Freedomfest - 1988-06-11 - London, UK (FM)

Freedomfest: Concert For Nelson Mandela

1988-06-11

Wembley Stadium

London UK

FM Broadcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

Sting

01. Interview with Sting

02. Sting Introduction

03. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

04. They Dance Alone

05. Every Breath You Take

06. Message In A Bottle

Back Stage & Interviews

07. Station Break

08. Interview With Simple Minds

George Michael

09. Village Ghetto Land

10. If You Were My Woman

11. Sexual Healing

Back Stage & Interviews

12. Station Break

13. Sally Stratton interviewing Mark Brzezicki of Big Country

The Eurythmics

14, Interview with Annie Lennox

15. Mal Reding interviewing vendors

16. I Need A Man

17. There Must Be An Angel

18. Here Comes The Rain Again

19. You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart

20. When Tomorrow Comes

21. Sweet Dreams

22. Brand New Day

Back Stage & Interviews

23. Bob Clearmountain Interview

24. Graham Bean talks about the Princes Trust Concert

25. Interview with Phil Collins

26. Talking with Mal Redding

Al Green

27. Let's Stay Together

Joe Cocker

28. Unchain My Heart

Jonathan Butler

29. True Love Never Fails

Back Stage & Interviews

30. Backstage Chatter

Ashford and Simpson

31. Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Natalie Cole

32. Pink Cadillac

Soul Ensemble

33. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

Back Stage & Interviews

34. Interview with Midge Ure

35. Interview with Bee Gees

Wet Wet Wet

36. Wishing I Was Lucky

Tony Hadley

37. Harvest For The World

Joan Armatradin

38. Love And Affection

Midge Ure

39. Dear God

Paul Carrack

40. How Long

Fish

41. Kayleigh

Paul Young

42. Don't Dream Its Over

Kurt Smith

43. Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Bryan Adams

44. Somebody

Bee Gees

45. You Win Again

46. I've Gotta Get A Message To You

Back Stage & Interviews

47. Interview with Wet Wet Wet

48. Interview with Jackson Browne

49. Roaming Around the Royal Box

50. Reviewing the Acts

Youssou N'Dour

51. Pitche Mi

52. Shout out to the Radio Stations

53. When The Stone Begins To Turn (with Jackson Browne)

Aswad

54. Set Them Free

Back Stage & Interviews

55. Interview with Bryan Adams

56. Interview with Stevie Wonder

57. Interview with The Police Chief

58. Talking About English Expressions

59. Waiting for something to happen

UB40

60. UB40 Setting Up

61. Rat In Mi Kitchen

62. Red Red Wine

Chrissie Hynde and UB40

63. I Got You Babe

64. Breakfast In Bed

65. Sing Our Own Song

Back Stage & Interviews

66. Picking on Richard Geer

67 Interview with Phil Collins

68. Backstage with Mal Redding

Tracy Chapman

69. Fast Car

70. Across The Lines

Back Stage & Interviews

71. Waiting on Stevie Wonder

72. Interview with Natalie Cole

73. Still waiting for Stevie Wonder

74. Interview with Bob Clearmountain

75. Mal Redding talking with beer vendors

76. FA Cup

77. Interview with Little Steven

Hugh Masekeba

78. Soweto Blues

Back Stage & Interviews

79. Shout out to more Radio Stations

80. Interview with Annie Lennox

81. Backstage with Mal Redding and Fox TV

82. Interview with Tracy Chapman

83. Acts coming up

84. Backstage with Mal Redding with Meatloaf

85. Coming Up

86. Talking about Springsteen-Born To Run

87. Interview with Kurt Smith

Simple Minds

88. Waterfront

89. Summertime Blues

90. Mandela Day

91. Sanctify Yourself

92. East At Easter

93. Alive And Kicking

94. Biko (with Peter Gabriel & Youssou N'Dour)

Steven van Zandt

95. Sun City

Jerry Dammers & Simple Minds

96. Free Nelson Mandela

Back Stage & Interviews

97.  Interview with Paul Young

98.  Mal Redding on the stadium floor

99.  Down in the pit

100. Interview with Phil Collins

Whitney Houston

101. Didn't We Almost Have It All

102. Love Will Save The Day

103. So Emotional

104. Where Do Broken Hearts Go

105. How Will I Know

106. Interview with Peter Gabriel

107. Backstage

108. I Wanna Dance With Somebody

109. Greatest Love Of All

Back Stage & Interviews

110. Waiting for Dire Straits

111. Talking 'bout the weather

Stevie Wonder

112. I Just Called To Say I Love You

113. Stevie Wonder Speech

114. Dark And Lovely -

Back Stage & Interviews

115. Aerial Shots

Dire Straits & Eric Clapton

116. Interview with Eric Clapton

117. Interview with Mark Knoffler

118. We lost Mal Redding

119. Billy Connolly on Auto Harp

120. Walk Of Life

121. Sultans Of Swing

122. Romeo And Juliet

123. Money For Nothing

124. Brothers In Arms

125. Wonderful Tonight

126. Solid Rock

Closing

127. Closing Remarks

128. Amazing Grace (Jessye Norman)

129. WNEW-FM final comments

Freedomfest - 1988-06-11 - London, UK (FM)

The 1980s saw a resurgence of benefit concerts/festivals where rock artists used the power of their music and popularity to spur social & political change. While Live Aid may be the best known of those efforts, it was far from the only one. On June 11, 1988, 37 years ago today as captured in this FM broadcast, Wembly Stadium hosted Freedomfest, officially know as the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute, a concert celebrating the life and sacrifices of the anti-apartheid revolutionary and freedom fighter. The show was also designed to help pressure the Apartheid government of South Africa to release him from jail. The concert featured dozens of musical acts and entertainers, including Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Tracy Chapman, Joe Cocker, Jackson Brown, and Steve Van Zandt (who appropriately played the song, Sun City, protesting Apartheid), just to name some. The show was broadcast live to 67 countries and an audience of over 600 million people. The political pressure Freedomfest place on South Africa had the intended results - 20 months after the show, Mandella was released from prison, having spent 27 years in jail. By 1994, apartheid ceased in South Africa, and Mandella was elected President of the country, a nation which would become a multicultural democracy under his leadership.