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Atlanta
Atlanta (, ) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. Atlanta had an estimated population of about 540,900 people. Its metropolitan area is the ninth largest in the country, inhabited by more than 5.4 million people. The Atlanta Combined Statistical Area has a population approaching six million, making it the most populous metropolis in the Southeastern United States. Like many areas in the Sun Belt, the Atlanta region has seen explosive growth since about 1976, and it added about 1.1 million residents between 2000 and 2008.
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Bottom Line
The Bottom Line was a music venue at 15 West Fourth Street between Broadway and Washington Square Park in New York City's Greenwich Village. During 1970s the club played a major role in maintaining Greenwich Village's status as a cultural mecca.
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Cafe Wha?
Cafe Wha? is a club in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York City that has been home to various musicians and comedians. Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool and the Gang, Peter, Paul & Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and many others all began their careers at the Wha?, according to the official Cafe Wha? web page. However, as New York magazine reports, "While Cafe Wha? claims to be the birthplace of legends like Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, the truth is that they actually got their starts at the original location next door. . . .Manny Roth, owner of the original Cafe Wha? and uncle to David Lee Roth, sold the bar in 1988. The original Cafe Wha? is now a comedy club [Comedy Cellar]."New York Nightlife Profile: Cafe Wha?[http://nymag.com/listings/bar/cafe_wha/]
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Cleveland
Cleveland () is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles (100 km) west of the Pennsylvania border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location at the head of numerous canals and railroad lines. With the decline of heavy manufacturing, Cleveland's businesses have diversified into the service economy, including the financial services, insurance, legal, and healthcare sectors, though the city's population has continued to decline. Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Festhalle Frankfurt
The Festhalle Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany in Frankfurt is a representative Built in 1907 and 1908 multi-purpose hall at the Frankfurt Exhibition Center. The interior of about 40 meters high dome provides an area of 5646 square meters up to 4880 seats. Together with the two tiers up to 9843 people will in the banquet hall space, unseated at the interior than 13,500.
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Freehold High School
Freehold High School (sometimes called Freehold Boro or Freehold Borough High School to distinguish it from Freehold Township High School) is a four-year public high school located within Freehold Borough, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District. The school serves students from Freehold Borough and from portions of Freehold Township. Freehold High School is the home of the Medical Sciences Learning Center, the Computer Science Academy and the Culinary Arts/Hospitality Management Academy.
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Jersey Shore
The Jersey Shore is a term used in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States to refer to both the Atlantic coast of New Jersey and the adjacent resort and residential communities.
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Naples
Naples ( , , Neapolitan: Napule) is a city in Italy; it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. Known for its rich history, art, culture, architecture, music, and gastronomy, Naples has played an important role in the the Italian peninsula and beyond for much of its existence, which began more than 2,800 years ago. Situated on the west coast of Italy by the Gulf of Naples, the city is located halfway between two volcanic areas, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields.
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New Jersey
New Jersey (, ) is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the northeast by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware. New Jersey lies largely within the sprawling metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia. It is the most densely populated state in the United States.
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Ocean County College
Ocean County College is an accredited, coeducational, two-year, public, community college located in Ocean County, New Jersey. Its main campus is in Toms River. Other locations include the Southern Education Center in Manahawkin and over twenty off-campus sites throughout Ocean County.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia () is the largest city in Pennsylvania, sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the fifty-first most populous city in the world.
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Pinkpop Festival
Pinkpop Festival, or Pinkpop for short, is an annual rock festival held at Landgraaf, Netherlands. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the oldest annual festival in the world. It is held annually on the Pentecost weekend (Pinksteren in Dutch, hence the name). In 1970, the first festival took place in Geleen, now part of municipality Sittard-Geleen and was held on the Monday following that weekend.
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Rumson, New Jersey
Rumson is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 7,137.
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The Point Theatre
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The Stone Pony
The Stone Pony, located in Asbury Park, New Jersey, is one of the world's most well-known music venues.
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Vico Equense
Vico Equense is a coastal town and comune in the province of Naples, in the Campania region of southern Italy.
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Wellington, Florida
Wellington is a village in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. As of 2006, the village had a population of 55,584 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Wellington is part of the South Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a July 2006 estimated population of 5,463,857.
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Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is the bassist of the rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well-known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "With or Without You", "Mysterious Ways", "Get on Your Boots", and "Magnificent". His work on No Line on the Horizon has been cited as his best bass playing. He has worked on several solo projects throughout his career, such as his work with fellow band member Larry Mullen Jr. on the theme of 1996's . Clayton, as a part of U2, has won 22 Grammy awards.
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Adele (singer)
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), known professionally as Adele (), is an English singer songwriter. She was the first recipient of the BRIT Awards ''Critics' Choice'' and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. She is a multi-Grammy Awards nominee who has won two awards, Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2009.
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Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre. He started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine.
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Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish recording artist, better known as being one member of the duo Eurythmics, which she formed in 1980. Lennox penned some of the band's best-known tracks to date, including "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", "Here Comes The Rain Again", "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)" "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Love Is a Stranger".
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B.B. King
Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter acclaimed for his expressive singing and guitar playing.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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Ben Harper
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances and activism. Harper's fan base spans several continents. His albums have been commercially successful in North America, Europe and Australia. Harper is a two-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005.
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Bernie Taupin
Bernard John "Bernie" Taupin (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist, singer, songwriter and poet, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs.
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Bill Pascrell
William J. "Bill" Pascrell, Jr. (born January 25, 1937) is an American Democratic politician who represents ([http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/nj08_109.gif map]) in the House of Representatives. The district is based in Paterson and includes most of Passaic County and suburban Essex County.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
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Björk
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Bob Dylan
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Bob Seger
Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.
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Bobby Brown
Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown (born February 5, 1969) is an American R&B; singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a fusion of hip hop and R&B.; His second album, ''Don't Be Cruel, included popular songs such as "My Prerogative". Brown is the ex-husband of R&B; singer Whitney Houston and starred in the reality show Being Bobby Brown''.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono ( ), is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
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Brian De Palma
Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and writer. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and .
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Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours 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 on his native New Jersey.
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Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she debuted on television. After successful appearances on The Garry Moore Show, Carol moved to Los Angeles and began an eleven-year run on The Carol Burnett Show which was aired on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With roots in vaudeville, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show combining comedy sketches, song, and dance. The comedy sketches ranged from film parodies to character pieces which featured the many talents of Burnett herself who created and played several well-known and distinctive characters.
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Charles Giordano
Charles Giordano (born 1954 in Brooklyn New York) is an American keyboardist and accordionist. Giordano is known primarily as the newest member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing keyboards and organ following the serious illness and subsequent death of longtime E Street organist Danny Federici in 2008. He is also known for playing keyboards with Pat Benatar in the 1980s, for playing keyboards and accordion with Springsteen's Sessions Band on the 2006 album and subsequent Sessions Band Tour,.
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Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award (December 2002). She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
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Chris Vaughn
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
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Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons (born January 11, 1942, Norfolk, Virginia), known by fans as The Big Man, is an American musician and actor. Since 1972 he has been a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the saxophone. He has also released several solo albums and in 1985 had a hit single with "You're a Friend of Mine", a duet with Jackson Browne. As a guest musician he has also featured on Aretha Franklin's "Freeway of Love" and on Twisted Sister's "Be Chrool to Your Scuel" as well as performing in concert with The Grateful Dead and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. As an actor Clemons has featured in several films, including New York, New York and ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. He also made cameo appearances in several TV series, such as Diff'rent Strokes, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons and The Wire. Together with his television writer friend Don Reo he published his autobiography, Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales'', in 2009.
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Clint Eastwood
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Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox-Arquette (born Courteney Bass Cox; June 15, 1964) is an American actress, best known for her role as Monica Geller on the sitcom Friends. Cox has also starred in Dirt and the Scream series, and has guest-starred in Scrubs and in Seinfeld. She is currently starring in Cougar Town, for which she earned her first Golden Globe nomination.
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Dale Maharidge
Dale Maharidge (born 24 October 1956) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist best known for his collaborations with photographer Michael Williamson.
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Danny Federici
Daniel Paul "Danny" Federici (January 23, 1950 – April 17, 2008) was an American musician, most known as the longtime organ, glockenspiel and accordion player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
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Dave Brubeck
David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (born December 6, 1920) is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
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Dave Grohl
David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, D.C.-area bands, including the hardcore punk band Scream. In 1990 he became the drummer for grunge group Nirvana. Following the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in April 1994, Grohl formed Foo Fighters as frontman and songwriter. In addition to leading Foo Fighters, Grohl has also been involved in other musical projects, including Queens of the Stone Age and his heavy metal side project Probot, and has performed session work for a variety of musicians, including Killing Joke, Tenacious D, Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy and Slash. Most recently, Grohl formed Them Crooked Vultures with Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Eagles of Death Metal) and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin).
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Dave Marsh
Dave Marsh (born March 1, 1950, Detroit, Michigan) is an American music critic, author, editor and radio talk show host. He was a formative editor of Creem magazine, has written for various publications such as Newsday, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, and has published numerous books about music and musicians, mostly focused on rock music.
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David A. Stewart
David Allan Stewart (born 9 September 1952), often known as Dave Stewart, is a BRIT Award winning English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics. He is usually credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with other musicians named "Dave Stewart".
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David Foster
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David Fricke
David Fricke is a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine, where he writes predominantly on rock music. In the 1990s, he was managing editor before stepping down.
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David Sancious
David Sancious (born November 30, 1953 in Asbury Park, New Jersey) is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, The E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on the 1992 album Human Touch. Sancious is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known as a keyboard player and guitarist. He left the E Street Band in 1974 to form his own band, Tone, and released several albums. He subsequently became a popular session and touring musician, most notably for Stanley Clarke, Narada Michael Walden, Zucchero Fornaciari, Peter Gabriel, and Sting among many others.
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Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 150 million records.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
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Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (born December 31, 1948), known by her stage name, Donna Summer is an American singer who gained prominence and notoriety during the disco era of the seventies with the majority of her early work produced by the team of Giorgio Moroder and Pete Belotte.
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Dutch American
A Dutch American is an American of Dutch descent.
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Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder (born Edward Louis Severson III; December 23, 1964) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who serves as the lead vocalist and one of three guitarists for the American Alternative rock band Pearl Jam. Vedder left the Southern California music scene and moved to Seattle, Washington in 1990 to join Pearl Jam where he rose to fame amid the grunge movement of the early 1990s. He is notable for his "golden baritone" vocal style, and is considered a cultural icon of alternative rock.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932), also known as Liz Taylor, is an English-American actress. She is known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is a British singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the Punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; the critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes him as a "pop encyclopedia," able to "reinvent the past in his own image".Stephen Thomas Erlewine, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=10:ly09kect7q70 Get Happy!! [Ryko Bonus Tracks]], Allmusic. Retrieved 17 September 2007.
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Elvis Presley
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grande Ufficiale OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor.
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Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman (b. January 14, 1960) is an American historian, journalist, author, media critic, , and educator. His political weblog named Altercation was hosted by MSNBC.com from 2002 until 2006, moved to Media Matters for America until December 2008, and is now hosted by The Nation.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
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Fran Walsh
Frances "Fran" Walsh, Lady Jackson, MNZM (born 10 January 1959) is a screenwriter, film producer and musician. She is the wife of filmmaker Peter Jackson. They have two children: Billy and Katie.
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Garry Tallent
Garry Wayne Tallent (born October 27, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan, USA), sometimes billed as Garry W. Tallent, is an American musician and record producer, best known for being the longtime bass player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
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Gary Graff
Gary Graff (born 1960) is an American music journalist and author.
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Gary U.S. Bonds
Gary U.S. Bonds (born Gary Levone Anderson, June 6, 1939, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer. He is also a prolific songwriter.
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George Gershwin
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George Jones
George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931) is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette.
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (); June 25, 1963) is an English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! along with his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper" was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
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Grace Bumbry
Grace Bumbry (born January 4, 1937) is an American opera singer, and is considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, as well as a major soprano for many years. She was a member of an extraordinary and pioneering generation of singers who followed Marian Anderson (including Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett and Reri Grist) in the world of classical music and paved the way for future African-American opera and classical singers. Bumbry's voice was rich and sizable, possessing a wide range, and was capable of producing a very distinctive plangent tone. In her prime, she also possessed good agility and bel canto technique (see for example her renditions of the 'Veil Song' from Verdi's Don Carlo in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as her Ernani from the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1984). She was particularly noted for her fiery temperament and dramatic intensity on stage. More recently, she has also become known as a recitalist and interpreter of lieder, and as a teacher. From the late 1980s on, she seemed to concentrate her career in Europe, rather than in the US. A long time resident of Switzerland, she now makes her home in Salzburg, Austria.
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Gustavo Santaolalla
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (born 19 August 1951) is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer.
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György Ligeti
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Howard Ashman
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Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 40 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979.
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Howard Zinn
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Irish American
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Irving Gordon
Irving Gordon (February 14, 1915 December 1, 1996) was an American songwriter.
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Isaac Stern
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Italian American
An Italian American ( singular, plural) is an American of Italian ancestry. The designation may also refer to someone possessing Italian and American dual citizenship. Italian Americans are the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States.
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Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters.
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Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne (born Clyde Jackson Browne; October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician who has sold in excess of 17 million albums in the United States alone.
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James Brown
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James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor of stage and screen, well known for his deep basso voice. To modern audiences, he is known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and the tagline for CNN.
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James Horner
James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer, orchestrator and conductor of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for frequent use of Celtic musical elements.
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James Levine
James Lawrence Levine (; born June 23, 1943) is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine's first performance conducting the Metropolitan Opera was on June 5, 1971, and as of July 2009 he has conducted more than 2,456 Met performances. In 1997, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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Jay Weinberg
Jay Weinberg (born September 8, 1990) is an American drummer and the son of drummer Max Weinberg. He has played with the punk band The Reveling and toured in 2009 as a drummer with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, substituting for his father. During 2010, he was briefly the drummer for Madball.
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Jennifer Nettles
Jennifer Nettles (born September 12, 1974 in Douglas, Georgia) is an American country music artist. She is known primarily for her role as lead vocalist of the duo Sugarland alongside Kristian Bush. Before Sugarland's inception, she also fronted Atlanta, Georgia-based bands called Soul Miner's Daughter and Jennifer Nettles Band. She also charted as a duet partner on the country version of rock band Bon Jovi's 2006 single "Who Says You Can't Go Home", a Number One hit on the Billboard charts.
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Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise. It was written, co-produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe. The film released in North American theaters on December 13, 1996, distributed by Gracie Films and TriStar Pictures.
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Joan Sutherland
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 192610 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.
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John H. Hammond
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John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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John Leventhal
John Leventhal is a Grammy Award winning musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for Michelle Branch, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Joan Osborne, Loudon Wainwright, The Wreckers and many others. As a musician he has worked with all of the above as well as artists such as Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson, Bruce Hornsby, Elvis Costello, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Charlie Haden, David Crosby, Levon Helm, Edie Brickell, Paul Simon, Patty Larkin, Susan Tedeschi, Steve Forbert, Kelly Willis and Johnny Cash. As a songwriter he has had over 100 songs recorded by various artists. In 1998 he won s Grammy Award for Record and Song of the year for producing and co-writing the song "Sunny Came Home". Albums he has produced have been nominated for a total of 11 Grammy Awardss. In 2005 he composed the score for the film Winter Solstice.
