Al Green

Al Green - Let's Stay Together (11-6-1988)
On stage footage at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday show at Wembley Stadium, London. Nice brass section Al has a bit of trouble with his ankerchief. 600 million television viewers from at least 67 countries watched the global broadcast, paying Tribute to Mandela and calling for his release.

This audience made it the highest rated entertainment broadcast of all time, topping Live Aid as the previously the most successful televised musical event of the 1980s. The concert was not broadcast in South Africa as the media was controlled by the Apartheid Government, so the scale of the international event went largely unnoticed in Mandela's home country. However, news of the event reached Mandela and the other political prisoners in South Africa.

In addition to the 67 known broadcasters other African broadcasters were given a free licence. The global broadcast created a big and strong ripple effect within the international community and within two years Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years of hard labor. Shortly before his release Mandela's lawyer, Tony Hollingsworth and Mike Terry sat down in London to plan another global broadcast event to celebrate Mandela's release and call for the end of Apartheid. This was later entitled Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute to a Free South Africa and was again produced and funded by Tony Hollingsworth being broadcast to 500 million in 61 countries on April 16th 1990 - Wikipedia