He was gorgeous. I didn’t realize until I watched the documentary.

In was impossible 15 years later in 2010 with We Are The World 25. That was an ego filled failure, everyone was more interested in their own contribution than the purpose of the song.

I think artists all tend to be narcissistic even back then. I am friends with an accountant for a famous label he said most singers had an attitude.

​@@whytebearconceptsI'm sorry.

@Contend4Truth It shows that she was at an age to know all the artists, as opposed to someone not even born, or a young kid. And can therefore appreciate the effort on a more intimate level. Hard to believe this has to be explained to you.

When I watch the original recording it looks obvious to me many of the artists just wanted a bump in their career & tried their best to make it about them. It was like they were singing over each other.

but thre's a huge problem in the second part. It states something, that never been written , and we have been warned off in Matthiew 4:10 Since they try to quote the bible don't they? . Personally I've discovered it recently, by curiosity, because I liked it very very much, but strangely had never sang it after the first chorus so I didn't care but when I recently took time to translate the second part, I read that according to them "God3 would have " turned stones into bread" I understood why I had never bothered to sing any further than the chorus. Do you know that In fact it is one of the three propositions of the devil to Jesus in the desert? And Jesus refused to turn stones into bread ans said that "a man would not live only on bread but on any word come out of God. " then devil asked him to jump of the cliff to" prove he's from God", and Jesus answered not to test the creator, and finally he tented him to possess all terrestrial realms IF HE BOWED TO SATAN and Jesus answered he was here to serve only the creator. they would have been better off saying something like '' Jesus multiplied breads from 5 breads "and "multiplied fishes from the Jordan", or" God sent them manna,"' ect... one should beware, I reckon it is a dangerous sentence not to be repeated ever, but check it by yourself and do what you think is good. ..

I definitely live in this world but I will not call myself a child of the world (we are the world...as the song puts it). God calls us to be separate from the world when we are His own.

Yea. Damn sad

Me too

😢greatest singers ever

wow what a shocker generations of singers from our childhood passed before us ??? How is that even possible lol

I was 15 at that time, yep so much fun in the 80s.

He actually has his own version of the song as well

Yes! Excellent, breathtaking documentary!

could have stretched it out into 3+ hours; plenty of footage excluded

@@user-xp9ce1vw5p Yes! They totally could have done a Netflix series.

I am

@@sonia1082 Yes, it could have been nice in 2 or 3 parts.

Waylon died twenty years ago!

Yes, indeed. Our generation have witnessed the fall of the Berlin wall and the creation of personal computer computer and the coming of the internet. We have witnessed a paradigm shift. We are GenEx!

All that and even bigger paradigm shifts happening today… the dawning of AI, what looks like might be the collapse or undoing of our predictable climate, a once in a century pandemic, what feels like a late-stage capitalism implosion/reset, this post-Trump authoritarianism/anti-democracy bullshit we have to put up with and what looks like might be the beginnings of a reveal of a century long UAP/UFO crashed craft retrieval and back engineering program that may have included the collection of non-humans. Tin foil hat insanity. We may wind up literally seeing (and hopefully surviving through) the most extreme amounts of change that mankind as a species has ever seen. It’s wild to even list it here like this. What the hell, you only live once, right? Unless we discover that that’s not true either in the next decade or two. Insanity.

I was 10 yrs old. The 80's was the best ever! Wish I could go back

you were 5!!! what do you know about the 80's. The 80's were the best 'cause the singers you listened to are dead ?? jeez you people are so pathetic with your thoughtless comments trying to sound like philosophers :-))))

That's what the video said. Yes, only Ruth is still alive.

Why, weren’t they almost as old as Kenny Rogers?

I believe June Pointer sang with Bruce Willis on his cover version of Respect Yourself from his 1987 album Return Of Bruno

@@kevinnelson66 I believe all 3 of the 1980s Pointer Sisters sang on that.

I agree it’s sad but let’s face it folks we all do die eventually you can’t really get around it

Harry Belafonte actually organised USA for Africa after seeing the Band Aid record. Bob Geldof was there and spoke to all the singers before the recording started.

