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Originally published Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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90th-birthday party for Mandela

Will Smith charmed the crowd, Amy Winehouse wowed them just by showing up — but Nelson Mandela proved to be the biggest star of all...

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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