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00:00I'll brighten up the sky. I'll know I'll never get it. There's not a day that I won't try.

00:09Saturday's One World Together at Home concert was an eight-hour event to remember.

00:14And per Global Citizen, as of Sunday, the star-studded special raised nearly $128 million

00:19in pledged donations to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization

00:25powered by the UN Foundation.

00:27From Beyoncé's dose of reality to Shawn and Camila's at-home duet, here are our 10 favorite moments.

00:32Opening the televised portion of the event, Lady Gaga, who curated the lineup,

00:37poured herself into the Charlie Chaplin classic, Smile.

00:50Before performing the Beatles' Lady Madonna, Paul McCartney made a general but pointed political plea.

00:55Let's tell our leaders that we need them to strengthen the health care systems all around

01:01the world so that a crisis like this never happens again.

01:05Queen Bee brought some tough realism, reminding us this global pandemic is crippling vulnerable communities.

01:11This virus is killing black people at an alarmingly high rate here in America.

01:17Sands the bells and whistles, Lizzo stole the show as she belted Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come.

01:22A change gon' come, oh yes it will.

01:28Side by side, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello gave us another classic,

01:32singing Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World.

01:34Oh, I dance to myself.

01:40What a wonderful world.

01:43Performing separately from their homes, the Rolling Stones turned out the Let It Bleed classic,

01:47you can't always get what you want.

01:49Now you can't always get what you want.

01:54Now you can't always get what you want.

01:59Jennifer Lopez flexed her pipes with a take on Barbra Streisand's 1964 funny girl classic,

02:04People.

02:05They're the luckiest people in the world.

02:12Taylor Swift reminded us of the power of music with Soon You'll Get Better,

02:18a song she wrote about her mother's battle with cancer.

02:21Soon you'll get better, ooh, you'll get better soon.

02:30Thanks to TV magic, multiple Keith Urbans delivered the enduring Steve Winwood jam, Higher Love.

02:35Bring me you how you look, bring me you how you look, oh.

02:44And finally, to close out the show, Andrea Bocelli teamed up with Celine Dion,

02:48John Legend, Lang Lang, and Lady Gaga to perform his 1990 Celine collab, The Prayer.

02:53He's on the road.

03:00For The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard News, this is Jordan Rowling.

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03:10quelques-si見.

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