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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 years of high school in Freehold Borough. He lived in South Street in Freehold Borough and Freehold Borough High School attended. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was descent Dutch and Irish and worked, among other trades, such as a bus driver, his name Dutch is the springboard. His mother, Adele Ann (not Zerilli) was a secretary legal and was of Italian origin. His grandfather was born Vico Equense, a town near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a career short film, but left acting to pursue photography full time, took pictures of the albums Human Touch and Lucky Town.

Raised in the Church Roman Catholic, Springsteen attended the St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Freehold Borough, where he disagreed with the nuns and other students, although much later his music reflects a profound philosophy and includes many Catholic-influenced rock, hymns, traditional Irish and Catholic.

Ninth grade, was transferred to the public Freehold Regional High School, but did not fit there either. former teachers said he was a loner "who wanted nothing more than playing guitar. "He finished high school, but felt so uncomfortable that he skipped his own graduation ceremony. He attended Ocean County College briefly, but abandoned.

Springsteen was inspired to make music at age seven after seeing Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show. At age 13, bought his first guitar for $ 18 later, his mother contracted a loan to buy a guitar for 16 years Springsteen 60 million Kent immortalized in his song "The Wish".

In 1965 he went to the house of Tex and Marion Vinyard, who sponsored youth groups in the city. They helped him to become a guitarist and, eventually, lead singer of The Castilla. The Castilla recorded two 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 to do something bigger.

Call for induction at age 19, Springsteen failed his physical exam and not serve in Vietnam. In an interview with Rolling Stone in 1984, he said, "When I got on the bus to go take my physical, I thought one thing: I" He suffered a concussion in a motorcycle accident when he was 17 years, thanks to his "crazy" behavior during induction and lack of evidence. was enough to get a 4F.

Cities like New Jersey, the beach in Asbury Park, New Jersey, inspired by the themes of ordinary life in the music of Bruce Springsteen.

In early 1960, Springsteen performed briefly in a power trio known as Earth, playing in clubs in New Jersey. Springsteen has earned the nickname "The Boss" during this period he played club dates with a group that was careful to gather every night to pay the band and spread among his acolytes. Springsteen, however, has never liked this nickname because of his aversion patterns. Recently, however, seems to have accepted the nickname. Many of the last concerts that make the public has different signs on banners, plates and others, saying: "Time Boss." Previously, he was nicknamed "Doctor." From 1969 to early 1971, Springsteen performed Steel Mill, which also had Danny Federici, Vini Lopez, Vinnie Roslin and later Steve Van Zandt and Robbin Thompson. He went to play the college circuit Atlantic and also briefly in California. In January 1970 known San Francisco Examiner music critic Philip Elwood gave credibility to Springsteen in his brilliant assessment Steel Mill: "I've never been so overwhelmed by the talent completely unknown." Elwood went on to praise his "musical cohesion" and, in particular, spoke Springsteen as a composer more impressive. " For this time Springsteen also performed regularly at small clubs in Asbury Park and along of the Jersey shore, quickly gathering a cult series. 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 (mid 1971), and Bruce Springsteen Band (mid 1971id 1972). With the addition of pianist David Sancious, the nucleus of what would later become the E Street Band was formed, with occasional temporary additions such as brass sections, "The Zoomettes" (A group of female singers for "Dr. Zoom") and Southside Johnny Lyon on harmonica. Musical genres explored included blues, R & B, jazz, music of the church, early rock and roll, and soul. His prolific writing ability, with most words into the individual songs that other artists had in whole albums, brought his experience to the attention of several people who were about to change your life: new managers Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos, and the legendary Columbia Records talent scout John Hammond, who, under the pressure of Appeals, auditioned Springsteen in May 1972.

Even after Springsteen has acquired a reputation International, New Jersey roots, showed in his music, and often praised "the great state of New Jersey" in their live shows. On the basis of its action of wide local appeal, which is usually sold in large consecutive nights in New Jersey and Philadelphia locations. Also presentations made at the surprise of many Stone Pony and other shore nightclubs over the years, becoming the most prominent exponent of the Jersey Shore.

Publication 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 many of his colleagues Jerseyased back into the studio with him, forming the E Street Band (although it would not formally designated as such for a couple of years). His first album, Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ, published in January 1973, has become a favorite critical if sales were slow. Because Springsteen lyric poeticism and popular music rockooted example in songs like "Blinded by the Light" and "For You" and the Columbia and Hammond connections, critics initially compared Springsteen to Bob Dylan. "sings with a freshness and urgency I have not heard since he was hit by" Like a Rolling Stone, "wrote the editor of Crawdaddy magazine, Peter Knobler in Springsteen's first profile interview in March 1973. Crawdaddy "discovered" Springsteen in the rock press and was the champion younger. (Springsteen and the E Street Band has been known to give a private concert at Crawdaddy 10th Anniversary Party in New York in June 1976.) Music critic Lester Bangs wrote in Creem in 1975, when Springsteen's first album came out ….." many of us dismissed it: he wrote like Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, sang as Van Morrison and Robbie Robertson, and led a band like Van Morrison. "The track" Spirit in the Night "especially showed Morrison's influence, while "Lost in the Flood" was the first of many portraits of Vietnam veterans and "Growin 'Up" take into their first song adolescence.

