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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

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

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

\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

\u201c\u2018Would you think about using it for a commercial, for (RED) and the Gap?\u2019 And you said, \u2018No.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SpringsteenSpringsteen and Bono performing in 2009 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Springsteen described his refusal as \u201ca big mistake\u201d, adding: \u201cI should have said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was just a song that I love,\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n

\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

\"SpringsteenSpringsteen received the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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

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

\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":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-737840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}