On This Day, June 12, 1982: Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor and more headline Rally for Nuclear Disarmament

By Jill Lances

June 12, 2025 at 7:40 am EDT

On This Day, June 12, 1982 ...

Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Joan Baez, Linda Ronstadt and Gary U.S. Bonds performed for a million protesters at the Rally for Nuclear Disarmament on the Great Lawn in New York's Central Park.

The rally was timed to coincide with a United Nations Special Session on Disarmament.

The gathering was the largest anti-nuclear weapons demonstration in U.S. history.

In 2018, a two-CD set featuring highlights from the rally was released, including performances of Springsteen’s "Promised Land," Browne’s "Running on Empty," Ronstadt’s "Blue Bayou" and Taylor’s "You’ve Got a Friend."

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