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As he took in a recent screening of a new documentary on the making of "We Are the World," Lionel Richie found himself - even now, four decades after the all-star charity single was released - gripped by a creeping sense of anxiety. "You have to understand: It was an impossible thing to pull off,

‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ documentary, which premiered at Sundance this month and arrived on Netflix Monday, offers an immersive, richly detailed account of the Grammy Award-winning song’s high-pressure creation — not just the one-night recording session with its 46 performers but also the weeks of advance planning required to figure out whom to enlist, where and when to do it and how to keep it secret. It features some archival footage from an earlier documentary but also new interviews as well as hours of unearthed behind-the-scenes audio recorded by journalist David Breskin, who w...

Lionel Richie looks back on the making of 'We Are the World' as seen in a new Netflix documentary.