In September 1973, his second album, The Wild, the Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, was released, again to critical acclaim, but without success commercial. Springsteen's songs became great in the form and extent, with the E Street Band to offer people less, more R & B room and letter frequency romanticize Street life in adolescence. "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" and "Incident on 57th Street" have become classics, and long and enthusiastic "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" continues to be among the topics most beloved Springsteen concert.

In the edition of May 22, 1974, The Book Boston Real, music critic Jon Landau wrote after seeing a show at the Teatro de la Universidad de Harvard Square, I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And one night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I heard the music for the first time. "Landau subsequently became manager Springsteen and producer, helping to end the epic album, Born to Run. With a big budget in a final effort at a commercially viable record, Springsteen bogged down in the recording process while striving for a wall of sound production. But, driven by the launch of a mixture of the principles of "Born to Run "to progressive rock radio, built in anticipation of the album release. Overall, the album had more than 14 months to record, with six-month stay in the song "Born To Run." Meanwhile, Springsteen struggled with anger and frustration with the album, said he heard "noises in [his] head "I could not explain to others in the study. It was during these recording sessions as" Miami "Steve Van Zandt would fall in the studio just in time to help organize Springsteen horn section on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (their only album written contribution), and finally led to its accession the E Street Band. [Citation needed] Van Zandt had been an old friend of Springsteen, and collaborator on previous projects, music and understand where it comes from, which allowed translate something from Springsteen sound was heard. However, at the end of the grueling recording sessions, Springsteen has not been met, and the first hearing the album ended, threw the disc at the entrance and told Jon Landau, who would rather just cut the album live at baseline, a place that plays often. [Citation needed]

The woman in your life during this period was to live part time in 20 years, Karen Darvin Dallas, Texas, who was in New York to pursue a career dance.

19751983: The breakthrough

On August 13, 1975, Springsteen and the E Street Band began a five-night stand 10 shows in the bottom of New York, club line. The commitment has attracted the attention of the media, was broadcast live on WNEW-FM, and convinced many skeptics that Springsteen was real. (Decades later, Rolling Stone put the name of one of the 50 Moments that Changed Rock and Roll.) In release of Born to run August 25, 1975, Springsteen finally found success. The album reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and although there were no singles, "Born to Run "(Billboard # 23)," Thunder Road "" Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out "(Billboard # 83), and" Jungleland "all received large antenna rock hard and remain perennial favorites on many classic rock stations. Writing and recording has been more disciplined than before, while maintaining an epic time. With production panoramic images, thunderous and desperate optimism, Born to Run is considered by some fans as one of the best albums of the rock and roll of all time and best works of Springsteen. He has become a sincere and dynamic rock and roll personality who spoke and the voice of much of the public rock. To crown the triumph, Springsteen appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek, in the same week, on 27 October this year. So great was the wave of publicity Springsteen is finally rebelled against him during his first venture overseas, tearing posters promoting before concert appearance in London.

A legal battle with former manager Mike Appel kept Springsteen out of the studio for over two years period during which remained the E Street Band, along with an extensive tour U.S. Despite the optimistic fervor with which he often finished, the new songs he was writing and often their debut had taken a darker tone than many of his works above. Appeals go under in 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 in Springsteen's career. No more raw lyrics rapid fire, massive and long-term character, the compositions of multipart music of the first two albums, now the songs were leaner and more carefully prepared and began thinking more and more awareness Springsteen intellectual property and political. Some fans consider best and most consistent album Springsteen darkness, songs like "Badlands" and "Promised Land" became regular concerts in the coming decades, as the track "Prove It All Night" received a significant amount of transmission time album rock radio. Other fans prefer the work of the adventurous early Springsteen. country tour to promote 1978 album became legendary for the intensity and duration of their shows.

At the end of 1970, Springsteen has earned a reputation in the world of pop as a songwriter whose material could provide hits for other bands. Manfred Mann's Earth Band received a number of U.S. a hit with a highly rearranged version of "For You" and refers to "Blinded by the Light" in early 1977. Patti Smith reached number 13 with Springsteen making unreleased "Because the Night" (which Smith co-wrote) in 1978, while The Pointer Sisters reached number two in 1979, Springsteen also the unpublished "fire."

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

In September 1979, Springsteen and the E Street Band joined the United States on safety of the musicians of antinuclear energy group at Madison Square Garden two nights in a game, while a short clip of two songs from his upcoming album. After nuclear weapons no live album, and summer documentary film Next No nuclear weapons, represents the first official recordings and images the legendary live performance by Springsteen and Springsteen first temporary decline in political participation.

Springsteen continued to consolidate its thematic focus on the lives of the working class with the album 20 Songs double the river in 1980, which included a range of equipment deliberately paradoxical left rock ballads with emotion early, and he ends 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 anything but the absence of any of his previous works. This is evident in the adoption of certain features Eighties-style pop-rock sounds like tenor drums, percussion and guitar very basic repetitive lyrics evident in most of the tracks. The title song Springsteen has its intellectual orientation, while some lesser known announces the musical direction. The album sold well, becoming his party superior first form of the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and a long tour in 1980 and 1981, with the first extended game Springsteen, Europe and ending with a series of panel light various stages in major cities in the U.S.

