Everything about The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute totally explained
The
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute was a concert event held on
June 11,
1988 at the
Wembley Stadium, London. It is also known as Freedomfest, Free Nelson Mandela Concert, or Mandela Day.
One of the initiators of that concert was singer
Jerry Dammers. In 1984 he scored the hit single
Free Nelson Mandela. The preparations for the Mandela concert began in 1985 with the launching of the organisation
Artists United Against Apartheid. They organised a free concert named
Freedom Beat which took place on
Clapham Common in
London in 1986. After that concert the idea of a much bigger event on the Wembley Stadum was born.
72,000 people at the Wembley Stadium and more than 600 million television viewers from 60 countries watched the broadcast, placing it alongside
Live Aid as the most successful televised musical events of the 1980s. The concert wasn't broadcast in South Africa, so scale of the international event went largely unnoticed there.But created a big and strong ripple effect within the international community leading to the eventual release of
Nelson Mandela from prison after 27 years of hard labor.
It marks the first television performance for
Tracy Chapman who had her first hits with
Talkin' Bout a Revolution and
Fast Car in 1988. The song
Mandela Day by
Simple Minds was written as a tribute for that concert and recorded there for the very first time. It was later released on the album
Street Fighting Years and became was a B-side of the single
Belfast Child (a #1 hit on the British Charts in 1989).
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