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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September
23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician.
He has recorded and toured 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 around his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have tended to alternate
between commercially accessible rock albums and somber folk-oriented works. Much
of his status stems from the concerts and marathon shows in which he and the E
Street Band present intense ballads, rousing anthems, and party rock and roll
songs, amongst which he intersperses whimsical or deeply emotional stories.
His most famous albums, Born to Run and Born in the
U.S.A., epitomize his penchant for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily
life. He has gradually become identified with progressive politics. He is also
noted for his support of various relief and rebuilding efforts in New Jersey and
elsewhere, and for his response to the September 11, 2001, attacks, on which his
album The Rising reflects.
He has earned numerous awards for his work,
including eighteen Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award, and
continues to have a strong global fan base. He has sold more than 65 million
albums in the United States and 120 million worldwide.[1]
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Background information
Birth name Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
Also known as The Boss
Born September 23, 1949 (1949-09-23) (age 59)
Long Branch, New Jersey, US
Genre(s) Rock, Folk, Heartland Rock
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician
Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica
Years active 1972–present
Label(s) Columbia
Associated acts E Street Band
Steel Mill
Miami Horns
Southside Johnny
Gary U.S. Bonds
USA for Africa
The Seeger Sessions Band
Website www.brucespringsteen.net/
****
Life
and career
Early
years
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey,
and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Boro. He lived off
South Street in Freehold Boro and attended Freehold Regional High School (today
known as Freehold Borough High School). His father, Douglas Frederick
Springsteen, was a bus driver of Dutch and Irish ancestry. His mother, Adele Ann
Zerilli, was a legal secretary of Italian ancestry.[2] He has an older sister,
Virginia - who took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums - and a
younger sister, Pamela. Pamela Springsteen had a brief film career, but left
acting to pursue still photography full time.
Raised a Roman Catholic,[3] Springsteen attended
the St. Rose of Lima parochial school in Freehold Borough, where he was at odds
with both the nuns and other students, even though much of his later music
reflected a deep Catholic ethos and included many rock-influenced, traditional
Irish-Catholic hymns.[4]
In ninth grade he transferred to the public
Freehold Regional High School, but did not fit in there either. He completed
high school but felt so uncomfortable that he skipped his own graduation
ceremony.[5] He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out.[4]
Springsteen had been inspired to take up music at
the age of seven after seeing Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show. At 13, he
bought his first guitar for $18; later, his mother took out a loan to buy the
16-year-old Springsteen a $60 Kent guitar, an event he later memorialized in his
song "The Wish".
In 1965, he went to the house of Tex and Marion
Vinyard, who sponsored young bands in town. They helped him become lead
guitarist and subsequently the lead singer of The Castiles. The Castiles
recorded two original songs at a public recording studio in Brick Township, New
Jersey and played a variety of venues, including Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village.
Marion Vinyard said that she believed the young Springsteen when he promised he
would make it big.[6]
New Jersey beach towns such as Asbury Park, New
Jersey inspired the themes of ordinary life in Bruce Springsteen's music.In the
late 1960s, Springsteen performed briefly in a power trio known as Earth,
playing in clubs in New Jersey. Springsteen acquired the nickname "The Boss"
during this period as when he played club gigs with a band he took on the task
of collecting the band's nightly pay and distributing it amongst his
bandmates.[7] Springsteen, however, has never liked this nickname, due to his
dislike of bosses.[8] Previously he had the nickname "Doctor".[9] From 1969
through early 1971, Springsteen performed around New Jersey with bassist Garry
Tallent, guitarist Steve Van Zandt (although Van Zandt did not officially join
the band until 1975), organist Danny Federici, drummer Vini Lopez, and later
bassist Vinnie Roslin, in a band called Child, subsequently renamed Steel Mill
(with the addition of guitarist Robbin Thompson). They went on to play the
mid-Atlantic college circuit, and also briefly in California. In January 1970
well-known San Francisco Examiner music critic Philip Elwood gave Springsteen
credibility in his glowing assessment of Steel Mill: "I have never been so
overwhelmed by totally unknown talent." Elwood went on to praise their "cohesive
musicality" and, in particular, singled out Springsteen as "a most impressive
composer." 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 genuine musical and songwriting style: Dr Zoom & the Sonic Boom
(early–mid 1971), Sundance Blues Band (mid 1971), and The Bruce Springsteen Band
(mid 1971–mid 1972). With the addition of pianist David Sancious, the core of
what would later become the E Street Band was formed, with occasional temporary
additions such as horns sections, "The Zoomettes" (a group of female backing
vocalists for "Dr Zoom") and Southside Johnny Lyon on harmonica. Musical genres
explored included blues, R&B, jazz, church music, early rock'n'roll, and soul.
His prolific songwriting ability, with more words in some individual songs than
other artists had in whole albums, brought his skill to the attention of several
people who were about to change his life: new managers Mike Appel and Jim
Cretecos, and legendary Columbia Records talent scout John Hammond, who, under
Appel's pressure, auditioned Springsteen in May 1972.
Even after Springsteen gained international
acclaim, his New Jersey roots showed through in his music, and he often praised
"the great state of New Jersey" in his live shows. Drawing on his extensive
local appeal, he routinely sold out consecutive nights in major New Jersey and
Philadelphia venues. He also made many surprise appearances at The Stone Pony
and other shore nightclubs over the years, becoming the foremost exponent of the
Jersey Shore sound.
