El concierto para liberar a Mandela reunió a grandes estrellas

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00:00This is all generated from one man that none of us has ever met, Nelson Mandela.

00:07In 1988, Nelson Mandela was behind bars in South Africa

00:12when a collection of musicians and celebrities coming together in London

00:16to call for his release sent a message around the world.

00:24Well, it was an 11 and a half hour broadcast to 600 million people.

00:30Well, there were only 5 billion in the world.

00:32To get that, we had to not only sell the program to 67 countries,

00:37we had to give it away to 30 African countries that wanted to broadcast it.

00:41Promoter Tony Hollingsworth organized the all-star 70th birthday tribute for Mandela.

00:46His goal was to change the way some referred to the jailed leader.

00:51The run-up to the first global broadcast,

00:53it was still possible for Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of England

00:57to stand up in the House of Commons and ask the question in public,

01:01how is it that the BBC can be broadcasting an event for a terrorist?

01:06And that's how powerful that word was.

01:09And the apartheid regime knew it,

01:11that if they could keep him being labeled as a terrorist,

01:14they could keep him in prison.

01:15Talking about a revolution, oh no.

01:19And I said, you can't get a black terrorist leader out of prison,

01:22you can get a black leader out of prison.

01:23So we got to get rid of one word, terrorist.

01:26With that goal in mind, he recruited stars like Dire Straits,

01:30Whitney Houston, and Peter Gabriel,

01:32figuring that exposing a global audience to Mandela through music

01:36could change the conversation.

01:38At that point in time in 1908,

01:40the whole of the music industry was very, very powerful.

01:43It was big on television.

01:46And so by them helping to come on board,

01:49it allowed this instrument that we had to project his image across the world.

01:54Let us tell them that the whole world is watching.

01:58In the aftermath of the broadcast,

02:00as the pressure that would ultimately free Mandela

02:02mounted on the South African government,

02:05Hollingsworth got a letter from his concert partners,

02:08the African National Congress and the anti-apartheid movement.

02:11So, dear Tony, certainly it marks a landmark in our history,

02:16the greatest single event we have undertaken in support of the struggle.

02:21Now we can certainly look forward to the future

02:24with enormously received revived hope.

02:27Best birthday party we've ever been to.

02:30Thanks for having us.

02:31Thanks for having us.

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