11:30,619 --> 01:11:34,581
♪ Oh, that a change will only come ♪

1401
01:11:34,665 --> 01:11:40,671
♪ When we stand together as one ♪

1402
01:11:40,754 --> 01:11:42,047
-♪ We are the-- ♪
-[music stops]

1403
01:11:42,131 --> 01:11:44,550
[Jones] Do you want that in harm--
Do you want that last--

1404
01:11:45,050 --> 01:11:48,053
-Do you want that last one in harmony?
-♪ Stand together as one ♪

1405
01:11:48,554 --> 01:11:52,308
[Richie] That's so good. You want to
join her? The three of you join her on…

1406
01:11:52,391 --> 01:11:53,392
♪ Stand together ♪

1407
01:11:53,475 --> 01:11:55,978
-[Carnes] That'd be real neat.
-[Richie] ♪ Stand together as one ♪

1408
01:11:56,395 --> 01:11:59,690
[Lewis] But then they said,
"Sing in harmony with Cyndi and Kim."

1409
01:12:00,274 --> 01:12:02,651
The demo didn't have
any harmony parts or any…

1410
01:12:02,735 --> 01:12:05,529
I'm gonna have to make something up here.

1411
01:12:05,612 --> 01:12:07,031
Make up a three-part harmony

1412
01:12:07,114 --> 01:12:12,202
in front of… [chuckling] …Stevie Wonder,
Ray Charles, Kenny Loggins, Daryl Hall.

1413
01:12:13,203 --> 01:12:14,538
What am I supposed to sing?

1414
01:12:14,621 --> 01:12:16,206
That was very nerve-racking.

1415
01:12:16,290 --> 01:12:18,417
-[Carnes] ♪ …as one ♪
-[Lewis] That's where I am.

1416
01:12:18,500 --> 01:12:21,837
-♪ We, we-ee, we ♪
-[man] ♪ Stand together ♪

1417
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:23,464
[Lewis] It's on "stand," isn't it? Yeah.

1418
01:12:23,547 --> 01:12:25,549
[Perry] What's yours?
[vocalizing] What's yours, Kim?

1419
01:12:25,632 --> 01:12:28,635
[Carnes] ♪ Stand together as one ♪

1420
01:12:28,719 --> 01:12:31,013
-♪ One ♪
-[Carnes] ♪ One ♪

1421
01:12:31,096 --> 01:12:32,765
[Perry lower] ♪ One ♪ Something like that?

1422
01:12:32,848 --> 01:12:35,017
I'm too burned out
to tell anybody anything.

1423
01:12:35,100 --> 01:12:36,769
[people laughing heartily]

1424
01:12:36,852 --> 01:12:39,313
[Lewis vocalizing, mumbling lyrics]

1425
01:12:39,396 --> 01:12:40,397
And just hit it.

1426
01:12:40,481 --> 01:12:44,693
[Lewis] ♪ When we all stand
Together as one! ♪

1427
01:12:44,777 --> 01:12:46,111
[Lauper] ♪ One! ♪

1428
01:12:46,195 --> 01:12:48,781
I'll try it.
It's high for me, but I'll try it.

1429
01:12:48,864 --> 01:12:52,659
♪ When we… When we… ♪

1430
01:12:53,369 --> 01:12:57,414
♪ Well, well, well, let us realize ♪

1431
01:12:57,498 --> 01:13:01,502
♪ Oh, the change will only come ♪

1432
01:13:01,585 --> 01:13:07,674
-♪ When we stand together as one ♪
-[Lauper vocalizing]

1433
01:13:07,758 --> 01:13:09,134
-♪ We are-- ♪
-[music stops]

1434
01:13:10,302 --> 01:13:12,846
My fault. I was a bit out of tune.
I didn't go down.

1435
01:13:12,930 --> 01:13:15,099
[Richie] I thought Huey
was gonna blow his head off.

1436
01:13:15,182 --> 01:13:18,852
Cyndi can sing octaves, and poor Hugh
was hangin' on for dear life,

1437
01:13:18,936 --> 01:13:20,771
so he couldn't take too many of those.

1438
01:13:20,854 --> 01:13:23,273
I sang it out of tune
just to see if anybody would notice.

1439
01:13:23,357 --> 01:13:24,900
[people laughing]

1440
01:13:26,318 --> 01:13:31,323
[Bahler] Cyndi absolutely killed
that line, but there was something wrong.

1441
01:13:31,407 --> 01:13:35,077
Dude, listen to it. There's like
harmonic things happening when she sings.

1442
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:36,912
It almost sounds like conversation.

1443
01:13:36,995 --> 01:13:40,290
They kept saying, "What's that noise?"
"What's that noise?"

1444
01:13:40,374 --> 01:13:43,419
[Jones] Play back the first part
of the other one, and then…

1445
01:13:43,502 --> 01:13:45,754
[Lauper's line plays back]

1446
01:13:45,838 --> 01:13:47,339
[Breskin] Humberto was going like,

1447
01:13:47,423 --> 01:13:50,259
"We have so much noise on her track.
What is going on?"

1448
01:13:50,342 --> 01:13:52,428
[man] The mic is dying.
You need to replace that mic.

1449
01:13:52,511 --> 01:13:53,929
[Gatica] No, the mic is beautiful.

1450
01:13:54,555 --> 01:13:55,639
The mic is beautiful?

1451
01:13:55,722 --> 01:13:57,641
[Gatica] There's nothing wrong
with the mic.