1972–1974
Springsteen signed a record deal with Columbia
Records in 1972, with the help of John Hammond, who had signed Bob Dylan to the
same record label a decade earlier. Springsteen brought many of his New
Jersey-based colleagues into the studio with him, thus forming the E Street Band
(although it would not be formally named as such for a couple more years). His
debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., released in January 1973,
established him as a critical favorite,[10] though sales were slow. Because of
his lyrics-heavy, folk rock-rooted music exemplified on tracks like "Blinded by
the Light" and "For You," as well as the Columbia and Hammond connections,
critics initially compared Springsteen to Bob Dylan. "He sings with a freshness
and urgency I haven't heard since I was rocked by 'Like a Rolling Stone'," wrote
Crawdaddy magazine editor Peter Knobler in Springsteen's first
interview/profile, in March 1973. Crawdaddy "discovered" Springsteen in the rock
press and was his earliest champion.[11] Famed music critic Lester Bangs wrote
in Creem, 1975, that when Springsteen's first album was released....."many of us
dismissed it: he wrote like Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, sang like Van Morrison
and Robbie Robertson, and led a band that sounded like Van Morrison's."[12] 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" his first take on the recurring theme of adolescence.
In September 1973 his second album, The Wild, the
Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, was released, again to critical acclaim but no
commercial success. Springsteen's songs became grander in form and scope, with
the E Street Band providing a less folky, more R&B vibe and the lyrics often
romanticizing teenage street life. "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" and
"Incident on 57th Street" would become fan favorites, and the long, rousing
"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" continues to rank among Springsteen's most beloved
concert numbers.
In the May 22, 1974, issue of Boston's The Real
Paper, music critic Jon Landau wrote after seeing a performance at the Harvard
Square Theater, "I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing
music for the very first time."[13] Landau subsequently became Springsteen's
manager and producer, helping to finish the epic new album, Born to Run. Given
an enormous budget in a last-ditch effort at a commercially viable record,
Springsteen became bogged down in the recording process while striving for a
wall of sound production. But, fed by the release of an early mix of "Born to
Run" to progressive rock radio, anticipation built toward the album's release.
All in all the album took more than 14 months to record, with six months alone
spent on the song "Born To Run." During this time Springsteen battled with anger
and frustration over the album, saying he heard "sounds in [his] head" that he
could not explain to the others in the studio. It was during these recording
sessions that "Miami" Steve Van Zandt would stumble into the studio just in time
to help Springsteen organize the horns section on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (it
is his only contribution written on the album), and eventually led to his
joining of the E Street Band. Van Zandt had been a long-time friend of
Springsteen and understood where he was coming from, which helped him to
translate some of the sounds Springsteen was hearing. Still, by the end of the
grueling recording sessions, Springsteen was not satisfied, and, upon first
hearing the finished album, threw the record into the alley and told Jon Landau
he would rather just cut the album live at The Bottom Line, a place he often
played.
The woman in his life during this time was
part-time live-in 20-year-old girlfriend Karen Darvin of Dallas, Texas, who was
in New York City pursuing a career in dancing.[14]
1975–1981
On August 13, 1975, Springsteen and the E Street
Band began a five-night, 10-show stand at New York's Bottom Line club; it
attracted major media attention, was broadcast live on WNEW-FM, and convinced
many skeptics that Springsteen was for real. (Decades later, Rolling Stone
magazine would name the stand as one of the 50 Moments That Changed Rock and
Roll.[15]) With the release of Born to Run on August 25, 1975, Springsteen
finally found success: while there were no real hit singles, "Born to Run",
"Thunder Road", "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out", and "Jungleland" all received massive
FM radio airplay and remain perennial favorites on many classic rock stations to
this day. With its panoramic imagery, thundering production, and desperate
optimism, some fans consider this among the best rock and roll albums of all
time and Springsteen's finest work. It established him as a sincere and dynamic
rock and roll personality who spoke for and in the voice of a large part of the
rock audience. To cap off the triumph, Springsteen appeared on the covers of
both Time and Newsweek in the same week, on October 27 of that year. So great
did the wave of publicity become that Springsteen eventually rebelled against it
during his first venture overseas, tearing down promotional posters before a
concert appearance in London.
A legal battle with former manager Mike Appel kept
Springsteen out of the studio for over two years, during which time he kept the
E Street Band together through extensive touring across the U.S. Despite the
optimistic fervor with which he often performed, the new songs he was writing
and often debuting on stage had taken a more somber tone than much of his
previous work. Reaching settlement with Appel in 1977, Springsteen finally
returned to the studio, and the subsequent sessions produced Darkness on the
Edge of Town (1978). Musically, this album was a turning point of Springsteen's
career. Gone were the rapid-fire lyrics, outsized characters, and long,
multi-part musical compositions of the first three albums; now the songs were
leaner and more carefully drawn and began to reflect Springsteen's growing
intellectual and political awareness. Some fans consider Darkness Springsteen's
best and most consistent record; tracks such as "Badlands" and "The Promised
Land" became concert staples for decades to come, while the track "Prove It All
Night" received a significant amount of radio airplay (#33, Billboard Hot 100).
Other fans would prefer the work of the adventurous early Springsteen.[16] The
cross-country 1978 tour to promote the album would become legendary for the
intensity of its shows.
By the late 1970s, Springsteen had earned a
reputation in the pop world as a songwriter whose material could provide hits
for other bands. Manfred Mann's Earth Band had achieved a U.S. number one pop
hit with a heavily rearranged version of Greetings' "Blinded by the Light" in
early 1977. Patti Smith reached number 13 with her take on Springsteen's
unreleased "Because the Night" (which Smith co-wrote) in 1978, while The Pointer
Sisters hit number two in 1979 with Springsteen's also-unreleased "Fire".
