The chain began in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty and a fireboat pumping red, white and blue water provided the picturesque backdrop. (Another one million people outside the official route participated in mini-versions such as “Hands Across Massachusetts.”) As hundreds of radio stations across the United States simultaneously played “Hands Across America,” nearly 5 million people joined hands along the planned event route. Eastern on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. In spite of the road bumps, Hands Across America came off as planned at 3 p.m. Once the 4,125-mile route through 16 states and Washington, D.C., was announced, organizers also faced unexpected protests from cities whose civic pride was wounded by being excluded from the event. A music video studded with celebrities from Barbra Streisand to “Star Wars” robot C3PO, the faces of adorable children and images of amber waves of grain ran for weeks on MTV.įaced with expenses upwards of $16 million-liability insurance cost $3 million alone-USA for Africa recruited corporate sponsors such as Coca-Cola to defray the costs of staging the event.
“Hands Across America” was eventually released, but unlike “We Are The World” it lacked any superstar recording artists-or any industry names at all outside of the group Toto, which provided instrumental tracks.
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