1452
01:13:57,724 --> 01:13:59,143
[man] The mic is beautiful.

1453
01:13:59,226 --> 01:14:00,894
Sounds like people are talking.

1454
01:14:00,978 --> 01:14:03,564
Or laughing or something.
Every time you sing.

1455
01:14:03,647 --> 01:14:06,608
Well, I don't think it's funny,
and you should stop laughing

1456
01:14:06,692 --> 01:14:08,527
when I'm singing because…

1457
01:14:11,321 --> 01:14:13,699
[Jones] Cyndi,
you have a lot of, uh, bracelets.

1458
01:14:14,366 --> 01:14:16,076
Oh! Is that…

1459
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:17,494
Oh, my earrings.

1460
01:14:17,578 --> 01:14:19,705
That did not occur to me.

1461
01:14:20,330 --> 01:14:21,540
Oh, sorry.

1462
01:14:21,623 --> 01:14:22,875
Oh, I'm loaded.

1463
01:14:22,958 --> 01:14:26,795
-[raucous laughter]
-[Jones] There goes the whole outfit!

1464
01:14:28,005 --> 01:14:29,798
[Lauper] No. I'm sorry.

1465
01:14:30,757 --> 01:14:33,135
That's the chatter. Okay.

1466
01:14:37,014 --> 01:14:38,557
That's the talking.

1467
01:14:42,060 --> 01:14:45,772
[Richie] We needed that little moment
of laughter to bring us back down

1468
01:14:45,856 --> 01:14:47,858
before we rounded that corner.

1469
01:14:47,941 --> 01:14:50,944
[man] Do the same punch, though, Huey.
Right after Michael.

1470
01:14:51,778 --> 01:14:53,489
♪ But if you just believe ♪

1471
01:14:53,572 --> 01:14:56,408
♪ There's no way we can fall ♪

1472
01:14:56,492 --> 01:15:00,621
♪ Well, well, well, let us realize ♪

1473
01:15:00,704 --> 01:15:04,750
♪ Oh, that a change can only come ♪

1474
01:15:04,833 --> 01:15:11,798
-♪ When we stand together as one ♪
-♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! ♪

1475
01:15:11,882 --> 01:15:12,925
[music stops]

1476
01:15:13,008 --> 01:15:17,012
-Oh, I hung over too much?
-[man] No! That's gold. That's gold.

1477
01:15:17,095 --> 01:15:19,306
[people applauding, wolf-whistling]

1478
01:15:19,389 --> 01:15:20,682
[Lauper] You got that?

1479
01:15:21,391 --> 01:15:23,852
It was a take! [squeaks]

1480
01:15:23,936 --> 01:15:27,022
[present] Because I devoted
my whole life to singing,

1481
01:15:27,105 --> 01:15:29,733
to be among those singers

1482
01:15:29,816 --> 01:15:33,779
and actually be a part of their community

1483
01:15:33,862 --> 01:15:35,739
was otherworldly.

1484
01:15:35,822 --> 01:15:36,865
[dynamic music playing]

1485
01:15:36,949 --> 01:15:38,825
[Jones] If we leave Ray's hole open.

1486
01:15:38,909 --> 01:15:41,328
Yes. He's much older than me, you know.

1487
01:15:44,414 --> 01:15:48,460
[Gatica] This left Bob Dylan
and Bruce doing the ad-libs.

1488
01:15:49,378 --> 01:15:51,922
[Dickinson] Quincy called it
"serious fills."

1489
01:15:52,005 --> 01:15:54,091
Like, "We're gonna do
the serious fills now."

1490
01:15:54,174 --> 01:15:55,592
[Gatica] Bring it down a bit, Bob.

1491
01:15:55,676 --> 01:15:57,052
Here he is, Bob Dylan.

1492
01:15:58,428 --> 01:16:01,348
-[Richie] "There's a choice we're making."
-Yeah. But… Yeah. Okay.

1493
01:16:01,431 --> 01:16:04,851
[Dickinson] He is a legendary,
iconic symbol

1494
01:16:04,935 --> 01:16:07,271
to Americans and the world…

1495
01:16:07,354 --> 01:16:08,689
[Jones] Quiet, please. Here we go.

1496
01:16:08,772 --> 01:16:13,902
…so we were expecting
something amazing to happen.

1497
01:16:13,986 --> 01:16:15,445
[guide track playing]

1498
01:16:15,529 --> 01:16:17,155
[mumbling] ♪ …our own lives ♪

1499
01:16:17,948 --> 01:16:20,158
♪ It's true we make a better day… ♪

1500
01:16:21,827 --> 01:16:22,661
[engineer] Okay.

1501
01:16:25,831 --> 01:16:28,125
You got it. On a different track.

1502
01:16:30,127 --> 01:16:31,169
[clears throat]

1503
01:16:32,963 --> 01:16:35,757
[weakly] ♪ We're saving our own lives ♪

1504
01:16:36,508 --> 01:16:40,637
♪ It's true we maker a better day
Just you and me ♪

1505
01:16:40,721 --> 01:16:43,015
Okay, you just have--
you have to run that…

1506
01:16:43,098 --> 01:16:45,392
-[engineer] Okay. Sure.
-…back a lot of times.

1507
01:16:45,475 --> 01:16:48,812
[Woo] I think he was a little confused
because it just didn't seem like Bob

1508
01:16:48,895 --> 01:16:51,648
was understanding
how he was supposed to sing, or…

1509
01:16:51,732 --> 01:16:55,110
Is he supposed to be more like this chorus
or more like Bob Dylan?

