So sad that we have gotten so far away from this all around the world. This was so special. We all were impressed with the amount of talent.🐢

Nearly 40 years later & I still live for the Bruce & Stevie duet and Ray Charles "whooooo!" at the end 😂

@Sarah83_metalhead_4ever

8 ай бұрын

Who paired up Stevie and Bruce for this part was a genius 🤩 Their voices go so well together ❤❤❤

@LucasTheUltimate

6 ай бұрын

​@@Sarah83_metalhead_4ever The greatest most unexpected duo in history 👌

@torontomame

6 ай бұрын

YES! Every time I watch this I think how much I would love to hear them record a duet.

The amazing thing is that all sang in their own style and made it work so beautifully!!

A special timeless moment in history that can never be replicated. 1985 was the beginning of the end of a golden era. Grand reaction!!! Thank you both for sharing this golden moment. It never gets old. Peace friends!!!

We Are the World” Soloists (in order of appearance) Time codes indicate start of first solo Lionel Richie - 0:26 Stevie Wonder - 0:39 Paul Simon - 0:43 Kenny Rogers - 0:53 James Ingram - 0:59 Tina Turner - 1:06 Billy Joel - 1:13 Michael Jackson - 1:19 Diana Ross - 1:32 Dionne Warwick - 1:48 Willie Nelson - 2:02 Al Jarreau - 2:09 Bruce Springsteen - 2:15 Kenny Loggins - 2:21 Steve Perry - 2:28 Daryl Hall - 2:36 Huey Lewis - 2:48 Cyndi Lauper - 2:54 Kim Carnes - 3:02 Bob Dylan - 3:48 Ray Charles - 4:27 “We Are the World” Chorus (alphabetically) Dan Aykroyd Harry Belafonte Lindsey Buckingham Mario Cipollina Johnny Colla Sheila E. Bob Geldof Bill Gibson Chris Hayes Sean Hopper Jackie Jackson La Toya Jackson Marlon Jackson Randy Jackson Tito Jackson Waylon Jennings Bette Midler John Oates Jeffrey Osborne The Pointer Sisters Smokey Robinson “We Are the World” Instrumentalists David Paich - synthesizers Michael Boddicker - synthesizers, programming Paulinho da Costa - percussion Phil Collins - percussion Louis Johnson - synth bass Michael Omartian - keyboards Greg Phillinganes - keyboards John Robinson - drums

@MerchantOfAlba

11 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@Luvumj2

11 ай бұрын

MAIN THING MISSING. WRITTEN AND COMPOSED BY MICHAEL JACKSON AND Lionel Ritchie

@ForeverDegenerate

11 ай бұрын

@@Luvumj2 and Producer and Conductor Quincy Jones. Also, he's the one, if I recall, who wrote the famous message that greeted every artist as they entered the studio: "Check Your Ego At The Door"

@Luvumj2

11 ай бұрын

@@ForeverDegenerate umm that should be for himself. Suing Michaels estate for millions after Michaels death. Saying he was owed royalties from 20 years ago. Funny how he all of a sudden was owed money. After he saw how much money MJs estate was bringing in after death he got greedy. He should be ashamed.

@omaramador4669

5 ай бұрын

@@MerchantOfAlba Hello I’m going to talk just for the cultural part. When this came out was a big musical success Someone said that Bob Geldoff was the master mind of this, I really don’t know. But I remember since I was a kid (77-78)some American musicians from different States and styles of music were doing some collaboration, jazz/ country, country/ pop music and the fans didn’t disapprove that. The 70’s was ending and everyone was preparing for the next decade. At the start of the 80’s many Southern Rock bands quit playing. Then came many new sounds and bands, came a huge tide of musicians from UK 🇬🇧 and the world music changed a lot. To understand this period of time you must start listening music from 1980 to 1985. All of them 😊😊

Re Michael, you didn’t have to be a fan of his music to recognise and respect his impact and influence on the industry and the world. You were right to see it as the end of an era.

It was done after AMA awards show. They went to the studio right after. All the big artists were in town for the show.

