The stars came out last night for Haiti.
Scores of the top names in the music biz joined forces with a gaggle of celebs in a worldwide telethon to raise money for the earthquake-ravaged nation.
“The Haitian people need our help,” said George Clooney, who helped organize the fund-raiser and hosted its Los Angeles portion.
“They need to know that they are not alone. They need to know that we still care.”
Beyoncé, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, U2’s Bono and the Edge, Coldplay, Justin Timberlake and Stevie Wonder performed during the two-hour show — “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” — which was broadcast from New York, London and Haiti.
Some 200,000 people died in the massive, 7.0-magnitude quake that leveled Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12. About 2 million were left homeless in ruins of the capital, where aid has been trickling in because of the destroyed infrastructure.
Haitian-born hip-hopper Wyclef Jean led the show, which kicked off at 8 p.m., from New York, while Rihanna, Beyoncé, Jay-Z and others took the stage in London.
“I carried bodies of my people in the cemetery. They should have been walking,” said Jean, who visited the devastated nation. “Instead they were heavy in my arms.
“Right now we can see the second wave of the disaster coming. We have to make sure that the second wave never makes it to Haiti.”
The cadre of musical talent was joined by an A-list of stars and politicians, including former President Bill Clinton, Jennifer Aniston, Ellen DeGeneres, Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, Muhammad Ali, Clint Eastwood and Reese Witherspoon.
Images of the devastation played in the background while stars such as Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts manned the phones.
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Celebs have already forked over some major cash for the relief effort — including Sandra Bullock, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who donated $1 million each. Model Gisele Bundchen gave $1.5 million.
But that’s not to mention the millions donated by people across the United States through the Red Cross text donation campaign and others.
In addition to a slew of TV networks, viewers were able to watch the performances online.
After singing the slow song “Rivers of Babylon,” Jean ended the show by yelling “Enough of this moping man, let’s rebuild Haiti, let’s show ’em how we do it where we come from!”
He then broke into the joyful tune “Yele”, as musicians danced around him, singing the refrain: “Earthquake, we see the earth shake, but the soul of the Haitian people will never break!”
Meanwhile, the Haitian government called off the search for survivors yesterday, even as two people were rescued an astounding 10 days after the quake.
Relatives dug out 84 year-old Marie Carida Romain from her destroyed home amid the ruins of Port-au-Prince in the morning.
Later, an Israeli search team pulled a young man from a crevasse in the rubble of what had once been a three-story house.
A statement from the Israeli Defense Forces said the man was in stable condition at an Israeli field hospital.
International rescue teams are reportedly winding down their efforts.