Springsteen, Obama i Presidential Medal of Freedom 2016

Kat.: Wiadomości Utw.: 22.11.2016 Markos E-mail

Prezydent Barack Obama wręczył Presidential Medal of Freedom 2016. Oprócz Bruce'a Springsteena wśród wyróżnionych przez prezydenta USA znalazły się takie sławy jak: Robert De Niro, Bill i Melinda Gates, Frank Gehry, Tom Hanks, Robert Redford i Diana Ross.

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Oto pełna lista osób, które odebrały Presidential Medal of Freedom od prezydenta Obamy:

  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Elouise Cobell (pośmiertnie)
  • Ellen DeGeneres
  • Robert De Niro
  • Richard Garwin
  • Bill i Melinda Gates
  • Frank Gehry
  • Margaret H. Hamilton
  • Tom Hanks
  • Grace Hopper (pośmiertnie)
  • Michael Jordan
  • Maya Lin
  • Lorne Michaels
  • Newt Minow
  • Eduardo Padrón
  • Robert Redford
  • Diana Ross
  • Vin Scully
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • Cicely Tyson

A oto fragment z wystąpienia prezydenta Obamy poświęcony Bruce'owi Springsteenowi:

He was sprung from a cage out on Highway 9. Quiet kid from Jersey, just trying to make sense of the temples of dreams and the mystery that dotted his hometown: poolhalls, bars, girls and cars, altars and assembly lines. And for decades, Bruce Springsteen has brought us all along on a journey consumed with the bargains between ambition and inustice, and pleasure and pain, the simple glories and scattered heartbreak of everyday life in America.

To create one of his biggest hits, he once said, "I wanted to craft a record that sounded like the last record on Earth. The last one you'd ever need to hear. One glorious noise. Then the Apocalypse." Every restless kid in America was given a story, "Born to Run."

He didn't stop there — once he told us about himself, he told us about everybody else: the steelworker in "Youngstown," the Vietnam vet in "Born in the U.S.A.," the sick and marginalized on the "Streets of Philadelphia," the firefighter carrying the weight of a reeling but resilient nation on "The Rising," the young soldier reckoning with "Devils & Dust" in Iraq, the communities knocked down by recklessness and greed and the "Wrecking Ball." All of us with our faults and our failings, every color and class and creed, bound together by one defiant, restless train rolling toward the "Land of Hope and Dreams." These are all anthems of our America, the reality of who we are and the reverie of who we want to be.

"The hallmark of a rock 'n' roll band," Bruce Springsteen once said, "is that the narrative you tell together is bigger than anyone could have told on your own." And for decades— alongside the Big Man, Little Steven, a Jersey girl named Patti, and all the men and women of the E Street Band — Bruce Springsteen has been carrying the rest of us on his journey, asking us all, What is the work for us to do in our short time here?

I am the President, he is the Boss
I am the President, he is the Boss. And pushing 70, he is still laying down four-hour live sets — if you have not been at them, he is working. Firebreathing rock 'n' roll. So I thought twice about giving him a medal for freedom, because we hope he remains, in his words, a "prisoner of rock 'n' roll" for years to come.

 

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