The river was followed in 1982 by Stark solo acoustic Nebraska. According to the Marsh biographies, Springsteen was in a state of depression when he wrote this material, and the result is a brutal representation of American life. The song is about a series of murders Charles Starkweather. According to Marsh, the album began as a demonstration of a new work that is performed with the E Street Band, but during the registration process Landau, Springsteen and producer made the songs worked better as solo acoustic numbers. Several study sessions with the E Street Band took to realize that the recording original homemade Springsteen cover simple, low-tech cassette four-channel versions were the best they would do. However, these sessions are not for anything that the group has recorded several new songs Springsteen had written, in addition to the Nebraska area, including "Born in the USA" and "Glory Days ". These new songs not released until two years later, when they formed the basis of Springsteen's upcoming album.

While Nebraska is not sold well, which received critical praise (including being named "Album of the Year" by critics of Rolling Stone) and influenced important important work of other artists, including album of U2, The Joshua Tree. It helped inspire the musical genre known as lo-fi music, become a classic a cult favorite among indie-rock. Springsteen did not tour with the launching of Nebraska.

19841991: Businesspeople phenomenon

Springsteen is probably best known for his album Born in the USA (1984), which has sold 15 million copies in the United States and become one of the biggest selling albums of all time on seven hits in the Top 10, and around the world to the phenomenal success that followed. The title of the song was bitter comment on the treatment of veterans Vietnam, some of whom were Springsteen's friends and other members of the group. The song's verses lacked any ambiguity when listening, but the music anthem and the title song, it was difficult for many politicians to the common person, by lyricsxcept the choir, which could be interpreted in different ways. The song was interpreted as jingoistic, and in the 1984 presidential campaign has been the subject of considerable folklore. Springsteen also turned down several million dollars offered Chrysler used by the Company in a car to the track bar. (Years later, to remove puffiness and make the meaning more explicit original song and clearly, Springsteen performed the song accompanied only by acoustic guitar. An acoustic version also appeared on tracks, albums later.) "Dancing in the Dark" was the eldest of seven singles from Born in the USA, reaching number 2 on the Billboard music charts. The video for the song which is a young Courteney Cox dance on stage with Bruce Springsteen, one aspect that has helped revive the career of the actress. The song "Cover Me" was written by Springsteen for Donna Summer, but his record company convinced him to keep for the new album. A big fan of summer job, Springsteen wrote another song for her "protection." Videos from the album were made by filmmakers Brian De Palma and John Sayles said. Springsteen appeared in the "We Are the World" song and album in 1985.

Born during the U.S. tour, Springsteen met the actress Julianne Phillips. They married in Lake Oswego, Oregon, May 13, 1985, surrounded by intense media attention. Opposites in background, their marriage did not last long. 1987 Springsteen Tunnel album of love are some problems in the relationship, and during the subsequent Tunnel of Love Express tour, as reported by many tabloids, Springsteen had with singer Patti Scialfa backup. Phillips and Springsteen has filed for divorce in 1988. The divorce was finalized in 1989.

Springsteen performing at the Tunnel of Love Express Radrennbahn Weiensee to Berlin this July 19, 1988.

He was born in the U.S. period represents the height of Springsteen's visibility in popular culture and the broadest audience demographic he never (helped by the launch of the Arthur Baker dance mixes of three of the singles). Live/197585, a five-record set (Also on three cassettes or three CDs), was released in late 1986 and became the first area of the game debuted at No. 1 on U.S. charts. It is one of the albums most successful live music of all time, eventually selling 13 million units in the U.S. summary Live / 197585 Springsteen's career to date and displayed some of the elements that made his shows so powerful to his fans: the switching lamentation rockers and rear, a sense of common purpose between the artist and the public, long and intense passages spoken before songs, including those describing Springsteen's difficult relationship with his father, and the instrumental value of E Street Band, as long coda in "Racing in the street." Despite its popularity, some fans and critics have said that the selection of songs from the album could have been better. Springsteen concerts are the subjects of frequent bootleg recordings and exchanges among fans.

At the forefront of international stardom Springsteen in the mid-80's had no less than five Springsteen fanzines circulating simultaneously in the UK, and many others elsewhere. Gary Desmond "Candy's Room, Liverpool was the first produced in 1980, followed quickly by a Frenchman Dan "White, Dave Percival" The Fever "quotes Jeff Matthews "And Paul Limbrick" Jackson Cage. In the U.S., Backstreets Magazine began in Seattle and continues today a glossy publication, now communication with management and Springsteen's official website.

After purchasing this peak, Springsteen released the tunnel much more quiet and contemplative love (1987), a mature reflection on the many faces of love found, lost and squandered, which only selectively used the E Street Band. Announced the breakup of her marriage Julianne Phillips. Reflecting the challenges of love in Brilliant Disguise Springsteen sang:

I heard someone call his name, under our tree willow. I saw something tucked in shame underneath your pillow. Well, I tried so hard baby but I can not see. What a woman like you with me.

After the Tunnel of Love Express Tour fans shook the scenery changes, the favorites in the list together, and base horn arrangements. During the European tour in 1988, Springsteen relationship with Scialfa became public. Later, in 1988, Springsteen led the Global Human Rights Now! Visit Amnesty International. In the fall of 1989, 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 (born 1994).

