Watch Bob Dylan learn his part for "We Are The World" in 1985
by John Fisher,posted Mar 7 2013 8:17AM
28 years ago today, "We Are The World" was released. It wasn't easy to get dozens of musicians together in one studio in Los Angeles to record the legendary charity song for famine relief in Africa, and it wasn't easy for all the musicians to learn their small parts quickly. Here's Bob Dylan working on his lines:
Luckily, not everybody took so long to figure out their part, or they would've been in that studio for days. Here's how it all came out, complete with the name of each singer:
The bottom line is that since the song's release in 1985, the USA For Africa project has raised more than $63 million for famine relief, so the song did its job. Obviously, it was the 1980s -- Huey Lewis, Cyindi Lauper, Dionne Warwick . . . . you get the idea. There's a great behind-the-scenes look at the recording sessions here, and here's the full list of artists who were part of this whole thing:
