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Nothing will ever
be the same after tonight.

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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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- Your timing is perfect.
- God, hey.

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- Bruce, Lionel, you're all good?
- Good. Yeah.

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Bruce… Oh, Smokey's here too.

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- Happy new year, baby.
- Steve!

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The greatest artists
of a generation came together…

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…with all of our ego…

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…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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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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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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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.
- Let's put it on tape!

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All right, let's go!

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Legends of rock music.

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The most super of superstars.

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Are you ready for me?

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Here is a unique young singer.

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The most exciting superstars
in the music world today.

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I'm comin' in.

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Comin' in hot.

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All right.

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Let's get this party started.

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

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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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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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And then, one night,
I received this call from Ken

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that changed everything.

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Ken Kragen ran
a talent management company.

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He had the most stellar reputation.

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Ken Kragen!

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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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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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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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Much like civil rights
needed to be amplified,

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Harry Belafonte felt that the issues
of poverty in the world,

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certainly in Africa, needed to be told.

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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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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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This mother
and the baby she bore two months ago

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wrapped together in death.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lionel continued to try Stevie
all through the night.

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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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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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Ladies and gentlemen,
Michael Jackson!

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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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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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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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This is my first time
in the Jackson household.

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That's when you do Vegas?

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I realized
we'd never written anything together,

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and we've never spent time together.

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- However you wanna do it.
- Doesn't bother.

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- There's a choice.
- I've got 'em.

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This is the Sonny & Cher team, hear this.

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

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

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

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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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"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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"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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We didn't have a song,
and we didn't have a date,

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but, because we had
Stevie, Lionel, Michael, and Quincy,

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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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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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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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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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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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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?"

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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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I'm currently after Hall & Oates.

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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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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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Please welcome
his Royal Badness, Prince!

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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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Prince was in love
with Sheila E.

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Sheila E!

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

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I think we needed
a little bit of everything.

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

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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.

241
00:15:07,323 --> 00:15:08,741
Can you get my Barbie doll?

242
00:15:08,824 --> 00:15:12,411
I felt, you know,
it was an important thing to do.

243
00:15:13,162 --> 00:15:17,082
I do believe
that rock and roll can save the world.

244
00:15:17,666 --> 00:15:19,168
Or we should try.

245
00:15:19,251 --> 00:15:23,005
The next really critical move
I made was to go after Springsteen.

246
00:15:33,641 --> 00:15:35,267
Okay. This chair?

247
00:15:36,393 --> 00:15:38,103
Okay.

248
00:15:38,187 --> 00:15:43,901
1985, I was… top of the world!

249
00:15:43,984 --> 00:15:46,528
Yeah, we were very popular,
and we had a great tour.

250
00:15:50,532 --> 00:15:55,329
Springsteen was a rocket ship,
but he wasn't going to the AMAs.

251
00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,754
We called Springsteen's manager,
Jon Landau,

252
00:16:03,837 --> 00:16:07,549
and he said to me, "Look,
he's finishing the tour the night before."

253
00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:10,469
"He never, ever flies
the day after a concert."

254
00:16:10,552 --> 00:16:12,763
He said, "Let me talk to him,
and we'll see."

255
00:16:13,847 --> 00:16:17,518
Famine relief was important.
I knew it hadn't been addressed, you know,

256
00:16:17,601 --> 00:16:21,939
and you're always sitting there like,
"What can I do about it?" You know?

257
00:16:22,022 --> 00:16:23,107
It was a little soon.

258
00:16:23,190 --> 00:16:26,360
I normally wouldn't have done it,
but it looked important.

259
00:16:27,027 --> 00:16:29,363
Then it was like,
"Well, you have Bruce Springsteen."

260
00:16:29,446 --> 00:16:31,198
"You could call Bob Dylan."

261
00:16:40,499 --> 00:16:41,834
It was Bob Dylan.

262
00:16:41,917 --> 00:16:45,129
He was doing "Blowin' in the Wind."
When hasn't he been a legend?

263
00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:50,551
Bob Dylan was known as
the concerned musician.

264
00:16:50,634 --> 00:16:52,845
He'd be a more natural fit than anyone,

265
00:16:52,928 --> 00:16:56,765
but the mid-'80s
was maybe not the best period for him.

266
00:17:01,562 --> 00:17:05,983
But, you know, he's Bob Dylan.
He's an enigma.

267
00:17:07,234 --> 00:17:10,654
Once Bob Dylan
and Bruce Springsteen committed,

268
00:17:10,738 --> 00:17:12,531
it was just a wish list.

269
00:17:12,614 --> 00:17:15,325
I know David Byrne was unavailable.

270
00:17:15,409 --> 00:17:19,329
Van Halen was unavailable
because they were on tour.

271
00:17:19,413 --> 00:17:20,706
I wanted Bette Midler.

272
00:17:20,789 --> 00:17:22,166
I wanted Dan Aykroyd.

273
00:17:23,542 --> 00:17:26,962
How I heard about it
was that Michael called me and said

274
00:17:27,046 --> 00:17:31,008
that he was planning on doing a big event
and would I wanna be a part of it?

275
00:17:31,592 --> 00:17:34,636
I wasn't that aware
of what was going on in Africa,

276
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,681
but at that time,
whatever Michael did turned to gold,

277
00:17:37,765 --> 00:17:39,516
so, of course, it was a no-brainer.

278
00:17:41,435 --> 00:17:44,855
Man, we got the most beautiful artists
in the world.

279
00:17:45,481 --> 00:17:48,692
Would be awful to produce the record
with this many great people on it

280
00:17:48,776 --> 00:17:51,278
and it not work
'cause you don't have the right song.

281
00:17:51,361 --> 00:17:53,697
We've got the cast now.
Now we need a script.

282
00:17:56,909 --> 00:17:59,495
Michael and I
thought we had all the time in the world.

283
00:17:59,578 --> 00:18:01,080
We were kiddin' around…

284
00:18:01,163 --> 00:18:03,082
- This project…
- Kragen calls.

285
00:18:03,165 --> 00:18:05,584
…I can hardly sleep.
I'm so excited about the project.

286
00:18:05,667 --> 00:18:08,962
"Well," he said, "there are
a lot of people waiting on this song."

287
00:18:09,797 --> 00:18:11,423
"It's not just the four of you."

288
00:18:12,216 --> 00:18:13,216
"Oh my God."

289
00:18:14,551 --> 00:18:17,471
He said,
"I think we have Billy Joel."

290
00:18:17,554 --> 00:18:19,056
"And we got Willie."

291
00:18:19,723 --> 00:18:23,435
"I think we have Tina. Huey Lewis,
Paul Simon, Diana Ross, Ray Charles."

292
00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:25,521
That's just pressure, pressure, pressure.

293
00:18:26,105 --> 00:18:29,858
"And we're gonna do this
the night of the American Music Awards."

294
00:18:29,942 --> 00:18:31,777
"What are you talking about?"

295
00:18:31,860 --> 00:18:33,695
And then Quincy comes by.

296
00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:35,989
Yeah. Here we go.

297
00:18:36,698 --> 00:18:39,743
So Quincy, very quietly,
just said, "I need a song."

298
00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,248
You have to understand
the severity of this situation.

299
00:18:44,331 --> 00:18:47,709
The American Music Awards
are coming up next week,

300
00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:50,587
and Quincy has been
basically rendered null and void

301
00:18:50,671 --> 00:18:52,256
until we have a song.

302
00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:58,762
I don't know how it happened after that.
We were just possessed.

303
00:19:00,264 --> 00:19:02,766
Throwing things out
and whatever felt good.

304
00:19:03,767 --> 00:19:05,394
I came up with a few chords.

305
00:19:12,067 --> 00:19:13,235
Michael said, "Whoa, whoa."

306
00:19:15,362 --> 00:19:16,265
Okay.

307
00:19:18,824 --> 00:19:21,243
On top of ♪ Da, na, na, da, da, da d

308
00:19:21,326 --> 00:19:23,245
Magic.

309
00:19:29,918 --> 00:19:32,629
We now have a template with mumbles

310
00:19:33,714 --> 00:19:34,840
and no words.

311
00:19:38,010 --> 00:19:41,805
"We are the world"
was probably a line from Michael.

312
00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:47,895
"We are the what?"We are the…"

313
00:19:47,978 --> 00:19:50,272
"We are the one…
We are the ones who make a brighter…"

314
00:19:51,231 --> 00:19:52,774
Out of the corner of my eye…

315
00:19:55,068 --> 00:19:57,196
I see some albums falling over.

316
00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:00,949
And I hear…

317
00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,039
"What the heck?
What the hell is that? What the… What…"

318
00:20:07,122 --> 00:20:09,249
I look over my shoulder.

319
00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:14,838
There's the biggest frickin' snake.

320
00:20:15,881 --> 00:20:19,635
Michael's going…
"There he is, Lion-el. Oh my God."

321
00:20:19,718 --> 00:20:22,012
He lost the snake in the room.

322
00:20:22,512 --> 00:20:25,140
He came out…
"when he heard us singing, Lion-el,

323
00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:28,435
and he wanted to meet you.
He wants to say hello to you."

324
00:20:28,518 --> 00:20:32,189
I mean, that's…
"I gotta get outta here quick!"

325
00:20:32,272 --> 00:20:35,817
I am screaming like it's, it's, it's…
This is the end.

326
00:20:36,652 --> 00:20:39,988
I saw this horror movie,
and it's not good for the brother.

327
00:20:46,036 --> 00:20:50,499
It was a very hectic lead-up
to the recording session,

328
00:20:50,582 --> 00:20:52,876
and the location was a really big deal.

329
00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:55,212
This paper
is highly confidential.

330
00:20:55,295 --> 00:20:58,298
The single most damaging leak
of information

331
00:20:58,382 --> 00:20:59,967
is where we're doing this.

332
00:21:00,467 --> 00:21:04,179
We scouted
every single studio in Los Angeles,

333
00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:07,891
and A&M Studios had everything.

334
00:21:07,975 --> 00:21:09,142
A great location.

335
00:21:09,226 --> 00:21:11,645
The sound is phenomenal.

336
00:21:11,728 --> 00:21:12,771
Done.

337
00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:15,107
The moment that becomes
public knowledge,

338
00:21:15,190 --> 00:21:17,025
if that shows up in the press,

339
00:21:17,109 --> 00:21:19,069
that could totally destroy the project.

340
00:21:19,152 --> 00:21:23,073
The moment a Prince, a Michael Jackson,
a Bob Dylan drive up

341
00:21:23,156 --> 00:21:25,409
and see a mob,

342
00:21:25,492 --> 00:21:27,160
they will never come in.

343
00:21:27,244 --> 00:21:31,123
Kragen was really worried
about this leaking,

344
00:21:31,206 --> 00:21:33,709
and they were so paranoid about it.

345
00:21:33,792 --> 00:21:36,586
We've had numerous leaks
of information regarding this event

346
00:21:36,670 --> 00:21:39,464
that have not made it any easier to do.

347
00:21:39,548 --> 00:21:41,967
- Did you ever trace where the leak was?
- Internal.

348
00:21:42,050 --> 00:21:44,011
- Internal here?
- Gotta be careful.

349
00:21:44,094 --> 00:21:48,682
This was the biggest thing
happening in pop music right here in town,

350
00:21:48,765 --> 00:21:51,685
so you couldn't keep it that big a secret.

351
00:22:09,036 --> 00:22:11,246
Michael and I
had finished writing the song,

352
00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:14,833
and finally turned it in to Quincy.

353
00:22:14,916 --> 00:22:17,169
"Does he like it?"
That's the first question.

354
00:22:18,587 --> 00:22:19,587
Jesus Lord.

355
00:22:20,255 --> 00:22:23,592
I listened to it at the house
and absolutely fell on the floor.

356
00:22:24,634 --> 00:22:27,179
You know, I mean, fell…
I mean, it was so right.

357
00:22:27,262 --> 00:22:30,390
I was so happy. I mean,
it's like, "Thank you, God," you know?

358
00:22:30,974 --> 00:22:33,226
He loves it. Okay. Now,

359
00:22:34,436 --> 00:22:36,605
we needed to put the demo down

360
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.

361
00:22:45,572 --> 00:22:47,783
- The other one.
- Ah!

362
00:22:48,450 --> 00:22:50,285
My name is Humberto Gatica.

363
00:22:51,286 --> 00:22:56,875
I was asked to be the engineer
in charge of this entire project

364
00:22:56,958 --> 00:22:58,085
by Quincy Jones.

365
00:22:59,336 --> 00:23:00,336
Hello?

366
00:23:01,421 --> 00:23:04,716
Hello? How you doin', Louis?

367
00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:07,135
Man, are you kiddin'?

368
00:23:08,887 --> 00:23:11,473
Okay, so we've got Michael
and Lionel over here.

369
00:23:11,556 --> 00:23:14,434
We're getting ready to cut the track.
We're gonna cut the basic now.

370
00:23:14,518 --> 00:23:16,686
One, two, three.

371
00:23:29,366 --> 00:23:32,077
The idea was
to make something simple

372
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:33,912
because it was all about the singing,

373
00:23:33,995 --> 00:23:37,207
about what these voices
were gonna bring to this production.

374
00:23:50,011 --> 00:23:52,013
Sorry, one more.
Sorry, one more.