The song will touch your soul i m 47 I rememeber when it came out i was in my feelings, and still cry hard

I feel for legends like Al Jarreau ( RIP). Jeffery Osborne, Hall and Oats, Kenny Loggins, Billy Joel, Sheila E, Bette Midler, The Pointer Sisters, James Ingram , and others, no one ever says anything about them in these reactions, not even older people who know them. But it almost doesn’t matter to me, I am a big fan of them all…

One man is responsible for all of this. Sir Bob geldof brought together England's greatest singers for the song " do they know it's Christmas time at all", a movement he started to fight African famine. Which inspired Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson to create "We are the world" less than a year later. One man (a punk rocker no less) changed the whole world. He also organized and produced one of the most important days of the 20th century, Live Aid!!!!!

@stevenaleman7454

11 ай бұрын

one can only imagine what a tremendous achievement it would've been had they brought together the singers from England and the USA together in 1985, ✌for a song to raise awareness, money, supplies, etc. for such worthy and important issues...🙏

@hazzogaming5512

11 ай бұрын

u2 aren't English and midge ure was also involved along with bob

@surfeit5910

7 ай бұрын

Actually... it was Harry Belfonte who was responsible for coming up with the idea for this after witnessing Band Aid in the UK. He initially contacted a few Like Wonder, and Rogers to work on it, and then Quincy Jones, who took over the project form there. So t he guy sitting in the chorus next to Dan Akroyd was the man ultimately responsible for this!

that whole trio of Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry and Darryl Hall was outstanding, and Stevie Wonder is just incredible. cool reaction, thanks for sharing

That studio is full of greatness and great important artists on earth. All egos were dropped off the door for this dream to come through

An absolute MUST HEAR classic,, Free "All Right Now"

I was young when this came out, 10 or 11. I truly believe that this moment is one of humankind's greatest achievements. It seemed like anything was possible at that time.

Always emotional when Michael come in. Can't imagine the price of this suit if somebody wanna own it. And the second part of emotion for me is the Ray Charles part. He's like the grandfather of music for many people 👌 Tx for the react from Québec Canada 🇲🇶🇨🇦🖐️

Omg I love you kids and I love your stories. Never stop being exactly who you are because it's a little bit of perfect.

Written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and there was one reason how all of these Legends got together and was arranged to sing together, and that was Michael Jackson. Only he with his power and his clout would have been able to pull that off. You wouldn't find this today. I realize that there was I guess you would call it a remake with more modern-day singers. But those singers we're people not nearly of the same caliber today out of these people were in their day. Today they would have to be getting paid, and it would be used as a way to boost their career. These Legends didn't need any boost to their career they were already Legends. And they didn't get paid. This was all volunteered time. Name me any artist it would do that today. And we also don't have Michael Jackson to arrange it and get all of the top-tier artists together of today. So I'm afraid that kind of collaboration is no more.

MJ and Lionel richie wrote the song MJ will always be legend In my Book :)

Loved your reaction :-) Feelings are never weird, we should listen to them more often 🙂 Greetings from Germany ❣

The Behind the scene video tells so many things about this wonderful song: how it was planned, organized, inspired, motivated, created, etc. It's so beautiful to see how those legend of music came together, work hard for many hours to give us this wonder of the music with a simply but deep message of hope. Look for it and embrace the emotion that every minute of that video can give you. kisses for you.

I bought this album when it came out!

There was a Canadian answer to this and a British as well................both brilliant !

Bruce Springsteen ALWAYS gives me chills….He understood the assignment👍

Goosebumps, Goosebumps, Goosebumps, Goosebumps. Memories.❤️ Thank you.😍

One of the greatest song comple

One of the original Blues Brothers from Saturday Night LIve from back in its early years, Dan Aykroyd, managed to get a spot in this all-star/mega-star/superstar line-up of musical talent, geniuses, and artists....these were the biggest names in the music industry (USA) back in the day....💯💥✌

@evanirvana500

11 ай бұрын

How did aykroyd manage that? I never figured that out. I mean I love the man as a comic genius, but he's not a big name singer.

@47tooter

3 ай бұрын

@@evanirvana500 Elwood.

I really love this song, also for why it was made ❤

The netflix documentary is amazing!

Poverty is fixable but the powers that be would have to give up control. Sad. I like you two. You have good souls.

