Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

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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.

This concert was both a birthday celebration and perhaps the biggest protest for an imprisoned person to date. 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.

  • 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 Jim Kerr 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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