Bruce Springsteen: 'Why I supported the striking miners 40 years ago'

The Boss explains why he backed the mining people of the Durham Coalfield.

Transcript

00:00This man had tapped down on the shoulder and he says,

00:03could you please come and meet Bruce Springsteen?

00:06So she went in and she was about half an hour.

00:09Anyway, she comes back and she sits down.

00:13She says, you'll never believe this.

00:15She says, look, and she just handed this cheque.

00:19I says, that says $20,000.

00:23She says, yes, it's for the Durham Area Support Group

00:26in Northumberland, off Bruce Springsteen.

00:28I says, wait, he doesn't know us.

00:31He says, yes, for he knows what you're doing.

00:37He's a hero to us.

00:39He didn't do it for publicity.

00:42He did it because he wanted to do it.

00:45And that would have helped a great deal in the support groups.

00:53Of course, my parents were working class people

00:55and I watched them struggle their whole lives

00:58and I'd been reading about it in the newspapers.

01:03And so it was just something that felt it would be a good thing to do.

01:09It wasn't a big thing.

01:11You know, it was just a good thing to do at the time.

01:13It was just a nice day that I had to do it.

01:22It wasn't a big thing to do.

01:28It was just a thing I

01:37wanted me to do it.