375
00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:54,891
"It's true we make a better day."
I love that, man!

376
00:23:54,975 --> 00:23:57,727
It just seemed
so natural to say "brighter" again.

377
00:23:57,811 --> 00:24:00,856
You get a stronger feeling,
though, if you use another word.

378
00:24:00,939 --> 00:24:02,482
- You think so?
- Yeah.

379
00:24:02,566 --> 00:24:05,026
Right in the middle of the session,
in walks

380
00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:06,610
Stevie.

381
00:24:07,237 --> 00:24:09,072
He thought we were writing the song.

382
00:24:09,906 --> 00:24:12,242
And so Quincy said, "I'll talk to him,"

383
00:24:12,325 --> 00:24:15,745
and Quincy took him down the hall
to tell him, "We've finished writing it."

384
00:24:15,829 --> 00:24:17,497
"We're already putting the demo down."

385
00:24:17,581 --> 00:24:19,833
Of course, Stevie was,
"Oh, okay," you know?

386
00:24:25,005 --> 00:24:27,674
- "It's true we make…"
- d It's true we make a brighter day… d

387
00:24:27,757 --> 00:24:30,677
You could see the shock was,
"How come somebody didn't tell me?"

388
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,138
Well, yeah, we did. We…
Three weeks, you know?

389
00:24:33,221 --> 00:24:36,266
But, at that moment,
the baby was about to get born.

390
00:25:02,209 --> 00:25:04,294
Tomorrow,
we gotta get lead sheets, a letter,

391
00:25:04,377 --> 00:25:06,087
and the cassettes out to all the artists.

392
00:25:06,171 --> 00:25:08,507
- Can I get it Monday sometime?
- Of course.

393
00:25:08,590 --> 00:25:12,093
I must have my tape by tomorrow.
It's imperative.

394
00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:20,894
I got a stack
of 50 cassette tapes

395
00:25:20,977 --> 00:25:23,647
that went to managers.

396
00:25:23,730 --> 00:25:26,107
Some of them went directly to artists.

397
00:25:27,275 --> 00:25:31,404
It was an interesting time.
We had just had our first big hit record,

398
00:25:31,488 --> 00:25:34,449
and I received the tape,
the cassette tape in those days,

399
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:36,451
of the song and the invitation,

400
00:25:36,535 --> 00:25:38,328
and I played the demo in my car.

401
00:25:38,912 --> 00:25:41,122
I'd never met Lionel or Michael,

402
00:25:41,206 --> 00:25:44,417
so, you know,
it was just an amazing invite to get.

403
00:25:44,501 --> 00:25:48,213
And then, I remember thinking,
"Oh yeah, this… this is gonna be a hit."

404
00:25:49,130 --> 00:25:51,716
I remember how I heard about it
'cause Lionel called me.

405
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,343
Lionel was my brother-brother.

406
00:25:53,426 --> 00:25:55,470
So that was it. That was enough for me.

407
00:25:55,554 --> 00:25:57,973
I didn't have to be coaxed
or anything like that.

408
00:25:58,056 --> 00:26:00,058
Quincy's office sent me a copy.

409
00:26:00,141 --> 00:26:04,229
I listened to it a couple of times,
and it definitely had a memorable chorus.

410
00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:08,483
When I first heard it,
I thought it was very broad, you know,

411
00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:10,360
as music that's gonna carry

412
00:26:11,027 --> 00:26:13,905
all those voices usually has to be,

413
00:26:13,989 --> 00:26:16,199
so I said, "Okay, that's… that's cool."

414
00:26:17,158 --> 00:26:21,454
In the letter that was sent out,
one of the lines was blacked out.

415
00:26:21,538 --> 00:26:24,666
That was where it was.
It says that A&M studios…

416
00:26:24,749 --> 00:26:27,377
Ken said, "No, you can't let anybody
know it's there, man."

417
00:26:27,460 --> 00:26:31,673
For him to give me details at that time
would be… unnecessary.

418
00:26:32,257 --> 00:26:35,885
I, like many artists that I know,
don't remember shit.

419
00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:40,515
Quincy called me,

420
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."

421
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."

422
00:26:51,026 --> 00:26:54,112
Quincy and I met back in 1973.

423
00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:57,907
I was a white boy
raised in a Black gospel church.

424
00:26:57,991 --> 00:27:01,745
Quincy heard some arrangements
that I had done for Sarah Vaughan,

425
00:27:01,828 --> 00:27:03,788
and he invited me to his home,

426
00:27:03,872 --> 00:27:06,583
and he came to the front door,
and he looks up, and he goes,

427
00:27:07,334 --> 00:27:08,460
"You're not white."

428
00:27:08,543 --> 00:27:11,254
And that started us off.

429
00:27:12,339 --> 00:27:15,925
We artistically fell in love
and became brothers,

430
00:27:16,009 --> 00:27:17,844
but Quincy was the general.

431
00:27:22,182 --> 00:27:24,100
We ended up at my house.

432
00:27:24,184 --> 00:27:26,811
Tom Bahler was there, with Quincy,

433
00:27:26,895 --> 00:27:28,897
and they're in my living room.

434
00:27:29,773 --> 00:27:30,940
They had a fan.

435
00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:37,238
They had names
of all of the artists on the floor.

436
00:27:37,322 --> 00:27:41,701
Now, we have to go through the process
of the arrangement of the vocals.

437
00:27:41,785 --> 00:27:45,372
We had to select who's gonna do the solos,

438
00:27:45,455 --> 00:27:47,707
which only have a half a line to sing,

439
00:27:47,791 --> 00:27:52,837
and it has to be your sound,
your style, your key in a half a line.

440
00:27:54,673 --> 00:27:58,301
I started listening to
every artist that was gonna sing a solo…

441
00:28:00,512 --> 00:28:03,598
…looking for differences, contrasts.

442
00:28:07,185 --> 00:28:09,020
The Boss has a dirty sound.

443
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,565
And I thought of Kenny Loggins next.

444
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,362
Kenny has a clean sound

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

446
00:28:23,034 --> 00:28:25,620
Bahler was studying
people's vocal ranges

447
00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:29,290
because he wanted to make sure
they would be really comfortable

448
00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:31,042
with what they had to sing.

449
00:28:32,544 --> 00:28:34,629
Having worked with Tina before,

450
00:28:34,713 --> 00:28:39,426
I put her very low
because she's got such warmth down there.

451
00:28:44,013 --> 00:28:46,182
And then you go to Steve Perry.

452
00:28:47,308 --> 00:28:50,979
His range, I mean,
he's electrifying in that place.

453
00:28:54,232 --> 00:28:56,943
Cyndi, her voice is forceful.

454
00:28:57,444 --> 00:28:59,362
Even in "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."

455
00:29:03,450 --> 00:29:05,201
Oh God, I Love Huey,

456
00:29:05,785 --> 00:29:08,663
but not every artist
was gonna sing a solo.

457
00:29:09,873 --> 00:29:13,793
Also, he was worried about
who they were gonna be standing next to,

458
00:29:13,877 --> 00:29:15,962
and that led
to some interesting discussions

459
00:29:16,045 --> 00:29:18,506
about how people were gonna get combined.

460
00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:21,843
I thought what we were gonna do
was have everybody come in,

461
00:29:21,926 --> 00:29:23,887
one by one, go in the booth, sing it.

462
00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:27,223
Quincy says, "No, no, no. We'll be here
for the next three weeks."

463
00:29:27,807 --> 00:29:30,059
"We'll put a circle in the room
of all mics,

464
00:29:31,060 --> 00:29:33,521
and everyone will sing it
looking at each other."

465
00:29:34,022 --> 00:29:35,023
"Ooh!"

466
00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:38,860
Some of these artists
are troublemakers.

467
00:29:38,943 --> 00:29:42,572
There were people in there,
troublemakers. Cyndi Lauper was one.

468
00:29:42,655 --> 00:29:44,449
Stevie Wonder is another one.

469
00:29:44,532 --> 00:29:47,243
I'm not afraid,
but it's just deep water, man.

470
00:29:47,327 --> 00:29:50,330
Quincy said, "Let's start
at the beginning. What's gonna happen

471
00:29:50,413 --> 00:29:51,873
when they come in the studio?"

472
00:29:51,956 --> 00:29:54,918
We need to be able to handle
whoever comes in,

473
00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:57,086
and we wanted no downtime.

474
00:29:57,170 --> 00:30:00,882
This has gotta be seamless
because if we stop for a minute,

475
00:30:01,925 --> 00:30:03,510
this thing's gonna be chaos.

476
00:30:05,595 --> 00:30:08,598
I'm looking at these names.
Great artists.

477
00:30:10,016 --> 00:30:11,518
And I was one of them.

478
00:30:14,354 --> 00:30:17,857
"What am I doing? What… What…
And what on Earth

479
00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:20,067
am I doing here?"

480
00:30:21,736 --> 00:30:22,987
It's pretty daunting.

481
00:30:25,323 --> 00:30:26,574
And then, all of a sudden…

482
00:30:28,993 --> 00:30:29,994
it's time.

483
00:30:35,208 --> 00:30:39,462
I was at the Shrine Auditorium
when Lionel arrived in the early morning.

484
00:30:39,546 --> 00:30:43,466
Your artist is hosting
the biggest prime-time show on a network,

485
00:30:43,550 --> 00:30:46,386
when network TV
was the only thing that was happening.

486
00:30:46,469 --> 00:30:48,388
We really worried about Lionel.

487
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.

488
00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:55,562
It's fun though. Lot of fun.
It's always an exciting show,

489
00:30:55,645 --> 00:30:57,188
and I'm looking forward to it.

490
00:30:57,272 --> 00:30:58,481
If I can stay awake!

491
00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:02,986
But also,
we have the setup for the studio.

492
00:31:03,528 --> 00:31:06,155
I got the call
to volunteer to light it.

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

494
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,037
and I got the equipment for free.

495
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.

496
00:31:20,128 --> 00:31:24,299
There was a lot of questions
about artists who didn't come to the AMAs.

497
00:31:25,258 --> 00:31:27,510
I was called by Quincy Jones.

498
00:31:27,594 --> 00:31:30,763
All he said was, "You will be
in Los Angeles tomorrow night,"

499
00:31:30,847 --> 00:31:33,433
and I said, "No, I won't.
I'll be in Las Vegas."

500
00:31:33,516 --> 00:31:37,353
Stevie was in Philadelphia,
two o'clock, the day of the event.

501
00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:39,230
We'll be seeing you in the summer!

502
00:31:39,314 --> 00:31:42,483
Bruce Springsteen
had just finished his tour in Buffalo.

503
00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:45,987
I'd heard what the weather was about
back there. So we got nervous.

504
00:31:49,282 --> 00:31:53,119
You realize that you have
no control of what's happening right now.

505
00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:56,331
It was an evening
where you just… you're floating.

506
00:31:56,414 --> 00:31:57,749
Hi, I'm Lionel Richie.

507
00:31:57,832 --> 00:32:00,001
Tonight, we're back
at the Shrine Auditorium

508
00:32:00,084 --> 00:32:01,419
in Los Angeles, California

509
00:32:01,502 --> 00:32:03,713
for the American Music Awards!

510
00:32:03,796 --> 00:32:07,425
Look out! We're gonna be running
with the night! Whoo!

511
00:32:10,762 --> 00:32:14,390
Lionel, that night,
he had his responsibilities as a host.

512
00:32:14,474 --> 00:32:16,100
He's the leader of the show.

513
00:32:16,601 --> 00:32:22,815
Nothing! Nothing will ever
be the same after tonight.

514
00:32:23,524 --> 00:32:25,735
He performed twice,

515
00:32:26,861 --> 00:32:28,154
and he swept the awards.

516
00:32:28,237 --> 00:32:29,140
Lionel Richie!

517
00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:31,032
- Lionel Richie!
- Lionel Richie.

518
00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:32,575
- Lionel Richie.
- Lionel Richie!

519
00:32:32,659 --> 00:32:34,035
- Lionel Richie.
- "Hello."

520
00:32:36,329 --> 00:32:40,416
I think I won six awards
that night while hosting.

521
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:42,335
I forgot, I'm working here.

522
00:32:42,418 --> 00:32:45,254
When he was backstage,
he was talking about "We Are the World."

523
00:32:45,338 --> 00:32:47,715
But you only got 30 seconds.
Gotta be back on the stage.

524
00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:51,427
1984 saw her explode into a solo career

525
00:32:51,511 --> 00:32:53,721
with her new album, The Glamorous Life.

526
00:32:53,805 --> 00:32:56,683
Just wait till you see Sheila E.!

527
00:32:58,351 --> 00:33:01,104
At that time,
I was on the Purple Rain Tour.

528
00:33:01,187 --> 00:33:02,271
It was nonstop.

529
00:33:03,439 --> 00:33:07,860
By the time I got to the AMAs,
I… I was delirious.

530
00:33:09,946 --> 00:33:10,890
Sing it!

531
00:33:12,740 --> 00:33:14,909
And I was nervous as heck.

532
00:33:16,536 --> 00:33:19,205
I looked into the audience,
which is the wrong thing to do,

533
00:33:19,288 --> 00:33:23,501
'cause you look at the first five rows,
you're like, "Oh my God!"

534
00:33:23,584 --> 00:33:25,044
Come on, everybody, sing it!

