Bruce Springsteen

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ISBN: 978-1-90304-797-2
extent: 160pp
binding: paperback
price £4.99
pub. date February 2005

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featuring:

Dancing In The Dark
Tunnel Of Love
The E Street Band
Born To Run
The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Lucky Town
Nebraska
Human Touch
Born In The USA
The Early Years
Nils Lofgren
Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ
The River
The Rising
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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.

Whilst Ronald Reagan famously misappropriated the mournful Born In The U.S.A. as a patriotic anthem, Springsteen has found the confidence to stand up and be counted with songs such as American Skin (41 Shots), a controversial account of a police killing, and the Oscar-winning Streets Of Philadelphia. 2002’s The Rising returned Springsteen to the top of the album charts with a stately and balanced investigation of loss, in the aftermath of September 11th 2001. When the world needed a compassionate artistic statement, he delivered one.

This guide examines the growth of 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.

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