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Bruce Springsteen

Life and Career

19491972: Early Childhood

Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and Freehold Borough attended High School. His father, Frederick Douglas Springsteen was the Dutch and Irish descent and worked, among other trades, such as a bus driver, his name is intensifying Dutch stone. His mother, Adele Ann (do Zerilli) was a legal secretary and was of Italian origin. His grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a town near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left it to time to pursue photography complete, which took the pictures of the Human Touch Lucky Town albums.

Raised in the Roman Catholic, Springsteen attended the St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Freehold Borough, where he disagreed rock with traditional influences.

In ninth grade, he moved to the public Freehold Regional High School, but did not fit there either. Antigua teachers said it was a "loner, who only wanted to play the guitar. "He finished high school, but felt so uncomfortable that skipped his own graduation ceremony. He briefly attended Ocean County College, but abandoned.

Springsteen had been inspired to make music the age of seven years after saw Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show. At age 13, bought his first guitar for $ 18 later, his mother applied for a loan to buy a 16-year Springsteen guitar 60 million of Kent, and later immortalized in his song "The Wish".

In 1965, went to the house of Tex and Marion Vinyard, who sponsored youth groups in the city. They helped him to become a guitarist and, later, the singer of Castile. Castille has recorded two original songs in a recording studio in Brick Township and the public has played a variety of venues, including Cafe Wha? Greenwich Village. Marion Vinyard said he believed that the young Springsteen when he promised he would do something great.

Call for induction when he was 19, Springsteen and physical examination are not used Vietnam. In an interview in Rolling Stone in 1984, said: "When I'm on the bus to go take my physical, I thought one thing: I will not "He suffered a concussion in a motorcycle accident when he was 17, and this with his" crazy "behavior in the induction and does not pass the exams. was sufficient to obtain a 4F.

Beach towns like New Jersey Asbury Park, New Jersey, inspired by the questions of ordinary life in the music of Bruce Springsteen.

At the end of 1960, Springsteen performed briefly in a power trio known as Earth, playing in clubs in New Jersey. Springsteen took the nickname of "The Boss "during this period, when the club played concerts with a group that has taken care to gather all the nights of the pay band and spread among his followers. Springsteen, however, has never liked this nickname because of his dislike for the leaders. Recently, however, seems to have accepted the nickname. Many spectators recent concert that make up different signs on banners, plaques and other saying, "Boss of time." Previously, he was nicknamed "Doctor". From 1969 to early 1971, Springsteen performed with Steel Mill, which also had Danny Federici, Vini Lopez, Vinnie Roslin and later Steve Van Zandt and Robbin Thompson. They are went to play the college circuit in the Atlantic, and also briefly in California. In January 1970 San Francisco Examiner-known music critic Philip Elwood Springsteen gave credibility to his assessment Bright Steel Mill: "I've never been so overwhelmed by the talent completely unknown." Elwood went on to praise his "musical cohesion" and, in particular, stressed Springsteen as a composer more impressive. "During this time Springsteen also performed regularly at small clubs in Asbury Park and along the Jersey shore, quickly gathering a cult following. Other acts followed over the next two years, as Springsteen sought to shape a unique and authentic musical and lyrical: Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom (early 1971), Sundance Blues Band (a mid 1971) and Bruce Springsteen Band (mid 1971id 1972). With the addition of pianist David Sancious, the nucleus of what became the E Street Band was formed, with occasional temporary additions such as sections of the wind, "The Zoomettes" (a group of backup singers "Dr. Zoom) and Southside Johnny Lyon on harmonica. Musical genres explored included blues, R & B, jazz, religious music, rock and roll, and soul. Ability composing songs prolific with more words in individual songs from other artists had in whole albums, brought his expertise to the attention several people who were about to change his life: new managers Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos, and the legendary Columbia Records talent scout John Hammond, who, under the pressure of Appeal, auditioned Springsteen in May 1972.

Even after Springsteen earned an international reputation, its roots in the New Jersey, has shown through his music, and often praised "the great state of New Jersey" in their shows. Based on his extensive local appeal, which is consecutive nights usually sold at major venues in New Jersey and Philadelphia. He also made surprise appearances at many clubs and Stone Pony other side over the years, becoming the leader of the Jersey Shore.

initial struggle for success: 19721974

Springsteen has signed a contract with Columbia Records in 1972, with the help of John Hammond, who had signed Bob Dylan to the same label a decade earlier. Springsteen has a lot of their new colleagues Jerseyased in the studio with him, forming the E Street Band (even though it has not been officially designated as such by a couple of years). Their first album, Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ, published in January 1973 has made him a critical favorite, though sales were slow. Because poetism Springsteen lyrics and popular music in areas such as rockooted "Blinded by the Light" and "For You" and the Columbia and Hammond connections, critics initially compared with Bob Dylan Springsteen. "He sings with a freshness and urgency I have not heard since he was shaken by" Like a Rolling Stone "wrote the editor of Crawdaddy magazine, Peter Knobler in Springsteen's first interview / profile, in March 1973. Crawdaddy" discovered " Springsteen in the rock press and was its first champion. (Springsteen and the E Street Band has acknowledged giving a private presentation on the part of the tenth anniversary Crawdaddy in New York in June 1976.) music critic Lester Bangs wrote in Creem in 1975, when Springsteen's first album was released ….." many of us has dismissed: he wrote like Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, Van Morrison sang that and Robbie Robertson, and led a group that sounded like Van Morrison. "Title" Spirit in the Night "especially showed Morrison's influence, while" Lost in the Flood "was the first of many portraits of veterans Vietnam and "Growin 'Up," his first hit in the recurring theme of adolescence.