1510
01:16:55,193 --> 01:16:58,905
[Jones] That's beautiful, and what's nice
is you singing along with the chorus too.

1511
01:16:58,989 --> 01:17:02,284
That's the only time we do an octave.
Like, that's beautiful.

1512
01:17:02,367 --> 01:17:04,995
-I get out right after "me," right?
-Just after "you and me."

1513
01:17:05,078 --> 01:17:07,998
The thing you were doing up there,
singing along with the chorus.

1514
01:17:08,081 --> 01:17:09,708
"We are the children." That's nice, man.

1515
01:17:09,791 --> 01:17:11,001
[Lewis] Quincy was amazing.

1516
01:17:11,084 --> 01:17:12,794
-[Dylan] Okay.
-[Jones] That's beautiful.

1517
01:17:12,878 --> 01:17:15,964
[Lewis] Production is interesting.
You gotta be more than a great musician.

1518
01:17:16,048 --> 01:17:18,383
You gotta be like a psychiatrist.

1519
01:17:20,344 --> 01:17:24,514
-[Jones] That's where he's goin' in on.
-Stevie. Can-- Can he play it one time?

1520
01:17:24,598 --> 01:17:29,603
[Breskin] The secret agent to help him
get comfortable was Stevie Wonder.

1521
01:17:32,606 --> 01:17:34,608
[man] We're gonna
rehearse it in here first.

1522
01:17:34,691 --> 01:17:35,859
[piano playing]

1523
01:17:35,942 --> 01:17:39,237
[Breskin] Stevie
is an insanely great mimic.

1524
01:17:41,573 --> 01:17:43,575
[piano playing]

1525
01:17:46,078 --> 01:17:48,580
[impersonating Dylan]
♪ There's a choice we're makin' ♪

1526
01:17:49,706 --> 01:17:51,625
♪ Savin' our own lives ♪

1527
01:17:53,043 --> 01:17:54,795
♪ It's a better day… ♪

1528
01:17:54,878 --> 01:17:58,965
[Breskin] Stevie sang it ventriloquially
in Dylan's voice.

1529
01:18:01,635 --> 01:18:03,679
♪ We're savin' our own lives… ♪

1530
01:18:03,762 --> 01:18:06,765
[Springsteen] Stevie's one of those guys,
he can sing the phone book.

1531
01:18:06,848 --> 01:18:09,893
Anytime you're around him,
you're around a genius,

1532
01:18:09,976 --> 01:18:11,561
and he's also very sweet.

1533
01:18:14,398 --> 01:18:15,482
[Dylan laughing]

1534
01:18:15,565 --> 01:18:16,900
[Jones] Here we go, Bobby.

1535
01:18:17,901 --> 01:18:19,611
Must be in a dream, huh?

1536
01:18:21,697 --> 01:18:24,574
[Breskin] But at this point,
there were a lot of people in the room.

1537
01:18:24,658 --> 01:18:26,785
Still photographers and others.

1538
01:18:27,411 --> 01:18:31,873
Having all these people around, for Bob,
it's not the way he normally works.

1539
01:18:33,500 --> 01:18:35,377
-[wolf whistle]
-Yo! Yo!

1540
01:18:35,460 --> 01:18:37,170
Now, here's what we're gonna do!

1541
01:18:37,921 --> 01:18:40,424
[engineer] One last time,
if you're not in Bob's group recording,

1542
01:18:40,507 --> 01:18:42,884
please clear the room. Go.

1543
01:18:43,468 --> 01:18:45,929
[Breskin] Then it just became
Stevie at the piano

1544
01:18:46,012 --> 01:18:49,725
and Dylan at the microphone
and Quincy at his podium.

1545
01:18:49,808 --> 01:18:51,643
[Dylan] All right, man, let's do it.

1546
01:18:52,310 --> 01:18:54,646
[confidently]
♪ There's a choice we're makin' ♪

1547
01:18:55,814 --> 01:18:58,608
♪ We're savin' our own lives ♪

1548
01:18:59,276 --> 01:19:03,822
♪ It's true we make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1549
01:19:05,157 --> 01:19:07,409
♪ We are the world ♪

1550
01:19:08,452 --> 01:19:10,454
♪ We are the children ♪

1551
01:19:11,997 --> 01:19:13,707
[guide track continues]

1552
01:19:13,790 --> 01:19:15,959
[Richie screaming] Yes! Come on!

1553
01:19:16,042 --> 01:19:19,004
Yes! Yes! Ow!

1554
01:19:19,087 --> 01:19:20,380
I'm sorry. You did it.

1555
01:19:20,464 --> 01:19:23,633
-That wasn't any good.
-[Jones] I'm telling you, we got it.

1556
01:19:23,717 --> 01:19:24,968
That was fantastic.

1557
01:19:25,051 --> 01:19:27,179
-[Dylan] If you say so.
-[indistinct chatter]

1558
01:19:27,262 --> 01:19:28,889
[Dylan] I know you know.

1559
01:19:28,972 --> 01:19:31,224
[Jones] I swear it is, man.
It's perfect, man.

1560
01:19:31,308 --> 01:19:32,476
-All right.
-Perfect.

1561
01:19:34,644 --> 01:19:37,314
[Breskin] Springsteen came in
and said, "Nice, Dylan."

1562
01:19:37,397 --> 01:19:38,356
Called him "Dylan."

