TV & VIDEO - June 13, 1988

There was no jailhouse rock after lights-out at a prison in Lyon, France, on Saturday night, and prisoners responded with a mild riot. Inmates at Lyon’s St. Paul prison were prevented from seeing the end of “Freedomfest” and responded by pounding on their cell doors and banging their mess tins for three hours. The 10-hour anti-apartheid rock concert, staged at Wembley Stadium in London, was broadcast to an estimated 400 million people around the world and featured performances by Sting, Stevie Wonder, George Michael, the Eurythmics, Joe Cocker, the Bee Gees and Whitney Houston.