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John Sayles
John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director and screenwriter.
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John Steinbeck
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is a prolific American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning six decades, he has composed many of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including those for Jaws, the Star Wars Saga, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Jurassic Park, ''Schindler's List, Home Alone, and three Harry Potter'' films. He has composed the music for all but two of director Steven Spielberg's feature films.
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Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi, Jr., on March 2, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of Bon Jovi. Throughout his career, he has released two solo albums and eleven studio albums with his band which have sold over 130 million albums worldwide.
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Jon Landau
Jon Landau (born 1947) is an American music critic, manager and record producer, most known for his association in all three capacities with Bruce Springsteen.
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Jon Pareles
Jon Pareles is an American journalist who is the chief popular music critic in the arts section of the New York Times. He played jazz flute and piano, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in music. In the 1970s he was an associate editor of Crawdaddy!, and in the 1980s an associate editor at Rolling Stone and the music editor at The Village Voice. He currently reviews popular music in the arts section of the New York Times.
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Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian. He is widely known as host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program that airs on Comedy Central.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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José Antonio Abreu
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Julianne Phillips
Julianne Phillips (born May 6, 1960) is an American model and actress. She is the ex-wife of Bruce Springsteen.
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE ( Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
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Julie Gold
Julie Gold (born February 3, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a New York singer/songwriter. She is best known for Bette Midler's version of her song "From a Distance" which won the Grammy for Song of the Year in 1991.
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Julie Harris
Julia Ann "Julie" Harris (born December 2, 1925) is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1994, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She also received the 2002 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist/composer who has performed in both jazz and classical music.
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Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian, podcaster, and actor, best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob. He is also the co-founder, with Scott Mosier, of View Askew Productions and owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic and novelty store in Red Bank, New Jersey. He also hosts a weekly podcast with Scott Mosier known as SModcast. Smith is well-known for participating in long, humorous Q&A; sessions that are often filmed for DVD release, beginning with An Evening with Kevin Smith.
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Larry Henley
Larry Henley is an American singer and songwriter, born June 30, 1937 in Arp, Texas. He is perhaps best known for co-writing (with Jeff Silbar) the 1989 hit record, "Wind Beneath My Wings". The single was a U.S. number one hit for Bette Midler, and has since totaled around six million radio airplays.
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Larry Mullen, Jr.
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. (born 31 October 1961) is the drummer for the rock band U2. He is the founder of U2, which he later described as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge." He has worked on numerous side projects during his career, including a collaboration with Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of R.E.M. to form Automatic Baby in 1993 and working with bandmate Adam Clayton on the re-recording of the theme to , in 1996. He and U2 have won many awards, including 22 Grammy awards.
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Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher (born July 23, 1928) is an American pianist and conductor.
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Lester Bangs
Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 13, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, author and musician. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, and has been called one of the "most influential" voices in rock criticism.
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Luciano Pavarotti
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation.
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Max Weinberg
Max Weinberg (born April 13, 1951) is an American drummer and television personality, most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien''.
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Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947), better known by his stage name Meat Loaf is an American rock musician and actor. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy consisting of Bat Out of Hell, and . Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies. After more than 30 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over nine years.
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Mel Brooks
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award. Three of his films ranked in the Top 20 on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time: Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
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Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. She has received fifteen Grammy Award nominations winning two , one Academy Award and has sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide and almost fourteen million in the United States alone.
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Michael Jackson
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band, The Rolling Stones. Jagger has also acted in and produced several films.
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Mickey Rourke
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. (born September 16, 1952) is an American actor and screenwriter who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and thriller films.
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Mike Appel
Mike Appel (born October 27, 1942) is an American music industry manager and record producer, most known for his role in both capacities early in the career of Bruce Springsteen.
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Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6, 1931) is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of only twelve people to have won an all the major American entertainment awards: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. In 2001, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He received the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2010.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (, ) (born January 28, 1948) is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of movement. He then moved to New York to dance with the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director.
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Morgan Freeman
Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice.
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Neil Young
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt ('''Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt''') (born 6 December 1929) is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier.
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Ossie Davis
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Pamela Springsteen
Pamela Colleen Springsteen (born February 8, 1962) is an American actress and photographer. Born in Freehold Township, New Jersey, she is the younger sister of Bruce Springsteen.
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Patti Scialfa
Vivienne Patricia "Patti" Scialfa ("SKAL-fah") (born July 29, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She is married to Bruce Springsteen and they have three children together.
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Paul McCartney
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Pete Seeger
Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival:See Richard Silverstein,
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Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (; born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 60s and 70s, and, according to Eddie Vedder, "possibly the greatest live band ever."
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Peter Gabriel
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez () (born March 26, 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music and a conductor.
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Plácido Domingo
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Prince (musician)
Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson, June 7, 1958) is a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has been known under the unpronounceable symbol , which he used between 1993 and 2000. During that period he was frequently referred to in the media as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", often abbreviated to "TAFKAP", or simply "The Artist"
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Quincy Jones
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Renée Fleming
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Robbie Robertson
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Robert Moog
Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (, respell|), commonly called Bob Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
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Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002.
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Roger Daltrey
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is an English singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also producing films.
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Ronnie Spector
Veronica Yvette "Ronnie" Spector ( Bennett; born August 10, 1943) is an American rock and roll and popular music vocalist, and was the lead singer of the 1960s hit-making girl group, The Ronettes, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. She is known as the "original bad girl of rock and roll."
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Roy Bittan
Roy Bittan (born July 2, 1949) is an American keyboardist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974. Bittan, nicknamed "The Professor", plays the piano, organ, accordion and synthesizers.
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Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist, perhaps best-known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961).
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Ryan Bingham
Ryan Bingham (born March 31, 1981) is an American Academy Award-winning singer/songwriter. He has released three albums on the Lost Highway Records label.
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Seal (musician)
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963 in Paddington, London, England), known simply as Seal, is an English soul and R&B; singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. His name Olusegun means "God is victorious". A recipient of BRIT, MTV and Grammy Awards, Seal is known for his numerous international hits. He is married to German model Heidi Klum.
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Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American film actor and director, also known for his political activism. He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his roles in Mystic River and Milk, as well as the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for the former and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the latter.
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Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single "The Sounds of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness.
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Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy. Robinson's consistent commercial success and creative contributions to the label have earned him the title "King of Motown."
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (, ) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.
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Sonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
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Soozie Tyrell
Soozie Tyrell, (born May 4, 1957), formerly known as Soozie Kirschner, is an American violinist and vocalist, most known for her work with Bruce Springsteen in the E Street Band.
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Stephen Merchant
'''Stephen James 'Steve' Merchant' (born 24 November 1974) is an English writer, director, radio presenter, and comic actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office, as the co-writer, co-director and a co-star of Extras, and as the co-host of The Ricky Gervais Show'' in its radio (for which the show won a bronze Sony Award), podcast, audiobook and television-show forms.
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Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer.
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Steve Reich
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Steve Van Zandt
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg, (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and video game designer. In a career spanning six decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the founders of DreamWorks.
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Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt (born November 22, 1950) is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve. He is best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin, and as an actor in the television drama The Sopranos, in which he played Silvio Dante. Van Zandt also had his own solo band called "Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul" in the 1980s.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born 2 October 1951), better known by his professional name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock band The Police.
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Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an eminent 20th century ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (; born July 6, 1946), nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film director. Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed include boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo. The Rocky and Rambo franchises, along with several other films, strengthened his reputation as an actor and his box office earnings.
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T-Bone Burnett
Joseph Henry Burnett (born January 14, 1948), widely known as T-Bone Burnett, is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer.
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The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961 in Barking, Essex, England), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is an Irish musician best known as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist of rock band U2. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named him at #24 on its list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time".
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Tim Russert
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Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have earned her the title '''The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll'''.
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Tom Petty
Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury.
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Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and ''Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart''.
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Tommy Sims
Tommy Sims is a renowned bassist, songwriter, producer and bandleader. From 1987 to 1989 he was the bassist of the popular Christian rock band White Heart which he left to become a studio musician and producer. During 1992-1993 he played bass on the Bruce Springsteen and the "Other Band" Tour. He is also a songwriter, who wrote Eric Clapton's "Change the World" which won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1997; other songs of his have been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi, Garth Brooks, Cher, BlackStreet, Toni Braxton and BabyFace among others. He is also a record producer, who has worked with Bruce Springsteen, Michael Bolton, Amy Grant, Kelly Clarkson, Cece Winans, Israel, BlackStreet, The Neville Brothers, Michelle Williams (Destiny's Child) and others.
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto; August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.
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Tony Kanal
Tony Kanal (born Tony Ashwin Kanal; August 27, 1970) is a British-born American musician, record producer and songwriter. Kanal is the bassist for the American rock band No Doubt. His musical work outside of the band includes producing and songwriting with artists such as reggae singer Elan Atias and fellow No Doubt bandmate Gwen Stefani, among others.
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Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.
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Valery Gergiev
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Van Cliburn
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (born July 12, 1934), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War.
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Van Morrison
Van Morrison, OBE (born George Ivan Morrison; 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album ''It's Too Late to Stop Now'', are widely viewed as among the greatest ever made.
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Vini Lopez
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Vinnie Roslin
Vinnie Roslin (born c. 1947) is an American bass guitarist. He was an original member of Steel Mill, an early Bruce Springsteen band. Other members of band included three future members the E Street Band - Vini Lopez, Danny Federici and Steve Van Zandt. .
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Walter Mondale
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Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (, ; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director.
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Warren Zevon
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Wayne Kirkpatrick
Wayne Kirkpatrick is an American singer/songwriter and musician born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 1979.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American R&B;/Pop singer, actress, and former fashion model. A relative of several soul singers, including her mother Cissy Houston, cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, and close family friend Aretha Franklin, Houston began singing at her New Jersey church as a member of a junior gospel choir at age eleven. After she began performing alongside her mother at night clubs in the New York City area, she was discovered by Arista Records label head Clive Davis. Houston has released studio albums and movie soundtrack albums throughout her career, all of which have had diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold certification.
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Will Jennings
Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings (born June 24, 1944, in Kilgore, Texas) is an American songwriter who is known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic (1997).
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Willem Dafoe
William "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American film and stage actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He is known for his iconic face and voice. He has had an illustrious career including roles in To Live and Die in L.A., Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mississippi Burning, Wild at Heart, The Boondock Saints, Inside Man, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Spider-Man, Antichrist, and voice roles in Fantastic Mr. Fox and Finding Nemo.
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Witold Lutosławski
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Woody Guthrie
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Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.
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Springsteen, Bruce Filmography
- The 54th Annual Grammy Awards (2012)
- The 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2012)
- Jerseyboy Hero (2011)
- When Pop Culture Saved America: A 9-11 Story (2011)
- The 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2011)
- Who Do I Think I Am? (2011)
- The Bridge School Concerts - 25th Anniversary Edition (2011)
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: London Calling - Live in Hyde Park (2010)
- Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief (2010)
- The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (2010)
- The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (2010)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2009)
- We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial (2009)
- Glastonbury 2009 (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Light My Fire (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Sweet Emotion (2009)
- Super Bowl XLIII (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Feelin' Alright (2009)
- The People Speak (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Start Me Up (2009)
- The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Whole Lotta Shakin' (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Come Together (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: I'll Take You There (2009)
- The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert (2009)
- Catalunya.cat (2008)
- The Big O in Britain (2008)
- Bruce Springsteen: Under Review 1978-1982 - Tales of the Working Man (2008)
- The Sweet Lady with the Nasty Voice (2008)
- Tribute This! (2008)
- The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)
- Elvis: Viva Las Vegas (2007)
- Seven Ages of Rock (2007)
- Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin (2007)
- Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin (2007)
- 1968 with Tom Brokaw (2007)
- A Good Life: The Joe Grushecky Story (2007)
- Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)
- Forbes Celebrity 100: Who Made Bank? (2006)
- El disco del año 06 (2006)
- 7th Inning Stretch (2006)
- ...So Goes the Nation (2006)
- Wings for Wheels: The Making of 'Born to Run' (2005)
- Wings for Wheels: The Making of 'Born to Run' (2005)
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 (2005)
- National Anthem: Inside the Vote for Change Concert Tour (2004)
- Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart (2003)
- Get Up, Stand Up (2003)
- Elvis Lives (2003)
- Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live in Barcelona (2003)
- Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band (2003)
- The 45th Annual Grammy Awards (2003)
- MTV Video Music Awards 2002 (2002)
- The Ultimate Song (2002)
- America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001)
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Live in New York City (2001)
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Live in New York City (2001)
- Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000 (2001)
- High Fidelity (2000)
- Blood Brothers: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (2000)
- The Beatles Revolution (2000)
- SNL: 25 Years of Music (1999)
- An All-Star Tribute to Johnny Cash (1999)
- In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story (1999)
- The Paris Concert for Amnesty International (1999)
- Bruce Springsteen: A Secret History (1998)
- Where It's At: The Rolling Stone State of the Union (1998)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1997)
- The 39th Annual Grammy Awards (1997)
- MTV Video Music Awards 1997 (1997)
- The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 3 (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 5 (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 8 (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 9 (1995)
- Sinatra: 80 Years My Way (1995)
- Murder Incorporated (1995)
- We Are the World: A 10th Anniversary Tribute (1995)
- The Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 1 (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 10 (1995)
- The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994)
- The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1994)
- The 36th Annual Grammy Awards (1994)
- MTV Video Music Awards 1994 (1994)
- Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes: Having a Party Live at the Stone Pony (1992)
- Tribute to Harry Chapin (1991)
- American Dream (1990)
- Bruce Springsteen: Video Anthology 1978-1988 (1989)
- Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute (1988)
- Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night (1988)
- Bossen i byen (1988)
- A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (1988)
- Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll (1987)
- Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987)
- Sun City: Artists United Against Apartheid (1986)
- We Are the World (1985)
- No Nukes (1980)
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- We Take Care of Our Own
- Easy Money
- Shackled and Drawn
- Jack of All Trades
- Death to My Hometown
- This Depression
- Wrecking Ball
- You've Got It
- Rocky Ground
- Land of Hope and Dreams
- We Are Alive
- Swallowed Up (In the Belly of the Whale)
- American Land
- Blinded by the Light
- For You
- Spirit in the Night
- 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- Thunder Road
- Born to Run
- Jungleland
- Badlands
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- The Promised Land
- The River
- Hungry Heart
- Nebraska
- Atlantic City
- The Ties That Bind
- Sherry Darling
- Jackson Cage
- Two Hearts
- Independence Day
- Hungry Heart
- Out in the Street
- Crush on You
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
- I Wanna Marry You
- The River
- Racing in the Street ('78)
- Gotta Get That Feeling
- Outside Looking In
- Someday (We'll Be Together)
- One Way Street
- Because the Night
- Wrong Side of the Street
- The Brokenhearted
- Rendezvous
- Candy's Boy
- Blinded by the Light
- Growin' Up
- Mary Queen of Arkansas
- Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
- Lost in the Flood
- The Angel
- For You
- Spirit in the Night
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- The E Street Shuffle
- 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
- Kitty's Back
- Wild Billy's Circus Story
- Incident on 57th Street
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- New York City Serenade
- Nebraska
- Atlantic City
- Mansion on the Hill
- Johnny 99
- Highway Patrolman
- State Trooper
- Used Cars
- Open All Night
- My Father's House
- Reason to Believe
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Cover Me
- Darlington County
- Working on the Highway
- Downbound Train
- I'm on Fire
- No Surrender
- Bobby Jean
- I'm Goin' Down
- Glory Days
- Dancing in the Dark
- My Hometown
- Good Rockin' Tonight
- Badlands
- Spirit in the Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Independence Day
- The Promised Land
- It's My Life
- Thunder Road
- Jungleland
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Fire
- Candy's Room
- Radio Nowhere
- You'll Be Comin' Down
- Livin' in the Future
- Your Own Worst Enemy
- Gypsy Biker
- Girls in Their Summer Clothes
- I'll Work for Your Love
- Magic
- Last to Die
- Long Walk Home
- Devil's Arcade
- Terry's Song
- Born to Run
- Thunder Road
- Badlands
- The River
- Hungry Heart
- Atlantic City
- Dancing in the Dark
- Born in the U.S.A.
