Lady Gaga Plans Coronavirus Relief Show With McCartney, Eilish

(Bloomberg) -- Lady Gaga is organizing a coronavirus relief show with artists such as Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney to bolster global solidarity in the fight against the pandemic and honor frontline health workers.

ABC, NBC and networks owned by ViacomCBS Inc. will televise “One World: Together at Home” show live in the U.S. on April 18 at 8 p.m. New York time. Hugh Evans, chief executive officer of the activist group Global Citizen, announced the plans Monday at a World Health Organization briefing in Geneva.

The broadcast isn’t a fundraiser, Lady Gaga said on a call. The organization aims to take in funds before the show and has already raised about $35 million for the WHO Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund. Viewers will be able to “sit back and enjoy the show,” she said.

“We’ve all seen the limitations of world leaders around this,” Evans said at the briefing. “Brave community health workers are doing lifesaving work on the frontline.”

Those appearing will include Alanis Morissette, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Chris Martin, David Beckham, Eddie Vedder, Elton John, Keith Urban, Kerry Washington and Lang Lang.

Global Citizen is organizing the show in cooperation with World Health Organization to celebrate the role of front-line community health workers.

The show will also be carried by radio broadcaster IHeartMedia Inc., as well as Bell Media networks and platforms in Canada. BBC One will run the program on April 19, with additional international broadcasters including BeIN Media Group, MultiChoice Group and RTE.

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