{"id":207848,"date":"2010-01-21T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89629"},"modified":"2010-01-21T09:25:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:25:47","slug":"%e2%80%9cwe-are-the-world%e2%80%9d-25th-anniversary-re-recording-will-benefit-haitian-relief-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/207848","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Are The World\u201d 25th Anniversary Re-Recording Will Benefit Haitian Relief Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music icons Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie are <a href=\"http:\/\/showbiz411.blogs.thr.com\/2010\/01\/20\/we-are-the-world-25-sequel-aid-haiti-quincy-jones\/\">planning<\/a> a 25th anniversary re-recording of their charity classic, \u201cWe Are the World,\u201d with proceeds benefitting survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. The critically-acclaimed 1985 original was written by Richie and the late Michael Jackson and raised money for relief in Africa. &#8220;We Are The World&#8221; &#8212; which featured Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, and a host of other artists &#8212; went on to win three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award, and a People&#8217;s Choice Award.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WmxT21uFRwM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WmxT21uFRwM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Usher, John Legend are expected to be joined by other singing stars including Wyclef Jean, Sting, Fergie, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, and Justin Timberlake. The single and accompanying video will be recorded at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on February 1, the day after the annual Grammy Awards. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We expect that, as with the original, everyone will leave their egos at the door. Most of the Grammy nominees are expected to stay for an extra day after the show to record the single, and some are expected to fly in especially for it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9x0NZKRAHw0_daEqR0QAoKJaf8Y\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9x0NZKRAHw0_daEqR0QAoKJaf8Y\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9x0NZKRAHw0_daEqR0QAoKJaf8Y\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9x0NZKRAHw0_daEqR0QAoKJaf8Y\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music icons Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie are planning a 25th anniversary re-recording of their charity classic, \u201cWe Are the World,\u201d with proceeds benefitting survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. The critically-acclaimed 1985 original was written by Richie and the late Michael Jackson and raised money for relief in Africa. &#8220;We Are The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}