In September 1973, her second album, The Wild, the Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, was released, again critically acclaimed, but without commercial success. Springsteen's songs is become grandiose in form and scope, with the E Street Band provide a less folk, R & B and vibrant lyrics often romanticize the life of the adolescent street. "July 4, Asbury Park (Sandy) "and" Incident on 57th Street "became fan favorites, and the time he got up" Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) "remains one of numbers of the most beloved concert Springsteen.

In the edition of May 22, 1974, Boston Book of Real, music critic Jon Landau wrote after seeing a show at Teatro de la Universidad de Harvard Square "I saw that the future of rock and roll and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And one night when I need to feel young, he made me feel like I was listening to music for the first time. "Landau subsequently became Springsteen's manager and the producer to help finish the album epic, Born to Run. Given a huge budget in a last effort attempt to record commercially viable, Springsteen has stalled the recording process while striving for a wall of sound production. But, fueled by publication of an initial mix of "Born to Run" to progressive rock radio, the anticipation built around the album launch. Yet, the album has more than 14 months to record, with six months in the song "Born To Run." Meanwhile, Springsteen fought with anger and frustration on the album and said he heard "noises in [his] head" could not explain to others in the study. It was during these recording sessions "Miami" Steve Van Zandt will face in the studio just in time to help organize Springsteen horn section on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (which is his only written contribution to the album), and finally led him to join the E Street Band. [Citation needed] Van Zandt was an old friend of Springsteen, and musical collaborator on previous projects, and understand where you come from, who helped translate some of the sounds was Springsteen listening. However, at the end of the grueling recording sessions, Springsteen has not been respected, and at first for the finished album, released the album in the alley and Jon Landau said that something just cut the album live at the Bottom Line, a place that plays often. [Citation needed]

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19751983: Breakthrough

On 13 August 1975, Springsteen and the E Street Band began a five- nights, 10 shows, standing in the background of New York, online club. Commitment caught the attention of major media, was broadcast live on WNEW-FM, and convinced many skeptics that Springsteen was real. (Decades later, Rolling Stone magazine that the name of the position as one of the 50 moments that changed Rock and Roll.) With the release of Born to Run on August 25, 1975, Springsteen has achieved success. The album reached number three on the Billboard 200, and although There were no hits, "Born to Run" (Billboard # 23), "Thunder Road" "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (Billboard # 83), and "Jungleland" every album has received antenna of the rock mass and remain perennial favorites in many classic rock stations. The composition and the recording was more disciplined than before, while maintaining an epic. With images standpoint, optimism thunderous production and hopeless, Born to Run is considered by some fans as one of the best rock and roll albums of all time Springsteen and better work. It has made him a sincere and dynamic rock and roll personality who spoke on behalf of and in the voice of an important part of the rock. To cover the triumph, Springsteen appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek the same week, October 27 this year. So great was the wave of publicity might Springsteen finally rebelled against him during his first foray overseas, tear promotional posters before a concert in London.

A legal battle with former manager Mike Appel kept Springsteen out of the studio for more than two years, during which kept the E Street Band, with an extensive tour of the U.S. Despite the optimistic fervor with which is often, new songs he was writing and often their debut had taken a darker tone than many of his works above. To agree with Call 1977, Springsteen finally returned to the studio, and subsequent sessions produced Darkness on the edge of the City (1978). Musically, this album was a turning point Springsteen's career. No more raw lyrics, rapid fire, massive and long-term nature of many parts of the first two musical compositions albums, the songs were now leaner and more carefully developed and started to think more and more aware and intellectual Springsteen policy. Some fans consider the best and most consistent album of darkness Springsteen songs like "Badlands" and "Promised Land" became regular concerts in the coming decades, while the track "Prove It All Night" received a significant amount of diffusion album rock radio. Other fans prefer the work of the adventurous early Springsteen. The 1978 tour cross-country to promote the album would become legendary for the intensity and duration of their shows.

At the end of 1970, Springsteen has developed a reputation in the world of pop like a songwriter whose material could provide results for other bands. Manfred Mann's Earth Band received a number of United States a shot with a rearranged version of "For You" and with regard to "" Blinded by the Light "in early 1977. Patti Smith reached number 13 with Springsteen would previously unreleased "Because the Night" (which Smith co-wrote) in 1978, while The Pointer Sisters hit number two in 1979 with the novel as Springsteen " Fire.

Springsteen in concert at River Tower. Drammenshallen, Drammen, Norway, May 5, 1981.

In September 1979, Springsteen and the E Street Band joined the Musicians food security for the anti-nuclear power collective at Madison Square Garden two nights, playing a shortcut, while two songs from her upcoming album debut. The next album live nuclear weapons, and the film next summer no nuclear weapons, represents the first official language recordings and images of the legendary live performance by Springsteen and the dip in first attempt Springsteen participation policy.

Springsteen continued to consolidate his thematic focus on working-class life with the 20-song double album of the river in 1980 which included a range paradoxical intention right equipment for playing time rockers to ballads emotionally intense, and ultimately gave his first Top Ten hit as a performer, "Hungry Heart". This album marked a turning point in Springsteen's music to a pop-rock sound that was all, but lack in any of his previous works. This is reflected in the adoption of eighty-style pop-rock characteristics, pounding drums and tenor, guitar, percussion very basic and repetitive lyrics evident in many tracks. The title song has been called the intellectual leadership of Springsteen, while a pair of lesser-known issues prefigures musical direction. The album sold well, becoming the first topper on the Billboard Pop Album, and a lengthy tour followed in 1980 and 1981, first extended Springsteen to play in Europe and ending with a series of multi-night stand area in the main cities of the United States

The river was followed in 1982 by acoustic takes only Nebraska. According to the Marsh biographies, Springsteen was in a state of depression when he wrote this material, and the result is a brutal image of American life. The song is about Charles Starkweather killings. According to Marsh, the album started as a demo new work that plays with the E Street Band, but Springsteen and producer of the recording process Landau made the songs worked better solo acoustic numbers. several study sessions with the E Street Band will be led to realize that the original recording, made in house Springsteen in one case, a band of low-tech four tracks were the best versions to reach. However, the sessions are not at all, since the group recorded several new songs that Springsteen had written, in addition to materials of Nebraska, including "Born in the USA" and "Glory Days. "These new songs will not be published until two years later, when he was the basis of Springsteen's upcoming album.