535
00:33:25,128 --> 00:33:28,381
I remember Lionel telling me,
"After the AMAs,

536
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."

537
00:33:33,177 --> 00:33:35,179
And so I was like, "Oh, absolutely."

538
00:33:39,392 --> 00:33:43,021
Lionel had said he was hoping
Prince would also sing a verse.

539
00:33:43,104 --> 00:33:47,400
I was like, "Cool, but, you know,
he's gonna do it on his own time."

540
00:33:49,152 --> 00:33:53,406
And now, let's see what record
will make it as Favorite Black Single.

541
00:33:53,489 --> 00:33:57,702
Nominees are Prince, "When Doves Cry,"
Michael Jackson, "Thriller."

542
00:33:57,785 --> 00:34:00,621
In a couple categories,
it was Prince versus Michael.

543
00:34:00,705 --> 00:34:02,415
The rivalry was real.

544
00:34:02,498 --> 00:34:06,461
It would be great if Michael and Prince
were together singing.

545
00:34:06,544 --> 00:34:09,630
It was a great statement to make,
that even these two guys,

546
00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:12,550
"For saving lives,
we can come together to do this."

547
00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:14,927
"When Doves Cry," Prince.

548
00:34:16,971 --> 00:34:19,390
Prince,
his bodyguard's name was Chick,

549
00:34:20,099 --> 00:34:22,185
and Chick was scarier than hell!

550
00:34:22,268 --> 00:34:25,521
He was just a massively huge person,

551
00:34:25,605 --> 00:34:28,900
and when Prince would win an award,
Chick would walk up onstage with him.

552
00:34:32,111 --> 00:34:35,073
No one's gonna attack him
walking up on stage!

553
00:34:35,156 --> 00:34:37,075
Well, maybe that's different nowadays.

554
00:34:37,158 --> 00:34:38,659
Outrageous!

555
00:34:39,952 --> 00:34:41,287
Outrageous!

556
00:34:42,121 --> 00:34:44,415
Prince won those big awards.
Michael didn't.

557
00:34:44,499 --> 00:34:48,628
Michael wasn't there of course.
He was at A&M Studios doin' his thing.

558
00:34:56,594 --> 00:34:57,970
- Michael?
- Yes?

559
00:34:58,554 --> 00:35:01,265
"There's a choice we're making.
We're saving our own lives."

560
00:35:01,349 --> 00:35:03,935
Could you just leave that line
out of the chorus, please?

561
00:35:04,018 --> 00:35:07,355
So leave out "There's a choice…"?
Can somebody bring me a lyric?

562
00:35:07,855 --> 00:35:10,316
I'll leave it out,
but I… I just might forget.

563
00:35:11,526 --> 00:35:14,737
The first person
who showed up here was Michael Jackson.

564
00:35:15,238 --> 00:35:18,866
Put him right in the middle of that room.
We're using a C12 microphone.

565
00:35:19,659 --> 00:35:21,035
Can we take one?

566
00:35:25,957 --> 00:35:27,250
He got himself

567
00:35:27,333 --> 00:35:30,503
that he felt
that he was in sync with the music.

568
00:35:39,554 --> 00:35:42,431
Could we just have balance
before he holds the note from there?

569
00:35:42,515 --> 00:35:44,016
- Without the track?
- Sure.

570
00:35:45,518 --> 00:35:48,146
I was here,
adjusting some lights,

571
00:35:48,229 --> 00:35:50,773
and Michael Jackson is listening,

572
00:35:51,941 --> 00:35:54,152
and he suddenly sings…

573
00:36:06,372 --> 00:36:09,250
This is
the most remarkable voice

574
00:36:09,333 --> 00:36:11,085
I have ever heard in my life.

575
00:36:25,558 --> 00:36:26,558
Sorry.

576
00:36:28,644 --> 00:36:33,065
I didn't say "better." I kept on saying
"brighter" and "brighter." I forgot.

577
00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:38,362
When I was asked
to write this by Quincy

578
00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:41,073
about, you know, for world hunger,

579
00:36:41,824 --> 00:36:44,577
I put my heart and my soul into it.

580
00:36:46,954 --> 00:36:49,165
…to say something
because…

581
00:36:49,248 --> 00:36:51,751
…it's so much easier
for me to talk through the song.

582
00:36:51,834 --> 00:36:53,252
That's really my statement.

583
00:36:55,504 --> 00:36:57,006
Quincy, do you think…

584
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?

585
00:37:03,012 --> 00:37:04,639
- I like, "you and me."
- Okay.

586
00:37:04,722 --> 00:37:06,807
- It's much more soulful.
- More soulful, yeah.

587
00:37:06,891 --> 00:37:08,601
- Yeah.
- Country, man.

588
00:37:08,684 --> 00:37:10,311
- Yeah. Country.
- Love it, man.

589
00:37:10,394 --> 00:37:11,562
That's what it's all about.

590
00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:14,398
What was so interesting
about Michael

591
00:37:14,482 --> 00:37:18,152
is that, originally,
Michael only wanted to write a song.

592
00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:22,031
At first, Michael
didn't wanna sing or be on the video.

593
00:37:22,114 --> 00:37:24,116
He thought it was overexposure at first.

594
00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:27,578
I talked Michael
into being on the thing, you know?

595
00:37:27,662 --> 00:37:29,956
That would've been
one of the biggest mistakes of his career

596
00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:31,165
if he hadn't showed up.

597
00:37:33,459 --> 00:37:36,295
But he was there, man.
He was more than there.

598
00:37:37,505 --> 00:37:40,341
- How did it sound?
- Sounds great, man.

599
00:37:43,678 --> 00:37:45,096
Fantastic, Mike.

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

601
00:37:49,684 --> 00:37:51,435
Cyndi Lauper, and Prince.

602
00:37:51,936 --> 00:37:54,021
Kenny Kragen was at the show,
in the first row,

603
00:37:54,105 --> 00:37:56,482
and every time it went to commercial…

604
00:37:56,565 --> 00:37:59,318
Kenny… Kenny leapt out the seat
and ran backstage.

605
00:37:59,402 --> 00:38:02,113
You stay in your seat, babes.
You stay in your seat.

606
00:38:03,072 --> 00:38:06,575
I went to him, and I said,
"We have a situation happening here."

607
00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:08,160
Cyndi Lauper.

608
00:38:10,454 --> 00:38:13,541
Backstage,
Cyndi Lauper came over to me and said,

609
00:38:13,624 --> 00:38:15,793
"My boyfriend heard the song."

610
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."

611
00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:21,549
Well, nobody knew.

612
00:38:22,049 --> 00:38:25,136
It certainly was a group of great people,

613
00:38:25,219 --> 00:38:28,222
but I was so punch-drunk tired.

614
00:38:28,306 --> 00:38:30,474
Well, it's some year, huh?

615
00:38:32,393 --> 00:38:36,480
And after the show, it was like,
"All right, you have to just go there."

616
00:38:37,064 --> 00:38:38,274
I said, "Cyndi,

617
00:38:38,357 --> 00:38:41,402
it's pretty important
for you to make the right decision."

618
00:38:41,485 --> 00:38:43,654
"Don't miss the session tonight."

619
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:46,240
What a night!

620
00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:49,243
What a night!

621
00:38:50,578 --> 00:38:52,788
I said to the artists,
"Don't hang out here."

622
00:38:52,872 --> 00:38:54,874
"Hit the road and get to A&M Studios."

623
00:38:57,335 --> 00:39:00,546
Can you talk about your feelings
about this record being made tonight?

624
00:39:00,629 --> 00:39:02,298
I don't know what's happening.

625
00:39:02,381 --> 00:39:05,217
Quincy's over there biting his nails.
I wanna get over there and find out.

626
00:39:05,301 --> 00:39:07,345
- I don't know. Yeah.
- And the name of it?

627
00:39:07,428 --> 00:39:08,512
"We Are the World."

628
00:39:08,929 --> 00:39:12,808
There's a rumor that Prince
and James Brown may be included in this.

629
00:39:12,892 --> 00:39:14,727
- No comment.
- Why? Why not?

630
00:39:14,810 --> 00:39:16,103
I'm not allowed to talk about it.

631
00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:18,397
Ladies and gents,
we have to move on. Thank you.

632
00:39:18,481 --> 00:39:19,815
Thanks a lot, everyone.

633
00:39:19,899 --> 00:39:22,902
When I left the AMAs,
I just knew there was a car there for me.

634
00:39:23,486 --> 00:39:24,820
And then we show up.

635
00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:26,822
I had no clue who was gonna be there.

636
00:39:28,866 --> 00:39:32,745
I knew nothing about what
the project was till I got to Los Angeles.

637
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:35,414
Quincy means an awful lot to people,

638
00:39:35,498 --> 00:39:39,752
and when he's doing a project,
it's something well worth being a part of.

639
00:39:41,462 --> 00:39:43,422
Pretty much everything
was ready to go.

640
00:39:43,506 --> 00:39:48,511
Quincy asked me for a piece of paper,
and he decided to write the greatest line.

641
00:39:49,261 --> 00:39:50,888
"Check your ego at the door."

642
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,726
I was lucky enough
to be one of the cameramen,

643
00:39:55,810 --> 00:39:58,396
but I was just the rookie of the bunch.

644
00:39:58,479 --> 00:40:00,398
I'd only moved out here
three years before.

645
00:40:01,482 --> 00:40:05,277
The producer said, "Go out front.
They're gonna start arriving pretty soon."

646
00:40:06,195 --> 00:40:09,281
The question is
who was actually gonna show up.

647
00:40:15,204 --> 00:40:16,914
We got Kenny Rogers
coming in.

648
00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:25,548
When I arrived at the studio,
I realized it was the cream of the crop

649
00:40:25,631 --> 00:40:27,466
of pop music for that time.

650
00:40:28,050 --> 00:40:30,594
- Ray Charles, car coming in.
- Oh my God!

651
00:40:30,678 --> 00:40:32,555
- Bette Midler.
- I think it is.

652
00:40:33,264 --> 00:40:36,434
- Christie Brinkley. Oh my gosh!
- Anyone have eyes on Billy Joel?

653
00:40:36,517 --> 00:40:38,227
It was overwhelming.

654
00:40:41,522 --> 00:40:44,066
Walkie-talkies
is how we communicated.

655
00:40:44,567 --> 00:40:46,944
Who was showing up?
Who was here? Who just got here?

656
00:40:47,027 --> 00:40:48,821
Kim Carnes just arriving.

657
00:40:51,157 --> 00:40:55,327
This guy pulls up across the street.
in this old Pontiac GTO.

658
00:40:55,411 --> 00:40:59,206
Guy gets out and it's Bruce Springsteen.
I'm like, "Wow, it is on."

659
00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:03,711
"That's Ray. That's really him."

660
00:41:03,794 --> 00:41:05,629
That's like
the Statue of Liberty walking in.

661
00:41:09,925 --> 00:41:14,472
To me, Diana Ross was like, "Whoa.
We've hit a different echelon here."

662
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:18,058
I almost felt
like I was in a dream.

663
00:41:18,767 --> 00:41:20,352
Everyone was a legend to me.

664
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.

665
00:41:24,815 --> 00:41:26,734
Nobody else was allowed
in the studio

666
00:41:26,817 --> 00:41:29,653
except the artists themselves,
so nobody had assistants.

667
00:41:29,737 --> 00:41:32,198
And then,
we get to interact with each other,

668
00:41:32,281 --> 00:41:33,991
and that was really the thrill.

669
00:41:34,575 --> 00:41:38,204
It was intoxicating
just to be around that group of people.

670
00:41:39,079 --> 00:41:42,791
I felt like I was underdressed.
I was worried.

671
00:41:42,875 --> 00:41:46,170
I knew Billy Joel,
so I went right over to him.

672
00:41:48,297 --> 00:41:51,634
Everyone felt the magic.
Everybody that you can think of

673
00:41:51,717 --> 00:41:54,261
who was in show business at that time
is at that recording.

674
00:41:54,762 --> 00:41:56,305
We're on the risers.

675
00:41:56,388 --> 00:41:58,891
Paul is on one of the lower steps,
and he looks up,

676
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."

677
00:42:22,373 --> 00:42:25,376
- It's beautiful. So beautiful, man.
- Incredible, isn't it?

678
00:42:25,459 --> 00:42:28,671
We could feel the energy
in the room was really high.

679
00:42:28,754 --> 00:42:31,215
Ray and Willie
are gonna do some singing.

680
00:42:31,298 --> 00:42:36,136
But at the same time,
under it is a low hum of competition.

681
00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:39,265
The egos were still there.
Let's not pretend that they weren't there.

682
00:42:39,932 --> 00:42:42,142
Celebrities can be
very difficult

683
00:42:42,226 --> 00:42:46,689
when they're surrounded
by managers, agents, and glam squad,

684
00:42:47,523 --> 00:42:49,942
but they were not in that environment.

685
00:42:52,236 --> 00:42:55,573
The biggest stars in music
found it disarming.

686
00:42:56,407 --> 00:42:58,617
They seemed almost timid.

687
00:43:02,955 --> 00:43:05,457
It was like
first day of kindergarten.

688
00:43:05,958 --> 00:43:07,251
Okay, guys.

