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I want to start with a few disclaimers. I was born and raised in New Jersey. I saw my first Bruce Springsteen show on December 11, 1975, at Seton Hall University. I have been to another 170 shows in the 50 years since that night. I am not objective about Bruce. But just because I am biased doesn’t mean I …

Most music biopics take place in a world of alternative facts where Queen broke up before Live Aid, Elton John named himself after John Lennon, Mötley Crüe‘s Vince Neil sang Billy Squier’s “My Kind of Lover” before it was released, Amy Winehouse didn’t thank “Blake Incarcerated” at the Grammys, and Bob Dylan hooked up with Joan Baez the night of …

Bruce Springsteen may be ready to tell more of his story. Scott Cooper, the writer-director of “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” tells me that the Boss is already talking about a sequel. “I suppose if you can make four Beatles movies, you can make a couple of Bruce Springsteen movies,” Cooper said Wednesday at the AFI Fest opening night premiere …

It’s not hard to see why Springsteen saw these sessions as a failure. There is something slightly generic about the renditions of “Open All Night” and “Johnny 99,” songs I’ve always associated with desperate, sleep-deprived adrenaline. Here they sound like the kind of things a band could count off and launch into unrehearsed with playful bar-band chords and rockabilly rhythms. …

In 1981, Bruce Springsteen found himself at a crossroads. He’d just finished his tour for The River, which had brought his marathon-length, rock & roll-revivalist shows to a record number of audiences. The E Street Band was hitting on all cylinders. “Hungry Heart” was his first single to crack the Top Five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. His record …

When Bruce Springsteen finally pulled off the road after a long tour in support of his first No. 1 album, 1980’s The River, the plan was to begin work on his sixth LP after a short rest. It didn’t take long for those ambitions to derail. Holed up in a rented house in Colts Neck, New Jersey, Springsteen thought he was writing songs for the …

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’ Was a Risk. He’s Proving It Paid Off.  The New York Times Does ‘Nebraska ’82’ Solve a Springsteen Mystery? Yes and No  Rolling Stone The Best ‘Lost’ Albums, Ranked  UPROXX Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska ’82 Review  Mojo Magazine Bruce Springsteen Shares Short Film for Expanded ‘Holy Grail’ Edition of ‘Nebraska’  Best Classic Bands Source link

During this past Friday’s (October 17) “Tribute To Ace Frehley” episode of SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick spoke about the band’s original axeman Ace Frehley who died on October 16 at the age of 74. Asked by host Eddie Trunk if it “meant a lot” to him to know that Ace “had a lot …

Columbia Records and 20th Century Studios have announced the soundtrack album for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. The soundtrack is out December 5, and it finds the film’s star, Jeremy Allen White, covering classic songs by Bruce Springsteen. See the tracklist below. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere centers on the making of Springsteen’s Nebraska, so the soundtrack finds White playing …

There are good albums and great albums, and then there are holy records — worlds you enter as if into a dream and emerge with spirit and neurochemistry changed. Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 classic Nebraska is one of those. Conceived at the crest of the Reagan years when the singer was in a dark place and rethinking his purpose, it was …