Although Nebraska has not sell well, which received rave reviews (including being named the album "Best Year" by the critics of Rolling Stone) and influenced later significant works by major artists, including albums by U2, The Joshua Tree. It helped inspire the musical genre known as the lo-fi music, becoming a cult film among the indie-rock. Springsteen did not tour with the Nebraska press.

19841991: commercial phenomenon People

Springsteen is probably best known for his album Born in the USA (1984), it has sold 15 million copies in the United States and became one the best-selling albums of all time, with only seven hits in the Top 10 around the world, success that followed. The song was a bitter comment on the treatment of Vietnam veterans, some of whom were friends and other members of Springsteen. verse of the song were completely ambiguous in his hearing, but the music hymns and song title, it is difficult for many politicians to the common people, to get the lyricsxcept the chorus, which can be read out respects. The song was widely interpreted as jingoistic, and in relation to the presidential campaign of 1984 was the subject of considerable folklore. Springsteen has also rejected several million dollars offered by Chrysler Corporation to use the song in a car ad. (Years later, to eliminate pockets and do the original song that is more explicitly and clearly, Springsteen performed the song accompanied only by acoustic guitar. An acoustic version also appeared on tracks, one album later.) "Dancing in the Dark" was the largest of the seven hits Born in the USA, reaching the No. 2 Billboard charts. clip of the song is a young Courteney Cox dance on stage with Bruce Springsteen, an aspect that has helped boost racing actress. The song "Cover Me" was written by Bruce Springsteen for Donna Summer, but his record company convinced him to keep it for the new album. A big fan of summer, Springsteen wrote another song for his "protection." Videos of the album have been made by filmmakers Brian De Palma and John Sayles noted. Springsteen appeared in the "We Are the World" song and album in 1985.

During the Born in the U.S. Tour, Springsteen met the actress Julianne Phillips. Married in Lake Oswego, Oregon May 13, 1985, surrounded by the attention Intense media. Opposed to the rear, his marriage was of long duration. Springsteen's 1987 album Tunnel of Love described some of his misfortunes relationship, and during the subsequent Tunnel of Love Express tour, as reported by many tabloids, Springsteen had with backup singer Patti Scialfa. Phillips and Springsteen has filed for divorce in 1988. The divorce was finalized in 1989.

Springsteen perform Tunnel of Love Express Radrennbahn Weiensee to East Berlin July 19, 1988.

"Born in France of the period represents the height of Springsteen's visibility popular culture and the wider audience demographic that one day (with the help of the release of Arthur Baker Dance Mixes three singles). Live/197585, a set of five record (also on three cassettes or three CD) was released in late 1986 and became the first region game to debut at number 1 in U.S. charts. It is one of the live albums most commercially successful of all time, eventually selling 13 million units in the United States Live/197585 Springsteen's career resume, point and displayed some of the elements that made his shows so powerful to his fans: sad dirges switching party rockers and again, common sense of purpose between artist and audience, the passages of intense and lengthy spoken before songs, including those described Springsteen difficult relationship with his father, and prowess instrumental in the E Street Band, as long coda to "Racing in the street." Despite its popularity, some fans and critics felt selection songs of the album could have been better. Springsteen concerts are the subjects of bootlegs and frequent exchanges between fans.

At the top of the international celebrity Springsteen in the mid 80's had no less than five Springsteen fanzines circulating in the United States United Kingdom and many others elsewhere. 'Candy Room' Gary Desmond, produced in Liverpool, was the first in 1980, followed quickly by Dan French point "Blank, Dave Percival" The Fever ',' Quote 'Jeff Matthews and Paul "Jackson Cage" Limbrick. United States, Backstreets Magazine Seattle began and continues today, a glossy publication, now in communication with the administration of Springsteen's official website.

After this peak shopping, Springsteen released the tunnel much calmer and contemplative of Love (1987), a mature reflection on the many faces of love found, lost and squandered, which only selectively used the E Street Band. He announced the breakup of his marriage to Julianne Phillips. Reflecting the challenges of love in Brilliant Disguise Springsteen sang:

I heard someone call your name from our under the willow. I saw something hidden in shame underneath your pillow. Well, I tried so hard baby, but I do not see. What is a Women like you do with me.

The Tunnel of Love Express tour after fans rocked with changes in the design stage, the retired favorites list, and horn arrangements based. During the European tour in 1988, Springsteen's relationship with Scialfa became public. Later, in 1988, Springsteen leads worldwide Human Rights Now! Amnesty International tour. In the fall of 1989 was dissolved the E Street Band, and he and Scialfa relocated to California. Springsteen married Scialfa in 1991. They have three children: Evan James (born 1990), Jessica Rae (b. 1991) and Sam Ryan (N. 1994).

19922001: Art movements and commercial

In 1992, after risking charges of "going Hollywood" by moving Los Angeles (a radical change for someone also linked to the lives of blue collar of the jersey Shore) and working with session musicians, Springsteen released two albums simultaneously. Human Touch and Lucky Town were even more introspective than all his previous work and shows a newly found confidence. Unlike the first two albums, which dreamed of happiness, and their next four, which showed him growing to fear, in points of the album Lucky Town, Springsteen makes the happiness of applications itself.

Some fans of Voice E Street Band (and continue to voice) a low opinion of these albums, including Human Touch, rather than "Other Band" Tour. Other Fans, however, had only come to know Springsteen after the consolidation in 1975 of the E Street Band, this trip is an exciting opportunity to see Springsteen developing working relationships on stage with another group of musicians to explore and see the basis of Asbury Park soul and gospel of his classic material.

