If something interesting happened in the history of popular culture but there isn’t a documentary on a streaming service about it, did it really happen? We’re not going to debate that one here, but what we can tell you is that the story of the making of We Are The World, the charity single recorded by supergroup USA for Africa in 1985, is about to be told again in a new Netflix film, The Greatest Night In Pop.
Inspired by Band Aid’s 1984 single Do They Know It’s Christmas?, the project was the brainchild of Harry Belafonte, who sensed an opportunity for US stars to follow Bob Geldof and co's lead and create a song to raise funds for African famine relief. This ended up becoming We Are The World, which was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian.