1563
01:19:39,107 --> 01:19:41,902
I'd listened to Dylan,
you know, since I was a kid,

1564
01:19:41,985 --> 01:19:45,822
and it was great to see him there
and have a little interaction with him,

1565
01:19:45,906 --> 01:19:47,240
so, uh, it was fun.

1566
01:19:47,324 --> 01:19:49,451
"The choice we're makin'.
We're takin' the-- the--"

1567
01:19:49,534 --> 01:19:51,787
Is that the part
you're talking about? Great.

1568
01:19:53,330 --> 01:19:55,123
So this is-- this is the end, right?

1569
01:19:55,207 --> 01:19:58,210
This is-- We're in the end?
This is the end of the song, right?

1570
01:19:58,293 --> 01:19:59,127
-[Jones] Yeah.
-Okay.

1571
01:20:00,420 --> 01:20:02,047
One, two. [clears throat]

1572
01:20:02,130 --> 01:20:05,759
[Breskin] There was very serious concern
about Springsteen's voice.

1573
01:20:05,842 --> 01:20:09,513
I'll do a little bit. You tell me if it's,
you know… [clears throat]

1574
01:20:09,596 --> 01:20:12,516
Listen. It's like being a cheerleader
to the chorus.

1575
01:20:12,599 --> 01:20:14,810
-Okay.
-Know what I mean? Say, "Come on!"

1576
01:20:14,893 --> 01:20:16,269
-All right.
-Just get it on.

1577
01:20:16,353 --> 01:20:18,897
[Springsteen] I was just on
the Born in the U.S.A. Tour.

1578
01:20:18,980 --> 01:20:19,940
I was pretty tired.

1579
01:20:20,524 --> 01:20:22,192
-[man] Quincy, you ready?
-Mm-hmm. Yeah.

1580
01:20:22,275 --> 01:20:23,443
[engineer] Here we go.

1581
01:20:23,527 --> 01:20:25,320
[Springsteen] But I just started singing.

1582
01:20:25,403 --> 01:20:27,614
♪ Choice we're makin' ♪ [coughs]

1583
01:20:28,365 --> 01:20:30,784
♪ We're saving our own lives ♪

1584
01:20:31,535 --> 01:20:35,622
♪ It's true we make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1585
01:20:35,705 --> 01:20:38,875
My voice was not great,
but I sung as best as I could.

1586
01:20:38,959 --> 01:20:41,378
♪ We are the world ♪

1587
01:20:42,295 --> 01:20:44,798
♪ We are the children ♪

1588
01:20:47,300 --> 01:20:49,761
♪ So let's start givin' ♪

1589
01:20:51,221 --> 01:20:53,223
♪ There's a choice we're makin' ♪

1590
01:20:54,850 --> 01:20:57,394
♪ We're savin' our own lives ♪

1591
01:20:58,270 --> 01:20:59,563
Did I get it right there?

1592
01:21:00,856 --> 01:21:02,774
-[Jones] Okay.
-[Springsteen] Something like that?

1593
01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:05,235
-[Jones] Exactly like that. Exactly.
-[mouthing] Okay.

1594
01:21:05,318 --> 01:21:06,862
[Jones] We're gonna redo that track.

1595
01:21:06,945 --> 01:21:08,697
-Okay, here we go.
-Right here and now?

1596
01:21:08,780 --> 01:21:11,283
[Loggins] Bruce is just
quintessentially Bruce on that thing.

1597
01:21:11,366 --> 01:21:14,077
Sounds like he's got broken glass
in his throat.

1598
01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:16,162
♪ We are the world ♪

1599
01:21:16,246 --> 01:21:19,499
-[guide track] ♪ We are the children ♪
-♪ We are the children ♪

1600
01:21:19,583 --> 01:21:22,294
[guide track] ♪ We are the ones
Who make a brighter day ♪

1601
01:21:22,377 --> 01:21:23,670
♪ So let's start giving ♪

1602
01:21:23,753 --> 01:21:26,006
♪ So let's start givin' ♪

1603
01:21:26,089 --> 01:21:28,466
[guide track]
♪ There's a choice we're making ♪

1604
01:21:29,217 --> 01:21:32,637
♪ Oh, we're savin' our own lives ♪

1605
01:21:33,221 --> 01:21:38,602
♪ It's true we make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1606
01:21:39,102 --> 01:21:40,812
[guide track] ♪ We are the world ♪

1607
01:21:40,896 --> 01:21:42,647
♪ We are the world ♪

1608
01:21:42,731 --> 01:21:45,942
-[guide track] ♪ We are the children ♪
-♪ We are the children ♪

1609
01:21:46,026 --> 01:21:48,862
[guide track] ♪ We are the ones
To make a brighter day ♪

1610
01:21:48,945 --> 01:21:52,449
-♪ So let's start givin' ♪
-♪ So let's start givin' ♪

1611
01:21:53,241 --> 01:21:55,410
♪ There's a choice we're makin' ♪

1612
01:21:56,161 --> 01:21:59,039
♪ Yeah, we're savin' our own lives ♪

1613
01:21:59,539 --> 01:22:04,586
♪ It's true we make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1614
01:22:04,669 --> 01:22:05,837
[music stops]

1615
01:22:05,921 --> 01:22:07,923
[thunderous applause, wolf-whistling]

1616
01:22:14,679 --> 01:22:15,931
Thank you. Thank you.

1617
01:22:17,432 --> 01:22:19,267
Broke a legitimate sweat, that did.

1618
01:22:24,105 --> 01:22:26,399
-Yeah. Hell.
-You're officially on vacation.

