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USA for Africa: Record could raise millions for hungry

Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 14 March 1985

"CHECK YOUR ego at the door." That was the message producer Quincy Jones sent to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross and forty other stars — some of the biggest names in pop music prior to the historic recording session that produced 'We Are the World', a simple, upbeat, inspirational song that is the center of a project that could raise more than $200 million to aid starving people in Africa.

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