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‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ Revisits Star-Studded Making Of ‘We Are the World’: Unguarded Moments From Springsteen, Dylan, Wonder And More In Netflix Emmy Contender
Lionel Richie reflects on the historic recording of 'We Are the World' in the Netflix doc 'The Greatest Night in Pop,' directed by Bao Nguyen.
The names involved were stunning: from industry icons Ray Charles, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, to an ascendant Bruce Springsteen, and hot newcomers Cyndi Lauper and Huey Lewis. During the thick of the pandemic, director Nguyen and his producing partner, Julia Nottingham, (who was three on that historic day) began pre-production on The Greatest Night in Pop — a 96-minute, fly-on-the-wall look at what went down behind the ivy-covered walls at the corner of Sunset and LaBrea on January 28, 1985. Featuring new interviews and archival footage from the original four-camera shoot — including material unearthed from the trunk of a staffer’s car and audio culled from the tape recorder of a Life magazine reporter — Nguyen weaves together a tale teeming with emotion, tension, purpose, humor, charm and grit.
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