19922001: commercial and artistic highs and lows

In 1992, after risking charges of "going Hollywood" by moving to Los Angeles (a radical change for someone so connected to life blue collar Jersey Shore) and working with musicians, Springsteen released two albums simultaneously. Human Touch and Lucky Town were even more introspective than any of his previous work and shows a new found confidence. A Unlike their first two albums, which dreamed of happiness, and their next four, which showed increasing their faithful at certain stages of the album Lucky Town, Springsteen makes the happiness of the applications themselves.

Some fans of the band E Street Voice (and continue to voice) a low opinion of these albums, including Human Touch, and did not follow the result of "Other Band Tour. Other fans, however, had only come to know Springsteen after the reunification 1975, the E Street Band have found the visit a great opportunity to see Springsteen develop a working onstage relationship with another group of musicians, and seeing the look Asbury Park base of soul and gospel of his classic material.

An electrical aspect Banda in the television show MTV Unplugged acoustic (later published as covered In Concert / MTV) was poorly received and further strengthened fan discontent. Springsteen seemed to realize this year, some as when he spoke with humor of his father during his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech:

I have to thank him because I imagine they have written without him? I mean, you can imagine that if all went well between us, due to disasters. I wrote the happy songs and I've tried in the 90's and not worked the public does not like.

Winner of numerous Grammys, Springsteen also won an Oscar in 1994 for his song "Streets of Philadelphia" which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia. The song, with the film, was hailed by many for its sympathetic portrait of a gay man dying of AIDS. [Citation needed] The music video for the song shows real Springsteen's vocal, recorded with a microphone hidden in a prerecorded instrumental track. [Citation needed] This technique has been developed in the "Brilliant Disguise" video.

In 1995, after a temporary reorganization of the E Street Band for some new songs recorded for their Greatest Hits album (a recording session reported in the documentary The Blood Brothers), released his second (mostly) solo guitar album, The Ghost of Tom Joad, inspired by Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the new underclass, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, author and photographer Dale Maharidge Michael Williamson. This has been generally well received and Nebraska because of the minimal melody, twangy voice, and the political nature of most songs although some praised him for speaking to immigrants and others who rarely have in American culture. The time around the world, a small ghost town solo acoustic of Tom Joad Tour that followed successfully and that many of their old songs sound radically transformed the way, although Springsteen had explicitly reminded his audience to be silent and not to applaud during the performances.

After the tour, Springsteen returned to New Jersey with his family. In 1998, Springsteen released the large, four-disc box is outside, the shots. Later, Springsteen would recognize that the 1990 was a "loss period" for him: "I have not done much work Some say that I have done my best work .."

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

In 1999, Springsteen and the E Street Band officially came together again and it was the big reunion tour, which lasted over a year. Highlights included a record run sold out 15 shows at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey to start the U.S. leg of the tour.

Springsteen's Reunion Tour with the E Street Band ended with a win ten p.m., at the Garden sold in Madison Square in New York in mid-2000 and the controversy over a new song "American Skin (41 Shots)" on police shootings of Amadou Diallo. The latest events at Madison Square Garden were recorded and resulted in a HBO concert, with corresponding DVD and album versions of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Live in New York City.

2002resent: Back to the current Main success

The scene outside the stadium parking lot marked flags Giants record for the 10-night stand in Rising Tour in July 2003.

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 September 11 was a critical success and audience. (Many of the songs were influenced by Springsteen had telephone conversations with family attack victims, in their obituaries had listed as his music has influenced their lives.) won the title in the format of many radio antenna, and the record became Springsteen's album, the best-selling new material in 15 years. Launched by the early onset of Asbury Park in the morning, the Today Show, The Tour began to rise, sweeping through a series of unique paintings, night scene in the U.S. and Europe to promote the album in 2002, then back aa large-scale, multi-stage shows at night in 2003. While Springsteen had maintained a loyal base of hardcore fans around the world (particularly Europe), its general popularity had dipped in recent years in some parts of the U.S. South and Midwest, but was still strong in Europe and along the coast United States and has played an unprecedented 10 nights at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, the bill feat in which no musical act has come. During these concerts Springsteen thanked those fans who attend multiple shows and those who came long distances or another country, the arrival of strong oriented online communities Bruce had made such practices more common. Rising Tour came to a final conclusion with three nights in Shea Stadium, highlighted by renewed controversy on "American Skin" and an appearance by Bob Dylan.

During the 2000s, Springsteen became a visible advocate for the revitalization Asbury Park, and played an annual series of winter holiday concerts not to benefit several local businesses, organizations and causes. These programs have been specifically provided fans, with numbers such as the unreleased (until Hits) E Street Shuffle outtake "Thundercracker", a singing group participation happy to demystify casual Springsteen fans. Also often repeated tours in Asbury Park, some of his most devoted followers even go so far as to exterior construction to hear fragments of what they can show to come. The song "My City of Ruins" was written about Asbury Park, after attempts to revitalize the city. Searching an appropriate song for a post-September 11 tribute charity concert in New York chose "My City of Ruins," which was immediately recognized as an emotional highlight of the concert, with its themes and the exhortations of the gospel from the heart "Arise!" The song became associated to post-9/11 New York, and he chose to close the album Rising and as a reminder about the next round.