689
00:43:08,043 --> 00:43:10,379
Can we have everybody clear out
so we can make…

690
00:43:10,462 --> 00:43:12,381
Please.

691
00:43:13,382 --> 00:43:14,967
Hello. Hello. Hello.

692
00:43:17,177 --> 00:43:19,555
Listen. Guys. Guys.

693
00:43:19,638 --> 00:43:23,100
Quincy had to
pull all of these kids together.

694
00:43:30,190 --> 00:43:32,443
First, I'd like you to meet Bob Geldof

695
00:43:32,526 --> 00:43:35,404
who is really the inspiration
for this whole thing.

696
00:43:35,487 --> 00:43:37,615
This is the man who put Band Aid together.

697
00:43:38,365 --> 00:43:39,658
Game on!

698
00:43:39,742 --> 00:43:43,120
And he just came back from Ethiopia,
and he'd like to talk to you.

699
00:43:43,203 --> 00:43:44,148
Oh. Would I?

700
00:43:44,163 --> 00:43:45,748
Sweet.

701
00:43:45,831 --> 00:43:47,833
Um… Well, maybe,

702
00:43:48,959 --> 00:43:52,755
to put you in the mood
of the song you're about to sing,

703
00:43:52,838 --> 00:43:56,675
which hopefully
will save millions of lives,

704
00:43:56,759 --> 00:43:59,887
I think it's best to remember
that the price for life this year

705
00:43:59,970 --> 00:44:03,599
is a piece of plastic seven inches wide
with a hole in the middle.

706
00:44:05,184 --> 00:44:09,355
And I don't know if we in particular
can conceive of "nothing."

707
00:44:10,230 --> 00:44:13,525
But "nothing" is not having water.

708
00:44:14,234 --> 00:44:19,823
On some of the camps, you'll see
15 bags of flour for 27,500 people,

709
00:44:19,907 --> 00:44:23,410
and you see meningitis
and malaria and typhoid

710
00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:24,828
buzzing around in the air,

711
00:44:24,912 --> 00:44:27,247
and you see dead bodies
lying side by side.

712
00:44:29,083 --> 00:44:31,585
And it's that that we're here for,

713
00:44:32,086 --> 00:44:34,046
and I assume
that's why we're all here tonight.

714
00:44:34,129 --> 00:44:36,090
And I don't want to bring anybody down,

715
00:44:36,173 --> 00:44:39,343
but maybe it's the best way
of making what you really feel,

716
00:44:39,426 --> 00:44:42,262
why you're really here tonight,
come out through this song.

717
00:44:42,346 --> 00:44:45,015
So thanks a lot, everybody,
and let's hope it works.

718
00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:55,567
Quincy is so savvy.

719
00:44:55,651 --> 00:45:01,532
He used the Geldof speech to get people
to focus on what it was about.

720
00:45:02,449 --> 00:45:04,785
"We're having a good time here, but, like,

721
00:45:04,868 --> 00:45:08,080
I want you to put what you feel
into the song."

722
00:45:09,415 --> 00:45:13,544
I'd just performed at the AMAs.
You know, everyone having a great time,

723
00:45:13,627 --> 00:45:17,965
and then the reality
of him explaining why we're here,

724
00:45:18,048 --> 00:45:19,925
you just kinda go, "Wow."

725
00:45:20,926 --> 00:45:23,429
Everything sung in this room
will be unison,

726
00:45:23,512 --> 00:45:25,347
on each take,
on harmony parts and everything,

727
00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:28,225
so we don't have to stumble
with harmony inside the room.

728
00:45:28,308 --> 00:45:31,979
The first thing I like to do
is the lead to the choruses, okay?

729
00:45:33,355 --> 00:45:37,109
Can we hear about four bars without…
but without the track? Acapulco!

730
00:45:37,192 --> 00:45:38,694
One, two…

731
00:45:50,914 --> 00:45:52,291
Hold it, everybody, please.

732
00:45:52,374 --> 00:45:55,294
If everybody could groove
from their knees instead of their feet.

733
00:45:55,377 --> 00:45:58,338
We're getting an awful lot
of feet pounding on those risers.

734
00:45:59,757 --> 00:46:03,594
The tension was there because
we're not gonna have a lot of time.

735
00:46:03,677 --> 00:46:07,222
Technically, we need to be
really together, and we gotta move fast.

736
00:46:07,306 --> 00:46:08,974
Once again, guys, please.

737
00:46:10,851 --> 00:46:12,811
We had to learn the song.

738
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.

739
00:46:25,783 --> 00:46:29,453
The pressure was on us,
as the production group,

740
00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:32,956
to make sure,
when we let Springsteen go home,

741
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,751
when we let all these guys go home,
it's done, right?

742
00:46:35,834 --> 00:46:37,044
One night only

743
00:46:38,462 --> 00:46:40,088
to get this right.

744
00:46:41,548 --> 00:46:44,009
Right, now,
we'll do that all the way through,

745
00:46:44,092 --> 00:46:46,553
and up in the same octave
as Michael's singing it.

746
00:46:46,637 --> 00:46:49,515
Everybody that can't sing it that high,
just lay out.

747
00:46:49,598 --> 00:46:52,351
Just the high singers.
I don't wanna get octaves on this part.

748
00:46:52,434 --> 00:46:53,811
We're gonna do low octaves later.

749
00:46:53,894 --> 00:46:56,980
So, if it's too high for anybody,
they can just rest on the stack,

750
00:46:57,064 --> 00:46:59,817
and then we'll come back
and put it away. Okay?

751
00:47:00,442 --> 00:47:01,428
All right.

752
00:47:01,443 --> 00:47:04,238
So we'll play…
We'll make a playback, and we'll start…

753
00:47:04,321 --> 00:47:06,448
we'll start chopping wood, okay?

754
00:47:06,532 --> 00:47:09,493
Can I hear it, Hum?

755
00:47:13,372 --> 00:47:14,915
Everybody have cans?

756
00:47:37,187 --> 00:47:39,481
Bob Dylan knows himself

757
00:47:39,565 --> 00:47:43,735
he's not a singer
in the way that Stevie Wonder is.

758
00:47:49,283 --> 00:47:52,369
So Dylan
was probably more uncomfortable

759
00:47:52,452 --> 00:47:54,705
than any other person that was here.

760
00:48:01,378 --> 00:48:03,547
Somebody's
still singing an octave.

761
00:48:04,631 --> 00:48:07,217
The octaves… We really can't do
the octaves on this take.

762
00:48:07,301 --> 00:48:08,635
Huh?

763
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:09,970
- Just for them?
- Yes.

764
00:48:10,053 --> 00:48:12,431
Some of the singers were saying,
"That's not in my range."

765
00:48:12,514 --> 00:48:14,641
- How about you?
- I can't do it.

766
00:48:14,725 --> 00:48:15,976
Can't, right?

767
00:48:16,059 --> 00:48:19,062
If it was out of your range,
you're trying to figure out,

768
00:48:19,146 --> 00:48:22,274
"Well, maybe I can sing a harmony,"
but they didn't want any of that.

769
00:48:22,357 --> 00:48:24,651
They just wanted that solid unison.

770
00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:27,738
There's a singers' old saying,
"Suck along quietly."

771
00:48:27,821 --> 00:48:29,865
Sing it while it's in your range.

772
00:48:29,948 --> 00:48:31,909
When it gets out of your range, stop.

773
00:48:32,659 --> 00:48:35,078
You know, there are so many voices.
Nobody's gonna miss you.

774
00:48:35,162 --> 00:48:37,247
One, two, three.

775
00:48:39,625 --> 00:48:42,210
There's probably
60 or 70 people in the room.

776
00:48:42,711 --> 00:48:44,963
It was getting pretty ripe.

777
00:48:45,047 --> 00:48:49,760
My lights were big 5,000-watt,
fire-breathing instruments,

778
00:48:49,843 --> 00:48:52,763
so it got very warm in here.

779
00:48:54,264 --> 00:48:57,309
And that added to the tension.

780
00:48:58,143 --> 00:49:00,854
We had all the lighting guys
and four cameramen,

781
00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:04,358
and so you had to be really careful
to not get your cables tangled up

782
00:49:04,441 --> 00:49:06,318
and you had to be quiet.

783
00:49:06,985 --> 00:49:08,236
Wait a minute.

784
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,114
- Guys, you gotta keep it down.
- You gotta keep it quiet.

785
00:49:11,198 --> 00:49:13,659
We gotta stop making noise
in the takes, please.

786
00:49:16,787 --> 00:49:18,455
We're shooting the video

787
00:49:19,247 --> 00:49:20,247
and

788
00:49:21,041 --> 00:49:23,543
putting the song together
at the same time.

789
00:49:24,044 --> 00:49:26,296
Can anything go wrong? Absolutely!

790
00:49:27,172 --> 00:49:29,216
We were flying by the seat of our pants.

791
00:49:31,802 --> 00:49:35,305
The clock is ticking.
Quincy's worrying about the big picture.

792
00:49:35,389 --> 00:49:39,059
My job was,
if there was any problems on the floor,

793
00:49:39,142 --> 00:49:40,227
solve it.

794
00:49:40,310 --> 00:49:42,980
- Maybe a change.
- No, I think it should be "brighter."

795
00:49:43,063 --> 00:49:45,190
I feel like
everyone was singing "brighter."

796
00:49:45,273 --> 00:49:47,359
- This is "brighter"?
- Not "better,"brighter."

797
00:49:47,442 --> 00:49:49,277
Don't open a can of worms.
Stay with "brighter."

798
00:49:49,361 --> 00:49:50,696
Wanna do "better" or "brighter"?

799
00:49:50,779 --> 00:49:52,739
"Brighter" is the one
everyone's leaning to, right?

800
00:49:53,573 --> 00:49:58,036
Lionel Richie is the guy
to bring everyone together.

801
00:49:59,371 --> 00:50:03,500
I'm walking around
each little camp putting out fire.

802
00:50:04,751 --> 00:50:06,420
He was on adrenaline.

803
00:50:06,503 --> 00:50:09,047
He was just nonstop,
but he's like that anyway.

804
00:50:09,131 --> 00:50:11,591
He has stories to tell. "Let's do this."

805
00:50:11,675 --> 00:50:14,261
"Let me tell you something."
He's making people laugh.

806
00:50:14,344 --> 00:50:17,514
He's just making the water flow
in the right way.

807
00:50:18,265 --> 00:50:22,019
One line you can never use in life.

808
00:50:23,270 --> 00:50:25,355
"I'm not sure about this.
What do you think?"

809
00:50:25,439 --> 00:50:26,690
"Better" has more bite.

810
00:50:27,607 --> 00:50:30,610
We have 47 artists.

811
00:50:30,694 --> 00:50:35,657
If you say that, you'll have 47 different
versions of "We Are the World."

812
00:50:35,741 --> 00:50:37,784
So my job was to make sure,

813
00:50:37,868 --> 00:50:41,705
under no circumstances,
do we veer off what it is.

814
00:50:50,630 --> 00:50:52,632
What are you doin'? What are you…

815
00:50:52,716 --> 00:50:54,468
What is it? What does it mean?

816
00:50:54,551 --> 00:50:56,678
That's the translation
for "We Are the World."

817
00:50:57,721 --> 00:51:02,267
Stevie said, "I think we need to have
some Swahili somewhere in the song."

818
00:51:02,350 --> 00:51:05,520
"I think we should sing…"

819
00:51:05,604 --> 00:51:07,522
- In what language?
- Kiswahili.

820
00:51:07,606 --> 00:51:09,524
Okay, thank you very much.

821
00:51:09,608 --> 00:51:12,986
One, two, three, four. One…

822
00:51:20,243 --> 00:51:22,245
Not "mwangu,"mwengu."

823
00:51:29,753 --> 00:51:31,755
If we do this,
we're gonna run out of time,

824
00:51:31,838 --> 00:51:34,800
and if we run out of time,
it won't be good.

825
00:51:35,759 --> 00:51:37,260
I was in the corner of the room,

826
00:51:37,344 --> 00:51:39,888
happened to be
pretty close to Waylon Jennings,

827
00:51:39,971 --> 00:51:41,640
and I just heard him go…

828
00:51:41,723 --> 00:51:44,518
"Well, ain't no good 'ol boy
ever sung Swahili. Think I'm outta here."

829
00:51:44,601 --> 00:51:45,727
"I think I'm outta here."

830
00:51:50,565 --> 00:51:52,275
Waylon walks out of the door.

831
00:51:52,359 --> 00:51:54,778
"I'm not dealing with this.
I don't know what that means,

832
00:51:54,861 --> 00:51:58,031
but I am not gonna say it,"
and we lost Waylon right there.

833
00:51:58,615 --> 00:52:01,701
We're listening now.
Listening now.

834
00:52:06,498 --> 00:52:08,708
They don't speak Swahili, he says.

835
00:52:08,792 --> 00:52:12,546
Someone said, "Stevie,
they don't speak Swahili in Ethiopia."

836
00:52:12,629 --> 00:52:16,675
Well, there's a translation
in Swahili and a translation in Amharic.

837
00:52:16,758 --> 00:52:21,513
You could see the potential
for a 17-car linguistic pileup.

838
00:52:21,596 --> 00:52:23,723
I just think
that what you're trying to do is…

839
00:52:23,807 --> 00:52:26,309
There's no point talking
to the people who are starving,

840
00:52:26,393 --> 00:52:28,728
we're talking to the people
who've got the money to give.

