USA for Africa
At the beginning of 1985, the band participated in the all-star USA for Africa charity single "We Are the World," with Lewis taking a solo vocal. The song topped music charts throughout the world and became the fastest-selling American pop single in history. They were to play the Philadelphia leg of the Live Aid benefit concert that July, but pulled out two weeks before the concert over concerns that the money raised by the single and other efforts had not been spent to benefit Ethiopian famine victims, earning them vociferous criticism from USA for Africa organizer Harry Belafonte. A year later a "Spin" article suggested that much of the money raised from the single and concert had been misspent.