In September 1979, Springsteen and the E Street
Band joined the Musicians United for Safe Energy anti-nuclear power collective
at Madison Square Garden for two nights, playing an abbreviated setlist while
premiering two songs from his upcoming album. The subsequent No Nukes live
album, as well as the following summer's No Nukes documentary film, represented
the first official recordings and filmings of Springsteen's fabled live act, as
well as Springsteen's first tentative dip into political involvement.
Springsteen continued to consolidate his thematic
focus on working-class life with the 20-song double album The River in 1980,
which finally yielded his first hit Top Ten single as a performer, "Hungry
Heart", but also included an intentionally paradoxical range of material from
good-time party rockers to emotionally intense ballads. The album sold well, and
a long tour in 1980 and 1981 followed, featuring Springsteen's first extended
playing of Europe and ending with a series of multi-night arena stands in major
cities in the U.S.
1982–1989
The River was followed in 1982 by the stark solo
acoustic Nebraska. According to the Marsh biographies, Springsteen was in a
depressed state when he wrote this material, and the result is a brutal
depiction of American life. The title track on this album is about the murder
spree of Charles Starkweather. The album actually started (according to Marsh)
as a demo tape for new songs to be played with the E Street Band, but, during
the recording process, Springsteen and producer Landau realized they worked
better as solo acoustic numbers; several attempts at re-recording the songs in
the studio with the E Street Band led them to realize that the original
recording, made on a simple, low-tech four-track tape deck in Springsteen's
home, were the best versions they were going to get. However, the sessions with
the E Street Band were not all for naught, as the band recorded several new
songs that Springsteen had written in addition to the Nebraska material,
including "Born in the U.S.A." and "Glory Days". These new songs would not see
release until two years later, forming the basis of Springsteen's next album.
While Nebraska did not sell especially well, it
garnered widespread critical praise (including being named "Album of the Year"
by Rolling Stone magazine's critics) and influenced later significant works by
other major artists, including U2's album The Joshua Tree. It helped inspire the
musical genre known as lo-fi music, becoming a cult favorite among
indie-rockers. Springsteen did not tour in conjunction with Nebraska's release.
Springsteen probably is best known for his album
Born in the U.S.A. (1984), which sold 15 million copies in the U.S. alone and
became one of the best-selling albums of all time with seven singles hitting the
top 10, and the massively successful world tour that followed it. The title
track was a bitter commentary on the treatment of Vietnam veterans, some of whom
were Springsteen's friends and bandmates. The song was widely misinterpreted as
jingoistic, and in connection with the 1984 presidential campaign became the
subject of considerable folklore. Springsteen also turned down several million
dollars offered by Chrysler Corporation for using the song in a car commercial.
(In later years, Springsteen performed the song accompanied only with acoustic
guitar to make the song's original meaning more explicitly clear. An acoustic
version also appeared on Tracks, a later album.) "Dancing in the Dark" was the
biggest of seven hit singles from Born in the U.S.A., peaking at No. 2 on the
Billboard music charts. The music video for the song featured a young Courteney
Cox dancing on stage with Springsteen, an appearance which helped kickstart the
actress's career. The song Cover Me was written by Springsteen for Donna Summer,
but his record company persuaded him to keep it for the new album. A big fan of
Summer's work, Springsteen wrote another one for her, "Protection." A number of
the videos for the album were made by noted film directors Brian De Palma or
John Sayles.
During the Born in the U.S.A. Tour he met actress
Julianne Phillips. They were married in Lake Oswego, Oregon, on May 13, 1985,
surrounded by intense media attention. Opposites in background, their marriage
was not to be long-lived. Springsteen's 1987 album Tunnel of Love described some
of his unhappinesses in the relationship and during the subsequent Tunnel of
Love Express tour, Springsteen took up with backup singer Patti Scialfa, as
reported by many tabloids. Subsequently, Phillips and Springsteen filed for
divorce in 1988[17]. The divorce was finalized in 1989.
The Born in the U.S.A. period represented the
height of Springsteen's visibility in popular culture and the broadest audience
demographic he would ever reach (this was further helped by releasing Arthur
Baker dance mixes of three of the singles). Live/1975–85, a five-record box set
(also released on three cassettes or three CDs), was released near the end of
1986 and also became a huge success, selling 13 million units in the U.S. and
becoming the first box set to debut at No. 1 on the U.S. album charts. It is one
of the best selling live albums of all time. It summed up Springsteen's career
to that point and displayed some of the elements that made his shows so powerful
to his fans: the switching from mournful dirges to party rockers and back; the
communal sense of purpose between artist and audience; the long, intense spoken
passages before songs, including those describing Springsteen's difficult
relationship with his father; and the instrumental prowess of the E Street Band,
such as in the long coda to "Racing in the Street." Despite its popularity, some
fans and critics felt the album's song selection could have been better.
Springsteen concerts are the subjects of frequent bootleg recording and trading
among fans.
By the peak of Springsteen's international
megastardom in the mid-80s, there were no less than five Springsteen fanzines
circulating at the same time in the UK alone, and many others elsewhere. Gary
Desmond's 'Candy's Room', produced in Liverpool, was the first in 1980, quickly
followed by Dan French's 'Point Blank', Dave Percival's 'The Fever', Jeff
Matthews' 'Rendezvous' and Paul Limbrick's 'Jackson Cage'. In the US,
'Backstreets' started in Seattle and still continues today as a glossy
publication, now in communication with Springsteen's management and official
website.