- My Hometown
- Glory Days
- Brilliant Disguise
- Human Touch
- Better Days
- Streets of Philadelphia
- Secret Garden
- Murder Incorporated
- Blood Brothers
- This Hard Land
- Intro
- John Henry
- Oh Mary Don't You Weep
- Long Walk Home
- Mrs. McGrath
- My Oklahoma Home
- Jacob's Ladder
- We Shall Overcome
- Pay Me My Money Down
- Outro
- Old Dan Tucker
- Jesse James
- Mrs. McGrath
- O Mary Don't You Weep
- John Henry
- Erie Canal
- Jacob's Ladder
- My Oklahoma Home
- Eyes on the Prize
- Shenandoah
- Pay Me My Money Down
- We Shall Overcome
- Froggie Went a Courtin'
- Lonesome Day
- Into the Fire
- Waitin' on a Sunny Day
- Nothing Man
- Countin' on a Miracle
- Empty Sky
- Worlds Apart
- Let's Be Friends (Skin to Skin)
- Further On (Up the Road)
- The Fuse
- Mary's Place
- You're Missing
- The Rising
- Paradise
- My City of Ruins
- Devils & Dust
- All the Way Home
- Reno
- Long Time Comin'
- Black Cowboys
- Maria's Bed
- Silver Palomino
- Jesus Was an Only Son
- Leah
- The Hitter
- All I'm Thinkin' About
- Matamoros Banks
- Human Touch
- Soul Driver
- 57 Channels (and Nothin' On)
- Cross My Heart
- Gloria's Eyes
- With Every Wish
- Roll of the Dice
- Real World
- All or Nothin' at All
- Man's Job
- I Wish I Were Blind
- The Long Goodbye
- Real Man
- Pony Boy
- Better Days
- Lucky Town
- Local Hero
- If I Should Fall Behind
- Leap of Faith
- The Big Muddy
- Living Proof
- Book of Dreams
- Souls of the Departed
- My Beautiful Reward
- Growin' Up
- Seaside Bar Song
- Rendezvous
- Hearts of Stone
- Where the Bands Are
- Loose Ends
- I Wanna Be With You
- Born in the U.S.A.
- My Love Will Not Let You Down
- Lion's Den
- Pink Cadillac
- Janey Don't You Lose Heart
- Sad Eyes
- Part Man, Part Monkey
- Trouble River
- Brothers Under the Bridge
- The Fever
- The Promise
- Red Headed Woman
- Better Days
- Atlantic City
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Man's Job
- Human Touch
- Lucky Town
- I Wish I Were Blind
- Thunder Road
- Light of Day
- If I Should Fall Behind
- Living Proof
- My Beautiful Reward
- Ain't Got You
- Tougher Than the Rest
- All That Heaven Will Allow
- Spare Parts
- Cautious Man
- Walk Like a Man
- Tunnel of Love
- Two Faces
- Brilliant Disguise
- One Step Up
- When You're Alone
- Valentine's Day
- Mary Queen of Arkansas
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- Growin' Up
- Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
- Bishop Danced
- Santa Ana
- Seaside Bar Song
- Zero and Blind Terry
- Linda Let Me Be the One
- Thundercrack
- Rendezvous
- Give the Girl a Kiss
- Iceman
- Bring on the Night
- So Young and in Love
- Hearts of Stone
- Don't Look Back
- Badlands #2
- Adam Raised a Cain (Different Lyrics)
- Roulette (original version)
- Chain Lightning
- Night Fire
- I Don't Want to Be
- Find It Where You Can #2
- Out on the Run (Looking for Love) #3 (A.K.A. 'Looking for Love')
- I Wanna Be With You
- The Price You Pay (alternate take 12 String Guitar & Accord)
- Stolen Car #1
- Cindy #2 (alternate take Clarence's Harmony Vocals)
- Ricky Wants a Man of Her Own (alternate take)
- She's a Rocker #1 (take #4)
- Hungry Heart #1 (alternate mix)
- Pipeline
- Held Up Without a Gun (Miami Steve on Lead Vocals)
- Two Hearts #8 (Rehearsals)
- Jeannie Needs a Shooter #2 (acoustic demo)
- All I Need
1986-10-13: You Better Not Touch: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA
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- You Can Look
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Seeds
- Darlington County
- Mansion on the Hill
- Fire
- Dancing in the Dark
- Glory Days
- Follow That Dream
- Hungry Heart
- Teach Your Children
- Sandy
- For You
- Stolen Car
- Wreck on the Highway
- Point Blank
- The Ties That Bind
- Ramrod
- Backstreets
- Rosalita
- I'm a Rocker
- Jungleland
- Born to Run
- Detroit Medley
- Spirit in the Night (1992-08-06: Meadowlands, NJ, USA)
- For You (1992-08-06: Meadowlands, NJ, USA)
- Darkness on the Edge of Town (1993-03-31: Glasgow)
- If I Should Fall Behind (1993-03-31: Glasgow)
- The River (1993-03-31: Glasgow)
- Promised Land (1993-04-04: Dortmund, Germany)
- Born in the U.S.A. (1993-04-16: Sheffield, UK)
- Mansion on the Hill (1993-04-16: Sheffield, UK)
- This Hard Land (1993-04-16: Sheffield, UK)
- Point Blank (1993-04-16: Sheffield, UK)
- Many Rivers to Cross (1993-04-16: Sheffield, UK)
- Thunder Road (1993-04-16: Sheffield, UK)
- Satan's Jewel Crown (1993-05-14: Berlin, Germany)
- Seeds (1993-xx-xx: Oslo, Norway)
- Adam Raised a Cain (1993-xx-xx: Oslo, Norway)
- The River
- Human Spirit
- My Hometown
- Tunnel of Love
- Boom Boom
- Adam Raised a Cain
- Cover Me
- Brilliant Disguise
- Tougher Than the Rest
- Chimes of Freedom
- Get Up, Stand Up
- The Promised Land
- Blowin' in the Wind
- Bad Moon Rising
- Across the Borderline
- Street Queen
- Southern Son
- Henry Boy
- If I Was the Priest
- Vibes Man
- Song to Orphans
- She's Leaving
- The Word
- Arabian Night
- Cowboys of the Sea
- No Need
- Tokyo
- Marie
- Visitation at Fort Horne
- Badlands
- Streets of Fire
- Spirit in the Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Factory
- The Promised Land
- Prove It All Night
- Racing in the Street
- Thunder Road
- Jungleland
- Vietnam
- Johnny 99 #1
- Johnny 99 #2
- The Answer
- Love Is a Dangerous Thing
- Downbound Train
- Red River Rock
- Used Cars #1
- Used Cars #2
- Born in the U.S.A. #1
- Born in the U.S.A. #2
- Born in the U.S.A. #3
- Born in the U.S.A. #4
- Shut Out the Light
- Club Soul City
- Atlantic City
- Fade to Black
- Fist Full of Dollars #1
- Fist Full of Dollars #2
- Bye Bye Johnny (Johnny Bye-Bye)
- Riding Horse
- Party Lights
- Summer Night
- My Heart Is an Open Book
- Robert Ford and Jesse James
- Danger Zone
- Daniel in the Lion's Den (Lion's Den)
- Open All Night
- Better Days
- Local Hero
- Atlantic City
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Man’s Job
- Growin’ Up
- Human Touch
- The Big Muddy
- 57 Channels (And Nothing On)
- My Beautiful Reward
- Streets of Philadelphia
- Incident on 57th Street
- Mountain of Love
- Born to Run
- The E Street Shuffle
- Wings for Wheels
- I Want You
- Spirit in the Night
- She's the One
- Growin' Up
- It's Hard to Be Saint in the City
- Jungleland
- The Promised Land
- The Rising
- Lonesome Day
- No Surrender
- Something in the Night
- Empty Sky
- You're Missing
- Waitin' on a Sunny Day
- Darlington County
- Worlds Apart
- Badlands
- Out in the Streets
- The Ties That Bind
- Sherry Darling
- Jackson Cage
- Cindy
- From Small Things Big Things Come
- Hungry Heart
- Hungry Heart
- Out in the Streets
- Out in the Streets
- Crush on You
- Crush on You
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
- I Wanna Marry You
- I Wanna Marry You
- I Wanna Marry You
- I Wanna Marry You
- Roulette
- Intro
- The Rising
- Lonesome Day
- No Surrender
- The Fuse
- Jackson Cage
- Empty Sky
- You're Missing
- Waitin' on a Sunny Day
- Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
- Worlds Apart
- I'm on Fire
- Because the Night
- Prove It All Night
- Human Touch
- The River
- Who'll Stop the Rain
- Souls of the Departed
- Born in the USA
- The Promised Land
- Hungry Heart
- The River
- Lean on Me
- Highway 61 Revisited
- All the Way Home
- Great Balls of Fire
- Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
- It's Been a Long Time
- Blowin' Down the Road
- Lonesome Valley
- Many Rivers to Cross
- Settle for Love
- Jole Blon
- Jumpin' Jack Flash
- I Ain't Got No Home
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Prove It All Night
- Out in the Street
- Atlantic City
- Johnny 99
- Reason to Believe
- Intro
- Nebraska
- [intro] / Bye Bye, Bye Bye
- Johnny Bye Bye
- Darlington County
- Glory Days
- [intro] / Honey, I Don't Care
- I'm Goin' Down
- The Promised Land
- Intro
- My Hometown
- Badlands
- Candy's Room
- Outlaw Pete
- She's the One
- Working on a Dream
- Seeds
- Johnny 99
- Youngstown
- Raise Your Hand
- I Wanna Be Sedated
- Spirit in the Night
- For You
- Waitin' on a Sunny Day
- The Promised Land
- Jungleland
- Kingdom of Days
- Radio Nowhere
- Lonesome Day
- The Rising
- Born to Run
- [applause]
- PSA
- Hard Times
- Thunder Road
- Land of Hope and Dreams
- [banter] / [Tim Brennan proposes to girlfriend]
- So Young and in Love
- American Land
- Glory Days
- [applause]
- Seven Nights to Rock
- Outlaw Pete
- My Lucky Day
- Working on a Dream
- Queen of the Supermarket
- What Love Can Do
- This Life
- Good Eye
- Tomorrow Never Knows
- Life Itself
- Kingdom of Days
- Surprise, Surprise
- The Last Carnival
- The Wrestler
- A Night With the Jersey Devil
- John Henry
- O Mary Don't You Weep
- Johnny 99
- Old Dan Tucker
- Eyes on the Prize
- Jesse James
- Adam Raised a Cain
- Erie Canal
- My Oklahoma Home
- Further On (Up the Road)
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Night Train
- Fire
- Candy's Room
- Because the Night
- Point Blank
- Medley: Not Fade Away / Gloria / She's the One
- Backstreets
- (intro)
- Racing in the Street (Piano)
- The Rising
- Further On up the Road
- (intro)
- Jesus Was an Only Son (Piano)
- (intro)
- Leah
- (intro)
- The Hitter
- (intro)
- Matamoras Banks
- [applause]
- (intro)
- Waitin' on a Sunny Day
- Bobby Jean
- Thank You
- The Promised Land
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Devils and Dust
- Ties That Bind
- Long Time Comin'
- Highway 29
- Fade Away
- Incident on 57th Street
- Johnny 99
- Ain't Got You
- Atlantic City
- Highway Patrolman
- Reno
- Be True
- Drive All Night
- Michael Stipe
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Badlands
- No Surrender
- Lonesome Day
- Register to Vote
- The River
- Johnny 99
- Youngstown
- John Fogerty
- Centerfield
- Deja Vu All Over Again
- Fortunate Son
- The Promised Land
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Badlands
- Out in the Street
- Johnny 99
- Atlantic City
- The River
- Working on the Highway
- Trapped
- Darlington County
- Glory Days
- The Promised Land
- My Hometown
- Thunder Road
- Cover Me
- Hungry Heart
- Downbound Train
- John Henry (Boston 2006-05-27)
- Erie Canal (Washington 2006-05-28)
- Oh Mary Don't You Weep (Columbus 2006-05-30)
- Old Dan Tucker (Indianapolis 2006-05-31)
- Jessie James (Phoenix 2006-06-03)
- How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (Los Angeles 2006-06-05)
- Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam) (San Francisco 2006-06-06)
- Mrs. McGrath (Des Moines 2006-06-10)
- Jacob's Ladder (St. Paul 2006-06-11)
- My Oklahoma Home (Chicago 2006-06-13)
- Eyes on the Prize (Milwaukee 2006-06-14)
- We Shall Overcome (Cleveland 2006-06-16)
- Pay Me My Money Down (Detroit 2006-06-17)
- Buffalo Gals (Saratoga 2006-06-19)
- My City in Ruins (Philadelphia 2006-06-20)
- Johnny 99 (New York 2006-06-22)
- When the Saints Go Marching In (Holmdel, NJ 2006-06-24)
- Man on the Flying Trapeze (Holmdel, NJ 2006-06-25)
- Better Days
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Local Hero
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- If I Should Fall Behind
- 57 Channels (And Nothing on)
- The River
- Living Proof
- My Hometown
- Leap of Faith
- Man's Job
- Roll of the Dice
- All or Nothing at All
- The River
- Adam Raised a Cain
- Straight Time
- Highway 29
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Johnny 99
- Mansion on the Hill
- The Wish
- Red Headed Woman
- Two Hearts
- When You're Alone
- Open All Night
- Used Cars
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Kitty's Back