Grammy Awards 2003, Springsteen The Clash "London Calling" with Elvis Costello, Dave Grohl, and the E Street Band member Steven Van Zandt and No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal in tribute to Joe Strummer, Springsteen and the shock had been considered in several rivals duel River album twice and triple Sandinista!. In 2004, Springsteen and the E Street Band has participated in the "Vote for Change "tour, John Mellencamp, John Fogerty, the Dixie Chicks, Pearl Jam, REM, Bright Eyes, Dave Matthews Band, Jackson Browne and other musicians. All events were programmed in the swing states favor liberal political group America Coming Together and encourage people to register and vote. The final was held in Washington, DC This makes many artists together. A few days later, Springsteen gave a concert for example, New Jersey, where polls have shown that state surprisingly close. While that in recent years Springsteen had played benefits for causes he believed in against nuclear energy, for Vietnam veterans, Amnesty International and the Christic Institute that had always refrained from explicitly endorsing candidates for office politics (in fact, rejected the efforts of Walter Mondale to attract the support of Reagan in 1984 "Born in the USA" flap). This new direction led to the sources of criticism and praise should be partisan. Springsteen "No Surrender" was the theme of the campaign of John Kerry presidential campaign, unsuccessfully, in the last days of the campaign, made versions acoustic songs and some of his other old songs at Kerry meetings.

A number of solo acoustic guitar on the Devils and Dust Tour performance in Festhalle Frankfurt, June 15, 2005.

Devils & Dust was released April 26, 2005, and was recorded without the E Street Band. It's a quiet album, mostly acoustic, 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 that is done then, but never published. The title song of the feelings of a soldier and fears the war in Iraq. Starbucks rejected a co-branding for the album, partly because of the sexually explicit content, but also because the anti-corporate Springsteen. The album entered the charts at No. 1 in 10 countries (USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Ireland). Springsteen began a solo Devils & Dust Tour at the same time as the album's release, playing both small and large venues. Attendance 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, plays piano, electric piano, pump organ, harp, ukulele, banjo, electric guitar and stomping board, as well as the acoustic guitar and harmonica, adding variety to your solo. (Backstage synthesizer, guitar, and percussion is also used for some songs). Unearthly renditions of "Reason to Believe" "Promised Land", and Suicide "Dream Baby Dream" jolted audiences to attention, while rarities, frequent changes of set list, and will continue to try, even for errors of acoustic piano remained his most loyal audience happy.

In November 2005, Sirius Satellite Radio initiated a series of radio station 24 hours seven days a week on Channel 10 called E Street Radio. This channel appears commercial-free music of Bruce Springsteen, who includes rare tracks, interviews and daily concerts of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded throughout his career.

Springsteen and the Sessions Band perform during his tour Fila Forum in Milan, Italy on May 12, 2006.

In April 2006, Springsteen released We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, a music project popular American roots oriented around a big sound treatment of 15 songs popularized by Pete Seeger radical musical activism. Was recorded with a large ensemble of musicians, including only Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell, and the Miami Horns from past efforts. Unlike previous albums, was recorded in just three sessions a day, and often you can hear Springsteen calling Live fundamental changes in the band explores its way through the tracks. The Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour began that same month, with all 18 musicians called strong Seeger Sessions Band (and later shortened tape the session.) Seeger Sessions material was highly recommended, and a handful of (usually substantially revised) Springsteen numbers. The visit was very popular in Europe, available at the reception at all parts and some excellent reviews, but newspapers reported that a U.S. number shows suffered from poor attendance. In late 2006, the Seeger Sessions tour tour for Europe twice and toured the U.S. for a short period of time. Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin, containing selections from three nights of November 2006 shows at The Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, was published this June

Stage with Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg behind him Magic Tour stop at the Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida, August 15, 2008.

Springsteen's upcoming album, entitled Magic, was published October 2, 2007. Recorded with the E Street Band, which features 10 new Springsteen songs plus "Long Walk Home", produced a Banda after the session, and a hidden track (the first time in a studio album by Springsteen), "Terry's Song," a tribute to Bruce Springsteen for a long time assistant Terry Magovern who died on July 30, 2007. The first single, "Radio Nowhere", was made available for free download on August 28. On October 7, Magic debut number one in Ireland and the UK. Mayor Hits re-entered the Irish charts at number 57 and I live in Dublin almost cracked the Top 20 in Norway again. Sirius Satellite Radio has revived E Street Radio channel 10 on September 27, 2007, in anticipation of Magic. Radio giant Clear Channel Communications has been accused of having sent a edict to its classic rock stations not to play songs from the new album, while playing Springsteen's older material. However, not Clear Channel Adult Alternative (Or "AAA") station KBCO play tracks from the album, undermine the allegations of a failure of the company. Springsteen and the E Street Band Magic Tour has started in Hartford Civic Center with the album's release and was routed through North America and Europe. Springsteen and the band live on NBC Today Show before the opening. From long E Street Band organist Danny Federici joined the tour in November 2007 due to melanoma, died on April 17, 2008, after a battle three years with the disease.