After this commercial peak, Springsteen released
the much more sedate and contemplative Tunnel of Love (1987), a mature
reflection on the many faces of love found, lost and squandered, which only
selectively used the E Street Band. It presaged the breakup of his first
marriage, to Julianne Phillips. Reflecting the challenges of love in Brilliant
Disguise, Springsteen sang:
“ I heard somebody call your name, from underneath
our willow. I saw something tucked in shame, underneath your pillow. Well I've
tried so hard baby, but I just can't see. What a woman like you is doing with
me. ”
The subsequent Tunnel of Love Express tour shook up
fans with changes to the stage layout, favorites dropped from the set list, and
horn-based arrangements; during the European leg in 1988, Springsteen's
relationship with E Street Band backup singer Patti Scialfa became public. Later
in 1988, Springsteen headlined the truly worldwide Human Rights Now! tour for
Amnesty International. In the fall of 1989, he dissolved the E Street Band, and
he and Scialfa relocated to California. Notably, after Tunnel of Love ended his
"classic period", 1973-1987, with 8 studio albums that received critical praise.
In fact, all those albums were included on the Rolling Stone list for the 500
Greatest Albums of All Time, being the fourth artist with most albums on that
list, only behind The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones.
1990s
Springsteen married Scialfa in 1991; they have
three children: Evan James (b.1990), Jessica Rae (b.1991) and Sam Ryan
(b.1994).[18]
In 1992, after risking charges of "going Hollywood"
by moving to Los Angeles (a radical move for someone so linked to the
blue-collar life of the Jersey Shore) and working with session musicians,
Springsteen released two albums at once. Human Touch and Lucky Town were even
more introspective than any of his previous work. Also different about these
albums was the confidence he displayed. As opposed to his first two albums,
which dreamed of happiness, and his next four, which showed him growing to fear
it, at points during the Lucky Town album, Springsteen actually claims happiness
for himself.
Some E Street Band fans voiced (and continue to
voice) a low opinion of these albums, (especially Human Touch), and did not
follow the subsequent "Other Band" Tour. For other fans, however, who had only
come to know Springsteen after the 1975 consolidation of the E Street Band, the
"Other Band" Tour was an exciting opportunity to see Springsteen develop a
working onstage relationship with a different group of musicians, and to see him
explore the Asbury Park soul-and-gospel base in some of his classic material.
An electric band appearance on the acoustic MTV
Unplugged television program (that was later released as In Concert/MTV Plugged)
was poorly received and further cemented fan dissatisfaction. Springsteen seemed
to realize this a few years hence when he spoke humorously of his late father
during his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech:
“ I've gotta thank him because — what would I
conceivably have written about without him? I mean, you can imagine that if
everything had gone great between us, we would have had disaster. I would have
written just happy songs – and I tried it in the early '90s and it didn't work;
the public didn't like it.[19] ”
A multiple Grammy Award winner, Springsteen also
won an Academy Award in 1994 for his song "Streets of Philadelphia", which
appeared on the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia. The song, along with the
film, was applauded by many for its sympathetic portrayal of a gay man dying of
AIDS.[citation needed] The music video for the song shows Springsteen's actual
vocal performance, recorded using a hidden microphone, to a prerecorded
instrumental track.[citation needed] This was a technique developed on the
"Brilliant Disguise" video.
In 1995, after temporarily re-organizing the E
Street Band for a few new songs recorded for his first Greatest Hits album (a
recording session that was chronicled in the documentary Blood Brothers), he
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-winning writer Dale Maharidge. This was generally less well-received than
the similar Nebraska, due to the minimal melody, twangy vocals, and political
nature of most of the songs, although some praised it for giving voice to
immigrants and others who rarely have one in American culture. The lengthy,
worldwide, small-venue solo acoustic Ghost of Tom Joad Tour that followed
successfully featured many of his older songs in drastically reshaped acoustic
form, although Springsteen had to explicitly remind his audiences to be quiet
and not to clap during the performances.
Following the tour, Springsteen moved back to New
Jersey with his family.[20] In 1998, another precursor to the E Street Band's
upcoming re-birth appeared in the form of a sprawling, four-disc box set of
out-takes, Tracks. In 1999, Springsteen and the E Street Band officially came
together again and went on the extensive Reunion Tour, lasting over a year.
Highlights included a record sold-out, 15-show run at Continental Airlines Arena
in East Rutherford, New Jersey to kick off the American leg of the tour.
2000s
Springsteen's Reunion Tour with the E Street Band
ended with a triumphant ten-night, sold-out engagement at New York City's
Madison Square Garden in mid-2000 and controversy over a new song, "American
Skin (41 Shots)", about the police shooting of Amadou Diallo. The final shows at
Madison Square Garden were recorded and resulted in an HBO Concert, with
corresponding DVD and album releases as Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band:
Live in New York City.
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 September 11 attacks, was a critical and
popular success. (Many of the songs were influenced by phone conversations
Springsteen had with family members of victims of the attacks, who in their
obituary, it was mentioned how his music touched their life.) The title track
gained airplay in several radio formats, and the record became Springsteen's
best-selling album of new material in 15 years. Kicked off by an early-morning
Asbury Park appearance on The Today Show, The Rising Tour commenced,
barnstorming through a series of single-night arena stands in the U.S. and
Europe to promote the album in 2002, then returning for large-scale,
multiple-night stadium shows in 2003. While Springsteen had maintained a loyal
hardcore fan base everywhere (and particularly in Europe), his general
popularity had dipped over the years in some southern and midwestern regions of
the U.S. But it was still strong in Europe and along the U.S. coasts, and he
played an unprecedented 10 nights in Giants Stadium in New Jersey, a
ticket-selling feat to which no other musical act has come close.[21] During
these shows Springsteen thanked those fans who were attending multiple shows and
those who were coming from long distances or another country; the advent of
robust Bruce-oriented online communities had made such practices more common.