- Fire
- Candy's Room
- Because the Night
- Point Blank
- Not Fade Away
- She's the One
- Backstreets / Sad Eyes
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Murder Incorporated (take 1)
- This Hard Land
- Protection
- County Fair
- Glory Days
- Janey Don't You Lose Heart
- My Love Will Not Let You Down
- Follow That Dream
- Working on the Highway
- I'm Going Down
- Frankie
- Murder Incorporated
- None but the Brave
- Drop on Down and Cover Me
- Sugarland
- Cynthia
- Prove It All Night (Different Lyrics)
- Factory (Different Lyrics)
- Sherry Darling
- Independence Day (original version)
- Drive All Night #1 (original version)
- The Promise
- Candy's Boy #1
- Racing in the Street #1 (alternate version Harp)
- One Way Street
- I Wanna Marry You #1 (alternate take New vocal)
- Walking on the Avenue #2
- Baby Come Back
- Living on the Edge of the World #3
- Jole Blon #1
- Restless Nights #8
- Down, Down, Down (Complete take of I'm Going Down)
- Murder Incorporated
- TV Movie
- County Fair #2
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Sugarland #4
- My Love Will Not Let You Down
- My Hometown
- Glory Days
- Frankie
- Darlington County
- Working on the Highway
- Downbound Train
Lost Masters XVIII: Hollywood Hills Garage Tapes (Unreleased Masters, Volume III)
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- Don't Back Down #1 (electric version)
- Don't Back Down #2 (electric version)
- Don't Back Down #3 (electric version)
- Don't Back Down #4 (acoustic version in Key A)
- Don't Back Down #5 (acoustic version in Key A, incomplete)
- Don't Back Down #6 (acoustic version in Key A)
- Don't Back Down #7 (acoustic version in Key A)
- Don't Back Down #8 (acoustic version in Key B)
- Sugarland #5 (Rock version)
- Bye Bye Johnny #6
- Follow That Dream #3
- Cynthia (solo version)
- Bye Bye Johnny #3
- Richfield Whistle
- Follow That Dream #4
- Shut Out the Light #2
Lost Masters XVII: Hollywood Hills Garage Tapes (Unreleased Masters, Volume II)
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- Follow That Dream (false start)
- Follow That Dream #1
- Your Hometown #1
- Your Hometown #2
- Your Hometown #3
- Your Hometown #4
- Follow That Dream #2
- Sugarland (false start)
- Sugarland #1
- Little Girl #2
- County Fair #1
- Bye Bye Johnny #4
- Bye Bye Johnny #5
- Delivery Man #1
- Delivery Man #2
- Unsatisfied Heart
Lost Masters XVI: Hollywood Hills Garage Tapes (Unreleased Masters, Volume I)
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- Don't Back Down #9
- One Love
- Little Girl #1
- Don't Back Down #10
- Sugarland #2
- Sugarland #3
- Shut Out the Light #1
- Fugitives Dreams
- Betty Jean
- Bye Bye Johnny #1
- Bye Bye Johnny #2
- The Klansman
- Don't Back Down #11
- Seven Tears
- Stolen Car #5
- Stolen Car #6
- Stolen Car #7
- Stolen Car #8
- Slow Fade #1
- Slow Fade #2
- Slow Fade #3
- Slow Fade #4
- Slow Fade #5
- Slow Fade #6
- Jackson Cage #1
- Jackson Cage #2
Lost Masters XIV: Out on the Run (The Telegraph Hill Rehearsals, Volume IV)
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- Find It Where You Can #1
- Find It Where You Can #2
- Break My Heart (Tonight) #1
- Break My Heart (Tonight) #2
- Out on the Run (Looking for Love) #1
- Out on the Run (Looking for Love) #2
- Out on the Run (Looking for Love) #3
- The Ties That Bind
- In the City Tonight #1
- In the City Tonight #2
- In the City Tonight #3
- In the City Tonight #4
- In the City Tonight #5
- In the City Tonight #6
- In the City Tonight #7
Lost Masters XIII: Restless Days (The Telegraph Hill Rehearsals, Volume III)
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- Jole Blon #1
- Restless Nights #8
- Restless Nights #9
- Restless Nights #10
- Restless Nights #11
- Restless Nights #12
- Restless Nights #13
- Jole Blon #2
- Jole Blon #3
- Wreck on the Highway (Country version)
- Stolen Car #1
- Stolen Car #2
- Stolen Car #3
- Stolen Car #4
Lost Masters XII: Buddy Holly Revisited (The Telegraph Hill Rehearsals, Volume II)
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- Living on the Edge #1
- Living on the Edge #2
- Living on the Edge #3
- Chevrolet Deluxe #1
- Chevrolet Deluxe #2
- Bring on the Night
- Restless Nights #1
- Restless Nights #2
- Restless Nights #3
- Restless Nights #4
- Restless Nights #5
- Restless Nights #6
- Restless Nights #7
Lost Masters XI: Walk, Don't Run (The Telegraph Hill Rehearsals, Volume I)
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- Mary Lou #1
- Mary Lou #2
- Mary Lou #3
- Mary Lou #4
- Mary Lou #5
- Mary Lou #6
- Bring on the Night
- Pipeline
- Help Up Without a Gun #1
- Help Up Without a Gun #2
- Help Up Without a Gun #3
- Help Up Without a Gun #4
- Help Up Without a Gun #5
- Help Up Without a Gun #6
- Help Up Without a Gun #7
- Help Up Without a Gun #8
- Two Hearts #1
- Two Hearts #2
- Two Hearts #3
- Two Hearts #4
- Two Hearts #5
- Two Hearts #6
- Two Hearts #7
- Two Hearts #8
- Long Way Home
- Ruled by the Gun #1
- Ruled by the Gun #2
- Downbound Train
- Wages of Sin #1
- I Need You #1
- I Need You #2
- Ruled by the Gun #3
- Ruled by the Gun #4
- Baby I'm So Cold (Turn the Lights Down Low)
- Untitled Riff
- Wages of Sin #2
- Wages of Sin #3
- Wheels Make the World Go Round
- Glory Days
- Wages of Sin #4
- Fade to Black
- Your Love (Is All Around Me Now) #1
- Your Love (Is All Around Me Now) #2
- Jesse James #1
- Jesse James #2
- They Killed Him in the Street #1
- They Killed Him in the Street #2
- True Love Is Hard to Come By #1
- True Love Is Hard to Come By #2
- True Love Is Hard to Come By #3
- Love Is a Gun #1
- Love Is a Gun #2
- Walking on a Avenue #1
- Walking on a Avenue #2
- Take 'em as They Come
- Baby Come Back
- Baby Come Back
- Love and Kisses
- Love Will Get You Down #1
- Love Will Get You Down #2
- Love Will Get You Down #3
- Love Will Get You Down #4
- Untitled #2
- Out on the Run (Looking for Love)
- Under the Gun
- Find It Where You Can
- Everyone Loves You
- Untitled #3
- Bring on the Night #1
- Take 'em as They Come #2
- Bring On the Night #2
- Untitled #4
- Bring On the Night
- Untitled #5
- Protection #1
- Protection #2
- Protection #3
- Protection #4
- Protection #5
- Love and Kisses #1
- Love and Kisses #2
- Every Day & Every Night
- Under the Gun #1
- Under the Gun #2
- Under the Gun #3
- Under the Gun #4
- Under the Gun #5
- Jeannie Needs a Shooter #1
- Jeannie Needs a Shooter #2
- Untitled Guitar Riff
- Man Who Got Away
- Chain Lightning #1
- Chain Lightning #2
- Chain Lightning #3
- Baby Don't Go #1
- Baby Don't Go #2
- Mary Lou #1
- Mary Lou #2
- Mary Lou #3
- Mary Lou #4
- Everybody Wants My Baby
- Stockton Boys #1
- Stockton Boys #2
- Two Hearts
- Stockton Boys #3
- Stockton Boys #4
- Stockton Girls
- Untitled Harmonies #1
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) #1
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) #2 Raggae Version
- You Gotta Be Kind
- Down in Whitetown #1
- Down in Whitetown #2
- Drive All Night (Harmonies)
- Down in Whitetown #3
- Down in Whitetown #4
- Untitled Harmonies #2
- Party Lights
- Jackson Cage #1
- Jackson Cage #2
- All I Need
- Fade To Black #1
- Fade to Black #2 (Harmonies)
- Stolen Car (Harmonies)
- Loves Gonna Be Tonight #1
- Loves Gonna Be Tonight #2
- (She's a) Rocker #1
- (She's a) Rocker #2
- Rickie (Wants a Man of Her Own)
- Cindy #1
- Cindy #2
- Ramrod #1
- Ramrod #2
- Ramrod #3
- Ramrod #4
- I Wanna Marry You #1
- I Wanna Marry You #2
- I Wanna Marry You #3
- I Wanna Marry You #4
- I Wanna Marry You #5
- All I Need
- Roulette (acoustic demo)
- Roulette (original version)
- Protection
- Chain Lightning
- Under the Gun # 1
- Under the Gun # 2
- Under the Gun # 3
- Under the Gun # 4
- Under the Gun # 5
- Night Fire
- Man Who Got Away
- Man Who Got Away (acoustic demo)
- Mary Lou
- I Don't Want to Be
- Hungry Heart #1
- Hungry Heart #2
- The Price You Pay
- I Wanna Be With You
- Stolen Car #1
- Angelyne #1
- The Ties That Bind
- Hungry Heart #3
- Stolen Car #2
- To Be True
- Angelyne #2
- Angelyne #3
- Angelyne #4
- 'WMMR Radio Promo/Christmas Message'
- All Alone At Christmas
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- The Wish
- My Hometown
- Please Come Home For Christmas
- 'Syracuse Snow Dialogue'
- Angel Eyes
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- Wintersong
- Pilgrim In The Temple Of Love
- Merry Christmas Baby
- Another Lonely Christmas
- Lovers In The Cold
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
- Time Of Your Life
- 'WHFS Radio Promo/Christmas Message'
- Someday, Tonight
- Drive All Night
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Auld Lang Syne
- Rumble [22 Nov 2005]
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City [Electric Guitar, Bullet Mic] [22 Nov 2005]
- Straight Time [22 Jun 2005]
- Intro [20 Oct 2005]
- The Fever [20 Oct 2005]
- Sad Eyes [23 Jul 2005]
- Atlantic City [piano] [04 Nov 2005]
- Intro [19 May 2005]
- The With [19 May 2005]
- Land of Hope and Dreams [with Broken String] [11 May 2005]
- Intro [15 Jun 2005]
- Countin' on a Miracle [15 Jun 2005]
- Intro [21 Nov 2005]
- Santa Ana [21 Nov 2005]
- Backstreet [22 Nov 2005]
- Intro [17 Nov 2005]
- The New Timer [17 Nov 2005]
- Intro With Helan Gar [25 Jun 2005]
- Blinded by the Light [25 Jun 2005]
- Better Days [with Elliott Murphy] [20 Jun 2005]
- Intro [30 Oct 2005]
- Dirty Water [30 Oct 2005]
- The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Atlantic City
- Straight Time
- Highway 29
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Johnny 99
- Mansion on the Hill
- Pilgrim in the Temple of Love
- Red Headed Woman
- Two Hearts
- When You're Alone
- Shut Out the Light
- Born in the USA
- Dry Lightning
- Welcome to Storytellers
- Devils and Dust
- Devils and Dust Story
- Blinded by the Light (intro)
- Blinded by the Light
- Blinded by the Light Story
- Brilliant Disguise Story
- Brilliant Disguise
- Nebraska
- Nebraska (take two)
- Nebraska Story
- One Way Street
- Don't Look Back (instrumental)
- Frankie
- Drive All Night #1 (original version)
- Drive All Night #2 (alternate version)
- Something in the Night
- Candy's Boy #1
- Fire
- The Fast Song #1 (instrumental)
- Streets of Fire #1
- Badlands #1 (instrumental)
- The Promise
- Talk to Me (instrumental)
- Get That Feeling
- Racing in the Street #1 (alternate version with Harp)
- Thunder Road
- Jungleland
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Born to Run
- Two Hearts
- Ram Rod
- Twist and Shout/Do You Love Me
- That's What You Get
- Baby I
- The Win and the Rain
- Ballad of Jesse James
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- You Mean So Much to Me
- The Fever
- Phantoms
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- Thundercrack
- Blinded by the Light
- Lucky Town
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Chain Smoking
- Never Be Enough Time
- Brown Eyed Girl
- Mustang Sally
- Atlantic City
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Living Proof
- Glory Days
- Around and Around
- Bama Lama Bama Loo
- The Wanderer-Kansas City
- Wreck on the Highway
- [intro by Tim Robbins]
- Tom Joad, Part 1
- Blowin' Down the Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way)
- Oklahoma Hills
- Riding in My Car (Car Song)
- Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
- Across the Border
- Hard Travelin'
- I've Got to Know
- Homestead
- My Father's House
- In Michigan
- Shut Out the Light
- Born in the U.S.A.
