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SOCIALIST ACTION NOVEMBER 1984 Two days after Reagan's remark, Springsteen, by way of rebuttal, told a concert crowd in Pittsburgh, "The president was mentioning my name the other day, and I kind of got to wondering what his favorite album must have been.... I don't think he's been listening to this one."
Springsteen then sang "Johnny 99", a song about an unemployed steelworker who gets drunk, shoots someone, and is steen's vote, either.
Bruce Springsteen's lyrics create, in my opinion, an image of America-of both the suffering and resoluteness of working people in the face of corporate greed-that speaks stronger than any transparent effort on the part of Reagan or Mondale to have their picture taken with the popular musician. And one more thing-his music is pretty good too.