Yeah UK !

And then everybody started doing it. Northern Lights, Hear N' Aid, and I think there was a kids version of We are the World where they were all holding up headsets to one ear. Hean N' Aid was awesome. I should go look for that now.

We are the world was the better song of all

@@Mr504BLACKMANIt's a matter of taste. I agree because I'm a soul funk boy but it's still a matter of taste. The best music never sold much.

Very true.

you seem to know him personal?

Pay attention

There is a behind the scenes featurette you can watch here on YT that is pretty interesting. I believe Jane Fonda is the narrator.

One of the best featurettes I have ever watched

Yes and yes

As a music lover, I appreciate the goal of it, but musically speaking the song is rather bad.

it is happening! just watched it

I just saw this and I can't stop LMAO

My only guess is that he was part of The Blues Brothers and that was enough to get him a nod.

I liked his music from the 80's. I grew up seeing him on MTV in the spring of 1983 with his music videos for Billie Jean and Beat It which featured Steve Lukather of Toto and Eddie Van Halen on guitar. And I saw We Are the World on MTV in early 1985 when my father was still alive. He passed March 8, 1986 from a car hitting him while walking across the street 2 miles from our house at night. I lost my mom on June 14, 2022 in the hospital because her lungs gave out, they had her on a vent for several days. The best decade of music was the 80's. Nowadays today's younger generations especially females worship Taylor Swift, lol.

Quincy is still alive? I thought he was dead

@@andywinslow9638I thought the same thing.?

@@andywinslow9638 he has been around since forever

Agreed completely!! It's a different feeling seeing them all together to, opposed to seeing squares on a screen beside each other🙄🙄😒😒

He died in 2019 Where have you been

@@nicktaylor2657 no need to be such an ass about it. I wasn't aware until recently bassist for Free, Andy Fraser died 8 years ago...

Kenny played his cards right and knew when to fold em in the end, he will be missed though

@@chelseyeasdale MTV killed off the country crossover songs off the Hot 100 in the US from 1984-1992

@@zachhoranWhich is sad because country was huge in the 80s into the 90s. Then again now is pretty big, though not what it was in the 80s probably.

Not really MTV as much as it was the rise of hair bands and heavy metal, they came back in the early 90s with Restless Heart and Billy Ray Cyrus

He used to have a chicken restaurant over by the Kmart.

Damn!

How do you know

@@neatstuff1988 That's a stupid question. How do I know this video is a tribute to the "We Are the World Singers" who have passed away? Oh, I don't know. Maybe from reading the freaking title! Which, judging from several comments I've read on here, some people are apparently incapable of doing.

The negative influences of this world are designed to make our heart sick through emotional & physical pain resulting in a given person turning to music as one source of comfort to the body. The painful realty of this existence gives rise to the birth of music in two forms, earthly & HEAVENLY. Earthly music speaks to the experiences of this world through the singer-song writer’s eyes. Oftentimes drug use (i.e. alcohol, smokes, marijuana, cocaine, opioids, benzos and propofol to name a few) is intertwined with the survival of an artist to deal with the pressure of performing in order to stay relevant in the music industry, and to serve as fuel for creativity. As a result, music celebrities develop a tendency to sin against their body, through excessive drug use, for not measuring up to or to satisfy the demands of their music. Any earthly joy they experience is darkened by the heavy burden of performing and the loss of privacy. The end users of their music become fans because the lyrics are relatable and the sound of the singer’s voice & rhythm helps them cope with the pains of this reality. Unfortunately, this band aid approach is only a time out from the hurt and in the meantime we are fortifying its wall with painful memories waiting in line. Who can save us from wounds that are silent, wordless and cruel all the while tearing us apart inch by inch on the inside, which could radically accelerate the demise of the human body? I will use caps as emphasis to show the honest reverence for GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY when writing about HEAVENLY music in the paragraphs below. That INVINCIBLE DIVINE be our HEAVENLY FATHER, WHO THROUGH HIS SON’S MISSION HAS INSPIRED believers to write songs that sing of HIS LIFE GIVING LOVE to deal with emotional & physical pain, economic instability, mortality and the emotional instability of others with the motive of winning over souls for HIS KINGDOM. The melody & theme of HEAVENLY music is hateful and intolerable to the devil, a spirit which causes us to be blinded of the effects of sin and is responsible for the woes of this world such as melancholy, anguish, tribulation and trial. These agitations of the soul create a heavy burden for the lost and could lead him or her to be hostile of songs that sing about GOD’S GLORY. This makes it clear that we cannot win the spiritual battle by our own strength. Moreover, on earth the devil has no equal. GOD has provided us with the ONE WHO CAN AND WILL LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt from a given sinner's heart if he or she (through faith) would open their understanding to Psalms (starting with the focus on Psalms 51:1-10 KJV), and hymns/songs giving praise to HIM for the purpose of being persuaded, converted and healed by the HOLY SPIRIT from within by transforming your body/temple into a meeting place for you and the KING OF THE AGES to commune as friends through the born again experience (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life). It is only here that the fears of tomorrow will diminish, the blessed assurance is given that you are HIS and HE LIVES. Once the blessed assurance is known in prayer (through the confession of wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, combine with admitting that JESUS CHRIST is LORD and believing in one’s heart that GOD raised HIM from the dead to deliver us from sin's guilt) the world can never take it away because the world didn’t give it to you.