- There'll Never Be Any Other for Me but You
- Lucky Town
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- If I Should Fall Behind
- 57 Channels (W. Little Steven)
- My Hometown
- Leap of Faith
- Human Touch
- Glory Days
- Hungry Heart
- Real World
- Mansion on the Hill
- Brilliant Disguise
- Red-Headed Woman
1975-02-05: The Saint, the Incident & The Main Point Shuffle: The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
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- Incident on 57th Street
- Mountain of Love
- Born to Run
- The E Street Shuffle
- Thunder Road - Wings for Wheels
- I Want You
- Spirit in the Night
- She's the One
- Growin' Up
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- Jungleland
- Soundcheck
- Satin Doll
- Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
- Growin' Up
- Mary Queen of Arkansas
- Wild Billy's Circus Story
- Sentimental Journey
- The Fever
- Something You Got
- Interview With Ed Beauchamp
1992-06-05: Live Los Angeles: Hollywood Center Studios, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- [introduction] / The Star-Spangled Banner
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Local Hero
- Lucky Town
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- If I Should Fall Behind
- 57 Channels (And Nothin' On)
- The Big Muddy
- Living Proof
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Out in the Street
- Spirit in the Night
- Atlantic City
- State Trooper
- Highway Patrolman
- Prove It All Night
- Who'll Stop the Rain
- Glory Days
- The Promised Land
- The River
- Trapped
- Badlands
- Thunder Road
- Hungry Heart
- Dancing in the Dark
- Cadillac Ranch
- Candy's Room
- Downbound Train
- I'm on Fire
- Cover Me
- Growin' Up
- Bobby Jean
- Jersey Girl
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- Jungleland
- Born to Run
- The Detroit Medley
- Travelin' Band
- Twist and Shout
- Do You Love Me
- Twist and Shout (reprise)
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Independence Day
- Sugarland
- Street Fighting Man
- Labor of Love
- Brand New Cadillac
- Never Be Enough Time
- Homestead
- Pumpin' Iron, Sweatin' Steel
- Murder Incorporated
- Talking to the King
- Down the Road a Piece
- Diddy Wah
- Everything's Gonna Work Out Right
- I Hear You Knockin' but You Can't Come In
- Ramrod
- Light of Day
- Twist and Shout
- I Don't Wanna Go Home
- Bad Day
- Man on the Moon
- Introduction by Michael Stipe
- Star Spangled Banner
- Born in the USA
- Badlands
- No Surrender
- Lonesome Day
- The River
- Neil Young Introduction
- Souls of the Departed
- All Along the Watchtower
- PSA Announcement
- Johnny 99
- John Fogerty Introduction
- Centerfield
- Deja Vu All Over Again
- Fortunate Son
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Badlands
- Out in the Street
- Johnny 99
- Atlantic City
- The River
- Working on the Highway
- Trapped
- Prove It All Night
- Glory Days
- Promised Land
- Born to Run
- Prove It All Night
- Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
- Darkness
- Independence Day
- Factory
- Jackson Cage
- Promised Land
- Out in the Street
- The Price You Pay
- The River
- Badlands
- Thunder Road
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- The Rising
- Lonesome Day
- The Ties That Bind
- Candy's Room
- Darlington County
- Empty Sky
- You're Missing
- Waitin' on a Sunny Day
- Two Hearts
- The Promised Land
- Worlds Apart
- Badlands
- She's the One
- Spirit in the Night
- For You
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- If I Should Fall Behind
- The River
- Promised Land
- Born in the USA
- Mansion on the Hill
- This Hard Land
- Point Blank
- Many Rivers to Cross
- Thunder Road
- Satan's Jewel Crown
- Seeds
- Adam Raised a Cain
- Held Up Without a Gun
- Be True
- Roulette
- The Big Payback
- Pink Cadillac
- Shut Out the Light
- Johnny Bye Bye
- Stand on It
- Janey, Don't You Lose Heart
- Lucky Man
- Two for the Road
- I Ain't Got No Home
- Vigilante Man
- Viva Las Vegas
- Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips
- Part Man, Part Monkey
- Thirty Days Out
- Streets of Philadelphia
- Gypsy Woman
- Good Rocking Tonight
- Badlands
- Streets of Fire
- Spirit in the Night
- Rendezvous
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Independence Day
- The Promised Land
- Prove It All Night
- Racing in the Street
- Thunder Road
- Intro
- Merry Christmas Baby
- Badlands
- Two Hearts
- 10th Avenue Freezeout
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Independence Day
- Who'll Stop the Rain
- Factory
- The Promised Land
- Out in the Street
- This Land Is Your Land
- The River
- Prove It All Night
- Thunder Road
- Intro
- Night
- Prove It All Night
- Spirit in the Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Independence Day
- Who'll Stop the Rain
- This Land Is Your Land
- The Promised Land
- Out in the Street
- Racing in the Street
- Piano
- The River
- Badlands
- Thunder Road
- [introduction]
- Prove It All Night
- Out in the Street
- The Ties That Bind
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Factory
- [introduction]
- Independence Day
- Trapped
- Two Hearts
- Who'll Stop the Rain
- The Promised Land
- This Land Is Your Land
- The River
- Badlands
- Thunder Road
- Badlands #2
- Adam Raised a Cain
- Factory
- Racing in the Street #2
- Prove It All Night
- Because the Night
- Racing in the Street #3
- Streets of Fire #2
- The Fast Song #2
- Sherry Darling
- Candy's Boy #2
- Badlands #3
- Spanish Eyes
- Independence Day
- Breakout
- Someday, Tonight
- Born to Run
- Streets of Fire
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Factory
- Fever
- Racing in the Street
- Jungleland
- The Promised Land
- The Ties That Bind
- Candy's Room
- Point Black
- Badlands
- Changing Children
- Dancing in the Streets / Honky Tonk Woman
- I Can't Take It No More
- Song to Orphans
- Zero and Blind Terry
- You Mean So Much to Me
- New York City Serenade
- 4th of July, Asbury Park
- Something You Got
- Nebraska
- Atlantic City
- Mansion on the Hill
- Johnny 99
- Highway Patrolman
- State Trooper
- Used Cars
- Open All Night
- My Father's House
- Reason to Believe
- Atlantic City
- Open All Night
- Thunder Road
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
- Night
- Backstreets
- Born to Run
- She's the One
- Meeting Across the River
- Jungleland
- Nebraska
- Atlantic City
- Mansion on the Hill
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Johnny 99
- Downbound Train
- Losin' Kind
- State Trooper
- Used Cars
- Open All Night
- Pink Cadillac
- Deputy (aka 'Highway Patrolman')
- Reason to Believe
- Child Bride
- Dream Baby
- Precious Memories
- Nebraska #1
- Nebraska #2
- Intro
- Tunnel of Love
- Boom Boom
- Adam Raised a Cain
- The River
- All That Heaven Will Allow
- Seeds
- Roulette
- Cover Me
- Brilliant Disguise
1978-07-07: Hands Towards the Sky: The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- [introduction]
- Rave On
- Badlands
- Spirit in the Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Candy's Room
- For You
- Point Blank
- The Promised Land
- Prove It All Night
- Intro
- Rave On
- Badlands
- Spirit in the Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Candy's Room
- For You
- Point Blank
- The Promised Land
- Prove It All Night
- Racing in the Street
- Thunder Road
- New York City Song
- Circus Song
- Spirit in the Night
- Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
- Hey Santa Ana
- Tokyo
- Thundercrack
- Badlands
- Streets of Fire
- Spirit in the Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Factory
- The Promised Land
- Prove It All Night
- Racing in the Street
- Thunder Road
- Jungleland
- Intro
- Incident on 57th Street
- Mountain of Love
- Born to Run
- E Street Shuffle
- Wings for Wheels
- I Want You
- Spirit in the Night
- She's the One
- Growin' Up
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- Jungleland
- Born in the USA
- Cover Me
- Darlington County
- Working on the Highway
- Downbound Train
- I'm on Fire
- No Surrender
- Bobby Jean
- I'm Goin' Down
- Glory Days
- Dancing in the Dark
- My Hometown
- The Ties That Bind
- Sherry Darling
- Jackson Cage
- Independence Day
- Two Hearts
- Hungry Heart
- Out in the Street
- Crush on You
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
- I Wanna Marry You
- The River
The SPL Live Collection, Volume 2: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
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- The E Street Shuffle
- 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
- Kitty's Back
- Wild Billy's Circus Story
- Incident on 57th Street
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- Night
- Out in the Street
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
- Who'll Stop the Rain
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Factory
- Intro
- Independence Day
- Two Hearts
- Prove It All Night
- The Promised Land
- The Land Is Your Land
- The River
- Badlands
- Thunder Road
The SPL Live Collection, Volume 6: Santa Boss Is Coming to Town (adult version)
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- Jingle Bells
- Blue Christmas
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Merry Christmas Baby
- The Wish
- Pilgrim in the Temple of Love
- Run Run Rudolph
- Deck the Halls
- Jingle Bell Rock
- Christmas Baby Please Come Home
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Blinded by the Light
- Growin' Up
- Mary Queen of Arkansas
- Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street
- Lost in the Flood
- The Angel
- For You
- Spirit in the Night
- It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- For You
- Born to Run
- Prove It All Night
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Independence Day
- Factory
- Jackson Cage
- Two Hearts
- The Promised Land
- Out in the Street
- Racing in the Street
- The River
- Badlands
- [introduction]
- Badlands
- Streets of Fire
- Spirit in the Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Independence Day
- The Promised Land
- Prove It All Night
- Racing in the Street
- Thunder Road
- Meeting Across the River
- Jungleland
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Prove It All Night
- Darlington County
- Johnny 99
- Atlantic City
- Reason to Believe
- Used Cars
- Johnny Bye-Bye
- Out in the Street
- Glory Days
- The Promised Land
- Born in the USA
- Prove It All Night
- Out in the Street
- Atlantic City
- Johnny 99
- Reason to Believe
- Nebraska
- Bye Bye Johnny
- Darlington County
- Glory Days
- I'm Going Down
- Brilliant Disguise
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Mansion on the Hill
- Reason to Believe
- Red Headed Woman
- 57 Channels (And Nothin' On)
- My Father's House
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
- Atlantic City
- Wild Billy's Circus Story
- High School Confidential
- Badlands
- Spirit in the Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Sweet Little Sixteen
- Independence Day
- The Promised Land
- Prove It All Night
- Racing in the Street
- Thunder Road
- Better Days
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Downbound Train
- Local Hero
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- If I Should Fall Behind (1992-07-03)
- 57 Channels (And Nothin' On) (1992-07-03)
- Living Proof (1992-07-03)
- Badlands (1992-07-03)
- Leap of Faith
- Man's Job
- Roll of the Dice
- Badlands
- Streets of Fire
- Spirit in the Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- The Promised Land
- Because the Night
- Born to Run
- Who'Ll Stop the Rain
- Rendez-Vous
- The River
- In the Midnight Hour
- Devil With the Blue Dress / Good Golly Miss Molly / C:C:Rider / Jennytake a Ride / Raise Your Hands
- Circus Story
- Then She Kissed Me
- Prove It All Night
- Shoot Out the Lights
- Meeting Across the River
- Jungleland
- Havin' a Party (feat. Southside Johnny & the Asbury)
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Factory
- Rosalita
- The Ties That Bind
- Cindy
- Hungry Heart
- Stolen Car
- To Be True
- The River
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
- The Price You Pay
- I Wanna Marry You
- Loose Ends
- Growin' Up
- Rendezvous
- Hearts of Stone
- Restless Nights
- Where the Bands Are
- Loose Ends
- I Wanna Be With You
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Lion's Den
- Janey Don't You Lose Heart
- Sad Eyes
- Trouble in Paradise
- Seven Angels
- Happy
- Back in Your Arms
- [Kid Leo intro]
- Tunnel of Love
- Be True
- Adam Raised a Cain
- Two Faces
- Sitting in the Park
- All That Heaven Will Allow
- Seeds
- Roulette
- Cover Me
- Brilliant Disguise
- Spare Parts
- War
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Dancing in the Dark
- Cover Me
- Hungry Heart
- Streets of Philadelphia
- Thunder Road
- Better Days
- Badlands
- I'm on Fire
- Murder Incorporated
- Born to Run
- Blood Brothers
- The River
- Glory Days
- Brilliant Disguise
- The Hard Land
- Human Touch
- Streets of Philadelphia
- My Hometown
- Human Touch
- If I Should Fall Behind
- The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Hungry Heart
- Atlantic City
- Streets of Fire
- The River
- I Wish I Were Blind
- My Beautiful Reward
- Youngstown
- Soul Driver
- Downbound Train
- Dead Man Walkin'
- The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Adam Raised a Cain
- Straight Time
- Highway 29
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Johnny 99
- Nebraska
- Dead Man Walkin'
- It's the Little Things That Count
- Sell It and They Will Come
- Brothers Under the Bridges
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Dry Lightning
- Reason to Believe
- Streets of Philadelphia
- Human Touch
- Hungry Heart
- Glory Days
- The River
- 10th Av. Freeze Out
- Gloria's Eyes
- Better Days
- I Wish I Were Blind
- The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Brilliant Disguise
- Lucky Town
- 57 Channels
- Dancing in the Dark
- Pink Cadillac
- All or Nothing at All
- 2 Hearts
- Badlands
- Real Man
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Paradise by the 'C'
- Fire
- Sherry Darling
- Not Fade Away
- Gloria / She's the One
- Growin' Up
- Backstreets
- Rosalita
- Deck the Halls
- Incident on 57th Street
- Jingle Bell Rock
- Jam Up
- Christmas Day
- Thundercrack
- Seaside Bar Song
- Love (Stand Up)
- Spanish Dancer
- Oh Come All Ye Faithful - Spider Finger
- End of the Innocence
- You Sexy Thing
- Outro
- Arena Annoucements
- Live It Every Day
- Bob Muller's Speech
- Who'll Stop the Rain
- Prove It All Night
- The Ties That Bind
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- I Wanna Be Just Like That
- Johnny Bye Bye
- Independence Day
- Written on the Wall
- Trapped
- Two Hearts
- Out in the Street
- The Promised Land
- The River
- Like a Challenge
- This Land Is Your Land
- Prove It All Night
- Badlands
- The Promised Land
- The River
- Sherry Darling
- Thunder Road
- Jungleland
- Rosalita
- Born to Run
- Stay
- Quarter to Three
- Rave On
- A Change Is Gonna Come
- Havin' a Party
- Cold Sweat
- Twist and Shout
- Quarter to Three
- Seven Nights to Rock
- Another You
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (instrumental)
- Kitty's Back
- Zero and Blind Terry (instrumental)
- 4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy) (instrumental)
- Lovers in the Cold (Aka 'Walking in the Street')
- She's the One
- A Love So Fine (instrumental)
- Born to Run #1
- Thunder Road ('Chrissy' version)
- Thunder Road (acoustic version)
- Jungleland (end only from alternative version)
- Born to Run #2
- Born to Run #3
- Born to Run #4
- Intro
- Badlands
- Streets of Fire
- Spirit in the Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Factory
- The Promised Land
- Prove It All Night
- Racing in the Street
- Thunder Road
- Jungleland
- The Ties That Bind
- Intro
- The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Adam Raised a Cain
- Straight Time
- Highway 29
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Murder Incorporated
- Nebraska
- Little Things That Count
- Sell It and They Will Come
- Brothers Under the Bridge
- Born in the USA
- Dry Lightning
- Spare Parts
- Glory Days
- Local Hero
- Human Touch
- Lucky Town
- My Hometown
- Hungry Heart
- Atlantic City
- Better Days
- Born in the USA
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Streets of Philadelphia
- Come Together (feat. W. Axl Rose)
- Backstreets
- Rosalita
- Jungleland
- Two Hearts
- Drift Away
- Born to Run
- Devil With the Blue Dress Medley
- Twist & Shout / Do You Love Me
- Everybody's Looking for Somebody
- I Wanna Start a New Life
- You Gotta Fight (For What You Want)
- I Don't Know
- Chevrolet Deluxe #1
- Chevrolet Deluxe #2
- Chevrolet Deluxe #3
- Chevrolet Deluxe #4
- Chevrolet Deluxe #5
- Chevrolet Deluxe #6
- The Time in Between
- White Town
- Looking Out for Number One (Mr Outside)
- Held Up Without a Gun #1
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) #1
- Held Up Without a Gun #2
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) #2
- Point Blank #1
- Point Blank #2
- Point Blank #3
- Point Blank #4
- I'm Gonna Treat You Right (Wild Kisses)
- Tonight
- The Ties That Bind
- I Ain't Got No Home
- Seeds
- Adam Raised a Cain
- This Hard Land
- Better Days
- Lucky Town
- Atlantic City
- 57 Channels (And Nothin' on)
- Badlands
- Satan's Jewel Crown
- My Hometown
- Leap of Faith
- Man's Job
- Medley
- Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
- Hey, Good Lookin'
- Mystery Train
- Jingle Bells
- For You
- Blue Christmas
- The Max Weinberg 7
- Run Run Rudolph
- Lucky Town
- The E-street Shuffle
- Kitty's Back
- Rose
- As Long as I Can Be With You
- This Time It's For Real
- Brilliant Disguise
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Mansion on the Hill
- Reason to Believe
- 57 Channels (And Nothin' on)
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
- Atlantic-City
- Nebraska
- Thunder Road
- My Hometown
- Real World
- Highway 61 Revisited
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
- Pretty Little Woman
- Look Toward the Land
- Goin' Back to Georgia
- Last Night In Texas
- Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
- Jambalaya
- The Zoom Song
- Lady of Boston
- Crowd Requests
- Bobby Jean
- She's the One
- Badlands
- Cadillac Ranch
- Two Hearts
- Thunder Road
- Never Be Enough Time
- Murder Incorporated
- Light of Day
- Brown Eyed Girl
- Down the Road Apiece
- Rebel Music
- Intro
- Nebraska
- Atlantic City
- Mansion on the Hill
- Johnny 99
- Highway Patrolman
- State Trooper
- Used Cars
- Open All Night
- My Father's House
- Reason to Believe
- Shut Out the Light
- Sugarland
- Man at the Top
- Out in the Streets
- Prove It All Night
- Glory Days
- Hungry Heart
- Dancing in the Dark
- Rosalita
- High School Confidential
- Sweet Little Sixteen
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Fire
- Because the Night
- The Fever
- Interview
- Satin Doll
- Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
- Growin' Up
- Wild Billy's Circus Story
- 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- Something You Got
- New York City Serenade
- Mary Queen of Arkansas
- You Mean So Much to Me
- Wild Billy's Circus Story
- New York City Serenade
- Spirit in the Night
- The E Street Shuffle
- Walking the Dog
- Intro
- The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Atlantic City
- Straight Time
- Highway 29
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- State Trooper
- Mansion on the Hill
- The Pilgrim in the Temple of Love
- Red Headed Woman
- Brothers Under the Bridges
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Dry Lightning
- Down the Road Apiece
- Boom Boom
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door
- Hungry Heart
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Honky Tonk Women
- Thunder Road
- Glory Days
- Jumpin' Jack Flash
- Twist and Shout
- The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Straight Time
- Highway 29
- Youngstown
- Sinaloa Cowboys
- The Line
- Balboa Park
- Dry Lightning
- The New Timer
- Across the Border
- Galveston Bay
- My Best Was Never Good Enough
- New York City Serenade
- Wild Billy's Circus Story
- Spirit in the Night
- Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street
- Hey Santa Ana
- And the Band Played
- Thundercrack
- Badlands
- Adam Raised a Cain
- Something in the Night
- Candy's Room
- Racing in the Street
- The Promised Land
- Factory
- Streets of Fire
- Prove It All Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Thunder Road
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
- Night
- Backstreets
- Born to Run
- She's the One
- Meeting Across the River
- Jungleland
- Loose Ends
- Working on the Highway
- The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Streets of Philadelphia
- Backstreets
- Light of Day
- Hungry Heart
- Bobby Jean
- Born to Run
- Thunder Road
- If I Should Fall Behind
- Land of Hopes and Dreams
- The Ties That Bind
- Sherry Darling
- Jackson Cage
- Two Hearts
- Independence Day
- Hungry Heart
- Out in the Street
- Crush on You
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
- I Wanna Marry You
- The River
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Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
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- Duration: 3:59
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing Dancing In The Dark. (C) 1984 Bruce Springsteen
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_Dancing_In_The_Dark
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
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- Duration: 5:34
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing Born To Run. (C) 1982 Bruce Springsteen
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_Born_To_Run
"E Street Shuffle" with The Roots (Live at Roskilde 2012)
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- Duration: 7:00
- Published: 09 Jul 2012
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
The Roots join Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band for an amazing performance of "E Street Shuffle" in Roskilde, Denmark on July 7, 2012.
