Jammin' for human rights

Music Notes

IT HAPPENED TODAY . . . 08 septembre

1988 Some 81,000 people jammed a stadium in Budapest for an Amnesty International concert featuring Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel and Sting.

Gabriel spoke to the crowd in Hungarian, urging then-Communist Romania to respect the rights of ethnic Hungarians.

see : http://www.sting.hu/doc/sajto/human-popcorn.htm (Hungarian)