{"id":29705,"date":"2024-06-11T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-11-1988-sting-dire-straits-more-perform-at-70th-birthday-concert-for-nelson-mandela\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:04:11","slug":"on-this-day-june-11-1988-sting-dire-straits-more-perform-at-70th-birthday-concert-for-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-11-1988-sting-dire-straits-more-perform-at-70th-birthday-concert-for-nelson-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 11, 1988: Sting, Dire Straits &amp; more perform at 70th birthday concert for Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-11\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, June 11, 1988&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Sting,<\/strong> <strong>Dire Straits<\/strong>, <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong> and <strong>Peter Gabriel<\/strong>\u00a0were among the artists who performed at a 70th birthday tribute concert for imprisoned anti-apartheid revolutionary <strong>Nelson Mandela<\/strong> at Wembley Stadium in London.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concert was broadcast to 67 countries, to an audience of 600 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other artists on the bill included\u00a0<strong>Eurythmics,<\/strong> <strong>Joe Cocker<\/strong>, <strong>Bryan Adams<\/strong>, <strong>Jackson Browne<\/strong>, <strong>George Michael<\/strong>, <strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong>, <strong>Stevie Wonder<\/strong>, <strong>Tracy Chapman<\/strong>, <strong>UB40,<\/strong> <strong>Simple Minds<\/strong>, <strong>Stevie Van Zandt<\/strong> and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mandela, whose actual birthday was July 18, was released from prison in 1990 and\u00a0went on to serve as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, June 11, 1988&#8230; Sting, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton and Peter Gabriel\u00a0were among the artists who performed at a 70th birthday tribute concert for imprisoned anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela at Wembley Stadium in London.\u00a0 The concert was broadcast to 67 countries, to an audience of 600 million. Other<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-11-1988-sting-dire-straits-more-perform-at-70th-birthday-concert-for-nelson-mandela\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}