Paris Concert for Amnesty International: The Struggle Continues

Rolling Stone schreef over dit fameuze concert van drie uur met de grootste artiesten op aarde, ditmaal in Ivoorkust: ''Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band had been all over the planet with Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N’Dour by the time the 1988 Amnesty International Human Rights Now tour touched down on Africa’s Ivory Coast. However, they’d never seen a crowd like the 50,000 fans at le Félicia soccer stadium. “It was a stadium of entirely black faces,” Springsteen recalled recently. “Clarence [Clemons] said to me, ‘Now you know what it feels like!’ There were about 60 seconds where you could feel people sussing us out, and then the whole place just exploded. The band came off feeling like it was the first show we’d ever done. We had to go and prove ourselves on just what we were doing that moment on stage.”

The Paris Concert for Amnesty International