Performances
The concert was a half-day long spectacle beginning in the early afternoon and lasting well into the night. Performers ranged from music icons including Mariah Carey, James Brown, Al Green, Carole King, Rod Stewart, Bette Midler, America, and Huey Lewis to starting stars of that time including Destiny's Child, P. Diddy, the Goo Goo Dolls, Train, Backstreet Boys, Usher, Pink, and 'N Sync. Each performer did a brief set usually amounting to about five songs apiece.
In order, the performances were - Backstreet Boys, Crystal, Huey Lewis and the News, James Brown, Billy Gilman, O-Town, Usher, Christina Milan, Carole King, Al Green, Pink, Bette Midler, Ce Ce Peniston, Aerosmith, America, P. Diddy (with Faith Evans singing backup in the choir), 'N Sync, Destiny's Child, Rod Stewart, Goo Goo Dolls, Train, Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson. Then everyone joined together including MC Hammer and Mýa for closing the show by performing "What More Can I Give".
Notable appearances were given by Aerosmith, who performed at the festival as well as a scheduled concert in Indianapolis the same night, both Destiny's Child and the Goo Goo Dolls had performed the previous night at The Concert For New York City, and Michael Jackson, who performed "Man in the Mirror" and closed the show by performing his new song "What More Can I Give", along with many of the performers who performed that night.
Read more about this topic: United We Stand: What More Can I Give
Famous quotes containing the word performances:
“At one of the later performances you asked why they called it a “miracle,”
Since nothing ever happened. That, of course, was the miracle
But you wanted to know why so much action took on so much life
And still managed to remain itself, aloof, smiling and courteous.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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