what do the songwriters suggest we do to help those in need?
poem = we are the world
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We Are the World" is a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is the eighth best-selling physical single of all time.
"We Are the World"
An album cover with "We Are the World" spelled out across the left and bottom in papier-mâché-style. To the top right of the cover is "USA for Africa" in blue text, under which names are listed against a white background
Single by USA for Africa
from the album We Are the World
B-side
"Grace"
Released
March 7, 1985
Recorded
January 28, 1985
Studio
A&M Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Genre
Pop gospel
Length
7:02 (album version)
6:22 (single version)
Label
ColumbiaCBS
Songwriter(s)
Michael Jackson Lionel Richie
Producer(s)
Quincy Jones Michael Omartian
Michael Jackson singles chronology
"Girl You're So Together"
(1984) "We Are the World"
(1985) "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"
(1987)
Music video
"We Are the World" on YouTube
Following Band Aid's 1984 "Do They Know It's Christmas?" project in the UK, an idea for the creation of an American benefit single for African famine relief came from activist Harry Belafonte, who, along with fundraiser Ken Kragen, was instrumental in bringing the vision to reality. Several musicians were contacted by the pair, before Jackson and Richie were assigned the task of writing the song. The duo completed the writing of "We Are the World" seven weeks after the release of "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and one night before the song's first recording session, on January 21, 1985. The historic event brought together some of the most well-known artists in the music industry at the time.