This is how US supergroup helped combat Africa famine with `We Are the World`

London: Music producer Ken Kragen has spilled the secrets on how he brought along megastars to make charity single 'We Are the World' with an intention to combat famine in Africa.

The 78-year-old music manager asserted that they never intended to have 45 artists and that itself was a huge u-ndertaking but his pal Quincy Jones coined a fabulous phrase: "Leave your egos at the door" that was placed at the studio door, the Mirror reported.

He and his industry pals came up with the idea of a US supergroup when Bob Geldof pooled the best British talent to record 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' after being left distraught by images of starving people in Ethiopia and Sudan.

Ken continued that he decided that he was going to get two artists a day, and he was going to work from the top of the record charts and he already had Michael Jackson who was number one, Lionel Richie was maybe number three, Prince was number two.

Ken added that the first check they picked up was for 5 million dollars and they picked that up in May and then they immediately put a trip together to go to Africa and flew up a huge cargo plane full of supplies.

The record featured the likes of Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, Al Jarreau, Bruce Springsteen, Daryl Hall, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Dan Aykroyd, Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Bob Geldof, John Oates and Smokey Robinson.