Nuclear Disarmament Rally - 1982-06-12 - Central Park, NY (FM)

Nuclear Disarmament Rally
1982-06-12
Great Lawn
Central Park,
New York, NY
WNEW-FM broadcast
320 kbps
Artwork Included

Jackson  Browne
01. For Everyman
02. The Pretender (with (Gary US Bonds)

Joan Baez
03 Imagine

Bruce Springsteen  & Jackson Browne
04 Promised Land
05 Running on Empty

06. backstage banter

Linda Ronstadt
07. Tumbling Dice
08. Blue Bayou
09. It's In His Kiss
10. Desperado
11. Heatwave
12. Living In The USA

13. backstage banter

James Taylor
14. That Lonesome Road
15. You've Got a Friend
16. Band Introductions
17. Up On The Roof
18. Stand and Fight

Joy Ryder & Avis Davis
19. No More Nukes

John Hall
20. Plutonium Is Forever (John Hall)

Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash & Carly Simon
21. Power

All Performers
22. Get Together

Nuclear Disarmament Rally - 1982-06-12 - Central Park, NY (FM)

On June 12, 1982, 43 years ago today, a rock & roll "festival" was once again at the heart of a movement for social and political change. As the UN debated the issue of nuclear weapons, 750,000 people marched into New York's Central Park, demanding the removal of the “nuclear sword of Damocles,” that President John F. Kennedy two decades earlier had seen poised, “hanging by the slenderest of threads,” over the heads of every human being alive (and uncountable multitudes not yet born). Nothing like it had ever happened before  or since. The rally was not only the largest antinuclear demonstration ever, but also the largest political demonstration of any kind in American history. The day ended with a concert on the Great Lawn, featuring Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, James Taylor Linda Ronstadt and many more. Of course, WNEW-FM, the station whose motto was 'where rock lives" was there, as it had been for so many historic concerts, broadcasting live. Was the rally effective - well by year's end a referendum calling for the immediate halt of nuclear weapons deployments appeared on the ballot in 10 states, 37 cities and counties, and the District of Columbia. It passed almost everywhere. Moreover, polls showed that 85 percent of Americans supported the nuclear freeze movement.  The power of rock & roll!