The Rising Tour came to a final conclusion with three nights in Shea Stadium,
highlighted by renewed controversy over "American Skin" and a guest appearance
by Bob Dylan.
During the 2000s, Springsteen became a visible
advocate for the revitalization of Asbury Park, and he has played an annual
series of winter holiday concerts there to benefit various local businesses,
organizations, and causes. These shows are explicitly intended for the devoted
fans, featuring numbers such as the unreleased (until Tracks) E Street Shuffle
outtake "Thundercrack", a rollicking group-participation song that would mystify
casual Springsteen fans. He also frequently rehearses for tours in Asbury Park;
some of his most devoted followers even go so far as to stand outside the
building to hear what fragments they can of the upcoming shows. The song "My
City of Ruins" was originally written about Asbury Park, in honor of the
attempts to revitalize the city. Looking for an appropriate song for a
post-Sept. 11 benefit concert honoring New York City, he selected "My City of
Ruins," which was immediately recognized as an emotional highlight of the
concert, with its gospel themes and its heartfelt exhortations to "Rise up!" The
song became associated with post-9/11 New York, and he chose it to close "The
Rising" album and as an encore on the subsequent tour.
At the Grammy Awards of 2003, Springsteen performed
The Clash's "London Calling" along with Elvis Costello, Dave Grohl, and E Street
Band member Steven Van Zandt in tribute to Joe Strummer; Springsteen and the
Clash had once been considered multiple-album-dueling rivals at the time of the
double The River and the triple Sandinista!.
In 2004, Springsteen and the E Street Band
participated in the "Vote for Change" tour, along with John Mellencamp, John
Fogerty, the Dixie Chicks, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Bright Eyes, the Dave Matthews
Band, Jackson Browne, and other musicians. All concerts were to be held in swing
states, to benefit the liberalism political organization group America Coming
Together and to encourage people to register and vote. A finale was held in
Washington, D.C., bringing many of the artists together. Several days later,
Springsteen held one more such concert in New Jersey, when polls showed that
state surprisingly close. While in past years Springsteen had played benefits
for causes in which he believed – against nuclear energy, for Vietnam veterans,
Amnesty International, and the Christic Institute – he had always refrained from
explicitly endorsing candidates for political office (indeed he had rejected the
efforts of Walter Mondale to attract an endorsement during the 1984 Reagan "Born
in the U.S.A." flap). This new stance led to criticism and praise from the
expected partisan sources. Springsteen's "No Surrender" became the main campaign
theme song for John Kerry's unsuccessful presidential campaign; in the last days
of the campaign, he performed acoustic versions of the song and some of his
other old songs at Kerry rallies.
Devils & Dust was released on April 26, 2005, and
was recorded without the E Street Band. It is a low-key, mostly acoustic album,
in the same vein as Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad although with a little
more instrumentation. Some of the material was written almost 10 years earlier
during, or shortly after, the Ghost of Tom Joad Tour, a couple of them being
performed then but never released.[22] The title track concerns an ordinary
soldier's feelings and fears during the Iraq War. Starbucks rejected a
co-branding deal for the album, due in part to some sexually explicit content
but also because of Springsteen's anti-corporate politics. The album entered the
album charts at No. 1 in 10 countries (United States, Austria, Switzerland,
Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and
Ireland). Springsteen began the solo Devils & Dust Tour at the same time as the
album's release, playing both small and large venues. Attendance was
disappointing in a few regions, and everywhere (other than in Europe) tickets
were easier to get than in the past. Unlike his mid-1990s solo tour, he
performed on piano, electric piano, pump organ, autoharp, ukulele, banjo,
electric guitar, and stomping board, as well as acoustic guitar and harmonica,
adding variety to the solo sound. (Offstage synthesizer, guitar, and percussion
were also used for some songs.) Unearthly renditions of "Reason to Believe",
"The Promised Land", and Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream" jolted audiences to
attention, while rarities, frequent set list changes, and a willingness to keep
trying even through audible piano mistakes kept most of his loyal audiences
happy.
In November 2005, Sirius Satellite Radio started a
24-hour, seven-day-a-week radio station on Channel 10 called E Street Radio.
This channel featured commercial-free Bruce Springsteen music, including rare
tracks, interviews, and daily concerts of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
recorded throughout their career.
In December 2005, U.S. Representative Frank Pallone
(who represents Asbury Park) and 21 co-sponsors sponsored H.Res. 628,
"Congratulating Bruce Springsteen of New Jersey on the 30th anniversary of his
masterpiece record album 'Born to Run', and commending him on a career that has
touched the lives of millions of Americans." In general, resolutions honoring
native sons are passed with a simple voice vote. This bill, however, was
referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and died there.