@daniellastuart3145

11 ай бұрын

it record as part of the band aid for African Famine relief started in the UK in 1984 the lead the the world rock concert in July 1985 called Life Aid

the song was record as part of the band aid for African Famine relief that started in the UK in 1984 (do they know it Christmas} recorded in one day we every just tuned up from they homes and it the lead the the world rock concert in July 1985 called Life Aid

I was a senior in HS.. 1985.. Truly 40b plus yrs ago...I still believe things havn't changed much.. sad

This song generated more than 60 million dollars for the non-profit organization USA for Africa which still continues its work today and on a side note the organization of the song was really brilliant because Quincy Jones is a badass

This great song was written by Lionel Richie & Michael Jackson, produced by Quincy Jones, who directs in the video. One of the greatest charitable collaborations of superstars ever. Thanks for your reaction.

The amount of talent shown in this video is crazy. All are top notch artists from many different eras & genres of music. Don't think something like this will ever happen again. Sadly quite a few artists that are featured are no longer with us.

@arnodobler1096

11 ай бұрын

RIP for every

@Boodieman72

11 ай бұрын

There was a song like this about the same time, Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas. I don't know which one came out first.

@deepbluehue3

11 ай бұрын

@@Boodieman72 Dec.3 1984 .for do they know it's christmas / march 7 1985 for usa for africa

@bella-xp7qd

11 ай бұрын

Tina Turner was the 10th person to have passed away from this group.

@patriciaalvareztostado8170

11 ай бұрын

@@bella-xp7qd Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Kenny Rodgers, Al Jarrou, James Ingram, Tina Turner? Thats the ones that I know pass away, Who more has die? From the chorus?

Every single day we are responsible for the energy we each bring to the day. All we can do is our best to seek joy and give joy. Someones world will be better as well as our own.

This classic track comes with an important message of positivity,, Argent "Hold Your Head Up"...TRUST ME!!

This song came out when I was 41/2 and I loved it back then as much as I do now.such a great song

It was put together quickly. The final recording was after an awards show. Spent all night doing this.

Truly emotional

They record this in Kenny Rogers Studios, so he put a sign in the door that says "Left your egos outside"

This was so uniting and inspiring when it came out.

Actually they raised well over 100 million dollars from this song.

I remember this very well. I turned 21 that year.

The powers to be Don’t won’t to fix it. It’s a Money game, love you guys,

We love you Michael Jackson

great reaction as always..... Just nine of the world's richest men have more combined wealth than the poorest 4 billion people. Greed is why we still have poverty

This one of those videos that is fun to come back to, after a reaction channel is a couple of years old, to see if more names are spotted on the second view.

The song should be the anthem to much stuff going on and to seem them all together in a room all them legends should be telling message and all the love that should be giving around the world

Do you know how many albums sold in this studio . Millions and millions . Great names great performance

The greatest singer's in music

So much talent in a single room !!! There's also the heavy metal equivalent of this one called '' We're stars '' equally powerfull .

So few people seem to point out Paul Simon and Billy Joel who were and are major stars. Then you have the next "tier" with Kenny Loggins, Huey Lewis, and Darryl Hall. After that, comes Al Jarreau, James Ingram, and Kim Carrnes who had major hits at the time but never maintained that stardom. This is a great video for rediscovering artists you forgot about!

This was recorded the night of the Grammy Awards,after the Awards,all these iconic talents came together.Quincy Jones,which produced it put a sign on the door,check ego here.Micheal Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote it,on a side note,Prince was suppose to be in it,but declined from evidently not getting along with Micheal Jackson.

@bighousegroove

11 ай бұрын

I've heard a few different versions of Prince's potential involvement. I think the Michael Jackson beef has been debunked, but that it was more about Quincy's feeling that Prince wanted to make the song his own, that it seemed like his involvement was going to turn this into a "Prince" thing instead of the community effort that it ended up becoming. Not sure how true that is but I actually believe that version more. Prince was a singular artist, his creative vision meant he needed a lot of control over the finished product. And that went against the spirit of what made this song so perfect and impactful.

@bigb2494

11 ай бұрын

​@bighousegroove you're correct, it was Quincy's final decision. That's why he put up the Check your ego sign afterwards. He wanted Prince to be a part of it, but had to think of the big picture

@vinylrecord68

3 ай бұрын

American Music Awards.