http://wn.com/E_Street_Shuffle_with_The_Roots_Live_at_Roskilde_2012
We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen
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- Duration: 3:53
- Published: 10 Feb 2012
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Get WRECKING BALL now at www.smarturl.it
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Independence Day (Live - Paris, 07/04/12)
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- Duration: 4:47
- Published: 06 Jul 2012
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Bruce Springsteen gives a solo piano performance of "Independence Day" in Paris, France on July 4, 2012 during the Wrecking Ball Tour
http://wn.com/Independence_Day_Live_Paris,_07_04_12
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
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- Duration: 5:42
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing Glory Days. (C) 1985 Bruce Springsteen
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_Glory_Days
Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire
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- Duration: 3:31
- Published: 25 Oct 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing I'm On Fire. (C) 1986 Bruce Springsteen
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_I'm_On_Fire
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia
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- Duration: 2:58
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing Streets Of Philadelphia. (C) 1993 Bruce Springsteen
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_Streets_Of_Philadelphia
Bruce Springsteen - Fire
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- Duration: 5:14
- Published: 23 Aug 2006
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
A very hot song from Bruce. It's not "I'm on fire" ... it's FIRE! And live of course! Lyrics: Im driving in my car, I turn on the radio Im pulling you close, you just say no You say you dont like it, but girl I know youre a liar `cause when we kiss, fire Late at night Im takin you home I say I wanna stay, you say you wanna be alone You say you dont love me, girl you cant hide your desire `cause when we kiss, fire You had a hold on me, right from the start A grip so tight I couldnt tear it apart My nerves all jumpin actin like a fool Well your kisses they burn but your heart stays cool Romeo and juliet, samson and delilah Baby you can bet their love they didnt deny Your words say split but your words they lie `cause when we kiss, fire
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_Fire
Bruce Springsteen - Rocky Ground
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- Duration: 4:44
- Published: 24 May 2012
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing Rocky Ground. (C) 2012 Bruce Springsteen
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_Rocky_Ground
Bruce Springsteen - Death To My Hometown
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- Duration: 3:46
- Published: 13 Apr 2012
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing Death To My Hometown. (C) 2012 Bruce Springsteen
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_Death_To_My_Hometown
Bruce Springsteen - We Take Care Of Our Own
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- Duration: 3:54
- Published: 19 Jan 2012
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Bruce Springsteen latest single - "We Take Care Of Our Own" from his upcoming album "Wrecking Ball" which is releasing on 6th of March. Lyrics; I've been knocking on the door that holds the throne I've been looking for the map that leads me home I've been stumbling on good hearts turned to stone The road of good intentions has gone dry as bone We take care of our own We take care of our own Wherever this flag's flown We take care of our own From Chicago to New Orleans From the muscle to the bone From the shotgun shack to the Super Dome There ain't no help, the cavalry stayed home, There ain't no one hearing the bugle blowin' We take care of our own We take care of our own Wherever this flag's flown We take care of our own Where're the eyes, the eyes with the will to see Where's the hearts that run over with mercy Where's the love that has not forsaken me Where's the work that'll set my hands, my soul free Where's the spirit to reign rain over me Where's the promise, from sea to shining sea Where's the promise, from sea to shining sea Wherever this flag is flown Wherever this flag is flown Wherever this flag is flown We take care of our own We take care of our own Wherever this flag's flown We take care of our own We take care of our own We take care of our own Wherever this flag's flown We take care of our own
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_We_Take_Care_Of_Our_Own
When I Leave Berlin (Berlin 05/30/12)
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- Duration: 4:24
- Published: 31 May 2012
- Updated: 17 Jul 2012
As a thank you for making the recent shows in Frankfurt, Cologne, and Berlin so great and memorable, Bruce premiered a performance of Wizz Jones' "When I Leave Berlin" last night to 55000 fans in Berlin. Read more at brucespringsteen.net
http://wn.com/When_I_Leave_Berlin_Berlin_05_30_12
Bruce Springsteen - Tougher Than The Rest
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- Duration: 6:34
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing Tougher Than The Rest. (C) 1988 Bruce Springsteen
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_Tougher_Than_The_Rest
Bruce Springsteen: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
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- Duration: 5:01
- Published: 09 Feb 2006
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Live at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, CA on September 30, 1985 (penultimate show of the "Born In The USA" tour).
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_THIS_LAND_IS_YOUR_LAND
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Bruce Springsteen - American Land, Dublin 17/7/2012 [HD]
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- Duration: 7:44
- Published: 18 Jul 2012
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live at the RDS Dublin playing American Land. Featuring the power switch, the gig they played in Hyde Park before this had the power cut because they went past curfew. [HD Audio/Video]
http://wn.com/Bruce_Springsteen_American_Land,_Dublin_17_7_2012_HD_
Bruce Springsteen & Paul McCartney - I Saw Her Standing There / Twist & Shout - Hard Rock Calling
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- Duration: 12:38
- Published: 15 Jul 2012
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Bruce Springsteen & Paul McCartney performing I Saw Her Standing There & Twist And Shout live at Hard Rock Calling 2012 in Hyde Park. Two rock legends sharing the same stage! Shame about the sound being cut off at the end, this was due to the curfew. Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com Check out my channel for more live music videos. Please like, comment and subscribe.
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Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden
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- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing Secret Garden. (C) 1995 Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
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Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 1975 (STUDIO) In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dream At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines Sprung from cages out on highway 9, Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line Baby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap, its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were young `cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I want to guard your dreams and visions Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims And strap your hands across my engines Together we could break this trap Well run till we drop, baby well never go back Will you walk with me out on the wire `cause baby Im just a scared and lonely rider But I gotta find out how it feels I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real Beyond the palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors And the boys try to look so hard The amusement park rises bold and stark Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist I wanna die with you wendy on the streets tonight In an everlasting kiss The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive Everybodys out on the run tonight but theres no place left to hide Together wendy well live with the sadness Ill love you with all the madness in my soul Someday girl I dont know when were gonna get to that place Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun <b>...</b>
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Bruce Springsteen - The River - Rock in Rio Lisboa 2012
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- Duration: 6:19
- Published: 13 Jun 2012
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Rock in Rio é o maior evento de música e entretenimento de todos os tempos, contando já com 10 edições realizadas no Brasil, Portugal e Espanha que reuniram perto de 6 milhões de pessoas. O YouTube transmitiu ao vivo o show do Bruce Springsteen. Veja agora como foi! Credits / Publishing: Bruce Springsteen / Springsteen Bruce Music
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The Weight - Bruce Springsteen 5/2/2012 @ Prudential Center
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- Published: 03 May 2012
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
For Levon Helm! Wow... Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ Prudential Center, Newark, NJ 2012/05/02
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We Take Care Of Our Own (With Lyrics) - Bruce Springsteen
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- Duration: 4:03
- Published: 18 Jan 2012
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
From the new album WRECKING BALL -- pre-order at www.smarturl.it
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Bruce Springsteen - Rocky Ground
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- Duration: 3:22
- Published: 15 Jun 2012
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing Rocky Ground. (C) 2012 Bruce Springsteen
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| Bruce Springsteen | |
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 Springsteen in 2009; Working on a Dream Tour in Valladolid, Spain |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | The Boss, Bad Scooter |
| Born | (1949-09-23) September 23, 1949 (age 62) Long Branch, New Jersey, United States |
| Genres | Rock, folk rock, heartland rock, hard rock, roots rock |
| Occupations | Musician, Songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, harmonica, bass guitar, piano, percussion, banjo, drums, keyboards |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Labels | Columbia |
| Associated acts | The E Street Band, Steel Mill, Miami Horns, The Sessions Band |
| Website | www.brucespringsteen.net |
| Notable instruments | |
| Fender Telecaster Takamine Guitars Gibson J-45 Hohner Marine Band Harmonica Gibson J-200 Gibson ES-335 Gibson Hummingbird |
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.[1]
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide[2] and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
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Early life[link]
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone.[3] His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry.[4] His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
Raised a Roman Catholic,[5] Springsteen attended the St. Rose of Lima Catholic school in Freehold Borough, where he was at odds with the nuns and rejected the strictures imposed upon him, even though some of his later music reflects a Catholic ethos and included a few rock-influenced, traditional Irish-Catholic hymns.[6] Recently in Paris (2012) before the launch of his latest album, Wrecking Ball, he explained that it was his Catholic upbringing rather than political ideology that most influenced his music. He noted in the interview that his faith had given him a "very active spiritual life," although he joked that this "made it very difficult sexually." He added: "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic."[7]
In ninth grade, he transferred to the public Freehold Regional High School, but did not fit in there, either. Old teachers have said he was a "loner, who wanted nothing more than to play his guitar." He completed high school, but felt so uncomfortable that he skipped his own graduation ceremony.[8] He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out.[6]
Career history[link]
1962–1972: Early years[link]
Springsteen had been inspired to take up music at the age of seven after seeing Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show. At 13, his mother bought him his first guitar for $18; later, she took out a loan to buy the 16-year-old Springsteen a $60 Kent guitar, as 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 the lead guitarist and subsequently the lead singer of The Castiles. The Castiles recorded two original songs at a public recording studio in Brick Township 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.[9]
Called for induction when he was 18, Springsteen failed his physical examination and did not serve in Vietnam. In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine in 1984, he said, "When I got on the bus to go take my physical, I thought one thing: I ain't goin'." He had suffered a concussion in a motorcycle accident when he was 17, and this together with his "crazy" behaviour at induction and not taking the tests, was enough to get him a 4F.[10]
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.[11] Springsteen is not fond of this nickname, due to his dislike of bosses,[12] but seems to have since given it a tacit acceptance. Previously he had the nickname "Doctor".[13] From 1969 through early 1971, Springsteen performed with Steel Mill, which also featured Danny Federici, Vini Lopez, Vinnie Roslin and later Steve Van Zandt and 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 Canton, Massachusetts, Richmond, Virginia, 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 lyrical 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 horn 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", as his future record label would describe it in early publicity campaigns, 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, Philadelphia and New York 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: Initial struggle for success[link]
Springsteen signed a record deal with Columbia Records in 1972, with the help of John Hammond, who had signed Bob Dylan to the same 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 several more years). His debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., released in January 1973, established him as a critical favorite,[14] though sales were slow. Because of Springsteen's lyrical poeticism and folk rock–rooted music exemplified on tracks like "Blinded by the Light", (which would later be a hit for Manfred Mann and go to No. 1, making it the only time Springsteen had a No. 1 single as a songwriter), 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.[15] (Springsteen and the E Street Band acknowledged by giving a private performance at the Crawdaddy 10th Anniversary Party in New York City in June 1976.)[16] Music critic Lester Bangs wrote in Creem in 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."[17] 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 romanticized 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's 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."[18] 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 horn section on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (it is his only written contribution to the album), and eventually led to his joining the E Street Band.[citation needed] Van Zandt had been a long-time friend of Springsteen, as well as a collaborator on earlier musical projects, 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.[19]
1975–1983: Breakthrough[link]
On August 13, 1975, Springsteen and the E Street Band began a five-night, 10-show stand at New York's Bottom Line club. The engagement 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.[20]) With the release of Born to Run on August 25, 1975, Springsteen finally found success. The album peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and while there were no hit singles, "Born to Run" (Billboard No. 23), "Thunder Road", "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (Billboard No. 83), and "Jungleland" all received massive album-oriented rock airplay and remain perennial favorites on many classic rock stations. The songwriting and recording was more disciplined than before, while still maintaining an epic feel. With its panoramic imagery, thundering production and desperate optimism, Born to Run is considered by some fans to be 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 nearly a year, 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, his new songs had taken a more somber tone than much of his previous work. Reaching settlement with Appel in 1977, Springsteen returned to the studio, and the subsequent sessions produced Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978). Musically, this album was a turning point in Springsteen's career. Gone were the raw, rapid-fire lyrics, outsized characters and long, multi-part musical compositions of the first two albums; now the songs were leaner and more carefully drawn and began to reflect Springsteen's growing intellectual and political awareness. The cross-country 1978 tour to promote the album would become legendary for the intensity and length of its shows.[citation needed]
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. No. 1 pop hit with a heavily rearranged version of Greetings' "Blinded by the Light" in early 1977. Patti Smith reached No. 13 with her take on Springsteen's unreleased "Because the Night" (with revised lyrics by Smith) in 1978, while The Pointer Sisters hit No. 2 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 set 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 footage 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 included an intentionally paradoxical range of material from good-time party rockers to emotionally intense ballads, and finally yielded his first hit Top Ten single as a performer, "Hungry Heart". This album marked a shift in Springsteen's music toward a pop-rock sound that was all but missing from any of his earlier work.[citation needed]This is apparent in the stylistic adoption of certain eighties pop-rock hallmarks like the reverberating-tenor drums, very basic percussion/guitar and repetitive lyrics apparent in many of the tracks. The title song pointed to Springsteen's intellectual direction, while a couple of the lesser-known tracks presaged his musical direction. The album sold well, becoming his first topper on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, 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.