1619
01:22:26,483 --> 01:22:28,610
-[Springsteen] I can go home?
-[man] You're on vacation.

1620
01:22:28,693 --> 01:22:30,570
-[Springsteen] That sounds good!
-[Richie laughs]

1621
01:22:31,196 --> 01:22:32,072
We got it.

1622
01:22:32,656 --> 01:22:34,157
All the hard work is done.

1623
01:22:35,492 --> 01:22:37,702
[Lewis] When it was over,
we were exhilarated

1624
01:22:37,786 --> 01:22:40,372
and exhausted to be sure.
We'd been up all night.

1625
01:22:40,455 --> 01:22:42,165
But even then, on the evening,

1626
01:22:42,248 --> 01:22:46,378
you knew that we'd done something
that was gonna live forever.

1627
01:22:46,461 --> 01:22:49,255
You killed it. And we--
And we made it through.

1628
01:22:49,339 --> 01:22:51,257
-[Jones] Is it okay?
-[Lauper] Yeah.

1629
01:22:51,341 --> 01:22:52,425
[laughter]

1630
01:22:52,509 --> 01:22:54,052
[poignant music playing]

1631
01:22:58,556 --> 01:23:02,394
[Jones] Lionel, we've got good solos
from everybody. It was perfect.

1632
01:23:02,477 --> 01:23:04,854
Okay, that's the bottom line.
We feel the same.

1633
01:23:06,690 --> 01:23:07,524
[groans]

1634
01:23:08,984 --> 01:23:10,110
Oh good.

1635
01:23:11,569 --> 01:23:14,906
Trying to get 40 superstars together
in the same place at the same time

1636
01:23:14,990 --> 01:23:16,074
is impossible really.

1637
01:23:16,741 --> 01:23:19,160
That's why, all of a sudden,
when Springsteen said,

1638
01:23:19,244 --> 01:23:21,496
"Right after my show,
I'm coming to California."

1639
01:23:21,579 --> 01:23:23,581
Paul Simon, "I'm on my way."

1640
01:23:23,665 --> 01:23:25,542
Billy Joel, "I'm on my way."

1641
01:23:25,625 --> 01:23:27,335
Bob Dylan… [chuckles softly]

1642
01:23:27,836 --> 01:23:30,880
In this room, this family grew.

1643
01:23:30,964 --> 01:23:33,341
-[Woo] However you feel comfortable.
-[laughing]

1644
01:23:34,426 --> 01:23:35,844
[Woo] You can do an aerial shot.

1645
01:23:35,927 --> 01:23:38,138
-[man] Quince, where you gonna sit?
-[Jones] Right there.

1646
01:23:40,682 --> 01:23:42,767
Whoa, here it comes.

1647
01:23:44,936 --> 01:23:46,855
The adrenaline just took the train.

1648
01:23:48,648 --> 01:23:51,401
-The adrenaline just caught the bus.
-[man laughs]

1649
01:23:51,484 --> 01:23:54,779
[man] They basically said,
"That's it, guys. Wrap it up."

1650
01:23:54,863 --> 01:23:56,031
"Let's go home."

1651
01:23:57,866 --> 01:23:59,242
[Jones] Whoo! What a night!

1652
01:23:59,325 --> 01:24:02,746
I assumed this was a paying gig.
At the end, when I'm getting ready to go,

1653
01:24:02,829 --> 01:24:05,457
I had kinda like made up an invoice,
and they go,

1654
01:24:05,540 --> 01:24:08,209
"Invoice? There's no invoice!
This was all volunteer."

1655
01:24:08,293 --> 01:24:10,295
"Everybody here is a volunteer." I went,

1656
01:24:11,296 --> 01:24:15,383
"All right! Well, I got this cool T-shirt
and a great story, so, okay!"

1657
01:24:21,931 --> 01:24:25,810
[Bahler] And Diana Ross stayed
after everybody was gone.

1658
01:24:27,103 --> 01:24:29,105
And I hear her crying.

1659
01:24:30,482 --> 01:24:32,817
Quincy said, "Diana, are you okay?"

1660
01:24:32,901 --> 01:24:37,155
And she's like,
"I don't want this to be over."

1661
01:24:38,323 --> 01:24:39,908
It was the sweetest thing

1662
01:24:40,658 --> 01:24:41,868
I think I've ever heard.

1663
01:24:47,916 --> 01:24:50,376
-[poignant piano music playing]
-[birds twittering]

1664
01:24:59,886 --> 01:25:02,931
[Breskin] I think we left
about eight o'clock in the morning,

1665
01:25:03,014 --> 01:25:05,266
and Quincy doesn't drive,

1666
01:25:05,350 --> 01:25:09,020
so I drove him back
to his place in Bel Air.

1667
01:25:09,521 --> 01:25:13,108
It was a kind of exhilaration
mixed with exhaustion.

1668
01:25:13,817 --> 01:25:18,488
I remember Quincy saying like,
"Man, those white boys really brought it."

1669
01:25:19,697 --> 01:25:21,866
[Springsteen] I was exhilarated, you know.

1670
01:25:21,950 --> 01:25:24,786
It's just like when you finish a concert,
and you go home,

1671
01:25:24,869 --> 01:25:27,372
and you're just like,
"Yes, I-- I nailed that."

1672
01:25:27,455 --> 01:25:30,875
"It was… I-- I feel…"
You just feel good about it.

