When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has spoken for the first time about his decision to donate thousands of dollars to the families of striking miners.

The singer invited women from support groups backstage at a concert at St James’ Park in Newcastle in 1985.

This was when mining communities in the North East were trying to recover from the bitter year-long dispute, and he handed over a cheque for $20,000.

Speaking in a forthcoming BBC documentary, Springsteen said he had followed news coverage of the strike in the months before the concert.

Springsteen, nicknamed The Boss, said: “My parents were working class people and I watched them struggle their whole lives.

“I’d been reading about it (the strike) in the newspapers and so it was just something that felt it would be a good thing to do.

“It wasn’t a big thing, it was just a good thing to do at the time.”

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When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain is an hour long film produced by Wise Owl.

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