​@@neatstuff1988Yes all of them died thief death was big news....

@@j.woodbury412 Not stupid. Eddie murphy was dead for Years due to a so called skiing accident. Eddie came back to life. Heard M j was in the hole 4 5 hundred million. Good reason.

But then he later found out the food wasn't for the artists. The food was to help feed the hungry.

@@j.woodbury412 No it wasn't. Lionel Richie even admitted that they asked the finest restaurants in LA to cater the recording session.

So the artists should go hungry while recording ?

@@twitteringothers5059 You're dim, aren't you?

​@@twitteringothers5059they don't have to eat all high end food. Someone could have brought sandwiches or they could have ordered some pizzas.

MJ was most shocking because of how young.

Some people do live to be over 40 tho

Amen!

😹👏🏾

Sending Love

🤣

You’re awesome

No doubt.

Sad but true we have some dumb ones out there

Yep! I understood it immediately. They either missed the word "who," or just didn't understand it.

Ain't that the truth!

Yes that's true many more still alive and Iwas saying Lionel richel he's still alive also he's one of my singers too Most af all Whitney Michael Jackson many more

Netflix, Hulu, Disney Ruined every tv show or movie by making it a gay story

There is one out now! It's called the greatest night in pop, and it's on Netflix. It's so good.

Umm yes he probably would have...

Jennings gave up his seat to Richie Valens who had a bad cold and didn't want to ride on the tour bus in cold weather. In the movie "La Bamba" they decide who gets to ride on the plane via a coin flip. Not sure if that happened in real life.

@@robertbrescia3196 Thanks. Been a while since I watched La Bamba or the Buddy Holly Story.

He wasn't the only one lol.

Co-leader of the group.

Lionel Richie and others are still alive.

People have no understanding... The vide clearly talk about the ones that pass away...how could people believe its all of them that pass

​@@SimonChesireThe video never said Lionel Richie was dead watch the video again

Did you watch the video?

Yep, music is magic and it touches us all regardless of culture and language. USA4AFRICA is a wonderful example of people's potential (especially in the US) when they set their mind to humanitarian causes. And in doing so, assure from A to Z that the proceeds reach their destination and objective (it can lose up to 60% in logistics costs). We need more caring and open-mindedness and less selfish behaviour.

Huh? They didn't say that every singer involved with this song has passed away. And Michael Bolton was not in this.

..........whoops, you got me there. I didn't read it right, interpreted it wrong. One of the many things I hate about being dyslexic (sp?) is that I read some things out of context from the way they were intended.

@@deltaman3921 At least you acknowledge your mistake. I give you credit and respect for that.

@@deltaman3921 it's all good. Happens to the best of us. But I won't give you a pass on Michael Bolton 😉🙃

​@@SurvivorBriTHANK YOU. I was going to say the same thing.