I’ve also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

Browne is recalling a peak moment when popular music intersected with mass political activism: performing before an enormous crowd in Central Park during the early-1980s nuclear disarmament movement. The emphasis on a “grass roots movement” frames the event as citizen-driven rather than staged by institutions, and the scale (“a million people”) underscores both the urgency of Cold War anxieties and the capacity of public gatherings to create solidarity. By naming it “Peace Sunday,” he situates the concert as a quasi-civic ritual—part rally, part communal affirmation—suggesting that artists can serve as amplifiers for collective moral and political demands, not merely entertainers.