![]() ![]() Springsteen's rock-and-roll exuberance and all the performers' guest spots in one another's sets gave the concert a vitality far beyond dutiful altruism. N'Dour sings in French and Wolof, a Senegalese language. The tour brings together four of the most earnest performers in English-speaking rock Mr. Reebok, the athletic-shoe manufacturer, is to make up the deficits. The tour's purpose is to raise awareness, not money while concert tickets in North America and Europe have been priced at around, admission in Budapest and in Costa Rica, for instance, has been under. Telegrams (for which concertgoers paid, each) and petitions on behalf of individual political prisoners were also well subscribed. ![]() 15 in Buenos Aires.) The first of the tour's three United States shows - the others are Wednesday in Los Angeles and Friday, minus Sting, in Oakland - generated not just roars of applause from the crowd of 75,000 people but also more than 60,000 signatures on a petition to have the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted around the world the General Assembly approved it on Dec. 10, and there will be a live radio broadcast of the concert's final show on Oct. (Home Box Office will present highlights from the concerts Dec. It will go to Asia, Africa, Greece and South America, and the organizers have petitioned the Soviet Union for the opportunity to appear in Moscow. They have performed for half a million people since the tour began Sept. ![]() On its way around the world, the Human Rights Now Tour brought Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N'Dour (a superstar in Senegal and West Africa) to John F. With sing-alongs and signatures, tributes and telegrams, Amnesty International has perfected the concert-for-a-cause that matches rock's fervor and drawing power with a clear, insistent message. ![]()
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