In 1979 a series of North American artists under the Muse foundation (Musicians United for Safe Energy) organized a series of concerts to raise funds for that foundation which denounced the ills of nuclear energy and encouraged alternative energies.
Promoted by Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, between September 19 and 23 of that year they were held at Madison Square Garden in New York.
In addition to Browne and Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, The Doobie Brothers, James Taylor, Tom Petty, Crosby Stills and Nash, Carly Simon, Nicolette Larson, Poco and Ry Cooder, among other great artists, participated.
Separately, as a duo or in a group, they performed their best-known songs to the amazement of an audience to see before themselves, such a collection of stars together.
No Nukes is the album that collected the best of said series of performances and was released under the triple album format in November 1979.
This massive triple album had a great commercial reception with nearly 500,000 copies sold shortly after its release.
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