841
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.

842
00:52:32,858 --> 00:52:35,068
- But what words do we use?
- I don't know…

843
00:52:35,152 --> 00:52:37,445
- If we don't have lines…
- …but they speak Amharic.

844
00:52:37,529 --> 00:52:39,573
The problem is
we don't have any lyrics there.

845
00:52:39,656 --> 00:52:41,741
The whole point is,
is it saying "we are the world"?

846
00:52:41,825 --> 00:52:43,160
What do we got, Smelly?

847
00:52:43,660 --> 00:52:46,997
I remember at that point,
'cause I'm shadowing Ray Charles,

848
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:51,209
and Ray goes, "Ring the bell, Quincy!
Ring the bell!"

849
00:52:52,460 --> 00:52:54,462
Which meant, "Let's get goin' here."

850
00:52:56,423 --> 00:52:59,050
A lot of people were getting
kind of impatient about it.

851
00:52:59,134 --> 00:53:00,343
Everybody's tired.

852
00:53:01,261 --> 00:53:03,889
People wanted to get on and get it done,

853
00:53:03,972 --> 00:53:07,976
and I think that's kinda where
"sha-la sha-lin-gay" may have come up.

854
00:53:20,864 --> 00:53:22,574
I guess it was Michael's idea

855
00:53:22,657 --> 00:53:25,285
of how we can get something
cultural sounding in here.

856
00:53:25,368 --> 00:53:30,707
"Sha-la. Sha-lin-gay. Sha-la.
'Cause that's what they're giving."

857
00:53:30,790 --> 00:53:33,501
Hey, wait, wait.
Excuse me. Excuse me.

858
00:53:35,587 --> 00:53:37,923
One second. One second.

859
00:53:38,757 --> 00:53:40,884
Hold it! Hold it!

860
00:53:42,427 --> 00:53:45,138
What we're saying is,
"'Cause that's what we're giving."

861
00:53:45,222 --> 00:53:46,389
What's what we're giving?

862
00:53:46,473 --> 00:53:49,017
I'm one of the few people
who'd say anything to Michael.

863
00:53:49,100 --> 00:53:51,144
- Doesn't make sense.
- "So let's start giving."

864
00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:53,355
Yeah. "So let's start giving"
would be better.

865
00:53:54,856 --> 00:53:57,525
I've known Michael Jackson
since he was ten years old

866
00:53:57,609 --> 00:53:59,986
when he first came to audition
to be a Motown member.

867
00:54:00,070 --> 00:54:02,405
He was singing and dancing
his butt off at ten years old.

868
00:54:02,489 --> 00:54:04,115
Wait, what do you wanna do?

869
00:54:04,199 --> 00:54:06,534
Michael's one of
the greatest artists we've ever had.

870
00:54:06,618 --> 00:54:08,578
One of the greatest songwriters ever.

871
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:11,665
So people were afraid to say,
"No, we shouldn't do that,"

872
00:54:11,748 --> 00:54:13,375
or, "That don't sound good."

873
00:54:13,458 --> 00:54:16,336
Well, you tell me
what "sha-la sha-lin-gay" means!

874
00:54:17,337 --> 00:54:20,090
When you grew up in Motown,
that's how we did each other,

875
00:54:20,173 --> 00:54:21,800
and we all love each other.

876
00:54:22,342 --> 00:54:25,136
Does everybody
like the lyric "one world"?

877
00:54:25,220 --> 00:54:26,721
- Yeah!
- It's great.

878
00:54:26,805 --> 00:54:29,099
- "One world."
- "One world."

879
00:54:29,182 --> 00:54:32,560
"One world, our children.
One world, so let's start giving."

880
00:54:32,644 --> 00:54:35,313
- Yeah.
- Everybody. Okay.

881
00:54:36,690 --> 00:54:37,691
Guys, one minute.

882
00:54:37,774 --> 00:54:40,652
Please don't change it
'cause my hearing's getting bad as well.

883
00:54:41,736 --> 00:54:44,864
- Let's put it on the tape!
- Well if you can, it's there.

884
00:54:44,948 --> 00:54:46,866
- Hit it!
- It's there.

885
00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:52,414
All right, hit it.

886
00:55:13,393 --> 00:55:15,645
Finally,
we finished singing the chorus.

887
00:55:15,729 --> 00:55:16,980
You know it!

888
00:55:17,063 --> 00:55:20,233
And Quincy
wants to say thank you to Harry Belafonte.

889
00:55:20,317 --> 00:55:24,112
Remember the guy who started
this whole thing, Harry Bela…

890
00:55:26,197 --> 00:55:29,826
Then, all of a sudden,
the most amazing thing happens.

891
00:55:30,827 --> 00:55:33,621
- d Day d
- d Is a day-o! d

892
00:55:36,499 --> 00:55:38,835
Harry Belafonte was
the most inspirational person

893
00:55:38,918 --> 00:55:40,420
for all of us who were there.

894
00:55:46,134 --> 00:55:48,970
Al Jarreau
started singing Harry Belafonte's song.

895
00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:50,889
All of a sudden, everybody jumps in.

896
00:56:34,724 --> 00:56:35,850
Thank you.

897
00:56:45,735 --> 00:56:46,986
In between the breaks,

898
00:56:47,070 --> 00:56:49,739
Ray would play another version
of "We Are the World,"

899
00:56:49,823 --> 00:56:53,076
the gospel version,
the "Georgia on My Mind" version.

900
00:56:54,911 --> 00:56:59,541
And so, at that moment,
I overhear Ray and Stevie talking.

901
00:56:59,624 --> 00:57:01,626
And Ray says,
"I got to go to the bathroom,"

902
00:57:01,709 --> 00:57:04,379
and then Stevie said,
"I'll show you where it is."

903
00:57:04,462 --> 00:57:06,673
He just grabbed him by the arm
and they walk,

904
00:57:06,756 --> 00:57:09,634
and everybody said,
"The blind really is leading the blind,"

905
00:57:09,717 --> 00:57:11,970
and we were all just bursting laughing.

906
00:57:14,931 --> 00:57:20,437
Fish burger. Fish burger!

907
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:21,604
People were hungry.

908
00:57:24,691 --> 00:57:27,610
Chicken and waffles!
Smothered chicken and waffles!

909
00:57:27,694 --> 00:57:31,531
Everybody was ordering chicken
and waffles, you know, from Roscoe's.

910
00:57:31,614 --> 00:57:34,993
And I never seen anybody who eats chicken
better than Lionel Richie.

911
00:57:35,076 --> 00:57:36,995
He eats the last little piece of bone.

912
00:57:37,078 --> 00:57:41,082
He sucks it up, and he eats,
and he puts them on top of the other one,

913
00:57:41,166 --> 00:57:44,919
so when he finishes, he has all these
little bones all layered properly.

914
00:57:45,003 --> 00:57:48,673
I said, "Brother, there's nobody that
can eat chicken better than you."

915
00:57:51,342 --> 00:57:53,136
When that break came,

916
00:57:54,596 --> 00:57:59,684
Diana walks up to Daryl Hall
with her music in her hands

917
00:57:59,767 --> 00:58:02,729
and says, "Daryl, I'm your biggest fan."

918
00:58:02,812 --> 00:58:05,899
"Would you sign my music for me?"

919
00:58:06,399 --> 00:58:09,903
And we all looked around
and said, "Holy moly!"

920
00:58:11,237 --> 00:58:14,741
Soon as she did it, it just started
happening all over the room.

921
00:58:14,824 --> 00:58:19,120
Seeing Cyndi Lauper
asking Lionel or the Boss,

922
00:58:19,204 --> 00:58:22,707
you know, that's dope that they wanna
get each other's autograph.

923
00:58:22,790 --> 00:58:26,419
And then, they come and ask me,
and I'm like, "They want my autograph?"

924
00:58:26,503 --> 00:58:29,547
Like, "Wow, that's really cool," you know?

925
00:58:30,632 --> 00:58:33,343
And so I called Prince to let him know
how it was going.

926
00:58:33,426 --> 00:58:35,470
I said, "I think maybe you should come."

927
00:58:35,553 --> 00:58:38,348
"It's pretty cool,
and, you know, everyone's hanging out."

928
00:58:38,431 --> 00:58:39,891
"We're having a great time."

929
00:58:49,984 --> 00:58:52,362
I'm now on the phone with Prince.

930
00:58:53,029 --> 00:58:54,822
He's at Carlos 'n Charlie's.

931
00:58:54,906 --> 00:58:57,617
He said, "I… I… I want…
I wanna play a guitar solo."

932
00:58:58,201 --> 00:58:59,285
"In another room."

933
00:58:59,369 --> 00:59:02,372
I said, "No, no, no, it's…
We're all in the same room."

934
00:59:02,455 --> 00:59:04,541
"I need you to come and sing."

935
00:59:04,624 --> 00:59:06,292
He wants to put a guitar,

936
00:59:06,376 --> 00:59:09,045
you know, and we just happen
to not need guitar on it.

937
00:59:10,922 --> 00:59:12,966
It was getting late.
I was looking forward

938
00:59:13,049 --> 00:59:14,717
to singing one of the verses,

939
00:59:14,801 --> 00:59:17,845
but they kept asking, "Well,
do you think you can get Prince here?"

940
00:59:17,929 --> 00:59:19,389
I'm like, "Wow, this is weird."

941
00:59:19,472 --> 00:59:23,935
And I just started feeling like,
"I feel like I'm being used, to be here,

942
00:59:24,018 --> 00:59:26,271
because they want Prince to show up,

943
00:59:26,354 --> 00:59:29,107
and the longer they keep me,
maybe Prince will show up."

944
00:59:30,858 --> 00:59:33,861
I'm sure they were waiting
for his limousine to pull up,

945
00:59:34,362 --> 00:59:36,155
but he didn't show up.

946
00:59:37,365 --> 00:59:40,868
I already knew he wasn't gonna come,
'cause there was too many people,

947
00:59:40,952 --> 00:59:42,453
and he would feel uncomfortable.

948
00:59:43,580 --> 00:59:45,373
I told Lionel, I said, "I'm gonna go."

949
00:59:45,456 --> 00:59:47,834
They never intended
on having me sing a verse,

950
00:59:48,334 --> 00:59:50,503
which was a little bit… heartbreaking.

951
00:59:54,007 --> 00:59:57,635
We had done the hook,
so we're now going into the solos.

952
01:00:04,183 --> 01:00:05,183
Your two lines.

953
01:00:12,525 --> 01:00:15,194
Michael came to me
and said, "Prince isn't coming,

954
01:00:15,278 --> 01:00:18,865
so we have a spot on the line
that needs a soloist."

955
01:00:18,948 --> 01:00:21,784
"Who do you recommend?"
And I said, "Huey Lewis."

956
01:00:23,536 --> 01:00:25,872
Huey Lewis
has a great solo voice.

957
01:00:27,332 --> 01:00:29,876
Somebody tapped me and said,
"Quincy wants you."

958
01:00:29,959 --> 01:00:33,087
They brought me to Quincy. He says,
"Smelly, come over here. Get Michael."

959
01:00:33,838 --> 01:00:35,923
And he said, "Sing the line for Huey."

960
01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:44,557
So now I get Prince's line. I mean,
those are pretty big shoes to fill!

961
01:00:44,641 --> 01:00:46,184
- Yeah!
- Can I go now? Oh no.

962
01:00:46,267 --> 01:00:50,021
From that moment on,
I was nervous out of my brain.

963
01:00:51,314 --> 01:00:52,216
Okay?

964
01:00:52,231 --> 01:00:54,192
We got a line and waiting here.

965
01:00:55,902 --> 01:00:57,612
Parts, parts, all done.

966
01:00:57,695 --> 01:01:00,531
By the time
we really got down to do some solos,

967
01:01:01,032 --> 01:01:03,284
some people were asking,
"Why does he have that part?"

968
01:01:03,368 --> 01:01:06,871
Or "Why does she have that part?"
And the answer was, "It fits their range."

969
01:01:06,954 --> 01:01:09,207
You've got that line here.
"Let us realize…"

970
01:01:09,290 --> 01:01:12,335
Quincy told me
who I was gonna sing with,

971
01:01:12,418 --> 01:01:15,880
and I said, "Willie Nelson?
Hmm. Interesting."

972
01:01:17,632 --> 01:01:19,550
I was certainly surprised.

973
01:01:22,470 --> 01:01:26,224
We all gathered around the piano,
and Stevie Wonder's playing the song,

974
01:01:26,307 --> 01:01:28,017
and we sang it acoustically.

975
01:01:34,232 --> 01:01:38,986
And Stevie Wonder, you could see
the different voices register in his face.

976
01:01:42,990 --> 01:01:45,326
About halfway through,
as he's playing,

977
01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:47,954
he's going, "Wow. So many stars."

978
01:01:54,127 --> 01:01:55,586
Yeah!

979
01:01:55,670 --> 01:01:57,839
The first run-through
around the piano,

980
01:01:57,922 --> 01:02:01,384
that's when we first heard
what it was actually gonna sound like.

981
01:02:02,051 --> 01:02:03,845
I'll never forget. It was amazing.

