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CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
On-Air Film Review: We Are the World in ‘The Greatest Night in Pop’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 2, 2024 - 4:18pm
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”The Greatest Night in Pope” is currently streaming on Netflix. Featuring the talents of Lionel Ritchie, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Harry Belafont, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Diana Ross, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan. Directed by Bao Nguyen. Rated “TV-MA”
CLICK HERE for Patrick McDonald’s on-air review of “The Greatest Night in Pop”
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CLICK HERE for Patrick McDonald’s on-air review of “The Greatest Night in Pop”
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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on February 1st, 2024, reviewing “The Greatest Night in Pop,” a documentary about the one-night-only gathering of pop heavyweights to record “We Are the World.” Streaming on Netflix since January 29th.
 Rating: 4.5/5.0 |
The recording of “We Are the World,” the USA for Africa famine relief song was recorded in ONE NIGHT on January 21st, 1985, and brought together a roster of 1980s music superstars that included songwriters Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson, plus Ray Charles, Harry Belafonte (who came up with the idea), Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Diana Ross, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Throughout the tense timeline to get it done the famous slogan at the Los Angeles studio was “check your ego at the door.”
CLICK HERE for Patrick McDonald’s on-air review of “The Greatest Night in Pop”The Greatest Night in Pop
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CLICK HERE for Patrick McDonald’s on-air review of “The Greatest Night in Pop”
