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Will Smith charmed the crowd, Amy Winehouse wowed them just by showing up — but Nelson Mandela proved to be the biggest star of all...
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Singer Amy Winehouse, center, whose participation looked doubtful due to health problems, performs Friday in London at the close of the concert in honor of Nelson Mandela's birthday.
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Nelson Mandela, left, joins emcee Will Smith onstage Friday.
Will Smith charmed the crowd, Amy Winehouse wowed them just by showing up — but Nelson Mandela proved to be the biggest star of all at a concert Friday in honor of the South African statesman's 90th birthday attended by more than 40,000 music fans in London's Hyde Park. The concert came 20 years after a birthday concert for anti-apartheid activist Mandela while he was imprisoned in South Africa. He told Friday's crowd that the previous concert made a big difference in his eventual release after 27 years behind bars and helped dismantle the racist system in the early 1990s.
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