1673
01:25:32,335 --> 01:25:35,755
[Richie] At eight o'clock in the morning,
when I finally got home,

1674
01:25:35,839 --> 01:25:38,424
I walk in the house,
and there's my family,

1675
01:25:38,508 --> 01:25:42,262
congratulating me on winning the awards
and hosting the show,

1676
01:25:42,345 --> 01:25:44,597
and all I could talk about
was "We Are the World."

1677
01:25:45,265 --> 01:25:47,058
They kept saying,
"What are you talking about?"

1678
01:25:47,142 --> 01:25:48,935
I said, "Man,
'We Are the World' was amazing."

1679
01:25:49,018 --> 01:25:51,020
"I mean, last night, we did this…"

1680
01:25:51,104 --> 01:25:55,024
They don't know what we're talking about.
It was so big and so

1681
01:25:56,025 --> 01:25:56,943
powerful.

1682
01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:00,446
That one night

1683
01:26:01,406 --> 01:26:03,408
overshadowed everything

1684
01:26:04,784 --> 01:26:06,369
that was going on in my life.

1685
01:26:06,870 --> 01:26:08,872
[radio noise]

1686
01:26:10,540 --> 01:26:13,585
[anchor] As you have heard on our own
KFI News this morning and elsewhere,

1687
01:26:13,668 --> 01:26:19,215
you have read and been told
that, in about one minute's time, at 7:50,

1688
01:26:19,299 --> 01:26:21,968
everybody in the world
is going to be playing the same song.

1689
01:26:22,051 --> 01:26:23,720
"We are the world. We are the children."

1690
01:26:23,803 --> 01:26:26,097
[anchor speaking Arabic]

1691
01:26:27,223 --> 01:26:28,766
["We Are the World" intro fades in]

1692
01:26:28,850 --> 01:26:30,351
[Jones] Because of technology,

1693
01:26:30,435 --> 01:26:33,730
we're talking about it reaching
the ears of a billion people.

1694
01:26:33,813 --> 01:26:37,525
When that kind of energy gets thrown out,
it's very, very, very powerful.

1695
01:26:38,026 --> 01:26:42,405
Music is a strange animal 'cause
you can't touch it, you can't smell it,

1696
01:26:42,488 --> 01:26:45,325
you can't eat it or anything else,
and it's just there.

1697
01:26:45,408 --> 01:26:48,786
Beethoven's Fifth just keeps
coming back at you for 300 years,

1698
01:26:48,870 --> 01:26:51,497
and that's very, very powerful,
spiritual energy.

1699
01:26:52,498 --> 01:26:55,084
♪ There comes a time ♪

1700
01:26:55,627 --> 01:26:58,338
♪ When we heed a certain call ♪

1701
01:26:59,339 --> 01:27:02,550
[Ivory] "We Are the World" was something
that everybody could understand.

1702
01:27:02,634 --> 01:27:06,304
Even if you didn't speak English,
you could understand the melody.

1703
01:27:06,387 --> 01:27:09,182
You could understand the feeling
of the song musically.

1704
01:27:09,265 --> 01:27:13,394
♪ It's time to lend a hand to life ♪

1705
01:27:13,478 --> 01:27:17,857
♪ The greatest gift of all ♪

1706
01:27:18,608 --> 01:27:21,819
[Rogers] This is an inner soul,
an inner energy, that's coming from us

1707
01:27:21,903 --> 01:27:25,240
that was much greater than any record
any of us had ever done.

1708
01:27:25,323 --> 01:27:30,787
♪ That someone, somewhere
Will soon make a change… ♪

1709
01:27:32,956 --> 01:27:36,459
[Springsteen] People can look at the song
and judge it aesthetically,

1710
01:27:36,542 --> 01:27:39,545
but at the end of the day,
I looked at it like it was a tool.

1711
01:27:39,629 --> 01:27:42,382
It was a tool they were trying
to accomplish something with,

1712
01:27:42,465 --> 01:27:44,676
and, as such, it did a pretty good job.

1713
01:27:44,759 --> 01:27:46,761
♪ We are the world ♪

1714
01:27:47,929 --> 01:27:50,181
♪ We are the children ♪

1715
01:27:51,099 --> 01:27:56,271
♪ We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start givin' ♪

1716
01:27:57,939 --> 01:27:59,232
♪ There's a choice… ♪

1717
01:27:59,315 --> 01:28:02,777
[Ross] I think every individual
in the world wants to contribute,

1718
01:28:02,860 --> 01:28:04,237
and they don't know how.

1719
01:28:05,530 --> 01:28:08,533
I got a feeling
that we're creating a shift

1720
01:28:08,616 --> 01:28:11,661
in what's going on in the world today,
about helping other people.

1721
01:28:11,744 --> 01:28:13,371
It's compassion. It's real new.

1722
01:28:14,289 --> 01:28:17,041
♪ Well, send them your heart ♪

1723
01:28:18,293 --> 01:28:21,212
♪ So they know that someone cares ♪

1724
01:28:21,713 --> 01:28:26,426
♪ And their lives
Will be stronger and free ♪

1725
01:28:28,011 --> 01:28:30,555
♪ As God has shown us… ♪

1726
01:28:30,638 --> 01:28:33,850
[Richie] The whole world
singing your song. I mean, that's crazy.

1727
01:28:33,933 --> 01:28:36,811
In every language around the world.

1728
01:28:36,894 --> 01:28:40,148
It was one of those moments where you go,
"Oh my God. What have we done?"

