On April 2, 1994, Bruce Springsteen scored his biggest ever UK singles chart hit, when ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ climbed to Number 2. In all, it spent five weeks in the Top 5 and a further two in the Top 10. Written specifically for Jonathan Demme’s landmark Aids movie Philadelphia, this shattering monologue from a dying man also went Top 10 in the US Billboard Hot 100, and proceeded to win four Grammy awards – including Song of the Year. It had already won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
A case can be made for ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ as the song that saved Bruce Springsteen’s career. It certainly returned to him a substantial measure of the critical and commercial status he’d lost with the 1989 break-up of the E Street Band…

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