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接下来,Kragen,开始设法联系Stevie Wonder,但是没有成功。圣诞节的前几天,一次Brenda Richie在贝弗利山购物时,遇见了Wonder,当时他正准备进入一家店里买几件首饰,Brenda于是帮他选了几件,然后让他打电话给她丈夫,商量一个特别的项目,以此作为答谢。很快,Brenda就加入了队伍。
同时,Lionel急于联系上Michael Jackson,他只在社交场合看到过他几次。Michael义不容辞地加入了行列,还提出可以为歌曲的创作出力。“没问题。”Lionel很高兴。Kragen打电话给Quincy Jones,他们还缺个制作人。于是,Quincy放下了手头上一张新专辑的制作,投入到了这个项目中。
在Jackson位于Encino的家中,Michael和Lionel开始着手谱写《We Are the World》(《天下一家》)。整个过程零星地展开了。“有几次我走进房间的时候,他们正在创作,” Michael的姐姐,LaToya回忆道,“周围非常安静,不过房间里很凌乱,Michael工作时通常兴致都很高昂。他们工作时充满激情,有时候甚至会讨论到凌晨两点。”
去年的采访:
Michael: Yes.
Jesse: What was that like?
Michael: ‘We Are The World’ was a great project, because er, ah, Quincy Jones called me on the phone and he asked me to write a song, for ahem, for ah, ahem, the devastation that was going on in Africa ~~ and Ethiopia was hit very badly, and he knew my love for the people over there, because I would go to Africa all the time. I-I loved the culture, I love the people, I love what they represent, and er, so I put this song together, he said let Lionel Richie help you (clears throat), so Lionel came over ~~ we started, you know, putting ideas together, and ahem, we talked most of the time because we pretty much caught up with old times because I’ve been knowing Lionel Richie for many, many years, and ahem, so Lionel, er, and I put something together, but I wasn’t happy with it completely, so after that, I just went into the studio myself and pretty much completed it and finished it and packaged it and did all the music, put everything together and turned it in. Quincy was very impressed with it and he said this is the song, we’re going to go with it and we put the song out and it became the biggest selling song single in history and it raised a lot of money. It was called ‘USA For Africa’ and we heightened, it heightened, er public awareness on the subject. It was relief for Africa, it was a beautiful thing. We gave a certain percentage to America and the majority share went to Africa. It was a great, great thing. |