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Speaking to BBC Breakfast in a Magpies tracksuit, the "Geordie Springsteen", as he has become affectionately known, confirmed his saxophone player Johnny "Blue Hat" Davis started playing the team's anthem, Local Hero by Mark Knopfler, outside the ground and "5,000 Geordies started singing along".