[23]
In April 2006, Springsteen released We Shall
Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, an American roots music project focused around a
big folk sound treatment of 15 songs popularized by the radical musical activism
of Pete Seeger. It was recorded with a large ensemble of musicians, including
only Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell, and The Miami Horns from past efforts. In
contrast to previous albums, this was recorded in only three one-day sessions,
and frequently one can hear Springsteen calling out key changes live as the band
explores its way through the tracks. The Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger
Sessions Band Tour began the same month, featuring the 18-strong ensemble of
musicians dubbed the Seeger Sessions Band (and later shortened to the Sessions
Band). Seeger Sessions material was heavily featured, as well as a handful of
(usually drastically rearranged) Springsteen numbers. The tour proved very
popular in Europe, selling out everywhere and receiving some excellent
reviews,[24] but newspapers reported that a number of U.S. shows suffered from
sparse attendance.[25][26][27] By the end of 2006, the Seeger Sessions tour
toured Europe twice and toured America for only a short span. Bruce Springsteen
with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin, containing selections from three nights
of November 2006 shows at the The Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, was released
the following June.
Springsteen's next album, titled Magic, was
released on October 2, 2007. Recorded with the E Street Band, it featured 10 new
Springsteen songs plus "Long Walk Home," performed once with the Sessions band,
and a hidden track (the first included on a Springsteen studio release),
"Terry's Song," a tribute to Springsteen's long-time assistant Terry Magovern
who died on July 30, 2007.[28] The first single, "Radio Nowhere," was made
available for a free download on August 28. On October 7, Magic debuted at
number 1 in Ireland and the UK. Greatest Hits reentered the Irish charts at
number 57, and Live in Dublin almost cracked the top 20 in Norway again. Sirius
Satellite Radio also restarted E Street Radio on Channel 10 on September 27,
2007, in anticipation of Magic.[29] Radio conglomerate Clear Channel
Communications reportedly decided to not play the new album, sending an edict to
its classic rock stations to not play any songs from the new album, while
continuing to play older Springsteen material.[30]
An accompanying tour with the E Street Band began
at the Hartford Civic Center with the album's release and was routed through
North America and Europe. Springsteen and the band performed live[31] on NBC's
Today Show in advance of the opener.
Longtime E Street Band organist Danny Federici had
taken a leave of absence from touring in November 2007 due to melanoma.[32] He
passed away on April 17, 2008, after a three-year battle with the disease.[33]
In April 2008, Springsteen announced his
endorsement of U.S. Senator Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign.[34]
In a video shot at an Ohio rally for Obama, Springsteen discussed the importance
of "truth, transparency and integrity in government, the right of every American
to have a job, a living wage, to be educated in a decent school, and a life
filled with the dignity of work, the promise and the sanctity of home...But
today those freedoms have been damaged and curtailed by eight years of a
thoughtless, reckless and morally-adrift administration."[35]
On June 18, 2008, Springsteen appeared live from
Europe at the Tim Russert tribute at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to
play one of Russert's favorite songs, "Thunder Road." Springsteen dedicated the
song to Russert, who was "one of Springsteen's biggest fans."[citation needed]
Springsteen performed a few shows in support of
Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign.[36] On October 4, 2008, Springsteen
performed a free event on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. On October
5, 2008, Springsteen performed at a free concert at Ohio State University,
encouraging college students and families alike to vote for Barack Obama in the
2008 presidential election.[37]. On October 6, 2008, he performed for Obama at
Eastern Michigan University. On October 16, 2008, Springsteen performed, along
with Billy Joel, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City at a fundraiser
for the Obama Campaign. On the presidential election night of November 4, 2008,
the first song played over the loudspeakers after Obama's first speech as
president-elect in Chicago's Grant Park was "The Rising."
At a Nov. 2, 2008, rally in support of presidential
candidate Barack Obama, Springsteen debuted a new song, "Working On A Dream," in
a duet alongside wife and bandmate Patti Scialfa.[38] On January 27, 2009, he
released his new album, Working on a Dream.[39] On January 8, 2009, concert
dates for the Working on a Dream Tour began to appear on ticket websites though
not all the dates have been posted.
On Friday, November 21, 2008 the title track from
Springsteen's 'Working On A Dream' was released to fans early through New York
City radio station website Q1043.com.[40] The second single from the album
"Working On a Dream", entitled "My Lucky Day," was released exclusively through
Amazon.com's mp3 download service a week and a half later, on December 1, 2008.
The CD and vinyl releases occurred on January 27, 2009.
Springsteen was the musical opener for the We Are
One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009
which was attended by over 400,000.[41] He performed "The Rising" with an
all-female choir. Later he performed Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"
with Pete Seeger.
On January 11, 2009, Springsteen won a Golden Globe
award for his song "The Wrestler," from the Mickey Rourke movie by the same
name.[42]
Springsteen performed at the halftime show at Super
Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009.[43] A few days before the game, Springsteen gave
a rare press conference, where he promised a "twelve minute party." When asked
if he would be nervous performing before such a large audience, Springsteen
alluded to the the "We Are One" concert, which took place at the Lincoln
Memorial: "You’ll have a lot of crazy football fans, but you won’t have Lincoln
staring over your shoulder. That takes some of the pressure off."[44][45] His
12:45 set, with the E Street Band and the Miami Horns, included the songs or
segments of the songs "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out", "Born to Run", "Working on a
Dream" and "Glory Days."
Springsteen's manager, Jon Landau, announced a new
deluxe package release in the works for 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town. No
word on release date, but he said; "would involve remastering that record, doing
the kind of super-creative reconstruction and documentary of how it all came
about and finding usable live footage from that point in time." [46]
On April 1, 2009, Springsteen is scheduled to kick
off the tour for the Working on a Dream album in San Jose, California.