Recent events

In April 2008, Springsteen announced his support for 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 who have jobs, decent wages, which are educated in a school and a decent life filled with the dignity of work, the promise and the sanctity of the home … But today these freedoms are damaged and reduced in eight years of an administration reckless, irresponsible and morally adrift. "

On June 18, 2008, Springsteen introduced Live Tribute to Tim Russert Europe, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, to play a Russert favorite songs: "Thunder Road." Springsteen dedicated the song to Russert, who was "one of Springsteen's biggest fans." Date [Required]

Springsteen made some acoustic solo performances support of the Obama campaign in October 2008, culminating in a November 2 concentration, which premiered "Working On A Dream" a duet with Scialfa.

Springsteen at a rally at the time, presidential candidate Barack Obama

Cleveland, Ohio, November 2, 2008

November 4, the first song played on the loudspeakers after the victory speech of Obama as President elect in Grant Park in Chicago was "The Rising".

Working on a Springsteen Dream album was released in late January 2009.

Springsteen was the musical opened for We Are One: The Opening Celebration of Obama in Lincoln Memorial January 18, 2009, attended by more than 400,000. He played "The Rising" with a female chorus. Later, conducted Woody Guthrie "This Land is Your Land" with Pete Seeger.

On January 11, 2009, Springsteen won the Golden Globe Award for Best Song for "The Wrestler" Mickey Rourke film with same name.

Springsteen performed at the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009, agreeing to do so after many previous deals: t was somewhat, well, if not now, what are we waiting for? I wish I alive.50] A few days before the game, Springsteen gave a rare press conference in which he promised a "party of twelve minutes." When asked if he would be nervous before such a large audience, Springsteen refers to the "We Are One "concert, held at the Lincoln Memorial:." Youl have a lot of football fans crazy, but you have earned Lincoln looking over his shoulder Takes some pressure. "His Thu 12:45, with the E Street Band and the horns of Miami, including abridged versions" Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out "," Born to Run " "Working on a Dream" and "Glory Days", the latter including references to football. All presentations and advocacy efforts Springsteen to say, "That was probably the busiest month of my life."

On April 1, 2009, Springsteen began to work on a dream trip in San Jose, California. The visit has been affected by the controversy in February 2009 when a sales partner tour Ticketmaster site was found to redirect customers to its subsidiary TicketsNow, where the tickets were sold at inflated prices, despite the availability of tickets face value elsewhere. Ticketmaster general manager Irving Azoff has apologized quickly, after a furious statement Springsteen, who charged that instead of "abuse of our fans and our confidence." The tour shows some new songs album, with lists of the square, dominated by Springsteen classical selections that reflect the 2000's recession to end today. The tour also featured Springsteen played songs requested by audience members with banners often garage punk rock classic rock or older, more obscure entries in the catalog Springsteen back in a practice dating back to the final stage of the Magic Tour. Drummer Max Weinberg was replaced by a clock of her 18-year-old Jay Weinberg, so the former may serve as a role as director on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien principle.

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

Fireworks expires at the end the "street E!! Band!" encouragement during the final shows at Giants Stadium.

During the work on a Dream Tour, Springsteen and the band's first foray into the real world of festivals music, headlining nights at the Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands, the Bonnaroo Music Festival in the United States, where Springsteen has also served for three Phish songs and the Glastonbury Festival and Hard Rock Calling in the United Kingdom. It was also the star of the Festival Vieilles Plows Britain, France, in July, its scale his tour in France alone. His son Evan attended the concert, playing the guitar.

During a stretch of five shows in Giants Stadium Homestate end, Bruce Springsteen opened the show with a new song dedicated to the old "lady" (and told from his point of view), called "Wrecking Ball." The song shows the historical stage, and his Jersey roots. Stand up and some other shows in the United States, third leg of the tour, the full album Born presentations 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 that was the last course of action by the E Street Band, Springsteen, but during the show, said she was fired or a bit of time.

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

December 6, 2009, Springsteen was one of the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, an annual prize to personalities from the arts for his contribution to American culture .. This is probably the greatest honor of Mr. Springsteen has been received yet. Before the official ceremony at the Kennedy Center, the six culture icons were received by President and Michelle Obama Obama. During the president's speech, spoke about how Springsteen has made the lives of ordinary Americans in its wide range of songs and how their programs are beyond the rock and roll concerts characteristic, how to be more high-energy concerts, which are "common." Obama ended the Comment: "Days like" We Are One "concert and now reminds us that even when I'm President, he is the boss." During the awards Official statistics indicate that the December 6, 2009, tribute was made by several well-known celebrities like Jon Stewart, Ben Stiller, Eddie Vedder, Sting, Melissa Etheridge.