Lionel Richie - 0:26 Stevie Wonder - 0:39 Paul Simon - 0:43 Kenny Rogers - 0:53 James Ingram - 0:59 Tina Turner - 1:06 Billy Joel - 1:13 Michael Jackson - 1:19 Diana Ross - 1:32 Dionne Warwick - 1:48 Willie Nelson - 2:02 Al Jarreau - 2:09 Bruce Springsteen - 2:15 Kenny Loggins - 2:21 Steve Perry - 2:28 Daryl Hall - 2:36 Huey Lewis - 2:48 Cyndi Lauper - 2:54 Kim Carnes - 3:02 Bob Dylan - 3:48 Ray Charles - 4:27 “We Are the World” Chorus (alphabetically) Dan Aykroyd Harry Belafonte Lindsey Buckingham Mario Cipollina Johnny Colla Sheila E. Bob Geldof Bill Gibson Chris Hayes Sean Hopper Jackie Jackson La Toya Jackson Marlon Jackson Randy Jackson Tito Jackson Waylon Jennings Bette Midler John Oates Jeffrey Osborne The Pointer Sisters Smokey Robinson “We Are the World” Instrumentalists David Paich - synthesizers Michael Boddicker - synthesizers, programming Paulinho da Costa - percussion Phil Collins - percussion Louis Johnson - synth bass Michael Omartian - keyboards Greg Phillinganes - keyboards John Robinson - drums Quincy Jones -- conductor

That was the last rebellion against the complete commercialization of music. Unthinkable today.

Great song thanks 🎉❤

Dominica I feel you, I make the same observation, how come the situation is stile the same (even worst!) but hey what a memory line... I volonteer for a rally that was put out on many city to raise monney at that time for africa, and I listened to that song for hours... (couldn't hear it at some point) but such a cool project.

This was done on the night of an awards ceremony, while all the artists were in town they were asked if they wanted to do this, so many came. A few came back the next day to do the fill-in bits. MJ and Lionel Richie composed this, Quincy Jones conducted. Bob Geldof was there from the UK.

You should try to watch a man with thousand voices. He is André Philippe gagnon as he imitate multiples voices in this song, Lionel Richie saw him and was shocked.

Greetings from New York

Never gets old.

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Fantastic!! Why don´t we have more of this?? 50 million dollars of help, for the best of causes. 😍

Oh my. All those huge egos singing for the world. Beautiful. ❤ And yet we are still at the same situation. So sad. 💔

Please provide a PO Box for gifts…😀

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Beautiful song too bad we just don't learn. The me, me, world we live in, unfortunately I don't think it will ever change. Sorry to be such a downer during such a hopeful video. But after living without long lasting change for 70 years I am saddened to be so pessimistic. But that is when I tell myself we have to continue to try our hardest to make a difference. We can't give up or give in. Bless you both. Peace✌🙏

Such a great song, and Whitney Houston was there and didn’t have a solo

Hello, Andei & Dominika They also have a Spanish version called “Cantare, Cantaras” with Latin American singers/artist. Like Vicente Fernandez, Jose Jose, Amanda Miguel and her late husband Diego Verdaguer. And much more. The one unfortunately missing is Juan Gabriel!! Maybe you might want to check it out. I love watching your reactions! I repeat and repeat the videos. Specially Juan Gabriel’s🥰

And the version from "Smoke on the Water" from Armenia on 1989, with David Gilmour, Tony Iommi, Richie Blackmore and musicians from Yes, Iron Maiden and Queen!!! AWESOME!!!

Very nice❤love it

There is a documentary about making this video on Netflix. It is very good. Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote the spng.

Quincy Jones put a sign in the recording room door: Leave your ego here before you enter.

Fantastic song ❤

The contemporaneous "Do They Know It's Christmas" by Band Aid was the British version, and is very good as well 🙂👍

hello everyone

I know I’m 10 months late and I don’t know if you checked back and look at new comments on old videos, but if you ever run out of music to react to, you could take the list of artists in this compilation, and that would keep you busy for quite some time to come!😊

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The world has changed since this came out. Widespread famine doesn't exist like it once did. Only in places where aid is blocked, are people dying of starvation. Charitable efforts like this grew in to national efforts and aid is just in the budgets of governments now, unlike it was then.

