That's What Friends Are For was the title of the 1986 top song of the year. That's What Friends Are For was written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager. Initially, in 1982, Rod Stewart recorded That's What Friends Are For. A few years later, Dionne Warwick got together with Elton John, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. As Dionne And Friends, this all-star quartet remade That's What Friends Are For as a charity song to donate to the American Foundation For AIDS Research. This was the version that became the top song of the year. Titles by others were different songs.
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