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Bruce Springsteen

Peter Basham

Publication: February 2005
Extent: 160 pp
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Price: 4.99
ISBN: 1903047978
EAN: 9781903047972
13 Digit ISBN: 978-1-90304-797-2
Binding: paperback
Market: music
Rights: World
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  • 2002’s The Rising put Bruce at the top of the album charts in the U.S. for a fourth consectutive decade.
  • The E Street Band’s 2003 concerts were second only to the Rolling Stones in the highest grossing U.S. tour stakes
  • Previous accounts have largely ignored the solo careers of the E Street Band, which includes Nils Lofgren’s work for Neil Young and Crazy Horse and Steve Van Zandt’s emergence as character actor
  • Springsteen’s stature has grown with age, unlike fellow pop giants of the 1980s, Prince, Michael Jackson and Madonna

Bruce Springsteen grew from a dishevelled, bearded singer of youthful street ballads to become the hottest name in the rock world – twice. The resilience of the New Jersey troubadour has seen him top the album charts in four successive decades, and his epic world tours with the legendarily hard-working E Street Band are still sell-outs well into the new millennium. Once seen as another Bob Dylan wannabe, Springsteen became rock’s definitive chronicler of blue-collar life, inheritor of the spirit of Woody Guthrie. Beyond the cars (and there are a lot) and the working-class lives, he has also addressed matters of the heart on albums such as Lucky Town and Tunnel Of Love.

This guide charts Bruce Springsteen’s career from the optimistic youth who wrote Born To Run to the respected heavyweight songwriter of today. Collaborations and side projects, and the work of band members away from E Street are also detailed and rated.

Mild-mannered Peter Basham's long-held interest in Bruce Springsteen has in no way affected the way he behaves and none of his friends have ever even thought that in some lights he resembles the younger Springsteen of the Born To Run days...

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