Yorkshire restaurant “honoured” after Bruce Springsteen and Stephen Graham dine there together
A restaurant in Yorkshire has said they were “honoured” when Bruce Springsteen and Stephen Graham came in for lunch last week.
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Springsteen played in Manchester’s Co-op Live on Thursday night (May 15), and the following day he met Adolescence star Graham for a meal at Norman’s Restaurant in Kirkburton, Huddersfield.
The two have become friends through the making of Deliver Me From Nowhere, the upcoming Springsteen biopic in which The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White plays the musician and Graham plays his father Douglas.
The restaurant shared an image on Instagram of Springsteen, Graham and their staff together, writing: “Absolutely honoured to have these two absolute legends over for a spot of lunch. Can think of worse ways to start the weekend!”
The establishment’s owner Ollie Roberts also told the Daily Mail that the staff were “useless” after the pair left, as they were “just kind of floating around in a half daze”.
“Stephen Graham was the one everyone was excited about, but I think that’s largely because, how do you get your head around Bruce Springsteen coming for lunch?” Roberts added.
Graham has said he was left in tears when Springsteen sent him “the most gorgeous texts I’ve ever had in my life” to praise his performance in Deliver Me From Nowhere.
“I’m racing to get to the airport, and I got this text, and it was so beautiful,” Graham said. “It just said: ‘Better than any award that I could ever receive in my life’. He’s an icon. He’s a hero.”
“He’s a working-class hero. He’s an icon to thousands, to millions. And his text just said, ‘Thank you so much. You know, my father passed away a while ago and I felt like I saw him today and thank you for giving me that memory.’
“I was crying reading the text, do you know what I mean? Oh mate, it was beautiful. You couldn’t ask for anything more, you know, to share that with someone was gorgeous. He’s a lovely man.”
Directed by Scott Cooper, White portrays the singer during the early ’80s, centring around the personal and professional circumstances that led to the making of Springsteen’s seminal 1982 album ‘Nebraska’. It is due out in October.
In other Springsteen news, the Boss is gearing up to release seven never-heard-before full records on ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums’. Arriving on June 27, the collection will comprise 83 songs and is set to “fill in rich chapters of Springsteen’s expansive career timeline – while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist.”
He has also been at the centre of a war of words with Donald Trump, decrying the administration’s “corruption” and “incompetence” and lambasting the President for “persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent”.
Trump subsequently attacked the musician online, declaring that he “never liked” his music, adding that The Boss was “dumb as a rock” and a “dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker”.
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