"NELSON MANDELA 70th BIRTHDAY CONCERT" 

 

Sat 11 Jun 1988

    Wembley Stadium, London, England
       

Village Ghettoland
If You Were My Woman
Sexual Healing

 

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The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute was a concert event held on  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.

 

 

Notes:

This was broadcast word wide on tv and radio, and was released later on VHS video.