The River was followed in 1982 by the stark solo acoustic Nebraska. Recording sessions had been held to expand on a demo tape Springsteen had made at his home on a simple, low-tech four-track tape deck. However during the recording process Springsteen and producer Landau realized the songs worked better as solo acoustic numbers than full band renditions and the original demo tape was released as the album. Although the recordings of the E Street Band were shelved, other songs from these sessions would later be released, including "Born in the U.S.A." and "Glory Days". 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. While Nebraska did not sell as well as Springsteen's two previous albums, 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.
1984–1991: Commercial and popular phenomenon[link]
Springsteen probably is best known for his album Born in the U.S.A. (1984), which sold 15 million copies in the U.S. 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 lyrics in the verses were entirely unambiguous when listened to, but the anthemic music and the title of the song made it hard for many, from politicians to the common person, to get the lyrics—except those in the chorus, which could be read many ways.[21] 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 the Chrysler Corporation to use the song in a car commercial. (In later years, to eliminate the bombast and make the song's original meaning more explicitly clear, Springsteen performed the song accompanied only by acoustic guitar. 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 song for her, "Protection". Videos for the album were made by noted film directors Brian De Palma and John Sayles. Springsteen was featured on the "We Are the World" song and album in 1985. His live single "Trapped" from that album received moderate airplay on U.S. Top 40 stations as well as reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart.[22]
During the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, Springsteen met actress Julianne Phillips, whom he would marry in 1985.
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 (aided by the release of Arthur Baker's dance mixes of three of the singles). Live/1975–85, a five-record box set (also on three cassettes or three CDs), was released near the end of 1986 and became the first box set to debut at No. 1 on the U.S. album charts. It is one of the most commercially successful live albums of all time, ultimately selling 13 million units in the U.S. Live/1975–85 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.
During the 1980s, several Springsteen fanzines were launched, including Backstreets magazine, which started in Seattle and 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 album (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 marriage to Julianne Phillips and described some of his unhappinesses in the relationship. 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 backup singer Patti Scialfa became public and Phillips and Springsteen filed for divorce in 1988.[23] Later in 1988, Springsteen headlined the worldwide Human Rights Now! tour for Amnesty International. In late 1989 he dissolved the E Street Band, and he and Scialfa relocated to California, marrying in 1991.
1992–2001: Artistic and commercial ups and downs[link]
In 1992, after risking fan accusations 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 and displayed a newly revealed confidence. 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.
An electric band appearance on the acoustic MTV Unplugged television program (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.[24] | ” |
A multiple Grammy Award winner, Springsteen also won an Academy Award in 1994 for his song "Streets of Philadelphia", which appeared 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 technique was 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 John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and by Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass, a book by Pulitzer Prize-winners author Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael Williamson. 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.[25] In 1998, Springsteen released the sprawling, four-disc box set of out-takes, Tracks. Subsequently, Springsteen would acknowledge that the 1990s were a "lost period" for him: "I didn't do a lot of work. Some people would say I didn't do my best work."[26]
Springsteen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 by Bono of U2, a favor he returned in 2005.
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 and a ten-night, sold-out engagement at New York City's Madison Square Garden which ended the tour. The final two shows were recorded for an HBO Concert, with corresponding DVD and album releases as Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live in New York City. A new song, "American Skin (41 Shots)", about the police shooting of Amadou Diallo which was played at these shows proved controversial.
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.[27][28]
On Labor Day 2001 Springsteen played at Donovan's Reef in Sea Bright, NJ, surprising a local cover band named Brian Kirk and the Jerks and performed "Rosalita" with them showing his support and love.
2002–2007: Return to success[link]
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The scene outside the Giants Stadium parking lot for banner-marked, record-setting, 10-night stand of The Rising Tour during 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 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 obituaries had mentioned how his music touched their lives.) 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.[29] 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 early 2000s, Springsteen became a visible advocate for the revitalization of Asbury Park, and played an annual series of winter holiday concerts there to benefit various local businesses, organizations, and causes. These shows were explicitly intended for the devoted fans, featuring numbers such as the 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 and No Doubt's bassist, Tony Kanal, 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.[30] 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 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,[31] but newspapers reported that a number of U.S. shows suffered from sparse attendance.[32][33][34] 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 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.[35] The first single, "Radio Nowhere", was made available for a free download on August 28. On October 7, Magic debuted at No. 1 in Ireland and the UK. Greatest Hits reentered the Irish charts at No. 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.[36] Radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications was alleged to have sent an edict to its classic rock stations to not play any songs from the new album, while continuing to play older Springsteen material. However, Clear Channel Adult Alternative (or "AAA") station KBCO did play tracks from the album, undermining the allegations of a corporate blackout.[37] The Springsteen and E Street Band Magic Tour began at the Hartford Civic Center with the album's release and continued through North America and Europe. Springsteen and the band performed live[38] on NBC's Today Show in advance of the opener. Longtime E Street Band organist Danny Federici left the tour in November 2007 to pursue treatment for melanoma[39] from which he would die in 2008.[40]
2008–present: Recent activities[link]
Springsteen at a rally for the presidential candidate Barack Obama
Cleveland, Ohio on November 2, 2008
Springsteen supported Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, announcing his endorsement in April 2008[41] and going on to appear at several Obama rallies as well as performing several solo acoustic performances in support of Obama's campaign throughout 2008,[42] culminating with a November 2 rally where he debuted "Working On A Dream" in a duet with Scialfa.[43] At an Ohio rally, 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."[44]
Following Obama's electoral victory on November 4, Springsteen's song "The Rising" was the first song played over the loudspeakers after Obama's victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park. Springsteen was the musical opener for the Obama Inaugural Celebration on January 18, 2009 which was attended by over 400,000.[45] He performed "The Rising" with an all-female choir. Later he performed Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" with Pete Seeger.
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]
On January 11, 2009, Springsteen won the Golden Globe Award for Best Song for "The Wrestler", from the Mickey Rourke film by the same name.[46] After receiving a heartfelt letter from Mickey Rourke, Springsteen supplied the song for the film for free.[47]
Springsteen performed at the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009,[48] agreeing to do it after many previous offers.[49] A few days before the game, Springsteen gave a rare press conference, where he promised a "twelve-minute party."[50][51] His 12:45 set, with the E Street Band and the Miami Horns, included abbreviated renditions of "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"", "Born to Run", "Working on a Dream", and "Glory Days", the latter complete with football references. The set of appearances and promotional activities led Springsteen to say, "This has probably been the busiest month of my life."[52]
Springsteen's Working on a Dream album was released in late January 2009[53] and the supporting Working on a Dream Tour ran from April 2009 until November 2009. The tour featured few songs from the new album, with instead set lists dominated by classics and selections reflecting the ongoing late-2000s recession.[54] The tour also featured Springsteen playing songs requested by audience members holding up signs as on the final stages of the Magic Tour.[54] Drummer Max Weinberg was replaced for some shows by his 18-year-old son Jay Weinberg, so that the former could serve his role as bandleader on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.[54] During this tour, Springsteen and the band made their first real foray in the world of music festivals, headlining nights at the Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands, Festival des Vieilles Charrues in France, the Bonnaroo Music Festival in the United States and the Glastonbury Festival in the UK[55] and Hard Rock Calling in the UK.[56] Several shows on the tour featured full album presentations of Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, or Born in the U.S.A.[57] The band performed a stretch of five final shows at his homestate Giants Stadium, opening with a new song highlighting the historic stadium, and his Jersey roots, named "Wrecking Ball".[58] The tour ended as scheduled in Buffalo, NY in November 2009 amid speculation that it was the last performance ever by the E Street Band, but during the show Springsteen said it was goodbye “for a little while.”[59] A DVD from the Working on a Dream Tour entitled London Calling: Live in Hyde Park was released in 2010.
In addition to his own touring, Springsteen made a number of appearances at tribute and benefit concerts during 2009, including The Clearwater Concert, a celebration of Pete Seeger's 90th birthday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary benefit concert,[60] a benefit for the advocacy group Autism Speaks at Carnegie Hall.[61] On January 22, 2010, he joined many well-known artists to perform on Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief,[62] organized by George Clooney to raise money to help the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
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Fireworks go off at the conclusion of the "E! Street! Band!" exhortation during the final shows at Giants Stadium.
In 2009, Springsteen performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.[63]
Springsteen was among the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, an annual award to figures from the world of arts for their contribution to American culture, in December 2009.[64] President Obama gave a speech in which he talked about how Springsteen has incorporated the life of regular Americans in his expansive pallette of songs and how his concerts are beyond the typical rock-and-roll concerts, how, apart from being high-energy concerts, they are "communions". He ended the remark "while I am the president, he is The Boss". Tributes were paid by several well-known celebrities including Jon Stewart (who described Springsteen's "unprecedented combination of lyrical eloquence, musical mastery and sheer unbridled, unadulterated joy"). A musical tribute featured John Mellencamp, Ben Harper, and Jennifer Nettles, Melissa Etheridge, Eddie Vedder, and Sting.
The 2000s ended with Springsteen being named one of eight Artists of the Decade by Rolling Stone magazine[65] and with Springsteen's tours ranking him fourth among artists in total concert grosses for the decade.[66]
In September 2010, a documentary about the making of his 1978 album Darkness on The Edge of Town was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film, The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, was included in a box set reissue of the album, entitled The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story, released in November 2010. Also airing on HBO, the documentary explored Springsteen's making of the acclaimed album, and his role in the production and development of the tracks.
Springsteen has finished his next studio album with Ron Aniello,[67] who also co-produced the 2007 album Play It As It Lays, by Springsteen's wife, Patti Scialfa. Ron Aniello also produced "Children's Song" early in 2011, a duet with Springsteen and Scialfa, which was done for a charity project.
Clarence Clemons, the E Street Band's saxophonist since 1972, died on June 18, 2011, of complications from a stroke. “Clarence lived a wonderful life,” Springsteen said in a statement. “He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything he had every night he stepped on stage.”[68]
Springsteen's 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball, was released on March 6, 2012. On January 13, 2012, Hollywood Reporter released an article describing the sound of the new album. According to the article, the album is Springsteen at his angriest yet and addresses economic justice quite a bit. The article describes the album musically as being very rock-and-roll with unexpected textures, loops, electronic percussion and a variety of influences.[69] The album consists of eleven tracks plus two bonus tracks. Three songs previously only available as live versions, "Wrecking Ball", "Land of Hope and Dreams," and "American Land," appear on the album.[70] The album's first single, "We Take Care of Our Own", was released on January 19, 2012.
On January 24, 2012, Springsteen's official web site announced that the E Street Band will commence a world tour called the Wrecking Ball Tour on March 18, 2012, in Atlanta. The tour will run through at least July 31, 2012, and will consist of at least two legs featuring 51 dates, although the headline "First US Leg of 2012 World Tour" may imply that the tour will continue into autumn 2012 or beyond.[71] As tickets for the first U.S. dates went on sale, many fans were unable to obtain tickets, much like for the 2009 Working on a Dream Tour, allegedly due to a heavy volume of ticket scalpers. Shows sold out within minutes and many tickets appeared, at much higher prices, on resale websites such as StubHub less than an hour after the onsale time. Ticketmaster said web traffic was 2.5 times the highest level of the past year during the online sales and suggested that scalpers played a big role. U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell has called for stronger government oversight of online box offices. Pascrell introduced the BOSS ACT in 2009 to increase transparency in the ticket industry. Pascrell said he would reintroduce the bill to Congress.[72][73]
"Rocky Ground" has been announced as the second single from Wrecking Ball and will be released exclusively as part of Record Store Day on April 21, 2012.
Wrecking Ball became Springsteen's tenth No. 1 album in the United States tying him with Elvis Presley for third most No. 1 albums of all-time. Only The Beatles (19) and Jay-Z (12) have more No. 1 albums. Wrecking Ball knocked out Adele's Grammy winning album, 21 after 23 nonconsecutive weeks at #1.[74]
On March 15, 2012, Springsteen was the keynote speaker at the annual SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas.
Musical style[link]
Bruce Springsteen draws on many musical influences from the reservoir of traditional American popular music, folk, blues and country. From the beginning, rock and roll has been the dominant influence. On his debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey, the folk-influence is clear. An example of the influence of this music genre to Springsteen's music is his song "This Hard Land" which demonstrates a clear influence of the style of Woody Guthrie.[citation needed]
He expanded the range of his musical compositions on his second album, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle.[citation needed] Elements of Latin American music, jazz, soul, and funk influences can be heard; the song "New York City Serenade" is even reminiscent of the music of George Gershwin. These two records prominently featured pianist David Sancious, who left the band shortly into the recording of Springsteen's third album, Born To Run. This album, however, also emphasized the piano, the responsibility now of Roy Bittan.
Earlier in his career, Springsteen has focused more on the rock elements of his music. He initially compressed the sound and developed Darkness On The Edge Of Town just as straightforward as concise musical idiom, for the simple riffs, hard rock guitar solos and clearly recognizable song structures are dominant. He also drew upon a few influences from punk rock on the album, as can be heard on the heavy rhythm following the bridge solo on 'Candy's Room'.[citation needed] His music has been categorized as heartland rock, a style typified by Springsteen, John Fogerty, Tom Petty, Bob Seger, and John Mellencamp. This music has a lyrical reference to the U.S. everyday and the music is kept rather simple and straightforward. This development culminated with Springsteen's hit album Born in the U.S.A., the title song of which has a constantly repeating, fanfare-like keyboard riff and a pounding drum beat. These sounds fit with Springsteen's voice: it cries to the listener the unsentimental story of a disenchanted angry figure. Even songs that can be argued to be album tracks proved to be singles that enjoyed some chart success, such as "My Hometown" and "I'm on Fire", in which the drum line is formed from subtle hi-hat and rim-clicks-shock (shock at the edge of the snare drum) accompanied by synthesizer and Springsteen's soft guitar line. The album, along with some previous records such as "Cadillac Ranch" showed clear rockabilly influences as is evident from his guitar solos, in-fills and vocal styles on these. Another clear influence of early rock n roll on Springsteen's music is evident on the song "Light of Day".
In recent years, Springsteen has changed his music further.[citation needed] There are more folk elements up to the gospel to be heard. His last solo album, Devils and Dust, drew rave reviews not only for Springsteen's complex songwriting, but also for his expressive and sensitive singing.
On the album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions Springsteen performs folk classics with a folk band, rather than his usual E Street Band. On his ensuing tour he also interpreted some of his own rock songs in a folk style.[citation needed]
The 2007 album Magic was a reflection on the old stadium rock attitude and with its lush arrangements was almost designed to be performed at large stadiums, which also succeeded on the corresponding tour.[citation needed]
Lyrical themes[link]
| "I spent most of my life as a musician measuring the distance between the American dream and American reality" |
| —Bruce Springsteen[75][C] |
Often described as cinematographic in their scope, Springsteen's lyrics frequently explore highly personal themes such as individual commitment, dissatisfaction and dismay with life in a context of every day situations.[76]
It has been recognized that there was a shift in his lyrical approach starting with the album Darkness on the Edge of Town, in which he focused on the emotional struggles of working class life.[77][78]
Politics and activism[link]
Springsteen's music has often contained political themes reflecting his responses to the events occurring around him. A number of these songs contributed to Springsteen’s stardom; many songs cannot be explained without including Springsteen’s political views. The following are a chronological order of the political and activist causes Springsteen has publicly campaigned for:
September 19–23, 1979: Springsteen and the E Street Band joined the Musicians United for Safe Energy anti-nuclear power collective at Madison Square Garden.