Your absolutely right there NEVER should be one child hungry in this world put it in perspective one billionaire could feed the world . They have to be doing it on purpose yes I said it but no one wants to believe that… God save the children.😢🙏🏼

Dio do the heavy metal version "Stars" on 1986

When mankind desire for the world was unity and love. I don't know what happened meanwile. Got to listen the english version, the first one from Bob Geldof. Band Aid, 1984.

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Whoever it composed ?? Hu ? It’s been written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and the production was done by Quincy Jones. I would say that everyone knows who had written it.

Hair bands did a song as well in the80s

There are lots of musicians all around the world that has done the similar thing. I don't know much about it, actually, but from my understanding it was some kind of live performances that were held to raise money for the children of Africa. It spread and became much bigger then they expected, again if I understood it well. Anyway, 1985 was the year when it all happened, when I was born and when we were still living in big Yugoslavia. And Yugoslavian (mostly) rock stars also recorded very similar song and if you wish to see/hear it, I'll put the link in the end of this comment. It has lyrics, so you can even understand it. And I love both songs, but the Yugoslavian one is much more nostalgic to me and brings me a lot of sadness, because they were all together (we were all together) singing a song of love for children, so united, and they were all big names. Many of them I listened and loved when I was a child... but only several years later it all became a horrible war and hatred, everyone separated and suddenly it felt like we had never been brothers and sisters, the same nation... no, it became only endless hatred. Even today, after 30 years, still some people feel that hatred. And it is so sad to me. I personally adore Croatia, for example, especially "the most problematic" part of it - Dalmatia, but I know both Serbians and Croatians who still hate each others. And it truly makes me sad. Sorry for the long message and being out of context, but this song really reminded me of it all. Here is ours (Yu song) if you wish to hear it (or if anyone else wishes). I don't think anyone would ask you to react to it, so I guess you can freely watch it only for yourselves. I even don't know if you have more followers from ex-Yu countries apart from me. Probably some, but still, I don't think anyone will ever ask you to react to it, so don't worry about that. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nHue1bBmgLbghdI.html

@MerchantOfAlba

11 ай бұрын

Thank you...checking it now 😊💚

@jovana_r

11 ай бұрын

@@MerchantOfAlba 🖤

Greed, Power, Religion-keeps the world divided and wars and suffering continue

You should listen to his Earth song Michael Jackson

Lovely reaction folks. But, I’ve seen a lot of reactions to this and the youngstas really don’t know. Most pick out MJ and a couple of them if they reacted to an artist. Most don’t know. I remember being in my friend’s car blasting this on the radio and trying to identify them by their voice. I’m grateful for reaction videos and those that play older songs. It’s keeping the older music alive even if the artist is gone. That being said, I’d like to request an artist and song that can’t be sung by them anymore. The duo Carpenters and the song is Rainy Days and Mondays. I think you two would know of them but a search yielded no hits. So let’s go down that rabbit hole. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gp560bOxmsrIotY.html

There's a song called "The Power Of Love", performed by the Who's Who of Dutch metal: Floor, Anneke van Giersbergen, Simone Simons, Dianne van Giersbergen, Marcela Bovio, Charlotte Wessels, Arjen Lucassen, Mark Jansen etc. Warmly recommended! "THE POWER OF LOVE | DUTCH METAL FOR SERIOUS REQUEST 2014" - Cheers!

Now maybe do Hear n Aid Stars.

You need to react to USA for Haiti We are the world 25. It was done to help Haiti recover from a devastating earthquake.

Room of Goats 😢 man I’m old 😢

Our world has lost its way in dramatic fashion. This type of event can never happen again because not enough "stars" give a shit and there are no MUSIC LEGENDS AROUND TO TAKE THE BATON IN TODAY'S INDUSTRY. Sad to see and hear.

u should react to hear n aid - stars its the "we are the world" of metal, reunion that was made by Dio!!!

Please play Mungo Jerry in the summertime

Hay una versión pero latina es hermosa también

Reaction Somos el mundo spanis

We have these issues still because of the politics of greed.

Dianna ross cyndie lauper tina turner dionne warrick lionel richie a lot big names🇨🇼🇱🇺🇨🇼🇱🇺🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇱🇺💗💗love