In response to the British supergroup Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", Lionel Richie & Michael Jackson co-wrote "We Are The World", and, with the help of producer Quincy Jones, assembled an all star group of their own under the heading, USA For Africa.
It has been said that when the recording session was scheduled, Jones posted a sign on the door that read, "Check your ego at the door". Message sent & received. Richie & Jackson were joined by Jackson's sister, LaToya, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Hall & Oates, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Kim Carnes, Al Jarreau, Huey Lewis, Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Harry Belafonte, Dan Aykroyd, Diana Ross, Cyndi Lauper, and Ray Charles, among the luminaries. Most of the artists were signed to the Columbia family of labels (Columbia, Epic, Portrait, et al), with Aykroyd, Lewis, Wonder, Rogers, and Richie among the non-Columbia artists at the time.
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