Springsteen is confirmed as a headlining act at Bonnaroo 2009.[47]
Personal life
Springsteen was a bachelor until the age of 35,
when he married Julianne Phillips (born May 6, 1960). When they married on May
13, 1985, the groom was nearly 36 and the bride had just turned 25 one week
prior. The marriage helped her acting career flourish, although the two were
opposites in background, and his traveling took its toll on their relationship.
The final blow came when Bruce began an affair with Patti Scialfa (born July 29,
1953), whom he had dated briefly in 1984 shortly after she joined the band.
Phillips and Springsteen separated in September 1988 and on August 30, 1988,
Julianne filed for divorce. The Springsteen/Phillips divorce was finalized on
March 1, 1989.
After his wife filed for divorce in 1988, Bruce
began living with Scialfa. They had a son, Evan James Springsteen (born July 25,
1990). Bruce and Patti married on June 8, 1991, when she was pregnant with their
second child, daughter Jessica Rae (born December 30, 1991). The couple's
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. His eldest son,
Evan, is currently a freshman at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
In November 2000, Springsteen filed legal action
against Jeff Burgar which accused him of registering the domain
brucespringsteen.com (along with several other celebrity domains) in bad faith
to funnel web users to his Celebrity 1000 portal site. Once the legal complaint
was filed, Burgar pointed the domain to a Springsteen biography and message
board. In February 2001, Springsteen lost his dispute with Burgar. A WIPO panel
ruled 2 to 1 in favor of Burgar.[48][49]
E
Street Band
The E Street Band is considered to have started in
October 1972, even though it was not officially known as such until September
1974.[50] The E Street Band was inactive from the end of 1988 through early
1999, except for a brief reunion in 1995.
Current
members
Bruce Springsteen - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica,
piano
Garry Tallent - bass guitar, tuba
Clarence "Big Man" Clemons - saxophone, percussion,
backing vocals, larger-than-life persona and Springsteen foil
Max Weinberg - drums, percussion (joined September
1974)
Roy Bittan - piano, synthesizer (joined September
1974)
Steven Van Zandt - lead guitar[51][52], backing
vocals, mandolin (officially joined July 1975 after playing in previous bands;
left in 1984 to go solo; rejoined in early 1995, however made appearances during
the "Other Band" Tour).
Nils Lofgren - guitar, pedal steel guitar, backing
vocals (replaced Steve Van Zandt in June 1984; remained in group after Van Zandt
returned)
Patti Scialfa - backing and duet vocals, acoustic
guitar, percussion (joined June 1984; became Springsteen's wife in 1991)
Soozie Tyrell - violin, acoustic guitar,
percussion, backing vocals (joined 2002,[53] occasional appearances before that)
Charles Giordano - organ, accordion (Giordano,
originally a Sessions Band member, joined the E Street Band on a temporary basis
in late 2007 during the illness of Danny Federici. He continued playing with the
E Street Band after Federici died in April 2008.)
Former
members
Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez - drums (inception through
February 1974, when asked to resign)
David Sancious - keyboards (June 1973 to August
1974)
Ernest "Boom" Carter - drums (February to August
1974)
Suki Lahav - violin, backing vocals (September 1974
to March 1975)
Danny Federici - organ, accordion, glockenspiel
(died April 17, 2008, after a struggle with melanoma)
Film
Springsteen's music has long been intertwined with
film. His music was first linked with the silver screen in the 1983 John Sayles'
film Baby, It's You, which featured several songs from Born to Run. The
relationship Springsteen established with Sayles would re-surface in later
years, with Sayles directing videos for songs from Born in the U.S.A. and Tunnel
of Love. The song "(Just Around the Corner to the) Light of Day" was written for
the early Michael J. Fox/Joan Jett vehicle Light of Day.
His original work has frequently been used in films
and he won an Oscar for his song "Streets of Philadelphia" from the Jonathan
Demme film Philadelphia (1993).[54] He was nominated for a second Oscar for
"Dead Man Walkin'", from the movie Dead Man Walking (1995).[55]
In turn, films have been inspired by his music,
including The Indian Runner, written and directed by Sean Penn, which Penn has
specifically noted as being inspired by Springsteen's song "Highway
Patrolman".[56]
Springsteen made his first on-screen appearance as
a cameo in High Fidelity and it was voted "Best Cameo in a Movie" at the MTV
Movie Awards.[57][58]
Springsteen also wrote an eponymous song for Darren
Aronofsky's 2008 film The Wrestler. The song was awarded a Golden Globe Award
for Best Original Song.
Discography
Main article: Bruce Springsteen discography
Major studio albums:
1973: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
1973: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
1975: Born to Run
1978: Darkness on the Edge of Town
1980: The River
1982: Nebraska
1984: Born in the U.S.A.
1987: Tunnel of Love
1992: Human Touch
1992: Lucky Town
1995: The Ghost of Tom Joad
2002: The Rising
2005: Devils & Dust
2006: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
2007: Magic
2009: Working on a Dream
Awards
and recognition
Grammy
Awards
Springsteen has won 18 Grammy Awards, as follows
(years shown are the year the award was given for, not the year in which the
ceremony was held):
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 Specifically for a Motion Picture
or Television, 1994, "Streets of Philadelphia"
Best Contemporary Folk Album, 1996, The Ghost of
Tom Joad
Best Rock Album, 2002, The Rising
Best Rock Song, 2002, "The Rising"
Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, 2002, "The
Rising"
Best 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, 2005, "Devils &
Dust"
Best Traditional Folk Album, 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, 2007, "Radio
Nowhere"
Best Rock Song, 2007, "Radio Nowhere"
Best Rock Instrumental Performance, 2007, "Once
Upon A Time In The West"
Only one of these awards has been one of the
cross-genre "major" ones (Song, Record, or Album of the Year); he has been
nominated a number of other times for the majors, but failed to win.
