You may not remember, but Ethiopia’s 1983–1985 famine prompted many musical artists to take humanitarian action. First, there was Band-Aid, formed by Bob Geldolf and all the U.K.
pop stars of the day, and then Harry Belafonte helped create the U.S. own supergroup, U.S.A for Africa, which spawned the global hit, “We Are The World” released in April 1985 (Canada had its own version called, Northern Lights too).
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