1729
01:28:40,773 --> 01:28:43,234
♪ We are the world ♪

1730
01:28:43,943 --> 01:28:46,863
♪ We are the children… ♪

1731
01:28:46,946 --> 01:28:50,074
[anchor 1] The single has already
sold out its first million copies

1732
01:28:50,158 --> 01:28:52,618
the first weekend it's been on release.

1733
01:28:52,702 --> 01:28:55,038
[anchor 2] In the last month,
America's children

1734
01:28:55,121 --> 01:28:57,498
have made this record
dedicated to Africa's children

1735
01:28:57,582 --> 01:28:59,876
the fastest-selling single in US history.

1736
01:29:01,461 --> 01:29:06,632
♪ It's true we make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1737
01:29:08,134 --> 01:29:11,804
♪ When you're down and out
And there seems no hope at all… ♪

1738
01:29:11,888 --> 01:29:14,724
[Lewis] I heard the song
for the first time in my shower.

1739
01:29:14,807 --> 01:29:16,225
♪ But if you just believe… ♪

1740
01:29:16,309 --> 01:29:19,896
The record was amazing, and then
my line came, and it was okay, and I was…

1741
01:29:20,396 --> 01:29:22,899
♪ …well, let us realize… ♪

1742
01:29:22,982 --> 01:29:26,694
I am a part of something
that has been life-changing,

1743
01:29:26,778 --> 01:29:28,237
and it's very humbling.

1744
01:29:28,321 --> 01:29:32,450
♪ When we stand together as one ♪

1745
01:29:32,533 --> 01:29:34,285
[Lauper] ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

1746
01:29:34,369 --> 01:29:36,454
♪ We are the world ♪

1747
01:29:37,205 --> 01:29:39,457
♪ We are the children… ♪

1748
01:29:40,041 --> 01:29:43,795
[Belafonte] The collective power
of artists can be very impacting.

1749
01:29:43,878 --> 01:29:46,005
If we all put our egos aside

1750
01:29:46,089 --> 01:29:49,634
in the service of people in the world
who are less fortunate.

1751
01:29:49,717 --> 01:29:52,303
We're truly all one people.

1752
01:29:52,387 --> 01:29:54,680
We are all in need of each other.

1753
01:29:54,764 --> 01:29:58,351
♪ It's true we make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1754
01:29:58,434 --> 01:30:01,771
[Kragen] This is the realization
of the dream of USA for Africa.

1755
01:30:01,854 --> 01:30:04,857
This is the beginning
of the second phase of our activities,

1756
01:30:04,941 --> 01:30:07,151
feeding people and saving lives…

1757
01:30:07,235 --> 01:30:11,989
[Dylan] ♪ It's true we make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1758
01:30:13,491 --> 01:30:14,992
[all] ♪ We are the world… ♪

1759
01:30:15,076 --> 01:30:19,080
[Belafonte] I take it one at a time.
Whether we can feed one person,

1760
01:30:19,163 --> 01:30:20,832
or we can feed one million,

1761
01:30:21,541 --> 01:30:23,418
the point is to get in.

1762
01:30:23,501 --> 01:30:25,002
♪ So let's start givin' … ♪

1763
01:30:25,086 --> 01:30:28,089
[Ivory] The ripple effect
that "We Are the World" had

1764
01:30:28,172 --> 01:30:30,174
was that everyone wanted to try and do it.

1765
01:30:30,967 --> 01:30:35,763
An artist suddenly realized that
they could now make a change in the world.

1766
01:30:36,722 --> 01:30:39,934
It's one of those things
that kids who haven't even been born yet

1767
01:30:40,017 --> 01:30:43,855
will know about
because it was a unity through music.

1768
01:30:45,106 --> 01:30:46,482
Your turn to sing!

1769
01:30:47,066 --> 01:30:52,572
♪ We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start givin' ♪

1770
01:30:53,739 --> 01:30:57,743
♪ There's a choice we're makin' ♪

1771
01:30:57,827 --> 01:31:00,746
♪ We're saving our own lives ♪

1772
01:31:01,372 --> 01:31:06,169
♪ It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1773
01:31:07,837 --> 01:31:14,135
♪ It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me ♪

1774
01:31:14,218 --> 01:31:16,262
[rapturous applause, cheering]

1775
01:31:16,345 --> 01:31:17,889
[inaudible dialogue]

1776
01:31:20,016 --> 01:31:22,977
["We Are the World" piano melody playing]

1777
01:31:31,819 --> 01:31:34,489
[Richie] My dad
said something to me years ago.

1778
01:31:34,572 --> 01:31:36,616
He said, "Enjoy coming home,"

1779
01:31:37,909 --> 01:31:39,660
because there's gonna come a time

1780
01:31:40,536 --> 01:31:41,913
when you can't go home.

1781
01:31:42,413 --> 01:31:44,749
I said, "Dad, what does that mean?"

1782
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:48,085
He said, "Well, the house will be there."

1783
01:31:49,086 --> 01:31:51,672
"The people in the house won't be there."

1784
01:31:53,758 --> 01:31:55,092
This is that room.

1785
01:31:55,176 --> 01:31:56,469
[no audible sound]

1786
01:31:56,552 --> 01:31:58,763
[Richie] That's the board.
It's right in there, and

1787
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:01,349
Humberto's not sitting behind it.

1788
01:32:02,934 --> 01:32:05,436
Michael Jackson was… right there,

1789
01:32:06,687 --> 01:32:07,730
in this room.

