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Bruce Springsteen dedicates eight-minute protest song to George Floyd
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peoplemagazine.co.zaBruce Springsteen shared a powerful tribute to George Floyd during the latest episode of his weekly radio show. The rocker played his protest song 41 Shots (American Skin), which is about the police killing of an unarmed immigrant in 1999, to open the SiriusXM programme on Wednesday.Springsteen noted that he selected the tune because it runs to eight minutes – about the same amount of time it took Floyd to die at the hands of a Minnesota cop, who kneeled on his neck during an arrest over counterfeit cash, on 25 May.
Describing Floyd’s death, which was caught on camera, as a “21st-century visual lynching”, he explained, “That song is almost eight minutes long.
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