I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. There's an excellent new documentary called

The Greatest Night in Pop that just hit Netflix. It's all about the making of We Are the World,

which is of course the biggest all-star recording of all time

written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie and produced by Quincy Jones with

practically every singer alive from Tina Turner to Ray Charles to Bruce Springsteen, joining forces to try to raise money

for people starving in Ethiopia.

It's also the 39th anniversary of the recording session from 1985, so almost the 40th anniversary. It seemed like a good

moment to take our own look back so we have a packed episode for you. First

Bow Wynne, the director of the Greatest Night and Pop will take us into some secrets of the session in the documentary.

Next, and this is really cool, I have an interview with Tom Baylor, a long time associate of

Quincy Jones, who's actually the guy who did the vocal arrangements for We Are the World.

He decided who's saying what, basically.

Finally, I have the legendary Sheila E who expands on what she reveals in the documentary for the first time,

that she felt used by the makers of We Are the World to try to get Prince to come to the session,

which of course he didn't. But again, first up, here's Director Bao Wynne. It was one of the most purely enjoyable music documentaries I've seen in a long time.

Thank you so much that means a lot.

I knew a fair amount about it coming in, but going into it, I guess you didn't know much about it at all.

Yeah, it's funny because I was like two years old when the song came out. The only reason I really knew the song is that my

parents were refugees from Vietnam and they spoke really little English at that

time but they would listen to Lido Ricci records, Kenny Rogers records, and then we are the world.

And so I had that song kind of slang

in the background of my childhood.

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