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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• Bruce Springsteen track The Wrestler

  
  The World Forgot — Authority: 408
  I can’t seem to help myself when it comes to The Boss.  There’s just something magnetic about him.  Maybe it’s because I don’t really like modern day Cougar and Billy Joel is pretty terrible now and John Denver and died.  But maybe it’s because Springsteen is still good.  He’s still good in a way that ...
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• PARRA MUSIEK – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

  
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  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed “The Boss”, is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New ...
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• Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ (the Buffalo Tour Finale)

  
  ickmusic — Authority: 465
  For those interested in downloading Sunday’s tour finale in Buffalo (where Bruce and the band performed Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ ), head on over to super top-notch blog Addicted to Vinyl , where Matt’s got a zip file of goodness for you… Greetings from Buffalo, NY (Addicted to Vinyl) If you’re ...
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• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2009 Concert

  
  Guitar Licks — Authority: 119
  This years 25th anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts was one of those shows that you wish that you had taken in! Both shows this year took place on Oct 29-30 at Madison Square Garden in New York city. For Thursday’s show, the line up and set list was unreal! On Friday the line up was just as ...
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• From Tehran to Tenafly

  
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  My idea of the perfect state slogan: “New Jersey. So?” Clearly the place has a mystique all its own: In a television interview … on the CBS show 60 Minutes, reporter Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian, recounts the Revolutionary Guard’s obsession with the Garden State. The guard seemed to believe ...
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• Why do U2 want to play Glastonbury?

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 616
  U2 are to headline Glastonbury this year, on the festival’s 40th anniversary. There has been some predictable scepticism expressed about this from the anti-U2 brigade, although it seems a bit of a no-brainer to me: rock band plays rock festival – let the controversy begin!Like last year’s headliners, Bruce ...
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• Contest: Win a copy of Big Man – the new book by Clarence Clemons!

  
  Addicted To Vinyl — Authority: 496
  Well, the Springsteen tour is finally over. Is anybody else already feeling a little bit of withdrawal like I am? What are we going to do with all of our new found free time? While we wait to find out what Bruce and the guys are going to be up to, one option is to curl up with a copy of Big Man: Real Life ...
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• Monday’s Hors d’Oeuvres: Furthur More

  
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  As we mentioned on Friday, the members of Furthur played a warm-up gig at the tiny 19 Broadway nightclub in Fairfax, CA. The ensemble tackled an array of Dead classics, a cover of The Beatles’ Hey Jude and the second-ever performance of a new song by Phil Lesh – Welcome to the Dance. Let’s take a quick ...
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• My Dad and The Boss

  
  Left of the Dial — Authority: 100
  I didn’t know my 69-year-old father was at the Bruce Springsteen show in Baltimore last week. That is, until he sent me this video this morning. He’s the guy in the red shirt holding up the cell phone camera beginning at the :36 mark of the video….
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• Set List: Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band: The Final Show: Buffalo, NY

  
  Vintage Vinyl News — Authority: 440
  Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band closed out what has become an almost two-year long tour on Sunday night at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, NY. As this tour has grown older, the set list has become more and more all eclectic with performances of full albums, requests for non-Springsteen songs and rarities from ...
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• Rock and Roll History: The Beatles and More…

  
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  Some groovy stuff in Rock and Roll History for November 23rd, including the Stones, Jerry Lee Lewis and Robert Johnson.
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• Little Steven Encore: Rock and Roll History

  
  Rock and Roll Guru — Authority: 145
  Here’s an encore to yesterday’s post on Little Steven Van Zandt’s birthday . Little Steven is married to the woman who played his wife on The Sopranos, Maureen Van Zandt. At their wedding on New Year’s Eve in 1982, Bruce Springsteen was his best man and the ceremony was presided over by the Reverend Richard ...
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• Weekend Playlist

  
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  “The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.” ~ Bruce SpringsteenTownes Van Zandt | Flyin’ ShoesBar-Kays | Soul FingerWeen | Chocolate & CheeseBlack Sabbath | Never Say Die!Mylo | Destroy Rock & RollThe Four Tops | AnthologyX | Under The Big Black SunBruce Springsteen | Darkness On The ...
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• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live

  
  ReadJunk.com — Authority: 145
  Starring: Various ArtistsStudio: Time Life EntertainmentBuy On Amazon.comThe Rock n Roll Hall of Fame is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. To help celebrate it, Time Life Entertainment released a 3 disc special edition DVD featuring Hall inductions speeches, jam sessions, and awesome performances!Rock and ...
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• 20 Best Live Acts of the Decade: 2000-2009

  
  50 Records — Authority: 129
  Paste Magazine released what they believe were the best live acts over the past decade . Included is a paragraph with why the magazine chose the artists they did along with videos of live performances. The top 20 are: 20. TV on the Radio 19. Of Montreal 18. Pixies 17. The Decemberists 16. Ted Leo 15. Wilco ...
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• Bruce Springsteen and E Street “Say Goodbye for a Little While” as Tour Wraps in Buffalo

  
  Rock Music Report. The place for Rock and roll news. — Authority: 150
  Early on in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s final gig of their two-year world tour, Bruce began telling a familiar story: the night of a wicked nor’easter in Asbury Park, New Jersey, circa 1971, when a gigantic saxophone player walked into a club and asked to sit in with the band. “We got [...]
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• Springsteen’s glorious goodbye—or is it?

  
  carnage and culture — Authority: 138
  Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen and the EStreet Band Sunday night in HSBC Arena By Jeff Miers THE BUFFALO NEWS POP MUSIC CRITIC http://www.buffalonews.com Updated: November 23, 2009, 10:07 AM The anticipation leading up to Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s Sunday night concert in HSBC Arena ...
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• Live Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band @ 1st Mariner Arena (2009.11.20)

  
  Aural States — Authority: 127
  Three songs into Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band’s blazing set at 1st Mariner Arena , Baltimore, a city that had not had a tour stop from the band in over three decades, got its catharsis. It’s customary for the crowd to sing the first verse of “Hungry Heart” at a Bruce show, but it felt ...
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• Lost Classics? The Pointer Sisters

  
  30 Days Out — Authority: 128
  The Pointer Sisters had an enviable run at the top of the charts in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  Their hits included “Neutron Dance” and the most famous cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Fire.”  The albums that all of these songs appeared on were produced by 1970s über-producer Richard Perry.   One of ...
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• Ear on TV: Week of 11.23.09: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  
  thus spake drake — Authority: 126
  You can forgive the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a bit of fuzzy math in calling this their 25th anniversary. First and foremost, any excuse to put on a star-studded concert event like this is going to be accepted. (Just is.) Secondly, theyre really splitting the difference, given that it was founded in 1983 but didnt ...
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