More than $780,000 was raised during the virtual event which featured appearances by emcee Jimmy Jam, Clive Davis, Todd Philips, Duran Duran, Rob Thomas and spinmaster DJ Cassidy.
The virtual celebration, presented by Facebook, raised the hefty sum to support City of Hope’s mission to eliminate cancer and diabetes, a tally that pushed RWQuarantunes to $27.4 million raised for more than 50 organizations since March 2020. Spinmaster andguru DJ Cassidy, fresh from an appearance at “We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert,” kicked off the night and got the energy flowing while broadcasting live from Kerry Brown’s Rolling Live Studios on Ventura Boulevard.
The hours-long broadcast featured performances by Duran Duran’s John Taylor and Simon Le Bon, who offered the iconic song “Ordinary World” (an appearance that checked off a bucket list item for Richard Weitz, who said he’d wanted them for
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