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The Netflix documentary is extremely cheerful with nostalgia. But the center of the film highlights the relations between the pop superstars that “we are the world” recorded.

By Rob Tannenbaum

The name of the new Netflix documentary “The Greatest Night in Pop”, which recounts the recording of “We Are The World”, is a bit disconcerting. Pop Music wants a general audience, but what happened internal A&M studies in Los Angeles, in the vampire hours between 10 p. m. On January 28, 1985 and 8 a. m. , the next day, only 60 to 70 people present, from Michael Jackson to a small shooting team. The song that resulted in this frantic and logistically fantastic consultation is stirred but Callow, with a taste agreement of the Gospel that provides a false weight to the titititine words.

Prince, who rejected the repeated supplications of registering in everything, laid it because the idea that the song was “horrible”, according to guitarist Wendy Melvoin. It has sold more than 20 million copies, some enthusiasts would have bought multiple less enthusiasm for music, apparently, that the preference of giving effective to the food of the Ethiopes, which were in the midst of a famine that would have killed 700,000 people. The song won 4 Grammys, adding the song of the year, but almost 40 years later, it almost disappeared from the view.

But now, “We are the world” and the personal machinations that have been written and the recording are for review, thanks to the documentary, which was seen 11. 9 million times their first week of launch last month, going beyond the list of Netflix movies. “The Greatest Night in Pop” wins his name of two ways of two ways. Until someone invented a time travel machine, it is the most productive way to see what the mid -1980s were talking about, thanks to a parade of stylistic and technological characteristics, and even anachronism: giant hair, cassettes, number one colors, satin baseball jackets, leather pants. (Unlike permanent ones, they have returned).

It is also a glorious representation of the former Maxime that commercial relations consider relations. The consultation “We are the world” brought the maximum combination of singers who made 1984 the “greatest year of pop music”, as many called it, and benefited from an inevitable set of variables. The chain of action that preceded that night was, the movie shows, all the time to call friends, call favors and throw the flower of the song with a giant demographic attraction. This is how some complete musicians and a relentless manager organized an occasion of gala in just 4 weeks.

Harry Belafonte, the singer, actor and militant of civil rights, sought to draw attention to famine in Africa, and approached Ken Kragen, one of the managers of maximum hard artists of the industry. Belafonte had noticed how much Irish singer Bob Geldof higher for the relief of famine with “Do you know it’s Christmas?” Single, and proposed a service concert. Kragen had another concept: “I said:” Harry, let’s take the concept that Bob has already given us. Faisons-le, Mais Faisons les les great stars of l’Amérique pour le Faire “, Souvient-canns l’Ane des interviews d’Arives du documentaire.

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