Jon Stewart began with a funny but touching tribute to Mr. Springsteen: .. "I'm not a music critic historian, archivist, or me I can not tell where Bruce Springsteen enters the pantheon of American song I can not clarify the context of sound. work or their roots in folk traditions and oral history of our great nations. But I'm originally from New Jersey. So I can tell you what I think. And what I think is that Bob Dylan and James Brown had a baby. Yes! And they have abandoned the child, as you can imagine timeinterracial relations of the same sex are what werethey baby abandoned on the side of the road between trade exit 8A and 9 of the Child was Turnpikethat Jersey, Bruce Springsteen. "He continued:" I think Bruce Springsteen is a perfect lyrical eloquence above musicianship and pure unbridled joy, pure. Exuberance in the act of storytelling, whether family histories have never said so well or so unique. And I know you hate it now. Man Doesn modest, and sat there in this little box, with his small team, who wore a rainbow catcher little or what they have in therehe doesn like her. He wants had his guitar and I would be locked up, but do not want. No BossBut understand his music for a long time until it begins to suck. Until they began to question things I did and in my own life. Until I realized he was not happy with the parade and theatrical stage. These were stories of lives that could be modified. And the state just can not reach the status quo. The only thing, the only failure in life did not make the effort to change our season. And resonates with me because, really, and say … I would not be here, God knows, not even in this business if it were the words of inspiration and the music of Bruce Springsteen. "

Balloon Gold award-winning writer Ron Kovic then took the stage, explaining how he met Bruce Springsteen at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Hollywood in 1978. An unexpected meeting led to an exchange of artists' work, and friendship was born between Born on the Fourth of July and the author of Vietnam veterans and musician born in France. Kovic Springsteen presented musical tribute began with Rob Mathes Band All-Star making 10th Avenue Freeze Out, followed by a Grammy winning musician John Mellencamp singer Born in the USA. I followed, a medley of the house of my Father, Glory Days and me on fire with the Grammy award-winners, Ben Harper and Jennifer Nettles, accompanied by Rob Mathes Band. Grammy Award and an Academy Award-winning musician Melissa Etheridge has broken a concert version of Born to Run, followed by the Grammy Award and a Globe Gold Award winning singer Eddie Vedder refund Explosives My City of Ruins. Finally, the Central Music Sting Grammy Award and Golden Globe winner Emmy, ending the night with a memorable The increase, along with the choir Joyce Garrett and the rest of the performers for the evening celebration exciting. During the tribute show, Obama, Michelle Obama and other audiences watched with admiration the imposing personality of Springsteen.

On 22 January 2010 Bruce joined several well-known artists to occur in hope for Haiti now: an overall benefit for earthquake victims, organized by George Clooney raise funds to help earthquake victims in 2010 in Haiti.

The 2000 ended with Springsteen named one of eight artists of the decade by Rolling Stone and Springsteen's tour with his fourth rank among the artists in all, great concert of the decade.

Personal Life

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

Springsteen was only until the age of 35 when she married 25 years Julianne Phillips (born May 6, 1960) in Lake Oswego Oregon, May 13, 1985. Marriage has helped his acting career thrive, despite that both were contrary to the back, 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) had a brief time in 1984, shortly after joining the group. Phillips and Springsteen separated in the spring of 1988, and August 30, 1988, Julianne has filed for divorce. The Springsteen / Phillips divorce was finalized on March 1, 1989.

After his wife filed for divorce in 1988, Bruce began to live with Scialfa. Springsteen received much criticism for the hasty manner in which he and Scialfa have taken their relationship. In a 1995 interview with The Advocate, Springsteen talked about advertising negative pair subsequently received. "It's a strange society that assumes you have the right to tell people they should love and it should not. But the truth is, essentially ignoring the whole thing, from what I could. I said, "Well, all we know is that it feels real, and may have been a disaster here in some way, but that's life. "In 1990, Springsteen and Scialfa welcomed their first child, son Evan James. They were expecting their second child, daughter Jessica Rae (born December 30, 1991), when Bruce and Patti married June 8, 1991. "I went through a divorce and it was very difficult and painful and I was very afraid of remarriage. Therefore, a part of me said: Hey, who cares? But whatever. It's very different to live together. First, the strengthening of the public is what you do: You get your license, which makes the social rituals, is a part of their place in society and in some way the acceptance of Company of you … Patti and I thought it meant something. "The couples youngest child, Sam Ryan, was born on January 5, 1994. The family lives in Rumson, New Jersey, and owns a horse farm in nearby Colts Neck. Springsteen also owns two houses adjacent to Wellington, Florida, a wealthy horse community near West Palm Beach. His eldest son, Evan, is currently a sophomore year at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, a village in Newton, Massachusetts. His daughter Jessica Springsteen is a nationally ranked champion horse.

In November 2000, Springsteen has filed a lawsuit against Jeff Burger, who accused brucespringsteen.com registration of the domain name (with other areas celebrities) in bad faith to channel users of its popular Web portal site 1000. Once the complaint was filed, Burger is the field a Springsteen biography and message board. In February 2001, Springsteen has lost its dispute with Burger. A WIPO panel decided 2 to 1 in favor of Burger.

On October 26, 2009 show that the Working Group on a Dream Tour Kansas City, Missouri, was canceled an hour before the time Estimated start because of the death of Lenny Sullivan, cousin of Springsteen and assistant road manager.

Springsteen led a relatively quiet and private life for a well known folk artist and entertainer. He moved to Los Angeles to New Jersey in the 1990 specifically to raise a family in a non-paparazzi. The press conference of Super Bowl XLIII in terms of half-time was carried out over 25 years since his last lecture press. However, he appeared in several radio interviews, including NPR and BBC. 60 minutes his last interview aired extensively on television before of his tour in support of their album, Magic.