1790
01:32:09,065 --> 01:32:11,692
Springsteen did his part
right over there in that corner.

1791
01:32:14,070 --> 01:32:15,905
And Cyndi Lauper was right here.

1792
01:32:15,988 --> 01:32:17,365
[no audible dialogue]

1793
01:32:17,448 --> 01:32:18,699
[Richie] It's very special.

1794
01:32:20,076 --> 01:32:21,410
I think about this room

1795
01:32:22,328 --> 01:32:23,454
as my house.

1796
01:32:25,289 --> 01:32:27,291
[intro to "We Are the World" fading in]

1797
01:32:29,085 --> 01:32:30,086
This is the house

1798
01:32:31,128 --> 01:32:32,672
that "We Are the World" built.

1799
01:32:44,308 --> 01:32:47,103
♪ There comes a time ♪

1800
01:32:47,186 --> 01:32:50,314
♪ When we heed a certain call ♪

1801
01:32:50,398 --> 01:32:55,736
♪ When the world
Must come together as one ♪

1802
01:32:56,612 --> 01:32:59,615
♪ There are people dying ♪

1803
01:32:59,699 --> 01:33:05,246
♪ Oh, and it's time
To lend a hand to life ♪

1804
01:33:05,329 --> 01:33:10,084
♪ The greatest gift of all ♪

1805
01:33:10,585 --> 01:33:12,461
♪ We can't go on ♪

1806
01:33:13,671 --> 01:33:16,424
♪ Pretending day by day ♪

1807
01:33:16,924 --> 01:33:22,263
♪ That someone, somewhere
Will soon make a change ♪

1808
01:33:23,681 --> 01:33:29,687
♪ We're all a part of
God's great big family ♪

1809
01:33:29,770 --> 01:33:36,152
♪ And the truth
You know, love is all we need ♪

1810
01:33:36,235 --> 01:33:38,362
♪ We are the world ♪

1811
01:33:39,488 --> 01:33:41,741
♪ We are the children ♪

1812
01:33:42,825 --> 01:33:45,703
♪ We are the ones
Who make a brighter day ♪

1813
01:33:45,786 --> 01:33:48,748
♪ So let's start givin' ♪

1814
01:33:49,665 --> 01:33:53,210
♪ There's a choice we're makin' ♪

1815
01:33:53,294 --> 01:33:56,547
♪ We're savin' our own lives ♪

1816
01:33:56,631 --> 01:33:58,966
♪ It's true, we'll make a better day ♪

1817
01:33:59,050 --> 01:34:01,886
♪ Just you and me ♪

1818
01:34:09,143 --> 01:34:11,896
♪ Well, send 'em your heart ♪

1819
01:34:13,189 --> 01:34:16,442
♪ So they know that someone cares ♪

1820
01:34:16,525 --> 01:34:21,656
♪ And their lives
Will be stronger and free ♪

1821
01:34:22,990 --> 01:34:26,202
♪ As God has shown us ♪

1822
01:34:26,285 --> 01:34:29,497
♪ By turning stone to bread ♪

1823
01:34:29,580 --> 01:34:35,503
♪ And so we all must lend a helping hand ♪

1824
01:34:35,586 --> 01:34:38,714
♪ We are the world ♪

1825
01:34:38,798 --> 01:34:42,134
♪ We are the children ♪

1826
01:34:42,218 --> 01:34:48,391
♪ We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start givin' ♪

1827
01:34:48,891 --> 01:34:52,520
♪ Oh, there's a choice we're makin' ♪

1828
01:34:53,020 --> 01:34:56,190
♪ We're saving our own lives ♪

1829
01:34:56,273 --> 01:34:58,693
♪ It's true, we make a better day ♪

1830
01:34:58,776 --> 01:35:01,612
♪ Just you and me ♪

1831
01:35:02,905 --> 01:35:04,615
♪ When you're down and out ♪

1832
01:35:04,699 --> 01:35:07,993
♪ And there seems no hope at all ♪

1833
01:35:09,578 --> 01:35:11,330
♪ But if you just believe ♪

1834
01:35:11,414 --> 01:35:14,041
♪ There's no way we can fall ♪

1835
01:35:14,125 --> 01:35:18,295
♪ Well, well, well, let us realize ♪

1836
01:35:18,379 --> 01:35:22,508
♪ Oh, that a change can only come ♪

1837
01:35:22,591 --> 01:35:27,221
♪ When we stand together as one ♪

1838
01:35:27,304 --> 01:35:28,848
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

1839
01:35:28,931 --> 01:35:31,517
♪ We are the world ♪

1840
01:35:32,017 --> 01:35:34,937
♪ We are the children ♪

1841
01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:41,318
♪ We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start givin' ♪

1842
01:35:42,236 --> 01:35:45,948
♪ There's a choice we're makin' ♪

1843
01:35:46,031 --> 01:35:49,201
♪ We're saving our own lives ♪

1844
01:35:49,285 --> 01:35:51,704
♪ It's true, we'll make a better day ♪

1845
01:35:51,787 --> 01:35:54,832
♪ Just you and me ♪

1846
01:35:55,499 --> 01:35:57,835
♪ There's a choice we're makin' ♪

1847
01:35:59,086 --> 01:36:01,881
♪ We're saving our own lives ♪

1848
01:36:02,381 --> 01:36:04,800
♪ It's true, we make a better day ♪

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01:36:04,884 --> 01:36:06,927
♪ Just you and me ♪

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01:36:07,011 --> 01:36:07,970
[music stops]