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The Greatest Night in Pop <\/strong><\/em>(2024)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 Bao Nguyen<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Lionel Richie, Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Huey Lewis, Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, Sheila E.,\u00a0 Kenny Rogers, Dan Aykroyd, Christie Brinkley, Lindsey Buckingham, David Byrne, Kim Carnes, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Bob Geldof, Daryl Hall, James Ingram, Jackie Jackson, La Toya Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson, Tito Jackson, Al Jarreau, Billy Joel, Madonna, Bette Midler, Willie Nelson, John Oates, Jeffrey Osborne, Steve Perry, Anita Pointer, June Pointer, Ruth Pointer, Prince, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder <\/strong>and Waylon Jennings<\/strong> Tagline: None.<\/p>\n The Plot\u2026 The Greatest Night in Pop<\/em> chronicles everything from the birth of the idea to the night that dozens of the greatest recording stars in the world came together for a single session to create We Are the World<\/em>.\u00a0 The record went on to raise millions for African famine relief.\u00a0 To this day, the song continues to raise money for the charity.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s amazing that dozens of the biggest singing stars of the era could be brought together for one recording session.\u00a0 Egos had to be left at the door.\u00a0 Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones were able to keep the process moving.<\/p>\n At one point Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles both walked to the restroom together.\u00a0 One of the stars remarked, “That’s truly the blind leading the blind.”<\/p>\n Paul Simon said that if a bomb was dropped on the studio, John Denver would be back on top.<\/p>\n It’s surprising that Madonna wasn’t included.\u00a0 She was a huge star at the time.\u00a0 Dan Aykroyd gets to be on the record, but not Madonna?<\/p>\n At one point Stevie Wonder wanted to include some lyrics Swahili.\u00a0 Quincy Jones and others tried to see if they could make it work.\u00a0 Waylon Jennings got frustrated with the attempts and left the recording.\u00a0 Someone ultimately pointed out that Swahili wasn’t the language of the famine area.\u00a0 The idea was dropped.<\/p>\n Having stars who are star-struck by being in the same room with their idols is fun.\u00a0 Bob Dylan and others weren’t sure how to sing their solos. Things like that humanized them.\u00a0 Hats off for having the soloists get parts that made the singers instantly identifiable.<\/p>\n The Greatest Night in Pop <\/strong><\/em>(2024) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n The Greatest Night in Pop (2024) Director:\u00a0 Bao Nguyen Stars: Lionel Richie, Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,72,64,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-history","category-music","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35192,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35183\/revisions\/35192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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