E Street Band

Main article: E Street Band

The E Street Band is considered from October 1972, although not officially recognized as such until 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 vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano

Garry Tallent bass, tuba

Saxophone Clarence "Big Man" Clemons, percussion, vocals

Max Weinberg, drums, percussion (joined September 1974)

Roy Bittan piano, synthesizer (joined September 1974)

Steven Van Zandt guitar, backing vocals, mandolin (officially joined July 1975, having played in preceding group, left in 1984 to go solo, joined in early 1995, but has appeared in the Other Band).

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

Patti Scialfa support and vocal duo, guitar acoustic percussion (June 1984 ruling became Springsteen's wife in 1991)

Soozie Tyrell's violin acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals (Joined in 2002, a few appearances before this date)

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

Former members

Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez drums (inception in February 1974 when he was asked to resign)

David Sancious keyboards (June 1973 and August 1974)

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

Suki Lahav violin choirs (September 1974-March 1975)

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

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

Film

The music used in movies

music Springsteen has long been closely linked with the film. Their music was linked to the first big screen in 1983, John Sayles movie baby you, which included several songs from Born to Run. The relationship with Springsteen to redo Sayles years later the surface, Sayles directing videos for the songs on Born U.S. and Tunnel of Love. The song "(Just around the corner to the) Light of Day" was written for the beginning of Michael J. Light Fox / Joan Jett vehicle day.

His original work has been frequently used in films and won an Oscar for his song "Streets of Philadelphia" from the movie Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (1993). He was nominated a second Oscar for "Dead Man Walkin '", the film Dead Man (1995).

His song "Lost" plays during the opening credits Sean Penn in the 1995 film The Crossing Guard. It was released in 2003 on "Bruce Springsteen essential."

His song "Secret Garden", which appeared in 1995's Greatest Hits, was used in the 1996 Cameron Crowe film "Jerry Maguire."

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

Springsteen also wrote a song for Darren in 2008 film The Wrestler, Aronofsky. The song received a Golden Globe for Best Original Song and nominated for MTV Movie Award for "Best song from a movie."

The album "The River" was also well mentioned in the movie Reign Over Me, with Adam Sandler. Two songs on this album too, "Drive All Night" and "Out of the" streets were as background music.

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

Its title, "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, 25 hours.

More recently, his song, "Lucky Town" from his album of the same name was used in the movie of Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore in Lucky You title song of departure. The film 2007, In the land of women use the song, "Ice Man" in the titles of the album as part of the OST.

Movies inspired in music

In turn, the films were inspired by his music, including The Indian Runner, written and directed by Sean Penn, which Penn has specifically pointed out as inspired by Springsteen song "Highway Patrolman."

Kevin Smith is a declared fan of fellow New Jersey native named Springsteen and Jersey Girl movie after the Tom Waits song that Springsteen made famous. The song was also used in the soundtrack.

Interim

Springsteen made his appearance on the screen for the first time as a cameo in High Fidelity and was named "Best Cameo in a Film" at the annual MTV movie.

Discography

Main article: Bruce Springsteen discography

Major studio albums (and their positions on the Billboard chart U.S. 200 at the time of release):

1973: Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ ()

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

1975: Born to Run (# 3)

1978: The darkness on the edge of town (# 5)

1980: The 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: The increase (# 1)

2005: Devils & Dust (# 1)

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

2007: Magic (# 1)

2009: Working on a Dream (# 1)

Awards and Recognition

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

Grammy Awards

Springsteen has won 20 Grammy Awards as follows (the indicated years are the years of the sentence was given, not the year in which the ceremony took place):

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

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

Song Year 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"

Best Rock Song, 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"

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

Best song written specifically for a film or television, 1994, "Streets 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 Rising"

Best Performance Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, 2003, "Disorder in the House" (with Warren Zevon)

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

Best Solo Rock Vocal performance in 2005, "Devils & Dust"

Best Traditional Folk Album of 2006, meetings Seeger: We Shall Overcome

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

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance 2007, "Radio Nowhere"

Best Rock Song 2007, "Radio Nowhere"

Best Rock Instrumental Performance 2007, "Once upon once 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 prices has been a cross-gender "big" the (song, record, or album year), was nominated several times more than the majors, but failed to win.

Golden Globes

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

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

Oscar

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

Emmy Awards

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

recognition of other

Polar Music Prize 1997.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1999.

Inducted into the Hall of Fame of Composers, 1999.

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

"Born to Run" called "the unofficial anthem of the youth of New Jersey" by the New Jersey legislature, something Springsteen always found ironic, considering that the song "Is about to leave New Jersey."

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

Ranked No. 23 of 2004 list in Rolling Stone's 100 greatest artists of all time.

Manufactured Most of the 100 people Time magazine 2008 The most influential of the list.

Choice Awards Won for Best Song Review "The Wrestler" in 2009.

Done The exhibition at halftime of Super Bowl XLIII.

Kennedy Center Honors, 2009.

Influence

Besides its influence on the music note in his native New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen is also cited as an influence of 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, including Melissa Etheridge, Johnny Cash, McFly, Tegan and Sara, Damien Jurado Mann, Aimee, Social Distortion, Rage Against The Machine, Ben Harper, Eric Bachmann, Josh Ritter, Frank Turner, and Hank Williams III, in addition to the above bands as Arcade Fire and The National.

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