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Amnesty International Releasing Concerts on DVD

By Larry Philpot on October 7, 2013

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the “Human Rights Now!” world tour, a 6-week, 5-continent, 50-nation, 20-concert tour of the world in 1988 that reunited Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N’Dour , Amnesty International is releasing a CD + DVD of highlights from The Human Rights Concerts the series of benefit concerts staged between 1986 and 1998 to raise awareness and funds for the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights organisation Amnesty International.

This new release is designed to continue that mission and raise further funds for Amnesty s crucial work. Net proceeds from the DVD and CD benefit Amnesty International.

3 of the 4 set have never released officially in DVD and CD: The first set of performances come from A Conspiracy Of Hope, Amnesty s 25th anniversary US concert tour in 1986 (13 tracks), followed by Human Rights Now!, the historic 5-continent 20-concert world tour undertaken in 1988 (5 tracks). The series continued with stand-alone concerts An Embrace Of Hope in Chile in 1990 (4 tracks) and The Struggle Continues in Paris in 1998 (8 tracks).

Both CD and DVD contain 3 Tracy Chapman tracks:

Talkin’Bout A Revolution from Human Rights Now tour, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1988
Fast Car from Paris Concert for Amnesty International, The Struggle Continues, 1998
Get Up, Stand Up (with Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel and Youssou N’Dour) from Paris Concert for Amnesty International, The Struggle Continues, 1998.

Release Dates:

USA : June 6, 2013. Order CD on Amazon.com and DVD on Amazon.com too (released by Shout! Factory)
UK : May 27, 2013 (released by Eagle-Rock)

VIDEO: Get Up, Stand Up (with Tracy Chapman, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel and Youssou N’Dour) from Paris Concert for Amnesty International, The Struggle Continues, 1998