MOTOWN: RETURNS TO THE APOLLO-1985- Taped before a live audience at the Apollo Theatre in New York City on May 4, 1985, top headliners celebrate the 50th anniversary and official reopening of New York's world-famed theater. The concert, hosted by Bill Cosby, was a benefit for the Africare - Ethiopian Relief Fund. Performances by: Debbie Allen, Boy George, Bunny Briggs, James Brown, Gregg Burge, The Cadillacs, Joe Cocker, The Commodores, Sammy Davis Jr, DeBarge and El DeBarge, The Drifters, Billy Eckstine, The Four Tops, Al Green, Sam Harris, Gregory Hines, Jennifer Holliday, Thelma Houston, Chuck Jackson, Ludie Jones, Patti Labelle, Little Richard, The Manhattans, Marilyn McCoo, George Michael, New Edition (with Bobby Brown), New Jersey Mass Choir, Harold Nicholas of the Famed Nicholas Brothers, Wilson Pickett, Billy Preston, Lou Rawls, Martha Reeves, Smokey Robinson,DIANA ROSS, Sandman Sims, Jimmy Slyde, Mavis Staples, Rod Stewart, The Temptations, Willie Tyler & Lester, Lu! ther Vandross, Sarah Vaughn, Mary Wells, Vanessa Williams, and Stevie Wonder!
