The document provides biographical information about Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and details about the charity song "We Are the World" that they co-wrote. It describes how Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote the song in 1985 to raise money for famine relief in Africa. Major artists of the time recorded the song and it went on to raise over $60 million for causes like famine in Ethiopia and Sudan. It discusses how a new version was later recorded in 2010 to benefit earthquake relief in Haiti.
2. Jackson went on to become one of
the most internationally famous
award-winning solo pop sensations to
date. Jackson's 2009 death stirred
controversy and was ultimately ruled
a homicide.
Dr. Conrad Murray, who had been
caring for the pop star at the time of
his death, was convicted of
involuntary manslaughter on
November 7, 2011, later receiving a
four-year prison sentence.
Dubbed the "King of Pop,"
singer-songwriter Michael
Jackson was born in Gary,
Indiana, on August 29,
1958. As a child, he
performed as the lead
singer of the Jackson
family's popular Motown
group, the Jackson 5.
3. A founding member of
the Commodores, Lionel
Richie's debut solo album
was a hit, peaking at No.
3 on the U.S. Billboard
chart in 1982, while
"Truly"—a ballad from
that album—reached No.
1 and won him a
Grammy.
He performed one of his
most popular hits, "All
Night Long" (1983), at the
closing ceremony of the
1984 Los Angeles Olympic
Games and co-wrote the
famine relief song "We
Are the World" with
Michael Jackson in 1993.
4. This song won
the Grammys like
Song Of The Year
and Record Of
The Year.
The song was
released on March
7, 1985, as the
only song from the
album.
This was
recorded on
January 28, 1985,
the day of the
American Music
Awards.
Stars like Michael
Jackson, Stevie
Wonder, Bruce
Springsteen and
Billy Joel all came
together to make
the song.
This was a benefit
single for victims of
famine in Africa. It
raised over $60
Million, which was
distributed to
Ethiopia, Sudan, and
other impoverished
countries.
"We Are the World" is a song
and 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.
The last year, after the major
earthquake in Haiti on January 12,
2010, artists got together once
more to record a new version of
the song.
This time, musicians as weirdly
diverse as Wyclef Jean, Carlos
Santana, and Taylor Swift
performed the song, and all the
proceeds will go to help the people
of Haiti. Find out what Dale and Ella
think about “We Are the World 25
for Haiti.”
5. There is a time when we should hear the
certain calls
'Cause the world it seems it's right in this
limb
'Cause there's a chance for taking in
needing our own lives
It seems we need nothing at all
I used to feel that I should give away my
heart
And it shows that fear of needing it there
Then I read the headlines and it said they're
dying there
And it shows that we must heed instead
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a chance we're taking
We're taking our own lives
It's true we'll make a brighter day
Just you and me
Give in your heart and you will see that
someone cares
'Cause you know that they can feed them
all
Then I read the paper and it said that
you've been denied
And it shows the second we will call
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a chance we're taking
We're taking our own lives
It's true we'll make a brighter day
Just you and me
Now there's a time when we must love
them all
And it seems that life, it don't make love at
all
But if you'd been there, and I'll love you
more and more
It seems in life, I didn't do that
We are the world, the world
We are the children, are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving, let's start giving
There's a chance we're taking
We're taking our own lives
It's true we'll make a brighter day
Just you and me
We are the world, are the world
We are the children, are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving, let's start giving
But there's a chance we're taking, taking
We're taking our own lives
It's true we'll make a brighter day
Just you and me
We are the world, shalom
We are the children, shalingin
We are the ones who make a brighter day,
shalom
So let's start giving, 'cause that's what we're
being
There's a chance we're taking
We're taking our own lives
It's true we'll make a brighter day
Just you and me
Come on, yeah
We are the world, shalom
We are the children, shalingin
We are the ones who make a brighter day,
shalom
So let's start giving, 'cause that's what we're
being
There's a chance we're taking
We're taking our own lives
It's true we'll make a brighter day
Just you and me
Oh yeah, we got it
We are the world, shalom
We are the children, shalingin
We are the ones who make a brighter day,
shalom
So let's start giving, cause that's what we're
being
There's a chance we're taking
We're taking our own lives
It's true we'll make a brighter day
Just you and me
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0m2XQpWzLI
6. Complete with this words:
• seems, taking, been, make, giving, brighter, there, star, second, feed, denied.
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Give in your heart and you will see that someone cares
'Cause you know that they can _____them all
Then I read the paper and it said that you've been _____
And it shows the ______ we will call
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who ______ a brighter day
So let's _____ _____
There's a chance we're _______
We're taking our own lives
It's true we'll make a ______ day
Just you and me
Now there's a time when we must love them all
And it _____ that life, it don't make love at all
But if you'd _______ ________, and I'll love you more and more
It seems in life, I didn't do that…
