{"id":736123,"date":"2026-06-14T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736123\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:09:11","slug":"bruce-springsteen-apologises-to-bono-for-refusing-song-for-charity-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736123\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen apologises to Bono for refusing song for charity ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/bruce-springsteen-tom-morello-announce-164240840.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Bruce Springsteen;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bruce Springsteen&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> has admitted that he regrets turning down Bono\u2019s request to use one of his songs in an advert for a charity fashion line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The legendary musician, 76, was presented with the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award at the Tribeca Festival, with the U2 frontman handing out the honour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As he gave Springsteen the award, Bono, 66, reminded the New Jersey-born star that he had once refused to let him use his song \u201cGirls in Their Summer Clothes\u201d to soundtrack a Gap advert, promoting the (PRODUCT) RED campaign, which raised money to fight Aids and HIV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI said, \u2018Bruce, this song \u2018Girls in Their Summer Clothes,\u2019 this is like one of the great pop songs ever,\u201d Bono recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c\u2018Would you think about using it for a commercial, for (RED) and the Gap?\u2019 And you said, \u2018No.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Springsteen and Bono performing in 2009 (Getty Images)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2a56fc50d0b1cd5e7bc10c5bfb35bb62.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Springsteen and Bono performing in 2009 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Springsteen described his refusal as \u201ca big mistake\u201d, adding: \u201cI should have said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThat was just a song that I love,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cDamn it, I still think back: \u2018Bono asked you to put this thing on a commercial on television.\u2019 I should have f****** done it! People would hear it like a hit, you know? So I have to apologise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Springsteen received the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award (Getty Images)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1193\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b2ae1332cdc468aa545e76464ab903d2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Springsteen received the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the event, Bono hailed Springsteen as a musician who \u201cmade poetry from the voices of the people and set that poetry to music\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pair also discussed how Springsteen has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, with the star admitting that he feels \u201cpissed off and angry\u201d about America right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBut in the past 50 years, I\u2019ve put together a band that was built for hard times like this,\u201d he added. \u201cI put together a big body of work that was built for hard times, and I was always singing for the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen has admitted that he regrets turning down Bono\u2019s request to use one of his songs in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,42076,447,134,355772,355773],"class_list":["post-736123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-girls-in-their-summer-clothes","tag-harry-belafonte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}