Academy
Awards
Academy Award for Best Original Song, 1993,
"Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia.[59]
Emmy
Awards
The Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live In
New York City HBO special won two technical Emmy Awards in 2001 and was
nominated in four more categories.[60]
Other
recognition
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for
"Streets of Philadelphia" in 1994.[42]
Polar Music Prize in 1997.[61]
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
1999.[62]
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame,
1999.[63]
Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame,
2007.[64]
"Born to Run" named "The unofficial youth anthem of
New Jersey" by the New Jersey state legislature; something Springsteen always
found to be ironic, considering that the song "is about leaving New Jersey".[65]
The minor planet 23990, discovered Sept. 4, 1999,
by I. P. Griffin at Auckland, New Zealand, was officially named in his
honor.[66]
Ranked #23 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 2004 list of
the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[67]
Made Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People Of
The Year 2008 list.[68]
Won Critic's Choice Award for Best Song with "The
Wrestler" in 2009.[69]
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for
"The Wrestler" in 2009.[42]
Was half-time singer of the Super Bowl in the year
2009.
****
References
Alterman, Eric. It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're
Alive : The Promise of Bruce Springsteen. Little Brown, 1999. ISBN
0-316-03885-7.
Coles, Robert. Bruce Springsteen's America: The
People Listening, a Poet Singing. Random House, 2005. ISBN 0-375-50559-8.
Cross, Charles R. Backstreets: Springsteen - the
man and his music Harmony Books, New York 1989/1992. ISBN 0-517-58929-X.
Contains 15+ interviews and a complete list of all Springsteen songs including
unreleased compositions. Complete lising of all concerts 1965-1990 - most of
them with tracklists. Hundreds of previously unreleased high quality color
pictures.
Cullen, Jim. Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen
and the American Tradition. 1997; Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press,
2005. New edition of 1997 study book places Springsteen's work in the broader
context of American history and culture. ISBN 0-8195-6761-2
Eliot, Marc with Appel, Mike. Down Thunder Road.
Simon & Schuster, 1992. ISBN 0-671-86898-5.
Graff, Gary. The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen
A to E to Z. Visible Ink, 2005. ISBN 1-57859-151-1.
Guterman, Jimmy. Runaway American Dream: Listening
to Bruce Springsteen. Da Capo, 2005. ISBN 0-306-81397-1.
Hilburn, Robert. Springsteen. Rolling Stone Press,
1985. ISBN 0-684-18456-7.
Knobler, Peter with special assistance from Greg
Mitchell. "Who Is Bruce Springsteen and Why Are We Saying All These Wonderful
Things About Him?" Crawdaddy, March 1973.
Marsh, Dave. Bruce Springsteen: Two Hearts : The
Definitive Biography, 1972-2003. Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-96928-X.
(Consolidation of two previous Marsh biographies, Born to Run (1981) and Glory
Days (1987).)
Wolff, Daniel. 4th of July, Asbury Park: A History
of the Promised Land. Bloomsbury, 2005. ISBN 1-58234-509-0.
Further reading
Greetings from E Street: The Story of Bruce
Springsteen and the E Street Band. Chronicle Books, 2006. ISBN 0-8118-5348-9.
Days of Hope and Dreams: An Intimate Portrait of
Bruce Springsteen. Billboard Books, 2003. ISBN 0-8230-8387-X.
Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader.
Penguin, 2004. ISBN 0-14-200354-9.
Runaway American Dream: Listening to Bruce
Springsteen. Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-306-81397-1.
The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen A to E to Z.
Visible Ink Press, 2005. ISBN 1-57859-157-0.
Bruce Springsteen: "Talking". Omnibus Press, 2004.
ISBN 1-84449-403-9.
For You: Original Stories and Photographs by Bruce
Springsteen's Legendary Fans. LKC Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9784156-0-0.
Bruce Springsteen on Tour: 1968-2005. by Dave Marsh
Bloomsbury USA, 2006. ISBN 978-1596912823.
The Gospel according to Bruce Springsteen: Rock and
Redemption from Asbury Park to Magic. by Jeffrey B. Symynkywicz. Westminster
John Knox Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0664231699.
Magic in the Night: The Words and Music of Bruce
Springsteen by Rob Kirkpatrick. St. Martin's Griffin, 2009. ISBN 0-312-53380-2.
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^ "Top Selling Artists", RIAA website.
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4.
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5.
^ Springsteen. Robert Hilburn, 1985, p.
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26.
^ JS Online: Born to strum
27.
^ Chicago Tribune
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Backstreets.com, August 1, 2007. Accessed August 28, 2007.
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full-fledged a band member as the others: some credits and press releases
list her as "With" or "Special Guest", while some omit her; on the other
hand, Springsteen has stated in interviews that "Soozie is with us."
54.
^ IMDB - Philadelphia
55.
^ IMDB - Dead Man Walking
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58.
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59.
^ Academy Award for Best Original Song
1994
60.
^ Live in NYC Emmy Awards
61.
^ Polar Music Prize
62.
^ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
63.
^ Songwriter's Hall of Fame
64.
^ NJ Hall of Fame
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^ Time Magazine
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^ Bruce Springsteen wins Critics Choice
Award for 'The Wrestler' song
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