It was the biggest all-star song of all time, recorded in a marathon, all-night session that had each of the 45 megawatt artists who appear on the track in attendance. It raised tens of millions of dollars for famine relief in Africa. And it catalyzed a generation of subsequent supergroup fundraisers, all high-profile but none quite as big.
HISTORY's Moment in Media: The Biggest Names in Music Gather to Record "We Are the World"
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