Hands Across America
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Hands Across America was a public fundraising event held on Sunday, May 25, 1986, Memorial Day weekend, which attempted to create a continuous human chain of people holding hands across the contiguous
Hands Across America at Eakins Oval along Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia
Gaithersburg, Maryland, participating in "Hands Across America" in May 1986
We Are the World
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"We Are the World" is a charity single recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones for the album We Are the Worl
Hands Across America
…after operating costs, significantly less than organizers had hoped to collect. The event was promoted and organized by Ken Kragen, a co-founder of USA for Africa, the charity organization which produced "We Are the World" in early 1985 to raise money to fight famine in Africa. Kragen described Hands Across America…
We Are the World alternative cover
Cyndi Lauper, studio badge, and the sweatshirt given to all attendees at A&M Studios in Hollywood, California on January 28, 1985
Back of the "We Are the World" sweater autographed by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie
Stevie Wonder was a featured soloist.