{"id":31323,"date":"2025-01-28T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-28-1985-we-are-the-world-was-recorded-in-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:04:10","slug":"on-this-day-jan-28-1985-we-are-the-world-was-recorded-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-28-1985-we-are-the-world-was-recorded-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Jan. 28, 1985: &#8216;We Are the World&#8217; was recorded in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-28\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Jan 28, 1985\u2026<\/p>\n<p>An all-star lineup of musicians came together in a studio in Los Angeles to record the charity single \u201cWe Are the World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tune, written by <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong> and <strong>Lionel Richie<\/strong>, featured artists like <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>, <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong>, <strong>Billy Joel<\/strong>, <strong>Paul Simon<\/strong>, <strong>Tina Turner<\/strong>, <strong>Steve Perry<\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n<p>Released in March 1985, &#8220;We Are the World&#8221; raised more than $63 million for a newly formed organization called United Support of Artists for Africa (USA for Africa) to help with the famine crisis in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The song, produced by <strong>Quincy Jones<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Omartian<\/strong>, went to #1 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100, where it stayed for a month. It went on to become the first single to be certified multi-Platinum, earning a four-time Platinum certification by the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Jan 28, 1985\u2026 An all-star lineup of musicians came together in a studio in Los Angeles to record the charity single \u201cWe Are the World.\u201d The tune, written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, featured artists like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Tina Turner,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-28-1985-we-are-the-world-was-recorded-in-los-angeles\/\">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\/31323"}],"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=31323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}