982
01:02:03,928 --> 01:02:06,723
To hear all those personalities
on that thing

983
01:02:06,806 --> 01:02:08,641
for the very first time on that song…

984
01:02:09,225 --> 01:02:11,602
Hair stands up on my back
just thinkin' about it.

985
01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:25,700
We'd marked tape on the floor
with the names,

986
01:02:26,284 --> 01:02:27,869
so it was a big U shape.

987
01:02:27,952 --> 01:02:31,080
It started here
and went all the way around.

988
01:02:32,248 --> 01:02:35,084
I remember going through
and counting them.

989
01:02:35,168 --> 01:02:38,254
"Okay, there's gonna be three here,
there'll be two here."

990
01:02:38,838 --> 01:02:42,049
I'm looking at this list of names
on the floor.

991
01:02:42,133 --> 01:02:45,178
I'm like, "This is gonna be unbelievable."

992
01:02:47,513 --> 01:02:48,848
Springsteen was here.

993
01:02:48,931 --> 01:02:49,931
Testing, one, two.

994
01:02:49,974 --> 01:02:51,476
I was right there.

995
01:02:52,518 --> 01:02:55,062
Michael Jackson's right here.
I sing right after Michael.

996
01:02:55,146 --> 01:02:56,606
We got you covered.

997
01:02:56,689 --> 01:03:00,151
You know it's with me, right?

998
01:03:00,234 --> 01:03:03,237
That circle
was the intimidating circle of life.

999
01:03:03,321 --> 01:03:04,405
Quincy was right.

1000
01:03:04,489 --> 01:03:07,825
When it's time for your part to sing,
you are going to give 200%

1001
01:03:07,909 --> 01:03:10,036
because the class is looking at you.

1002
01:03:10,703 --> 01:03:14,999
And to see everyone's preparation
and vulnerability

1003
01:03:15,750 --> 01:03:18,711
was pretty… amazing.

1004
01:03:19,212 --> 01:03:21,380
You were on your game at that point.

1005
01:03:21,464 --> 01:03:23,591
What we do is we have mics in front of us,

1006
01:03:23,674 --> 01:03:26,469
but what we'll do is
you lean in on your part.

1007
01:03:27,220 --> 01:03:29,388
And then, when the other person comes in,

1008
01:03:29,472 --> 01:03:31,682
when you duet with someone,
whatever the case is,

1009
01:03:31,766 --> 01:03:33,559
when your part comes up, lean in.

1010
01:03:33,643 --> 01:03:36,729
Don't sing back here. You sing back here,
we'll never know your words.

1011
01:03:36,813 --> 01:03:38,856
- Step in or lean?
- No. Come on in.

1012
01:03:38,940 --> 01:03:41,442
- Even though your name's back here.
- Do your regular thing.

1013
01:03:41,526 --> 01:03:42,819
- D'you follow?
- Yeah.

1014
01:03:42,902 --> 01:03:44,946
This is real recording. It's just…

1015
01:03:45,029 --> 01:03:47,114
The names are back there,
but the mics are up here.

1016
01:03:47,198 --> 01:03:49,367
- Come to the microphone!
- Are we ready to do it?

1017
01:03:49,450 --> 01:03:51,953
- Let me know when you're ready!
- Ready!

1018
01:04:07,009 --> 01:04:09,095
Can we do it again?
I messed my start.

1019
01:04:09,178 --> 01:04:10,513
Okay.

1020
01:04:10,596 --> 01:04:12,098
Stevie says he's messed up.

1021
01:04:12,181 --> 01:04:15,560
Heh-heh!
I was flat. I was so flat.

1022
01:04:16,352 --> 01:04:17,645
How flat is that?

1023
01:04:18,229 --> 01:04:21,190
- Stevie messed up. How did he do that?
- Stevie.

1024
01:04:21,274 --> 01:04:23,025
- Is that legal?
- Never!

1025
01:04:23,109 --> 01:04:27,071
Stevie screws it up playfully,
as only Stevie can.

1026
01:04:27,154 --> 01:04:29,198
Kinda almost on purpose,
kinda having fun with it.

1027
01:04:29,282 --> 01:04:30,700
Stevie was not nervous.

1028
01:04:30,783 --> 01:04:32,618
Never! I never mess my note.

1029
01:04:32,702 --> 01:04:34,996
It's my "thoat."

1030
01:04:37,081 --> 01:04:39,584
Quincy raised his voice.
"We gotta get you there!"

1031
01:04:39,667 --> 01:04:40,918
He screamed at us.

1032
01:04:41,002 --> 01:04:42,002
Please.

1033
01:04:42,670 --> 01:04:44,714
I'd never seen him like that.

1034
01:04:45,715 --> 01:04:48,009
Quincy, Quincy, hey!

1035
01:04:52,305 --> 01:04:54,640
Quincy Jones
was always very calm.

1036
01:04:54,724 --> 01:04:56,642
His only concern was time.

1037
01:04:57,643 --> 01:04:59,562
We got a lot to do.
Still a long way to go.

1038
01:05:13,492 --> 01:05:15,828
- Can I help?
- It's good!

1039
01:05:15,912 --> 01:05:17,872
- It's tough because we're…
- I just get…

1040
01:05:17,955 --> 01:05:20,291
We're far…
We're far apart. Can I help?

1041
01:05:20,374 --> 01:05:23,127
Then you go…
d Greatest gift of all… d

1042
01:05:23,210 --> 01:05:24,503
And you go… d All d

1043
01:05:24,587 --> 01:05:26,631
Ah, that's my part.
♪ The greatest gift of… d

1044
01:05:26,714 --> 01:05:28,799
He's talking about switching parts.
I think I can do it.

1045
01:05:28,883 --> 01:05:30,718
- Switch parts with me?
- Step back, sing louder.

1046
01:05:30,801 --> 01:05:31,802
Just hard to sing it soft.

1047
01:05:31,886 --> 01:05:35,431
It was 4 a.m. and they're singing
their most important part.

1048
01:05:35,514 --> 01:05:38,476
So you're gonna get a little testy.
You're gonna be a little tired.

1049
01:05:38,559 --> 01:05:41,270
Gives me a weird jump,
though, after my melody, you know?

1050
01:05:41,354 --> 01:05:44,815
In my camera, they're huge 'cause
I'm just right there underneath 'em.

1051
01:05:44,899 --> 01:05:46,943
You could reach out,
and you could touch that person.

1052
01:05:47,026 --> 01:05:48,194
They're just right there.

1053
01:05:50,905 --> 01:05:52,740
I was a big fan of Paul Simon.

1054
01:05:55,451 --> 01:05:57,536
Here he is, right here.
He's singing in my face.

1055
01:05:59,705 --> 01:06:01,958
Kenny Rogers, when he hits that high note,

1056
01:06:02,041 --> 01:06:06,087
and he just squeezes his face up,
it's like, "God, he just…"

1057
01:06:09,382 --> 01:06:12,218
At the time, I was thinking,
"I can't believe people are paying me

1058
01:06:12,301 --> 01:06:13,552
to shoot this incredible stuff."

1059
01:06:22,478 --> 01:06:26,482
Dionne Warwick's turn was up,
and we had a little technical problem.

1060
01:06:29,026 --> 01:06:31,112
- Yeah?
- Are you hearing your own voice?

1061
01:06:31,195 --> 01:06:33,322
Yes.

1062
01:06:40,037 --> 01:06:42,873
Indiana. Who is she? Get her outta here.

1063
01:06:43,541 --> 01:06:46,043
There was a little panic technically here.

1064
01:06:46,127 --> 01:06:48,713
We have some issue
with some noise in the playback.

1065
01:06:48,796 --> 01:06:52,133
At one point, I said, "Whatever it takes,
we gotta get this shit going."

1066
01:06:52,216 --> 01:06:54,802
This is… We gotta take off again,
no matter what.

1067
01:06:54,885 --> 01:06:56,595
- Is it still there?
- Yeah.

1068
01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:59,056
- Suppose it's leakage…
- Could be someone else's mic.

1069
01:06:59,140 --> 01:07:00,808
All the other tracks are off.

1070
01:07:00,891 --> 01:07:02,935
Then there's really
no excuse for this.

1071
01:07:03,519 --> 01:07:06,772
- Find out what the problem is.
- Shoulda used my studio.

1072
01:07:18,367 --> 01:07:20,119
Still hearing the other voice.

1073
01:07:20,202 --> 01:07:22,329
- Sorry. It's a mystery.
- Ghosts!

1074
01:07:22,830 --> 01:07:25,249
- So who you gonna call?
- She… Ghostbusters!

1075
01:07:26,751 --> 01:07:29,712
- Aykroyd's in the echo chamber.
- Aykroyd.

1076
01:07:29,795 --> 01:07:32,089
It kinda put a little tension.

1077
01:07:32,590 --> 01:07:34,383
- It's gone.
- Yay.

1078
01:07:34,467 --> 01:07:36,218
We found it that time
whatever it was.

1079
01:07:36,302 --> 01:07:39,847
It was a little tough,
but we went right back into our plan,

1080
01:07:39,930 --> 01:07:41,557
getting these vocals done.

1081
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.

1082
01:07:45,352 --> 01:07:46,479
Here we go.

1083
01:07:49,106 --> 01:07:50,274
Yeah.

1084
01:07:54,361 --> 01:07:55,696
Al.

1085
01:07:58,074 --> 01:08:00,743
It goes all the way through
to Al Jarreau, who messes up,

1086
01:08:00,826 --> 01:08:02,828
and so they go, "Boom,"
and so they start again.

1087
01:08:06,457 --> 01:08:09,376
- d We… As God has shown us d
- d As God has shown us d

1088
01:08:10,002 --> 01:08:14,006
It's Al Jarreau, he was a little
over-the-top in… in the

1089
01:08:14,715 --> 01:08:16,217
in the alcohol section.

1090
01:08:20,846 --> 01:08:22,223
Ha, ha, ha, ha.

1091
01:08:22,306 --> 01:08:23,933
I'm sorry. Oh man.

1092
01:08:24,016 --> 01:08:26,060
- That's Willie and me.
- Right.

1093
01:08:26,143 --> 01:08:27,269
Al was interesting.

1094
01:08:27,353 --> 01:08:29,605
Okay, I gotta tell you
the funny part about Al.

1095
01:08:32,274 --> 01:08:35,444
Al wanted to celebrate
before we had done the song.

1096
01:08:37,071 --> 01:08:38,280
He kept saying,

1097
01:08:38,364 --> 01:08:41,117
"Bring another bottle of wine in.
We're gonna celebrate."

1098
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:45,371
So every time another bottle came in,
I took the bottle back out.

1099
01:08:45,454 --> 01:08:47,289
Stevie, can we have the keyboard first.

1100
01:08:47,373 --> 01:08:49,667
We're gonna have you
rehearse that little part.

1101
01:08:49,750 --> 01:08:53,337
We had to work very hard to get

1102
01:08:54,213 --> 01:08:55,256
Al's part on

1103
01:08:55,339 --> 01:08:58,259
before Al couldn't remember
what his part was.

1104
01:09:04,431 --> 01:09:06,142
Right. Yes.

1105
01:09:06,225 --> 01:09:08,102
Right. Again for me?

1106
01:09:08,185 --> 01:09:10,146
- Just play the track.
- Please?

1107
01:09:10,229 --> 01:09:12,982
That's enough.
As… As it was there, it's enough.

1108
01:09:13,065 --> 01:09:15,985
Every time they go back
and rewind, it takes about five minutes.

1109
01:09:16,068 --> 01:09:18,779
So it's like you create a real tension
every time you rewind.

1110
01:09:34,753 --> 01:09:38,215
"What do I do after Bruce Springsteen?"
It's like… What would you do?

1111
01:09:38,299 --> 01:09:41,802
And then I went
for a sweeter kind of soul thing.

1112
01:09:47,266 --> 01:09:48,726
Kenny Loggins was awesome,

1113
01:09:48,809 --> 01:09:51,270
and they got to Steve Perry
and Daryl Hall, and it was like,

1114
01:09:51,353 --> 01:09:52,396
"Oh my God."

1115
01:10:05,409 --> 01:10:07,119
- All right!
- Hey.

1116
01:10:07,828 --> 01:10:11,999
Steve Perry can sing.
He's got that great voice,

1117
01:10:12,082 --> 01:10:13,792
up in that Sam Cooke territory.

1118
01:10:13,876 --> 01:10:16,086
Gimme another one.
Gimme at least two more.

1119
01:10:16,170 --> 01:10:18,881
These guys are getting
three and four shots at their line.

1120
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,

1121
01:10:22,635 --> 01:10:24,303
you know, and I'm freaked out.

1122
01:10:25,304 --> 01:10:28,974
I was watching
all of these people singing.

1123
01:10:29,058 --> 01:10:31,852
I just was trying to remember to breathe.

1124
01:10:31,936 --> 01:10:35,439
I said to Quincy and Humberto,
"Next time somebody screws up,

1125
01:10:35,522 --> 01:10:38,609
can you just kinda keep goin'
so we can rehearse our lines?"

1126
01:10:38,692 --> 01:10:39,735
"And the bridge?"

1127
01:10:39,818 --> 01:10:43,197
And he goes, "Oh yeah, okay, cool,"
and Michael, who was next to me,

1128
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:45,908
says, "That's a good idea."
I said, "Thanks, Mike."

