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‘We Are the World’ is Still Well Known 36 Years Later
Today marks the 36th anniversary of the song "We Are The World" being recorded. It was January 28th, 1985 when the song "We Are The World" came to be. It was a collaboration of Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, and Quincy Jones.
According to Wikipedia, "We Are the World" is a song and charity song originally recorded by the super group USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Jackson and Richie and produced by Jones and Michael Omartian for the album "We Are The World".
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- Jackie Jackson
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- Michael Jackson
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- Bette Midler
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1944
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After last month’s carnage, the Reaper mercifully returned to the normal swing of things. He still took at least three artists who made a huge difference in their respective fields.
One artist who doesn’t get listed is Rommy Hunt Revson, who was a nightclub singer but never released any records (as far as I can ascertain). Her claim to fame resides outside the world of music: she invented the scrunchie, the fabric-covered elastic hair tie. After a year-long marriage to Revlon heir John Revson, then 43-year-old Rommy fashioned the tie to manage her brittle hair for a job interview in 1987. She patented the idea and made millions of it, until the patent expired in 2001. She never needed to return to the stages of smokey nightclubs.
The Game-changer
It can be argued that Coolio helped break a mold when his Gangsta’s Paradise became a massive hit. For the first time, a G-Funk rapper who actually knew life in the ghetto and rapped about it topped the US charts, and his song even became the year’s biggest hit. He was by no means the first credible hip hop artist to have a hit, nor even the first G-Funk rapper. Dr Dre preceded Gangsta’s Paradise in the Top 10 by a couple of years. But the mega-success of Gangsta’s Paradise helped make “gangsta rap” acceptable in polite socie