"Brothers in Arms" at the Free Nelson Mandela Concert (1988)

Le Concert hommage des 70 ans de Nelson Mandela est un méga-concert de musique pop rock de 11 heures organisé pour demander pour la libération de Nelson Mandela qui a lieu le 11 juin 1988 au stade de Wembley à Londres et a été rediffusé à une audience de 600 millions de personnes. Il a été aussi appelé Freedomfest, Free Nelson Mandela Concert et Mandela Day.

Le concert a été interdit par le gouvernement de l’apartheid en Afrique du Sud. Aux États-Unis les chaînes de télévision du réseau Fox Broadcasting Company ont lourdement censuré les aspects politiques du concert ^[1],[2],[3].

Ce concert qui expose au niveau mondial la captivité de Mandela et l’oppression de l’apartheid, force selon l’ANC le régime sud-africain à libérer Mandela plus tôt que prévu^[4].

Artistes et orateurs
Par ordre d’apparition :

• The Farafina Drummers
• Sting (introduced by Harry Belafonte) – If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, They Dance Alone, Every Breath You Take, Message In A Bottle
• George Michael (introduced by Lenny Henry) – Village Ghettoland, If You Were My Woman, Sexual Healing
• Sir Richard Attenborough - speech
• Whoopi Goldberg and Richard Gere - speech
• Eurythmics (introduced by Richard Gere) – I Need a Man, There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart), Here Comes the Rain Again, You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart, When Tomorrow Comes, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Brand New Day
• Graham Chapman - speech
• The Arnhemland Dancers
• Whoopi Goldberg - speech
• Amabutho Male Chorus
• Lenny Henry doing a Michael Jackson parody
• Al Green (introduced by Lenny Henry) – Let’s Stay Together
• Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart
• Jonathan Butler - True Love Never Fails
• Freddie Jackson - Jam Tonight
• Ashford & Simpson - Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
• Natalie Cole - Pink Cadillac
• Al Green, Joe Cocker, Jonathan Butler, Freddie Jackson, Ashford & Simpson, and Natalie Cole - He’s Got The Whole World In His Hand, Higher And Higher
• Lenny Henry - Introduction for Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
• Fry & Laurie (Stand-up comedy)
• Tracy Chapman (1st appearance) - Why ?, Behind The Wall, Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
• Wet Wet Wet (introduced by Daryl Hannah) - Wishing I Was Lucky
• Tony Hadley - A Harvest For The World
• Joan Armatrading - Love And Affection
• Midge Ure and Phil Collins - Peace And A Restless World
• Paul Carrack - How Long
• Fish - Kayleigh
• Paul Young - Don’t Dream It’s Over
• Curt Smith - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
• Bryan Adams - Somebody
• Bee Gees - You Win Again, I’ve gotta get a message to you
• Ali MacGraw and Philip Michael Thomas - Introduction for Jonas Gwangwa
• Jonas Gwangwa
• Salif Keita (introduced by Lenny Henry)
• Youssou N’Dour - Pitche Mi
• Jackson Browne and Youssou N’Dour - When The Stone Begins To Turn
• Sly & Robbie and Aswad - Set Them Free
• Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens
• UB40 (introduced by Gregory Hines) - Rat In Mi Kitchen, Red Red Wine
• UB40 and Chrissie Hynde - I Got You Babe, Breakfast In Bed, Sing Our Own Song
• Whoopi Goldberg - One Woman Show
• Tracy Chapman (2nd appearance) - Fast Car, Across The Lines
• Billy Connolly - speech
• Hugh Masekela/Miriam Makeba - Soweto Blues
• Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
• Courtney Pine & IDJ Dancers
• Simple Minds (introduced by Emily Lloyd & Denzel Washington) - Waterfront
• Simple Minds featuring Johnny Marr - Summertime Blues
• Simple Minds - Mandela Day, Sanctify Yourself, East At Easter, Alive And Kicking
• Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds - Biko
• Steven van Zandt, Simple Minds, David Sanborn - Sun City
• Jerry Dammers, Simple Minds - Free Nelson Mandela
• Harry Enfield (Stand-up comedy)
• Amampondo
• Whitney Houston (introduced by Corbin Bernsen and Jennifer Beals) - Didn’t We Almost Have It All, Love Will Save The Day, So Emotional, Where Do Broken Hearts Go, How Will I Know, He/I believe (Duet with her mother Cissy Houston), I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Greatest Love Of All
• Salt-N-Pepa (introduced by Meat Loaf) - Push It
• Derek B - Free Mandela
• Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You, speech, Dark ’n’ Lovely
• Fat Boys and Chubby Checker - The Twist
• Harry Enfield (Stand-up comedy)
• Billy Connolly (Stand-up comedy)
• Dire Straits featuring Eric Clapton (introduced by Billy Connolly) - Walk of Life, Sultans of Swing, Romeo and Juliet, Money for Nothing, Brothers in Arms, Wonderful Tonight, Solid Rock
• Jessye Norman - Amazing Grace (Finale)

Apparaissent également Grupo Experimental de Dansa, H. B. Barnum, Mick Karn, Mark Kelly, Ray Lema, et Steve Norman.

source wikipedia.org/wiki