One aspect of electrical tape on the television show MTV Unplugged Acoustic (Published later under cover In Concert / MTV) was poorly received and further cemented fan dissatisfaction. Springsteen seemed to realize this year so little, when he spoke with humor his father during his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech:

I have to thank him for what conceivably have written about without him? I mean, you can imagine that if everything was great between us, we had a disaster. I happy songs written and tested in the first 90 and did not work, the public does not like.

A winner of several Grammy Awards, Springsteen also won an Oscar in 1994 for his song "Streets of Philadelphia, "which appears on the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia. The song and the film was applauded by many for its sympathetic portrait of a man gay dying of AIDS. [Citation needed] The video for the song shows real vocal Springsteen recorded with a hidden microphone, to an instrumental track prerecorded. [Citation needed] This technique has been developed in the "Brilliant Disguise" video.

In 1995, after temporarily rearrange the E Street Band for a couple of new songs recorded for their Greatest Hits album (a recording session that was captured in the documentary The Blood Brothers), has released his second (mostly) solo guitar album, The Ghost of Tom Joad, inspired by Journey to Nowhere: The saga of the new underclass, a book by Pulitzer Prize winner, author Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael Williamson. It has been generally well received less the same Nebraska because of the weak melody, nasal voice, and the political nature of most songs, although some praised it for giving voice immigrants and others who rarely has the American culture. The long, worldwide, little ghost solo acoustic part of Tom Joad Tour that followed successful as many of their old songs dramatically as new acoustic form, although Springsteen had explicitly remind his audience remain silent and not to applaud during the performances.

After the tour, Springsteen returned to New Jersey with his family. In 1998, Springsteen released the expansion chamber, four discs of the shooting, shots. Subsequently, Springsteen has acknowledged that 1990 was a "loss period" for him: "I not a lot of work Some people say I'm not my best work .. "

Springsteen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 by U2, a boon to his return in 2005.

In 1999, Springsteen and the E Street Band officially came together again and has been in extensive tour reunion, which lasted over a year. Highlights included a record sold 15-show run at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, launching the American phase of the tour.

Springsteen's Reunion Tour with the E Street Band ended with a win ten pm, the share of sold-out Madison Square Garden Plaza in New York in mid-2000 and the controversy over a new song "American Skin (41 Shots)", the police shooting of Amadou Diallo. The last show at Madison Square Garden were recorded and resulted in an HBO concert, with corresponding DVD and album releases from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Live in New York City.

2002resent: Back to business success

The scene outside the beach Giants Stadium parking marking flagpole unprecedented during the night of July 10, 2003 Uprising Tour.

In 2002, Springsteen released his first studio effort with the full band in 18 years The Rising, produced by Brendan O'Brien. The album, mostly a reflection on the events of 11 was a critical and commercial success. (Many songs have been influenced by Springsteen spoke by phone with relatives of victims of the attacks that had classified his music obituaries has affected their lives.) The title acquired radio airplay in different formats and recording the album became Springsteen's best-selling hardware for new in 15 years. Started by an appearance early in the morning Asbury Park on the Today Show, The Tour began to rise, overwhelming in a series Scene is a night in the U.S. and Europe to promote the album in 2002, then re-scale, multi-stage nightly performances in 2003. So Springsteen had maintained a basic hardcore faithful around the world (and especially in Europe), his general popularity had dipped in recent years in some southern and midwestern United States, however, was still strong in Europe and along the coast of the United States, and has played an unprecedented 10 nights at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, a feat of selling tickets for which no other musical act has come. During these shows Springsteen thanked those fans attending Multiple performances and those who came from far away or in another country, the advent of robust Bruce-oriented online communities have made such practices more common. Rising Tour came to a final conclusion with three nights at Shea Stadium, highlighted by renewed controversy over "American Skin" and an aspect of Bob Dylan.

During the 2000s, Springsteen became a visible advocate for the Revitalization Asbury Park, and played an annual series Concert winter vacation there to benefit various local businesses, organizations and causes. These programs were designed specifically for dedicated fans, with numbers like the new (Topics) E Street Shuffle outtake "Thundercracker" a happy song Participation Group that mystify casual Springsteen fans. He also often repeated tours in Asbury Park, some of his most devoted followers even go so far as to remain outside the building to listen to what they can from the following shows. The song "My City of Ruins" was written about Asbury Park in honor attempts to revitalize the city. Looking for an appropriate song for a concert to benefit post-September 11 in honor of New York chose "My City of Ruins" was immediately recognized as a most moving moment of the concert, with songs from his gospel and his heart calls " Stand up! "The song became associated with post-9/11 New York, and he chose to close the album Rising and as a reminder about the next round.

A The Grammy Awards 2003, Springsteen The Clash "London Calling" with Elvis Costello, Dave Grohl, and the E Street Band member Steven Van Zandt and bassist of No Doubt Tony Kanal in tribute to Joe Strummer, The Clash and Springsteen was once considered multiple-album-rivals duel at twice the river and the triple Sandinista!. In 2004, Springsteen and the E Street Band has participated in the "Vote for Change" tour, with John Mellencamp, John Fogerty, the Dixie Chicks, Pearl Jam, REM, Bright Eyes, Dave Matthews Band, Jackson Browne and other musicians. All events were scheduled in the swing states for the benefit of group liberal political organization America Coming Together, and encourage people to register and vote. A final took place in Washington, DC, involving many artists. A few days later, Springsteen held a concert More in New Jersey, where polls showed that state surprisingly close. Although these years Springsteen has played benefits for causes he believed cons of nuclear energy, for Vietnam veterans, Amnesty International Christic Institute and has always refrained from explicitly endorse candidates for political office (in fact, had rejected the efforts of Walter Mondale to get support for Reagan, 1984 "Born in the USA" flap). This new direction has led to criticism and praise expected partisan sources. Springsteen "No Surrender" became the campaign song hit the main theme of the presidential campaign of John Kerry in the last days of the campaign song and some acoustic versions of his other old songs at Kerry rallies.

An acoustic guitar number during the solo and dust devils tower performance Festhalle, Frankfurt, June 15, 2005.

Devils & Dust was released April 26, 2005, and was recorded without the E Street Band. This is a low profile mainly acoustic album in the same vein as Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad but with a little more instrumentation. Some material was written almost 10 years before, during or shortly after, the ghost of Tom Joad Tour, a couple who is then, but never published. The title track concerns the feelings of a soldier and fears over the war in Iraq. Starbucks rejected a co-branding for the album, partly because of the sexually explicit content, but also by the anti-social Springsteen. The album entered the album list at No. 1 in 10 countries (USA, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Ireland). Springsteen began a solo Devils & Dust Tour at the same time as launching the album, playing both small and large venues. The turnout was disappointing in some areas and everywhere (except in Europe) tickets were easier to obtain than in the past. Unlike his solo tour in mid-1990, performed on piano, electric piano, pump organ, harp, ukulele, banjo, electric guitar and step on board, and the acoustic guitar and harmonica add variety to his solo. (Backstage Synthesizer, guitar, percussion and is also used for certain songs). Renditions of Unearthly "Reason to Believe, "" Promised Land ", and Suicide" Dream Baby Dream "has shaken the public's attention, while rarities, frequent changing set list, and willingness to keep trying, even through failure acoustic piano remained the most loyal audiences happy.

In November 2005, Sirius Satellite Radio was first 1:24, seven days a week radio station on Channel 10 called E Street Radio. This channel is commercial-free Bruce Springsteen music, including rarities, interviews and daily concerts Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded throughout his career.

Springsteen and Banda to hold rallies during his tour in Italy, Fila Forum, Milan, May 12, 2006.

In April 2006, Springsteen released We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, a project of the American roots music based around a big city sound treatment of 15 songs popularized by activism radical music of Pete Seeger. Has been recorded with a large ensemble of musicians, including only Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell, and horns Miami past efforts. Unlike previous albums, it was recorded in just three sessions per day, and often one can hear Springsteen has announced major changes in vivo the group explores a path through the slopes. The Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour began the same month, with all 18 musicians Strong Seeger Sessions Band called (and later the band shortened the session). Seeger Sessions material was presented largely in a handful of (usually substantially revised) Springsteen numbers. The tour was very popular in Europe for sale around the world and receive excellent reviews, but newspapers reported that a number of U.S. show suffered low participation. In late 2006, the Seeger Sessions tour toured Europe twice and toured America for a short period. Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin, containing selections from three nights in November 2006 shows at the Point Theatre Dublin, Ireland, was released on June next.

Springsteen plays with drummer Max Weinberg behind him on the Magic Tour stop at the Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 15, 2008.

Springsteen's next album, entitled Magic, was released on October 2, 2007. Recorded with the E Street Band, which featured over 10 new songs Springsteen "Long Walk Home," performed once with the Sessions Band, and a hidden track (the first time on a studio album by Springsteen) "Terry's Song", a tribute to Springsteen's time assistant Terry Magovern who died July 30, 2007. The first single, "Radio Nowhere" has been made available for free download on August 28. On October 7, Magic made his debut at number one in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Greatest Hits number return lists of Ireland 57, and live in Dublin almost cracked the Top 20 in Norway again. Sirius Satellite Radio has also revived E Street Radio channel 10 on September 27, 2007, in anticipation of Magic. Radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications was accused of having sent an edict to its classic rock stations not to play the songs the new album, while playing older material Springsteen. However, Clear Channel Adult Alternative (or "AAA") makes matters KBco station playing from the disc, which undermines the arguments of a business failure. Springsteen and the E Street Band Magic Tour has started in the Hartford Civic Center, with the launch of album and are routed through North America and Europe. Springsteen and the band performed live on The Today Show on NBC before the opening. Along E Street Band organist Danny Federici, left the tour due to melanoma in November 2007, died April 17, 2008, after a three-year battle with the disease.

Recent events

In April 2008, Springsteen announced his support for U.S. Senator Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign. In a video filmed during a rally in Ohio for Obama, Springsteen talked about the importance of "truth, transparency and integrity in government, the right of all Americans have jobs, decent wages, to be educated in a school and a decent life of dignity of labor, the promise and the sanctity of the home … But today, these freedoms have been damaged and reduced to eight years of an administration negligent reckless and morally adrift. "

On June 18, 2008, Springsteen performed live in Europe at the tribute Tim Russert at the Kennedy Center Washington, DC, to do one of Russert's favorite songs: "Thunder Road". Springsteen dedicated the song to Russert, who was "One of Springsteen's biggest fans." [Citation] Need

Springsteen makes solo acoustic performances in support of the campaign Obama in October 2008, culminating with a rally on November 2, which debuted "Working On A Dream", a duet with Scialfa.

Springsteen during a gathering the candidate and Barack Obama

Cleveland, Ohio, November 2, 2008

On 04 November, the first song played on the loudspeakers after victory speech as president-elect Barack Obama in Grant Park in Chicago was "The Rising."

Working On A Dream album Springsteen was released in late January 2009.

Springsteen was the first musical game for We Are One: Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial January 18, 2009 was attended by over 400,000. He played "The Rising" with a chorus of young girls. Later, played by Woody Guthrie "This Land is Your Land" with Pete Seeger.

On January 11, 2009, Springsteen won the Golden Globe for best song for "The Wrestler" Mickey Rourke in the film with the same name.

Springsteen performed at halftime of Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009, agreeing to do after many previous agreements: t is a so good if we do not now what are we waiting? I want to do while I alive.50] A few days before the game, Springsteen gave a lecture rare press, which has promised a "party of twelve minutes." When asked if he was nervous before a wide audience, Springsteen talked the "we" a concert held at the Lincoln Memorial. Youl have a lot of crazy fans of football, but they won Lincoln look over your shoulder a little pressure. Including his set at 12.45 hours with the E Street Band and the horns of Miami, abstract interpretation " Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out "," Born to Run, "" Working in a dream "and" Glory Days ", the latter including references Football. All the actions Springsteen and advocacy led to say: "This has probably been the busiest month of my life."

On April 1, 2009, Springsteen launched the Working On A Dream Tour at San Jose, California. The tour was beaten by the controversy in February 2009 when Ticketmaster ticketing site and was a partner turn be redirected customers to its subsidiaries TicketsNow, where tickets were sold at inflated prices, in Despite the availability of tickets, face value elsewhere. Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff quickly apologized after a furious statement Springsteen who accused the site of abuse from our fans and our confidence. "The tour had some sample songs from the new album, with lists instead of putting dominated by Springsteen classics and a selection that reflects the current recession by the end of the year 2000. The visit also included Springsteen play songs requested by members of the general public had signs or garage punk rock classic rock or older, more obscure entries in the catalog Springsteen in a practice dating from the last stage of the Tour of Magic. Drummer Max Weinberg is replaced for some shows of his 18-year-old son, Jay Weinberg, so that the first could be their role as bandleader on the first Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.

Springsteen was among displays Clearwater Concert, a celebration of the 90th anniversary of Pete Seeger, which was held May 3, 2009 at Madison Square Garden.

Fireworks the honor of "the street E!! Banda! "Encouragement during the final performances at Giants Stadium.

During work on a Dream Tour Springsteen and the band made its first foray into the real world of music festivals, headlining nights at Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands, the Bonnaroo Music Festival in the United States, where Springsteen Phish also sitting with three songs and the Glastonbury Festival and Hard Rock Calling the U.S. the UK. He also were headlining the festival of Britain in Old Ploughs, France in July, its only tour stop in France. His son Evan attended concert, play the guitar.

During a stretch of five in the final sample Homestate Giants Stadium, Bruce Springsteen opened the show with a new song dedicated to the old "lady" (and say their point of view), called "Wrecking Ball". The song highlights the historical stage, and its roots Jersey. the booth and as some other shows in the U.S. leg of the third round was complete presentations the album Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town or Born in the USA

The visit ended as planned in Buffalo, New York in November 2009 while speculation was once the last performance by the E Street Band, but during the show, Springsteen said he was fired or a short time.

In October 2009, Bruce Springsteen was one acts as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame benefit concert's 25th anniversary with artists such as U2, Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin.

On December 6, 2009, Springsteen was one of the beneficiaries of the Center Kennedy Honors, an annual award of the world of arts for his contribution to American culture .. This is probably the greatest honor Springsteen has yet been received. Before the official ceremony at the Kennedy Center, the six cultural icons have been received by Obama and Michelle Obama. During the president's speech, spoke of how Springsteen has joined the lives of ordinary Americans in its wide range of songs and how gig beyond the concert features rock and roll, including concerts, in addition to high energy is "communion." Obama has taken end with the comment: "On days like" We Are One "concert and today reminds us that even if I am President, it is the boss. "During the official awards show Dec. 6, 2009, taxes were paid by several well-known celebrities as Jon Stewart, Ben Stiller, Eddie Vedder, Sting, and Melissa Etheridge.

Jon Stewart began with a fun but touching tribute to Mr. Springsteen: .. "I do 'm not a music critic and historian, archivist and I can not say where Bruce Springsteen enters the pantheon of American music can not clarify the context of sound. work or their roots in folk traditions and oral history of our great nations. But I'm from New Jersey. Therefore, I can tell you what I think. And what I think, is that Bob Dylan and James Brown had a baby. Yes! And this child has been abandoned, as you can imagine timeinterracial relations, of the same sex are what werethey abandoned the baby beside the road between exit 8A and 9 exchanges in Jersey boy Bruce Springsteen has been Turnpikethat. He continued: "I think Bruce Springsteen is an unprecedented combination of lyrical eloquence, musicality and pure unbridled, pure joy. Exuberance in the act of storytelling familiar stories that have never been told so well or so unique. And I know you hate this right now. A modest man, and he does not like sitting there in that little box, with his suit with a rainbow-catcher or just what they have in therehe doesn't like him. He wants he had his guitar and I am silent, but I do not want. It is the BossBut I do not understand his music for a long time, until I started to crave. Until they began to question the things I do and being in my own life. Until I realized it was not just on the parade of joy on stage and theater. These are stories of lives that could be changed. And the one state may not achieve the status quo. The only thing, the only failure in life was to not make the effort to change our season. And echoes me because that, and I mean really … I would not be here, God knows, not even in this business if they are not inspiring words and music of Bruce Springsteen. "

Golden Globe award-winning writer Ron Kovic then took the stage, explaining how he met Bruce Springsteen at the Sunset Marquis Hotel Hollywood in 1978. A meeting led to a change in the work of artists, and a friendship was born between the Born the fourth of July and Vietnam veteran, author and musician born United States. Springsteen Kovic presented a musical tribute, which began with the Rob Mathes Band All-Stars perform Avenue Freeze Out tenth, followed music by Grammy award winner John Mellencamp singing Born in the USA. It was followed by a medley of My Father's House, Days of Glory in the fire for me several Grammy winners Ben Harper and Jennifer Nettles, the band accompanied by Rob Mathes. Academy Award and Grammy Award musician Melissa Etheridge rocked a concert version of Born to Run, followed by the Grammy Award and a Golden Globe Award-winning singer Eddie Vedder version Explosive My City of Ruins. Finally, the power of music by Sting, who was also several Grammy Awards, Golden Globe and Emmy winner, finished the night with a memorable performance of The Rising, accompanied by Joyce Garrett Choir and other Artists Performers for the evening celebration enthusiastic. Throughout the tribute exhibition, Obama, Mrs. Obama other recipients of admiration for the amazing personality Springsteen.

On January 22, 2010, Bruce joined many renowned artists to perform at Hope for Haiti now: an overall benefit to the Earthquake, organized by George Clooney to raise funds to help victims of earthquake in 2010 in Haiti.

The 2000 ended with Springsteen named one of eight artists of the decade by Rolling Stone magazine and visits Springsteen ranking fourth among artists in concert Total gross income of the decade.

Life Style

Springsteen family welcomes the Obama family on stage at the rally in Cleveland, Ohio, November 2, 2008.

Springsteen was a bachelor until age 35 years old when she married 25 years Julianne Phillips (born May 6, 1960) in Lake Oswego, Oregon May 13, 1985. Marriage has helped his acting career prosper even if the two were opposites in background and his journey took its toll on their relationship. The final blow came when Bruce began an affair with Patti Scialfa (born July 29, 1953), who left briefly in 1984, shortly after joining the group. Phillips and Springsteen separate in the spring of 1988, and August 30, 1988, Julianne has filed for divorce. Phillips Springsteen divorce was finalized March 1, 1989.

After your wife filed for divorce in 1988, Bruce began to live with Scialfa. Springsteen has received much criticism for the haste in which it took Scialfa and their relationship. In a 1995 interview with The Advocate, Springsteen talked about the negative publicity the couple were later. "It's a strange society that is supposed right to tell people that we love and who should not. But the truth is that virtually ignores everything I could. I said, "Well, what I know is that it feels real, and maybe I have a disorder is sort here, but that's life. "In 1990, Springsteen and Scialfa welcomed their first child, son and it was very difficult and painful and I was very afraid to marry again. So part of me said: Hey, who cares? But who cares. It is very different to live together. First, the intensification of public-which is what I do: get your license, you do the social rituals, is a part of their place in society and in some way of acceptance of your company … Patti and I thought it meant something. "The couple's youngest daughter, Sam Ryan, born January 5, 1994. The family lives in Rumson, New Jersey, and has a horse farm in nearby Colts Neck. Springsteen also owns two adjacent homes in Wellington, Florida, a community rich constituency near West Palm Beach. His eldest son, Evan, is currently a sophomore at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, a city in Newton, Massachusetts. His daughter Jessica Springsteen is a classified national champion equestrian.

In November 2000, Springsteen has filed a lawsuit against Jeff Burger, who charged for registration of the domain brucespringsteen.com (With several areas of the fame of others) in bad faith to funnel users Internet on your site Celebrity Portal 1000. Once the lawsuit was filed, Burger said the domination of a Springsteen biography and forum. In February 2001, Springsteen lost its dispute with Burger. A panel of WIPO decided 2 to 1 in favor of Burgas.

On October 26, 2009 show for the work a Dream Tour in Kansas City, Missouri, was canceled an hour before his scheduled departure because of the death of Lenny Sullivan, cousin of Springsteen assistant and road manager.

Springsteen led a relatively normal life for a quiet and private well-known folk artist and the artist. He moved Los Angeles to New Jersey in 1990 specifically to raise a family in a non-paparazzi. The press conference of Super Bowl XLIII halftime on took place over 25 years since his last press conference. However, he appeared in some radio interviews, mostly on NPR and the BBC. 60 minutes to air its long television interview before his last tour to promote his album, Magic.

E Street Band

Main article: E Street Band

The E Street Band, is considered to have begun in October 1972 but was not officially known until that in September 1974. The E Street Band was inactive from late 1988 until early 1999, except for a brief meeting in 1995.

Existing Members

Bruce Springsteen singing, guitar, harmonica, piano

Garry Tallent bass, tuba

saxophone of Clarence "Big Man" Clemons, percussion and singing

Max Weinberg, drums, percussion (joined September 1974)

Roy Bittan piano, synthesizer (joined September 1974)

Steven Van Zandt guitar, music, vocals, mandolin (officially joined July 1975 after playing in previous bands, he left in 1984 to go solo met in early 1995, however, made appearances in "Other Band" Tour).

Nils Lofgren guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals (Replaced Steve Van Zandt in June 1984, remained in group after Van Zandt returned)

Patti Scialfa singing support and duet, acoustic guitar, percussion (Registered In June 1984, became Springsteen's wife in 1991)

Soozie Tyrell's violin, acoustic guitar, percussion and vocals (joined the 2002, a few appearances before this date)

Charles Giordano, organ, accordion, glockenspiel (originally a member of the sessions of the band, joined the E Street Band on a temporary basis In late 2007, during the illness of Danny Federici. Keep playing with the E Street Band after Federici died in April 2008.)

Former members

Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez drums (from start until February 1974 when asked to resign)

David Sancious keyboards (June 1973-August 1974)

Ernest "Boom" Carter drums (from February to August 1974)

Suki Lahav violin choruses (September 1974-March 1975)

Danny Federici organ, accordion, glockenspiel (died April 17, 2008, melanoma)

Jay Weinberg percussion battery ( instead of his father during part of the tour, 2009)

Film

The music used in movies

Springsteen's music has long been closely linked with the film. His music was linked first to the silver screen in 1983 film by John Sayles' Baby, you which included several songs from Born to Run. Established relationships with Sayles Springsteen would return to the area in recent years, with Sayles directing music for songs from Born in the USA and Tunnel of Love. The song "(Just around the corner from the) light of day" was written in the first Michael J. Fox / Joan Jett day vehicle.

His original work has been used often in movies and won an Oscar for his song "Streets of Philadelphia" Film Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (1993). He was nominated for a second Oscar for "Dead Man Walkin '" from the film The Last Man Walking (1995).

Her song "Lost" plays during the opening credits of the film 1995 by Sean Penn, "The Crossing Guard. It was released in 2003 on "The Essential Bruce Springsteen. "

Her song "Secret Garden", which appeared in 1995, Greatest Hits, was used In 1996 Cameron Crowe film Jerry Maguire.

Although not on the soundtrack, their song "Iceman" was used in the film 2007 In the Land of Women.

Springsteen also wrote a song of the same name in 2008, Darren Aronofsky film The Wrestler. The song won a Globe Or for Best Original Song and nominated for MTV Movie Award for "Best song from a movie."

The album "The River" has also been well mentioned in the movie Reign Over Me with Adam Sandler. Two songs on this album very "Drive All Night" and "in" streets, is played as background music.

In 1997 film Cop Land, Sylvester Stallone's character plays the song "Drive All Night" and "Stolen Car" by River on your plate.

His song, "Hungry Heart" was used as a background song in the movie "A Perfect Storm, The Wedding Singer and Risky Business. The title, "The Fuse" from their album, The Rising, was used during the end credits of Spike Lee film, 25 hours.

More recently, his song, "Lucky Town" from their album of the same name was used in the Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore movie Lucky You on the game track title. The 2007 film, In the land of women use the song, "Iceman" of the album tracks in the OST.

Movies inspired by the music

In turn, the films were inspired by his music, including The Indian Runner, written and directed by Sean Penn Penn has said that as inspired by Springsteen's song "Highway Patrolman."

Kevin Smith is an avowed fan Springsteen native colleagues New Jersey and called his film Jersey Girl after the Tom Waits song that Springsteen made famous. The song also used in the soundtrack.

Interim

Springsteen made his first screen appearance as a cameo in High Fidelity and was voted best "Cameo in a movie "at the MTV Movie.

Discography

Main article: Discography Bruce Springsteen

Important studio albums (and their positions in the lists of the Billboard U.S. 200 at the time of publication):

1973: Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ ()

1973: The Wild, the Innocent & The E Street Shuffle ()

1975: Born to Run (# 3)

1978: The night on the edge of the city (# 5)

1980: River (# 1)

1982: Nebraska (# 3)

1984: Born in the USA (# 1)

1987: Tunnel of Love (# 1)

1992: Human Touch (# 2)

1992: Lucky Town (# 3)

1995: The Ghost of Tom Joad (# 11)

2002: Rising (# 1)

2005: Devils & Dust (# 1)

2006: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (# 3)

2007: Magic (# 1)

2009: Working a Dream (# 1)

Awards and Recognition

Bruce Springsteen (second from right) was one of five recipients of honors from the Kennedy Center 2009

Grammy Awards

Springsteen has won 20 Grammy Awards, the next (year are shown in the year was awarded the no, the year that was conducted ceremony):

Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male, 1984, "Dancing in the Dark"

Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male, 1987, "Tunnel of Love"

Song of the Year 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"

Best Rock Song, 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"

Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo, 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"

Best song written for a film or television, 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"

Best Contemporary Folk Album, 1996, The Ghost of Tom Joad

Best rock album of 2002, increased

Best Rock Song 2002, "The Rising"

Best Male Rock Vocal Performance 2002, "The Rise

Best Rock Performance By A Duo or Group Vocal 2003 "Disorder in the House" (with Warren Zevon)

Solo Rock Vocal Performance Best, 2004, "Code of Silence"

Best Rock Solo Vocal Performance, 2005, "Devils & Dust"

Best Folk Traditional Album of the Year 2006, the Seeger Sessions: We Shall Overcome

Best Long Form Music Video 2006, Wings For Wheels: The Making Of Born To Run

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance in 2007, "Radio Nowhere"

Best Rock Song, 2007, "Radio Nowhere "

Rock Instrumental Performance Best of 2007 "Once Upon a Time in the West"

Best Rock Song 2008, " girls in their summer clothes "

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, 2009, "Working On A Dream"

One of these Price was one of the sexes "big" the (song, record or album of the year) has been nominated several times for older, but could not win.

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "Streets of Philadelphia" in 1994.

Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "The Wrestler" in 2009.

Oscars

Oscar for best song Original, 1993, "Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia.

Emmy Awards

The Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Live In New York City HBO won two special technical Emmy in 2001.

recognition of other

Polar Music Prize in 1997.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1999.

Inducted into the Hall of Fame composers, 1999.

Housed in the Hall of Fame of New Jersey, 2007.

"Born to Run ", called" the unofficial anthem of the youth of New Jersey "by the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, Springsteen is still some thing to be ironic, given that the song is New Jersey. "

The minor planet 23990, discovered September 4, 1999, for property IP Griffin at Auckland, New Zealand, was officially named in his honor.

Ranks No. 23 in the 2004 List of Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Made Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2008, the list.

He won the Prix de la Critical for best song with "The Wrestler" in 2009.

Made in the spectacle of the Super Bowl XLIII halftime.

Kennedy Center Honors, 2009.

Influence

Besides its influence on music shows in his native New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen is also cited as an influence Bon Jovi, Arcade Fire, The Gaslight Anthem, The Consortium, The Hold Steady, The National, Kings of Leon, The Killers, U2, Johnny Cash in his later recordings, and many others. His songs have been sung by various artists such as Melissa Etheridge, Johnny Cash, McFly, Tegan and Sara, Damien Jurado, Aimee Mann, Social Distortion, Rage Against The Machine, Ben Harper, Eric Bachmann, Josh Ritter, Frank Turner, and Hank Williams III, in addition to the aforementioned bands such as Arcade Fire and The National.

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