Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen is an American rock star whose body of work dating from the early seventies to the present places him in the rare company of such artists as Bob Dylan as a living legend. Equally at home performing folk based music on such solo acoustic albums as Nebraska and Devils & Dust, or within the big arena rock setting of the E Street Band, the common thread in Springsteen’s work has always been its tales of ordinary people trying to rise above their working class circumstances.

Hailing from Asbury Park, New Jersey, Springsteen first rose to national prominence with his 1975 album Born To Run, which landed him on the covers of Time and Newsweek the same week. Nearly ten years later, the 1984 album and tour Born In The USA made him an international phenomenon. Following that success, Springsteen shied away from the spotlight, marrying, splitting from the E Street Band, and making "smaller" records like The Ghost Of Tom Joad. Since reuniting with the E Street Band for a reunion tour in 1999, "The Boss" has however come back stronger than ever, most recently completing a world tour in support of his 2007 album Magic.

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• Emotional education through the season of Advent

  
  The Emerging Scholars Blog — Authority: 120
  In The Other Education (NY Times Opinion, November 26, 2009), David Brooks comments: For reasons having to do with the peculiarities of our civilization, we pay a great deal of attention to our scholastic educations, which are formal and supervised, and we devote much less public thought to our emotional ...
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• UK Police Make Record Payments to Whistle While They Work

  
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  Filed under: News , UK While the Home Office is telling police forces in England and Wales to make annual savings of more than £500m by 2014, details have emerged that the constabulary is paying in excess of £800,000 a year to enable officers to listen to music at their desks, canteens and -- somewhat bizarrely ...
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• Bruce Springsteen Speaks of Revisiting Back Catalogue

  
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  Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Following his recent shows where he performed the classic albums Born to Run, The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle and The River in their entirety, Bruce Springsteen has spoken of the rationale behind the special concerts. Speaking to Billboard , Springsteen ...
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• Elvis Costello to spin a Bruce Springsteen set on Sirius XM Radio: We’ve got his playlist

  
  The Music Mix — Authority: 718
  Elvis Costello will take over Sirius XM’s all-Springsteen, all-the-time E Street Radio station next Friday to spin a few of his favorite Boss-related tunes. A rep for the satellite radio service has provided the Music Mix with a list of the songs the cantankerous singer-songwriter chose, and it’s a nice little ...
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• Handwritten letter of the day: Joe Strummer hearts Bruce Springsteen

  
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  Details available here. [IMG: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hX04KTCUZeQ/SxV0JOZfgLI/AAAAAAAABKE/wVjzCop67Ik/s400/joestrummerspringsteen.jpg]
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• Bruce Springsteen does not go to retirement

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 182
  Springsteen and his E Street Band are recovering from a long and exhausting touring schedule thats seen them perform 171 shows in the past two years. Rumours were abuzz that the American music icon may be planning to retire from live performances, but he insists he still loves touring - and it wouldnt be fair on fans ...
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• Bruce springsteen new vedio [Video Result]

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 182
  Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band live at Buffalo, NY at the HSBC Arena on 11/22/09 FINAL SHOW OF THE TOUR!!! Played "Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ" in its entirety!!!! FIRST and LAST TIME EV...
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• Springsteen Has No Plans to Quit

  
  30 Days Out — Authority: 128
  Picture courtesy of Backstreets magazine Bruce Springsteen just turned 60, he just got off the road after nearly two years of touring and now he has good news for all of us….he has no plans to retire from live performing anytime soon. Check out his recent ”Q&A” with Billboard magazine .
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• Nicole Richie Gets A Sitcom; Jakes Luggage Leaves Reeses House [Dirt Bag]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 812
  Remember when Nicole Richie was on The Simple Life ? Shes planning on returning to primetime TV — this time in a scripted comedy. Nicole is producing and starring as "a professional woman with complicated family relationships" who is "struggling to figure out what role shell take as her life and her family ...
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• Good Morning, Joe Strummers Passionate Written Endorsement of Bruce Springsteen

  
  Sound of the City — Authority: 645
  That right there is a letter Joe Strummer wrote in response to a query sent to him by the documentary producer Mark Hagen, who wanted his opinion on Springsteen for a documentary that would...
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• Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Concert: Self-Serving BS, But Exciting, Star-Studded Self-Serving BS

  
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  I recently declined the privileged opportunity to spend $1000 on Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert tickets, but ended up spending slightly less money to watch HBO’s 4-hour “highlights” broadcast of the event last night. Granted, it wasn’t quite the same as actually being there, but on ...
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• I wannabe David Brooks

  
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  To say I was wowed by this intimate glimpse into David Brook’s inner workings on this personal level is frankly, an awkward understatement.  I have noticed minute changes in David Brooks over time as he appears as a respected political pundit on many of the television shows I am prone to watch.     While I have ...
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• "Tonight, there will be a reunion. Are you ready for a summit at The Garden? Are you ready for the..."

  
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  “Tonight, there will be a reunion. Are you ready for a summit at The Garden? Are you ready for the Bridge and Tunnel summit meeting right here right now? Cause Long Island is about to meet New Jersey on the neutral ground of New York City. So I’d like to invite out the King of Long Island out to meet the E. ...
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• HBO airs Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts: Your favorite moments?

  
  The Music Mix — Authority: 718
  Yesterday evening at 8 P.M. Eastern, HBO began airing the two-night all-star concert that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame put on in NYC a few weeks back. To give you a sense of the material they were working with here, if the network had shown the entirety of both October dates, that broadcast
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• Strummer loved Springsteen

  
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  Its not time for Friday Ephemera , but I had to post this very cool bit of ephemeral rock history (courtesy of the wonderful Letters of Note ). Its a 1997 fax response from Joe Strummer to a documentary film maker discussing his opinion of Bruce Springsteen. The film was a 1998 UK television production called Bruce ...
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• Manfred Mann Cover Bruce Springsteen’s “Blinded By Light (Live)

  
  Rock God Cred — Authority: 440
  Popdose Report: Click here to go to Popdose to check Manfred Mann’s cover of Bruce Springsteen “Blinded By The Light (Live)”…plus “Road to Babylon”, “Davy’s on The Road Again”, “Time Is Right”, “Father of Day, Father of Night/Captain Bobby Stout”, and “The Mighty Quinn”
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• Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame’s Iowa Touch

  
  Screenwriting from Iowa — Authority: 129
  “A historic, music-affirming extravaganza. Hail, hail rock ‘n’ roll.”USATODAY.comTonight HBO will broadcast the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert that was taped back in October. The concert features a solid line-up of Bruce Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, U2,  Bonnie ...
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• Rock and Roll History November 29th

  
  Rock and Roll Guru — Authority: 144
  Here’s today’s Rock and Roll History Lesson with a couple birthdays, some Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, Kiss and the loss of a loved one. Please ignore the pained expression on my face in the image below. Sometimes when I embed the videos from YouTube, the first image you see comes from somewhere ...
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• TV Tonight: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Anniversary Concert

  
  BuzzSugar — Authority: 637
  HBO is hosting a special tonight to celebrate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 25th Anniversary, and the line-up is star-studded. U2, Metallica, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, and other acts each have a segment of the show where theyll be rocking their music, along with a few tunes by other ...
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• Buried Treasure: Love Is A Gas

  
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  [Today: Paul Ks dubious secret weapon...]Paul Kopasz was born and raised in Detroit, attended the University of Kentucky as a member of their debate team, and ended up slumming around New York City, where he developed a heroin habit that drove him to petty crime and landed him in prison for two years. As Paul [...]
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