• 10 months ago
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00:00 One, two.
00:02 We are the world.
00:05 We are the children.
00:08 The greatest artists of a generation came together to save some lives.
00:16 Must be in a dream, huh?
00:18 Hello, hello.
00:20 But we only had one night to get this right.
00:23 Let's get this party started.
00:26 I received this call from Herbelefonte and he wants to do some kind of a song for famine relief in Africa.
00:33 Basically what he said was, "I need you."
00:35 We just thought we'd pull together as many artists as we could and figure it out.
00:40 It was just a wish list.
00:43 He said yes without knowing who was gonna be on it.
00:46 Bob Dylan.
00:47 Stevie Wonder.
00:48 Paul Simon.
00:49 Cyndi Lauper.
00:50 Pat Midler.
00:51 Billy Joel.
00:52 Steve Perry.
00:53 Willie Nelson.
00:54 I think we have Tina.
00:55 I think we lost everybody was there.
00:57 I'm at the house with Michael writing the song.
01:01 He hums every part.
01:03 Tapes and tapes of just layered and layered of him humming.
01:07 There was tremendous pressure.
01:09 Stevie wouldn't call me back.
01:11 And the recording was in a couple of days.
01:13 We now have a template with mumbles and no words.
01:16 What do we want to do?
01:17 We're talking to the world so we have to talk this out.
01:20 It seems so natural to say it.
01:24 Okay guys.
01:25 We'll see.
01:26 On some of the camps you see 15 bags of flour for 27,500 people.
01:31 And it's that that we're here for.
01:33 So thanks a lot everybody.
01:35 Let's hope it works.
01:36 You know everyone having a great time.
01:38 And then the reality of why we're here.
01:40 You just kind of go, "Wow."
01:43 We'll start chopping wood.
01:45 We stop for a minute.
01:47 This thing's gonna be chaos.
01:48 Again for me?
01:49 I don't want to open a can of worms from that.
01:51 Again for me?
01:52 I don't want to open a can of worms from that.
01:53 From that moment on I was nervous out of my brain.
01:56 People didn't know what we were going to be doing.
01:58 There's really no excuse.
02:00 There's a full on fight going on.
02:02 What am I supposed to say?
02:03 The clock is ticking and we had so many disasters coming.
02:07 Man, are you kidding?
02:09 [Laughter]
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