1129
01:10:45,991 --> 01:10:48,535
- Go for the bridge now?
- You wanna go bridge?

1130
01:10:48,619 --> 01:10:51,038
- To the bridge. Take me to the bridge.
- To the bridge.

1131
01:10:51,121 --> 01:10:52,957
- To the bridge.
- The bridge.

1132
01:10:53,582 --> 01:10:55,292
Everybody to the bridge.

1133
01:10:56,752 --> 01:10:58,963
Okay, Huey.
It's your turn.

1134
01:11:01,757 --> 01:11:04,260
Boy, you are effing ready
to go home.

1135
01:11:04,343 --> 01:11:08,222
Just in case something
might fuck up, and let it roll.

1136
01:11:08,305 --> 01:11:11,934
I mean, it was just one line,
but my legs were literally shaking.

1137
01:11:42,131 --> 01:11:44,550
Do you want that in harm…
Do you want that last…

1138
01:11:45,050 --> 01:11:48,053
- Do you want that last one in harmony?
- d Stand together as one d

1139
01:11:48,554 --> 01:11:52,308
That's so good. You want to
join her? The three of you join her on…

1140
01:11:53,475 --> 01:11:55,978
- That'd be real neat.
- ♪ Stand together as one d

1141
01:11:56,395 --> 01:11:59,690
But then they said,
"Sing in harmony with Cyndi and Kim."

1142
01:12:00,274 --> 01:12:02,651
The demo didn't have
any harmony parts or any…

1143
01:12:02,735 --> 01:12:05,529
I'm gonna have to make something up here.

1144
01:12:05,612 --> 01:12:07,031
Make up a three-part harmony

1145
01:12:07,114 --> 01:12:12,202
in front of… …Stevie Wonder,
Ray Charles, Kenny Loggins, Daryl Hall.

1146
01:12:13,203 --> 01:12:14,538
What am I supposed to sing?

1147
01:12:14,621 --> 01:12:16,206
That was very nerve-racking.

1148
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:23,464
It's on "stand," isn't it? Yeah.

1149
01:12:23,547 --> 01:12:25,549
What's yours?
What's yours, Kim?

1150
01:12:32,848 --> 01:12:35,017
I'm too burned out
to tell anybody anything.

1151
01:12:39,396 --> 01:12:40,397
And just hit it.

1152
01:12:46,195 --> 01:12:48,781
I'll try it.
It's high for me, but I'll try it.

1153
01:13:10,302 --> 01:13:12,846
My fault. I was a bit out of tune.
I didn't go down.

1154
01:13:12,930 --> 01:13:15,099
I thought Huey
was gonna blow his head off.

1155
01:13:15,182 --> 01:13:18,852
Cyndi can sing octaves, and poor Hugh
was hangin' on for dear life,

1156
01:13:18,936 --> 01:13:20,771
so he couldn't take too many of those.

1157
01:13:20,854 --> 01:13:23,273
I sang it out of tune
just to see if anybody would notice.

1158
01:13:26,318 --> 01:13:31,323
Cyndi absolutely killed
that line, but there was something wrong.

1159
01:13:31,407 --> 01:13:35,077
Dude, listen to it. There's like
harmonic things happening when she sings.

1160
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:36,912
It almost sounds like conversation.

1161
01:13:36,995 --> 01:13:40,290
They kept saying, "What's that noise?"
"What's that noise?"

1162
01:13:40,374 --> 01:13:43,419
Play back the first part
of the other one, and then…

1163
01:13:45,838 --> 01:13:47,339
Humberto was going like,

1164
01:13:47,423 --> 01:13:50,259
"We have so much noise on her track.
What is going on?"

1165
01:13:50,342 --> 01:13:52,428
The mic is dying.
You need to replace that mic.

1166
01:13:52,511 --> 01:13:53,929
No, the mic is beautiful.

1167
01:13:54,555 --> 01:13:55,639
The mic is beautiful?

1168
01:13:55,722 --> 01:13:57,641
There's nothing wrong
with the mic.

1169
01:13:57,724 --> 01:13:59,143
The mic is beautiful.

1170
01:13:59,226 --> 01:14:00,894
Sounds like people are talking.

1171
01:14:00,978 --> 01:14:03,564
Or laughing or something.
Every time you sing.

1172
01:14:03,647 --> 01:14:06,608
Well, I don't think it's funny,
and you should stop laughing

1173
01:14:06,692 --> 01:14:08,527
when I'm singing because…

1174
01:14:11,321 --> 01:14:13,699
Cyndi,
you have a lot of, uh, bracelets.

1175
01:14:14,366 --> 01:14:16,076
Oh! Is that…

1176
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:17,494
Oh, my earrings.

1177
01:14:17,578 --> 01:14:19,705
That did not occur to me.

1178
01:14:20,330 --> 01:14:21,540
Oh, sorry.

1179
01:14:21,623 --> 01:14:22,875
Oh, I'm loaded.

1180
01:14:22,958 --> 01:14:26,795
There goes the whole outfit!

1181
01:14:28,005 --> 01:14:29,798
No. I'm sorry.

1182
01:14:30,757 --> 01:14:33,135
That's the chatter. Okay.

1183
01:14:37,014 --> 01:14:38,557
That's the talking.

1184
01:14:42,060 --> 01:14:45,772
We needed that little moment
of laughter to bring us back down

1185
01:14:45,856 --> 01:14:47,858
before we rounded that corner.

1186
01:14:47,941 --> 01:14:50,944
Do the same punch, though, Huey.
Right after Michael.

1187
01:15:04,833 --> 01:15:11,798
- d When we stand together as one d
- d Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! d

1188
01:15:13,008 --> 01:15:17,012
- Oh, I hung over too much?
- No! That's gold. That's gold.

1189
01:15:19,389 --> 01:15:20,682
You got that?

1190
01:15:21,391 --> 01:15:23,852
It was a take!

1191
01:15:23,936 --> 01:15:27,022
Because I devoted
my whole life to singing,

1192
01:15:27,105 --> 01:15:29,733
to be among those singers

1193
01:15:29,816 --> 01:15:33,779
and actually be a part of their community

1194
01:15:33,862 --> 01:15:35,739
was otherworldly.

1195
01:15:36,949 --> 01:15:38,825
If we leave Ray's hole open.

1196
01:15:38,909 --> 01:15:41,328
Yes. He's much older than me, you know.

1197
01:15:44,414 --> 01:15:48,460
This left Bob Dylan
and Bruce doing the ad-libs.

1198
01:15:49,378 --> 01:15:51,922
Quincy called it
"serious fills."

1199
01:15:52,005 --> 01:15:54,091
Like, "We're gonna do
the serious fills now."

1200
01:15:54,174 --> 01:15:55,592
Bring it down a bit, Bob.

1201
01:15:55,676 --> 01:15:57,052
Here he is, Bob Dylan.

1202
01:15:58,428 --> 01:16:01,348
- "There's a choice we're making."
- Yeah. But… Yeah. Okay.

1203
01:16:01,431 --> 01:16:04,851
He is a legendary,
iconic symbol

1204
01:16:04,935 --> 01:16:07,271
to Americans and the world…

1205
01:16:07,354 --> 01:16:08,689
Quiet, please. Here we go.

1206
01:16:08,772 --> 01:16:13,902
…so we were expecting
something amazing to happen.

1207
01:16:21,827 --> 01:16:22,827
Okay.

1208
01:16:25,831 --> 01:16:28,125
You got it. On a different track.

1209
01:16:40,721 --> 01:16:43,015
Okay, you just have…
you have to run that…

1210
01:16:43,098 --> 01:16:45,392
- Okay. Sure.
- …back a lot of times.

1211
01:16:45,475 --> 01:16:48,812
I think he was a little confused
because it just didn't seem like Bob

1212
01:16:48,895 --> 01:16:51,648
was understanding
how he was supposed to sing, or…

1213
01:16:51,732 --> 01:16:55,110
Is he supposed to be more like this chorus
or more like Bob Dylan?

1214
01:16:55,193 --> 01:16:58,905
That's beautiful, and what's nice
is you singing along with the chorus too.

1215
01:16:58,989 --> 01:17:02,284
That's the only time we do an octave.
Like, that's beautiful.

1216
01:17:02,367 --> 01:17:04,995
- I get out right after "me," right?
- Just after "you and me."

1217
01:17:05,078 --> 01:17:07,998
The thing you were doing up there,
singing along with the chorus.

1218
01:17:08,081 --> 01:17:09,708
"We are the children." That's nice, man.

1219
01:17:09,791 --> 01:17:11,001
Quincy was amazing.

1220
01:17:11,084 --> 01:17:12,794
- Okay.
- That's beautiful.

1221
01:17:12,878 --> 01:17:15,964
Production is interesting.
You gotta be more than a great musician.

1222
01:17:16,048 --> 01:17:18,383
You gotta be like a psychiatrist.

1223
01:17:20,344 --> 01:17:24,514
- That's where he's goin' in on.
- Stevie. Can… Can he play it one time?

1224
01:17:24,598 --> 01:17:29,603
The secret agent to help him
get comfortable was Stevie Wonder.

1225
01:17:32,606 --> 01:17:34,608
We're gonna
rehearse it in here first.

1226
01:17:35,942 --> 01:17:39,237
Stevie
is an insanely great mimic.

1227
01:17:54,878 --> 01:17:58,965
Stevie sang it ventriloquially
in Dylan's voice.

1228
01:18:03,762 --> 01:18:06,765
Stevie's one of those guys,
he can sing the phone book.

1229
01:18:06,848 --> 01:18:09,893
Anytime you're around him,
you're around a genius,

1230
01:18:09,976 --> 01:18:11,561
and he's also very sweet.

1231
01:18:15,565 --> 01:18:16,900
Here we go, Bobby.

1232
01:18:17,901 --> 01:18:19,611
Must be in a dream, huh?

1233
01:18:21,697 --> 01:18:24,574
But at this point,
there were a lot of people in the room.

1234
01:18:24,658 --> 01:18:26,785
Still photographers and others.

1235
01:18:27,411 --> 01:18:31,873
Having all these people around, for Bob,
it's not the way he normally works.

1236
01:18:33,500 --> 01:18:35,377
Yo! Yo!

1237
01:18:35,460 --> 01:18:37,170
Now, here's what we're gonna do!

1238
01:18:37,921 --> 01:18:40,424
One last time,
if you're not in Bob's group recording,

1239
01:18:40,507 --> 01:18:42,884
please clear the room. Go.

1240
01:18:43,468 --> 01:18:45,929
Then it just became
Stevie at the piano

1241
01:18:46,012 --> 01:18:49,725
and Dylan at the microphone
and Quincy at his podium.

1242
01:18:49,808 --> 01:18:51,643
All right, man, let's do it.

1243
01:19:13,790 --> 01:19:15,959
Yes! Come on!

1244
01:19:16,042 --> 01:19:19,004
Yes! Yes! Ow!

1245
01:19:19,087 --> 01:19:20,380
I'm sorry. You did it.

1246
01:19:20,464 --> 01:19:23,633
- That wasn't any good.
- I'm telling you, we got it.

1247
01:19:23,717 --> 01:19:24,968
That was fantastic.

1248
01:19:25,051 --> 01:19:27,179
If you say so.

1249
01:19:27,262 --> 01:19:28,889
I know you know.

1250
01:19:28,972 --> 01:19:31,224
I swear it is, man.
It's perfect, man.

1251
01:19:31,308 --> 01:19:32,476
- All right.
- Perfect.

1252
01:19:34,644 --> 01:19:37,314
Springsteen came in
and said, "Nice, Dylan."

1253
01:19:37,397 --> 01:19:38,397
Called him "Dylan."

1254
01:19:39,107 --> 01:19:41,902
I'd listened to Dylan,
you know, since I was a kid,

1255
01:19:41,985 --> 01:19:45,822
and it was great to see him there
and have a little interaction with him,

1256
01:19:45,906 --> 01:19:47,240
so, uh, it was fun.

1257
01:19:47,324 --> 01:19:49,451
"The choice we're makin'.
We're takin' the… the…"

1258
01:19:49,534 --> 01:19:51,787
Is that the part
you're talking about? Great.

1259
01:19:53,330 --> 01:19:55,123
So this is… this is the end, right?

1260
01:19:55,207 --> 01:19:58,210
This is… We're in the end?
This is the end of the song, right?

1261
01:19:58,293 --> 01:19:59,293
- Yeah.
- Okay.

1262
01:20:00,420 --> 01:20:02,047
One, two.

1263
01:20:02,130 --> 01:20:05,759
There was very serious concern
about Springsteen's voice.

1264
01:20:05,842 --> 01:20:09,513
I'll do a little bit. You tell me if it's,
you know…

1265
01:20:09,596 --> 01:20:12,516
Listen. It's like being a cheerleader
to the chorus.

1266
01:20:12,599 --> 01:20:14,810
- Okay.
- Know what I mean? Say, "Come on!"

1267
01:20:14,893 --> 01:20:16,269
- All right.
- Just get it on.

1268
01:20:16,353 --> 01:20:18,897
I was just on
the Born in the U.S.A. Tour.

1269
01:20:18,980 --> 01:20:19,980
I was pretty tired.

1270
01:20:20,524 --> 01:20:22,192
- Quincy, you ready?
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.

1271
01:20:22,275 --> 01:20:23,443
Here we go.

1272
01:20:23,527 --> 01:20:25,320
But I just started singing.

1273
01:20:35,705 --> 01:20:38,875
My voice was not great,
but I sung as best as I could.

1274
01:20:58,270 --> 01:20:59,563
Did I get it right there?

1275
01:21:00,856 --> 01:21:02,774
- Okay.
- Something like that?

1276
01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:05,235
- Exactly like that. Exactly.
- Okay.

1277
01:21:05,318 --> 01:21:06,862
We're gonna redo that track.

1278
01:21:06,945 --> 01:21:08,697
- Okay, here we go.
- Right here and now?

1279
01:21:08,780 --> 01:21:11,283
Bruce is just
quintessentially Bruce on that thing.

1280
01:21:11,366 --> 01:21:14,077
Sounds like he's got broken glass
in his throat.

1281
01:22:14,679 --> 01:22:15,931
Thank you. Thank you.

1282
01:22:17,432 --> 01:22:19,267
Broke a legitimate sweat, that did.

1283
01:22:24,105 --> 01:22:26,399
- Yeah. Hell.
- You're officially on vacation.

1284
01:22:26,483 --> 01:22:28,610
- I can go home?
- You're on vacation.

1285
01:22:28,693 --> 01:22:30,570
That sounds good!

1286
01:22:31,196 --> 01:22:32,196
We got it.

1287
01:22:32,656 --> 01:22:34,157
All the hard work is done.

1288
01:22:35,492 --> 01:22:37,702
When it was over,
we were exhilarated

1289
01:22:37,786 --> 01:22:40,372
and exhausted to be sure.
We'd been up all night.

1290
01:22:40,455 --> 01:22:42,165
But even then, on the evening,

1291
01:22:42,248 --> 01:22:46,378
you knew that we'd done something
that was gonna live forever.

1292
01:22:46,461 --> 01:22:49,255
You killed it. And we…
And we made it through.

1293
01:22:49,339 --> 01:22:51,257
- Is it okay?
- Yeah.

1294
01:22:58,556 --> 01:23:02,394
Lionel, we've got good solos
from everybody. It was perfect.

1295
01:23:02,477 --> 01:23:04,854
Okay, that's the bottom line.
We feel the same.

1296
01:23:08,984 --> 01:23:10,110
Oh good.

1297
01:23:11,569 --> 01:23:14,906
Trying to get 40 superstars together
in the same place at the same time

1298
01:23:14,990 --> 01:23:16,074
is impossible really.

1299
01:23:16,741 --> 01:23:19,160
That's why, all of a sudden,
when Springsteen said,

1300
01:23:19,244 --> 01:23:21,496
"Right after my show,
I'm coming to California."

1301
01:23:21,579 --> 01:23:23,581
Paul Simon, "I'm on my way."

1302
01:23:23,665 --> 01:23:25,542
Billy Joel, "I'm on my way."

1303
01:23:25,625 --> 01:23:27,335
Bob Dylan…

1304
01:23:27,836 --> 01:23:30,880
In this room, this family grew.

1305
01:23:30,964 --> 01:23:33,341
However you feel comfortable.

1306
01:23:34,426 --> 01:23:35,844
You can do an aerial shot.

1307
01:23:35,927 --> 01:23:38,138
- Quince, where you gonna sit?
- Right there.

1308
01:23:40,682 --> 01:23:42,767
Whoa, here it comes.

1309
01:23:44,936 --> 01:23:46,855
The adrenaline just took the train.

1310
01:23:48,648 --> 01:23:51,401
The adrenaline just caught the bus.

1311
01:23:51,484 --> 01:23:54,779
They basically said,
"That's it, guys. Wrap it up."

1312
01:23:54,863 --> 01:23:56,031
"Let's go home."

1313
01:23:57,866 --> 01:23:59,242
Whoo! What a night!

1314
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,

1315
01:24:02,829 --> 01:24:05,457
I had kinda like made up an invoice,
and they go,

1316
01:24:05,540 --> 01:24:08,209
"Invoice? There's no invoice!
This was all volunteer."

1317
01:24:08,293 --> 01:24:10,295
"Everybody here is a volunteer." I went,

1318
01:24:11,296 --> 01:24:15,383
"All right! Well, I got this cool T-shirt
and a great story, so, okay!"

1319
01:24:21,931 --> 01:24:25,810
And Diana Ross stayed
after everybody was gone.

1320
01:24:27,103 --> 01:24:29,105
And I hear her crying.

1321
01:24:30,482 --> 01:24:32,817
Quincy said, "Diana, are you okay?"

1322
01:24:32,901 --> 01:24:37,155
And she's like,
"I don't want this to be over."

1323
01:24:38,323 --> 01:24:39,908
It was the sweetest thing

1324
01:24:40,658 --> 01:24:41,868
I think I've ever heard.

1325
01:24:59,886 --> 01:25:02,931
I think we left
about eight o'clock in the morning,

1326
01:25:03,014 --> 01:25:05,266
and Quincy doesn't drive,

1327
01:25:05,350 --> 01:25:09,020
so I drove him back
to his place in Bel Air.

1328
01:25:09,521 --> 01:25:13,108
It was a kind of exhilaration
mixed with exhaustion.

1329
01:25:13,817 --> 01:25:18,488
I remember Quincy saying like,
"Man, those white boys really brought it."

1330
01:25:19,697 --> 01:25:21,866
I was exhilarated, you know.

1331
01:25:21,950 --> 01:25:24,786
It's just like when you finish a concert,
and you go home,

1332
01:25:24,869 --> 01:25:27,372
and you're just like,
"Yes, I… I nailed that."

1333
01:25:27,455 --> 01:25:30,875
"It was… I… I feel…"
You just feel good about it.

1334
01:25:32,335 --> 01:25:35,755
At eight o'clock in the morning,
when I finally got home,

1335
01:25:35,839 --> 01:25:38,424
I walk in the house,
and there's my family,

1336
01:25:38,508 --> 01:25:42,262
congratulating me on winning the awards
and hosting the show,

1337
01:25:42,345 --> 01:25:44,597
and all I could talk about
was "We Are the World."

1338
01:25:45,265 --> 01:25:47,058
They kept saying,
"What are you talking about?"

1339
01:25:47,142 --> 01:25:48,935
I said, "Man,
'We Are the World' was amazing."

1340
01:25:49,018 --> 01:25:51,020
"I mean, last night, we did this…"

1341
01:25:51,104 --> 01:25:55,024
They don't know what we're talking about.
It was so big and so

1342
01:25:56,025 --> 01:25:57,025
powerful.

1343
01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:00,446
That one night

1344
01:26:01,406 --> 01:26:03,408
overshadowed everything

1345
01:26:04,784 --> 01:26:06,369
that was going on in my life.

1346
01:26:10,540 --> 01:26:13,585
As you have heard on our own
KFI News this morning and elsewhere,

1347
01:26:13,668 --> 01:26:19,215
you have read and been told
that, in about one minute's time, at 7:50,

1348
01:26:19,299 --> 01:26:21,968
everybody in the world
is going to be playing the same song.

1349
01:26:22,051 --> 01:26:23,720
"We are the world. We are the children."

1350
01:26:28,850 --> 01:26:30,351
Because of technology,

1351
01:26:30,435 --> 01:26:33,730
we're talking about it reaching
the ears of a billion people.

1352
01:26:33,813 --> 01:26:37,525
When that kind of energy gets thrown out,
it's very, very, very powerful.

1353
01:26:38,026 --> 01:26:42,405
Music is a strange animal 'cause
you can't touch it, you can't smell it,

1354
01:26:42,488 --> 01:26:45,325
you can't eat it or anything else,
and it's just there.

1355
01:26:45,408 --> 01:26:48,786
Beethoven's Fifth just keeps
coming back at you for 300 years,

1356
01:26:48,870 --> 01:26:51,497
and that's very, very powerful,
spiritual energy.

1357
01:26:59,339 --> 01:27:02,550
"We Are the World" was something
that everybody could understand.

1358
01:27:02,634 --> 01:27:06,304
Even if you didn't speak English,
you could understand the melody.

1359
01:27:06,387 --> 01:27:09,182
You could understand the feeling
of the song musically.

1360
01:27:18,608 --> 01:27:21,819
This is an inner soul,
an inner energy, that's coming from us

1361
01:27:21,903 --> 01:27:25,240
that was much greater than any record
any of us had ever done.

1362
01:27:32,956 --> 01:27:36,459
People can look at the song
and judge it aesthetically,

1363
01:27:36,542 --> 01:27:39,545
but at the end of the day,
I looked at it like it was a tool.

1364
01:27:39,629 --> 01:27:42,382
It was a tool they were trying
to accomplish something with,

1365
01:27:42,465 --> 01:27:44,676
and, as such, it did a pretty good job.

1366
01:27:59,315 --> 01:28:02,777
I think every individual
in the world wants to contribute,

1367
01:28:02,860 --> 01:28:04,237
and they don't know how.

1368
01:28:05,530 --> 01:28:08,533
I got a feeling
that we're creating a shift

1369
01:28:08,616 --> 01:28:11,661
in what's going on in the world today,
about helping other people.

1370
01:28:11,744 --> 01:28:13,371
It's compassion. It's real new.

1371
01:28:30,638 --> 01:28:33,850
The whole world
singing your song. I mean, that's crazy.

1372
01:28:33,933 --> 01:28:36,811
In every language around the world.

1373
01:28:36,894 --> 01:28:40,148
It was one of those moments where you go,
"Oh my God. What have we done?"

1374
01:28:46,946 --> 01:28:50,074
The single has already
sold out its first million copies

1375
01:28:50,158 --> 01:28:52,618
the first weekend it's been on release.

1376
01:28:52,702 --> 01:28:55,038
In the last month,
America's children

1377
01:28:55,121 --> 01:28:57,498
have made this record
dedicated to Africa's children

1378
01:28:57,582 --> 01:28:59,876
the fastest-selling single in US history.

1379
01:29:11,888 --> 01:29:14,724
I heard the song
for the first time in my shower.

1380
01:29:16,309 --> 01:29:19,896
The record was amazing, and then
my line came, and it was okay, and I was…

1381
01:29:22,982 --> 01:29:26,694
I am a part of something
that has been life-changing,

1382
01:29:26,778 --> 01:29:28,237
and it's very humbling.

1383
01:29:40,041 --> 01:29:43,795
The collective power
of artists can be very impacting.

1384
01:29:43,878 --> 01:29:46,005
If we all put our egos aside

1385
01:29:46,089 --> 01:29:49,634
in the service of people in the world
who are less fortunate.

1386
01:29:49,717 --> 01:29:52,303
We're truly all one people.

1387
01:29:52,387 --> 01:29:54,680
We are all in need of each other.

1388
01:29:58,434 --> 01:30:01,771
This is the realization
of the dream of USA for Africa.

1389
01:30:01,854 --> 01:30:04,857
This is the beginning
of the second phase of our activities,

1390
01:30:04,941 --> 01:30:07,151
feeding people and saving lives…

1391
01:30:15,076 --> 01:30:19,080
I take it one at a time.
Whether we can feed one person,

1392
01:30:19,163 --> 01:30:20,832
or we can feed one million,

1393
01:30:21,541 --> 01:30:23,418
the point is to get in.

1394
01:30:25,086 --> 01:30:28,089
The ripple effect
that "We Are the World" had

1395
01:30:28,172 --> 01:30:30,174
was that everyone wanted to try and do it.

1396
01:30:30,967 --> 01:30:35,763
An artist suddenly realized that
they could now make a change in the world.

1397
01:30:36,722 --> 01:30:39,934
It's one of those things
that kids who haven't even been born yet

1398
01:30:40,017 --> 01:30:43,855
will know about
because it was a unity through music.

1399
01:30:45,106 --> 01:30:46,482
Your turn to sing!

1400
01:31:31,819 --> 01:31:34,489
My dad
said something to me years ago.

1401
01:31:34,572 --> 01:31:36,616
He said, "Enjoy coming home,"

1402
01:31:37,909 --> 01:31:39,660
because there's gonna come a time

1403
01:31:40,536 --> 01:31:41,913
when you can't go home.

1404
01:31:42,413 --> 01:31:44,749
I said, "Dad, what does that mean?"

1405
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:48,085
He said, "Well, the house will be there."

1406
01:31:49,086 --> 01:31:51,672
"The people in the house won't be there."

1407
01:31:53,758 --> 01:31:55,092
This is that room.

1408
01:31:56,552 --> 01:31:58,763
That's the board.
It's right in there, and

1409
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:01,349
Humberto's not sitting behind it.

1410
01:32:02,934 --> 01:32:05,436
Michael Jackson was… right there,

1411
01:32:06,687 --> 01:32:07,730
in this room.

1412
01:32:09,065 --> 01:32:11,692
Springsteen did his part
right over there in that corner.

1413
01:32:14,070 --> 01:32:15,905
And Cyndi Lauper was right here.

1414
01:32:17,448 --> 01:32:18,699
It's very special.

1415
01:32:20,076 --> 01:32:21,410
I think about this room

1416
01:32:22,328 --> 01:32:23,454
as my house.

1417
01:32:29,085 --> 01:32:30,086
This is the house

1418
01:32:31,128 --> 01:32:32,672
that "We Are the World" built.