USA for Africa: We Are the World

Remember growing up as a kid in the early to mid 80's and this song was touching such a huge hit. As the most famous music and rock stars got together to unite and sing for a good cause to raise funds to Africa for the needy to feed them! The words of the song are touching as it is about helping and giving and saving. The video is uplifting watching the smooth beautiful voices of Tina Turner, Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel and Willie Nelson and Huey Lewis and many others rock out for a good cause. This song and video still rings true all these years later as it's a hope for love, freedom, and the noble cause for helping and caring!

I saw it in the late years of Nicolae Ceausescu regime. As a sort of window to freedom. Sure, a noble cause, great artists, the fascination of a kid front to big names and voices from the west but the solidarity , expressed in easy and simplistic manner sounds in special manner under a rotten dictatorship . So, the voices of Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder are more than vehicles for a sort of manifesto for Africa but, in that time, a slice of hope. This impression, after the passing 35 years , remains .