Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
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The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute was a concert event held on June 11, 1988 at the Wembley Stadium, London.[1] It is also known as Freedomfest, Free Nelson Mandela Concert, or Mandela Day.
One of the initiators of that concert was singer Jerry Dammers. In 1984 he scored the hit single Free Nelson Mandela. The preparations for the Mandela concert began in 1985 with the launching of the organisation Artists United Against Apartheid. They organised a free concert named Freedom Beat which took place on Clapham Common in London in 1986. After that concert the idea of a much bigger event on the Wembley Stadum was born.
72,000 people at the Wembley Stadium and more than 600 million television viewers from 60 countries watched the broadcast, placing it alongside Live Aid as the most successful televised musical events of the 1980s. The concert was not broadcast in South Africa, so scale of the international event went largely unnoticed there.But created a big and strong ripple effect within the international community leading to the eventual release of Nelson Mandela from prison after 27 years of hard labor.
It marks the first television performance for Tracy Chapman who had her first hits with Talkin' Bout a Revolution and Fast Car in 1988. The song Mandela Day by Simple Minds was written as a tribute for that concert and recorded there for the very first time. It was later released on the album Street Fighting Years and became was a B-side of the single Belfast Child (a #1 hit on the British Charts in 1989).
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[edit] Artists
- Simple Minds
- Meat Loaf
- Little Steven
- Bee Gees
- Salt-N-Pepa
- Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens
- Eurythmics
- Farafina
- Grupo Experimental de Dansa
- Fry & Laurie
- Aswad
- Dire Straits featuring Eric Clapton
- Wet Wet Wet
- Sly & Robbie
- Ashford and Simpson
- Arnhem Land Dance Troupe
- Fish
- Amampondo
- Amabutho
- Fat Boys
- IDJ Dancers
- UB40
- Bryan Adams
- Joan Armatrading
- Sir Richard Attenborough
- Derek B
- H. B. Barnum
- Jennifer Beals
- Harry Belafonte
- Corbin Bernsen
- Jackson Browne
- Jonathan Butler
- Paul Carrack
- Tracy Chapman
- Graham Chapman
- Chubby Checker
- Joe Cocker
- Natalie Cole
- Phil Collins
- Billy Connolly
- Jerry Dammers
- Harry Enfield
- Peter Gabriel
- Richard Gere
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Al Green
- Jonas Gwangwa
- Tony Hadley
- Daryl Hannah
- Lenny Henry
- Gregory Hines
- Whitney Houston
- Chrissie Hynde
- Freddie Jackson
- Mick Karn
- Salif Keita
- Mark Kelly
- Ray Lema
- Emily Lloyd
- Miriam Makeba
- Johnny Marr
- Hugh Masekela
- Ali McGraw
- George Michael
- Philip Michael Thomas
- Youssou N’Dour
- Jessye Norman
- Steve Norman
- Michael Palin
- Courtney Pine
- David Sanborn
- Curt Smith
- Sting
- Midge Ure
- Denzel Washington
- Stevie Wonder
- Paul Young
[edit] References
[edit] Further reading
- M. Rainbird Pub. in association with Associated Media: Nelson Mandela 70th birthday tribute : with Artists Against Apartheid in support of the anti apartheid movement, Wembley Stadium, Saturday 11 June, London. Concert booklet. OCLC 23081366
- Lahusen, Christian. 1996. The rhetoric of moral protest public campaigns, celebrity endorsement, and political mobilization. De Gruyter studies in organization, 76. Berlin: W. de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110150933
[edit] External links
- NELSON MANDELA 70th BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Tracklist
- ROCK's CONSCIENCE SPOTLIGHTS MANDELA
- Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute at the Internet Movie Database
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