August 20, 1981: A Night For The Vietnam Veterans for the Vietnam Veterans’ Association as an appeal to help “heal the physical and psychological wounds inflicted on the soldiers who fought the nation’s most unpopular war”.[79][80]
1984: Turned down several million dollars offered by the Chrysler Corporation to use the song "Born in the U.S.A." in a car commercial.
1985: Featured on the "We Are the World" song and album
1988: Headlined the worldwide Human Rights Now! tour for Amnesty International.
2004: "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.
April 2008: Springsteen announced his endorsement supporting Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.[81] Throughout the year, he showed his support by attending several rallies and performing in support of Obama’s campaign.
2009: Springsteen contributed to the soundtrack of The People Speak by playing guitar and harmonica.
January 2009: Springsteen was the musical opener for the Obama Inaugural Celebration.
May 3, 2009: Springsteen made an appearance at The Clearwater Concert.
October 29 & 30, 2009: Springsteen made an appearance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary benefit concert.[82]
January 22, 2010: Springsteen made an appearance at Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief.[83]
Springsteen has additionally been associated with various local food banks, particularly with the New Jersey Food bank for many years. During concerts, he usually breaks the routine to announce his support and later matches the total collection during the concert with his own money. During his Charlotte, North Carolina concert on November 3, 2009, he started with a $10,000 donation for the local food bank to start the collections process – which he again matched later.
He has made substantial financial contributions to various workers' unions both in America and in Europe.
Springsteen is a strong supporter of gay rights, particularly marriage equality. In 2009, he urged lawmakers to legalize gay marriage, later posting on his website "I've long believed in and have always spoken out for the rights of same-sex couples".[84]
Personal life[link]
Springsteen and Julianne Phillips (born May 6, 1960) were married from May 13, 1985 to May 1988, when they separated.[85] The two were opposites in background and his traveling took its toll on their relationship. The final blow came when Springsteen 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 the spring of 1988 without making an announcement to the press, and on August 30, 1988, Julianne filed for divorce. The Springsteen/Phillips divorce was finalized on March 1, 1989.
After the separation in 1988, Springsteen began living with Scialfa. Springsteen received press criticism for the hastiness in which he and Scialfa took up their relationship. In a 1995 interview with The Advocate, Springsteen spoke about the negative publicity the couple subsequently received. "It's a strange society that assumes it has the right to tell people whom they should love and whom they shouldn't. But the truth is, I basically ignored the entire thing as much as I could. I said, 'Well, all I know is, this feels real, and maybe I have got a mess going here in some fashion, but that's life.'" He also noted that, "I went through a divorce, and it was really difficult and painful and I was very frightened about getting married again. So part of me said, 'Hey, what does it matter?' But it does matter. It's very different than just living together. First of all, stepping up publicly- which is what you do: You get your license, you do all the social rituals- is a part of your place in society and in some way part of society's acceptance of you...Patti and I both found that it did mean something."[86]
On July 25, 1990 Scialfa gave birth to the couple's first child, Evan James Springsteen. On June 8, 1991 Springsteen and Scialfa married at their Beverly Hills home. Their second child, Jessica Rae Springsteen, was born on December 30, 1991; and their third child, Samuel Ryan Springsteen, was born on January 5, 1994.[87] The family owns and lives on a horse farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey. They also own homes in Wellington, Florida, a wealthy horse community near West Palm Beach, Los Angeles and Rumson, New Jersey. Their eldest son, Evan, attends Boston College. Their daughter Jessica is a nationally ranked champion equestrian,[88] and attends Duke University.
Since 1991, Springsteen has led a relatively quiet life for a well-known popular performer and artist.[89] He moved from Los Angeles to New Jersey in the early 1990s specifically to raise a family in a non-paparazzi environment.[89] It has been reported that the press conference regarding the 2009 Super Bowl XLIII half-time show was his first press conference for more than 25 years.[90] However, he has appeared in a few radio interviews, most notably on NPR and BBC.[citation needed] 60 Minutes aired his last extensive interview on TV[91] before his tour to support his album, Magic.
Bands[link]
Bruce Springsteen has been a member of, or has been backed by, several bands during his career, most notably The E Street Band.
His earliest known band is The Castiles.
Prior to signing his first record deal in 1972, Springsteen was a member of several bands including Steel Mill. In October 1972 he formed a new band for the recording of his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., which became known as The E Street Band, although the name was not officially introduced until September 1974.[92][93] The E Street Band performed on all of Springsteen's recorded works from his debut until 1982's Nebraska, a solo album on which Springsteen himself played all the instruments.[citation needed] The full band returned for the next album Born in the USA, but there then followed a period from 1988 to 1999 in which albums were recorded with session musicians. The E Street Band were briefly reunited in 1995 for new contributions to the Greatest Hits compilation, and on a more permanent basis from 1999, since which time they have recorded 3 albums together (The Rising, Magic and Working on a Dream) and performed a number of high profile tours.
The 2005 album Devils & Dust was largely a solo recording, with some contribution from session musicians and the 2006 folk rock We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions album was recorded and toured with another band, known as The Sessions Band. In the summer of 2012, Raymond Bernero will join Bruce on the stage at Wrigely Field in Chicago.
Earlier Bands:[94] The Castiles, Earth, Child, Steel Mill, Sundance Blues Band, Dr Zoom and the Sonic Boom, Bruce Springsteen Band.
E Street Band[link]
Main article: E Street Band
Current members:
- Bruce Springsteen – lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, harmonica, piano
- Patti Scialfa – backing and duet vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
- Garry Tallent – bass guitar, tuba
- Roy Bittan – piano, keyboards
- Max Weinberg – drums, percussion
- Steven Van Zandt – lead and rhythm guitar,[95][96] backing vocals, mandolin
- Nils Lofgren – lead and rhythm guitar, pedal steel guitar, backing vocals
With:
- Soozie Tyrell – violin, acoustic guitar, percussion, backing vocals [A]
- Charles Giordano – organ, accordion, glockenspiel[B]
Former members:
- 1973–2011 Clarence Clemons (deceased) – tenor, baritone and soprano saxophones, backing vocals, percussion
- 1973–2008 Danny Federici (deceased) – organ, accordion, backing vocals
Film[link]
Music used in films[link]
Springsteen's music has been used in many films and he has also written and performed several works specifically for films, examples include Philadelphia, Dead Man Walking, Jerry Maguire, and The Wrestler.
| Film | Year of film release | Song(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dead End Street | 1982 | "Point Blank", "Hungry Heart" and "Jungleland" | First use of Springsteen's music in film |
| Risky Business | 1983 | Hungry Heart | |
| Baby, It's You | 1983 | "It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City", "The E Street Shuffle", "She's The One" and "Adam Raised A Cain" | Film directed by John Sayles who later directed music videos for songs from Born in the U.S.A. and Tunnel of Love. |
| Ruthless People | 1986 | "Stand on It" (Tracks version) | |
| Light of Day | 1987 | "(Just Around the Corner to the) Light of Day" | Song written for the film. |
| In Country | 1989 | "I'm On Fire" | Film also contained many Springsteen references. |
| Thunderheart | 1992 | "Badlands" (instrumental version) | |
| Honeymoon in Vegas | 1992 | "Viva Las Vegas" | A 1964 song originally recorded by Elvis Presley. |
| Philadelphia | 1993 | "Streets of Philadelphia" | Song written for film. Won an Oscar.[97] |
| Dead Man Walking | 1995 | "Dead Man Walkin'" | Song written for film. Nominated for an Oscar.[98] |
| The Crossing Guard | 1995 | "Missing" | Song was later released in 2003 on The Essential Bruce Springsteen. |
| Jerry Maguire | 1996 | "Secret Garden" | |
| Cop Land | 1997 | "Drive All Night" and "Stolen Car" | Sylvester Stallone's character plays the songs on his turntable. |
| Fierce Creatures | 1997 | "Hungry Heart" | |
| The Wedding Singer | 1998 | "Hungry Heart" | |
| A Night at the Roxbury | 1998 | "Secret Garden" | |
| Big Daddy | 1999 | "Growin' Up" | Played over a montage near the end of the film. |
| Limbo | 1999 | "Lift Me Up" | Another John Sayles film. |
| High Fidelity | 2000 | "The River" and Blues Guitar Riff | Blues riff played by Springsteen, on-screen during his cameo appearance. "Nebraska" played from vinyl on turntable. |
| The Perfect Storm | 2000 | "Hungry Heart" | |
| 25th Hour | 2002 | "The Fuse" | |
| Grand Theft Parsons | 2003 | "Blood Brothers" | |
| Jersey Girl | 2004 | "Jersey Girl" | Cover of the Tom Waits version |
| Reign Over Me | 2007 | "Drive All Night" and "Out In The Street" | The album The River was also well mentioned in the movie. |
| In the Land of Women | 2007 | "Iceman" | [99] |
| The Heartbreak Kid | 2007 | "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" | |
| Lucky You | 2007 | "Lucky Town" | |
| The Wrestler | 2008 | "The Wrestler" | Written for the film. The song was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and nominated for the MTV Movie Award as "Best Song From a Movie". |
| Food, Inc. | 2009 | "This Land Is Your Land" | Live version, Bruce Springsteen's performance of the Woody Guthrie song. |
| The Hunter | 2011 | "I'm On Fire" | Willem Dafoe's character sets up a stereo in a tree and uses the song to wake someone sleeping inside the house. |
Films inspired by music[link]
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".[100]
In September 2010, a documentary about the making of his 1978 album Darkness on The Edge of Town was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.[101]
Kevin Smith is an admitted "big fan" of fellow New Jersey native Springsteen and named his film Jersey Girl after the Tom Waits song which Springsteen made famous. The song was also used on the soundtrack.
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have cited Springsteen's "Thunder Road" as having been a heavy influence on their 2010 film Cemetery Junction, employing the song's themes of escape and optimism into their story of 1970s England.
In 2011, Springsteen appears in an independent film made by a local musician Chris Vaughn from New Jersey entitled Jerseyboy Hero where the songwriter/filmmaker documents his journey to get his music out to the world by attempting to reach one of his two local New Jersey legends, Bruce Springsteen or Jon Bon Jovi.[102][103]
Acting[link]
Springsteen made his first on-screen appearance in a brief cameo as himself in High Fidelity in 2000 and it was voted "Best Cameo in a Movie" at the MTV Movie Awards.[104][105]
Discography[link]
Main article: Bruce Springsteen discography
Major studio albums (along with their chart positions in the U.S. Billboard 200 at the time of release):
- 1973: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (No. 60)
- 1973: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (No. 59)
- 1975: Born to Run (No. 3)
- 1978: Darkness on the Edge of Town (No. 5)
- 1980: The River (No. 1)
- 1982: Nebraska (No. 3)
- 1984: Born in the U.S.A. (No. 1)
- 1987: Tunnel of Love (No. 1)
- 1992: Human Touch (No. 2)
- 1992: Lucky Town (No. 3)
- 1995: The Ghost of Tom Joad (No. 11)
- 2002: The Rising (No. 1)
- 2005: Devils & Dust (No. 1)
- 2006: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (No. 3)
- 2007: Magic (No. 1)
- 2009: Working on a Dream (No. 1)
- 2012: Wrecking Ball (No. 1)
Awards and recognition[link]
Grammy Awards[link]
- Springsteen has won 21 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"
- Best Rock Song, 2008, "Girls in Their Summer Clothes"
- Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, 2009, "Working on a Dream"
- Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, 2011, The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story
Golden Globe Awards[link]
- Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "Streets of Philadelphia" in 1994.[46]
- Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "The Wrestler" in 2009.[46]
Academy Awards[link]
- Academy Award for Best Original Song, 1993, "Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia.[106]
Emmy Awards[link]
- The Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live In New York City HBO special won two technical Emmy Awards in 2001.[107]
Other recognition[link]
- October 27, 1975: Bruce Springsteen appears simultaneously on the covers of Newsweek and Time
- Polar Music Prize in 1997.[108]
- Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1999.[109]
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, 1999.[110]
- Inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, 2007.[111]
- "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".[112]
- The minor planet 23990, discovered September 4, 1999, by I. P. Griffin at Auckland, New Zealand, was officially named in his honor.[113]
- Ranked No. 23 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[114]
- Ranked No. 36 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time.
- Made Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People Of The Year 2008 list.[115]
- Won Critic's Choice Award for Best Song with "The Wrestler" in 2009.[116]
- Performed at the Super Bowl XLIII half time show.
- Kennedy Center Honors, 2009.
- Rolling Stone magazine also ranked 8 out of 16 Springsteen's studio albums in their 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time list.
- Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Born to Run" and "Thunder Road" in its 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time list, in 21st and 86th, respectively.
- Forbes ranked him 6th in The Celebrity 100 in 2009[117]
- John Steinbeck Award
See also[link]
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Book: Bruce Springsteen |
| Wikipedia books are collections of articles that can be downloaded or ordered in print. | |
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart
- List of best selling music artists
Notes[link]
- ^ It is not clear if Tyrell is as 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."
- ^ Also not clear if Giordano is as full-fledged a band member as the others.
- ^ This quote is an extract from Springsteen's speech from the stage at a rally for presidential candidate Barack Obama on November 2, 2008
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- ^ "Bruce Springsteen Bands: from Rogues to E Street Band, passing from Castiles and Steel Mill". http://www.brucespringsteen.it/e_streetx.htm.
- ^ Greetings from E Street (Book), R Santelli
- ^ Little Steven speaks salon.com. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
- ^ Top Musicians Are Composing Own Curricula washingtonpost.com. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
- ^ IMDB – Philadelphia
- ^ IMDB – Dead Man Walking
- ^ Bruce Springsteen – IMDb
- ^ Gleiberman, Owen (October 11, 1991). "Blood Brothers". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,315772,00.html. Retrieved November 18, 2008.
- ^ Friedman, Roger (September 15, 2010). "Springsteen’s Big Night in Toronto Has Lots of "Promise"". Showbiz 411. http://www.showbiz411.com/2010/09/15/springsteens-big-night-in-toronto-has-lots-of-promise. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
- ^ Asbury Park Press. [1], Asbury Park Press: Vaughn snags Springsteen for documentary., March 9, 2008.
- ^ Jerseyboy Hero (2011) – Full cast and crew
- ^ Article on cameo in High Fidelity Entertainment Weekly
- ^ Best cameo MTV award
- ^ "Academy Award for Best Original Song 1994". Songwritershalloffame.org. http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/songs/awards/C179. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
- ^ Live in NYC Emmy Awards
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Sources[link]
- 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. July 4, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land. Bloomsbury, 2005. ISBN 1-58234-509-0.
Further reading[link]
- 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 978-1-59691-282-3.
- The Gospel according to Bruce Springsteen: Rock and Redemption from Asbury Park to Magic. by Jeffrey B. Symynkywicz. Westminster John Knox Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-664-23169-9.
- Magic in the Night: The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen by Rob Kirkpatrick. St. Martin's Griffin, 2009. ISBN 0-312-53380-2.
- Land of Hope and Dreams: Celebrating 25 Years of Bruce Springsteen In Ireland by Greg Lewis and Moira Sharkey. Magic Rat Books. ISBN 978-0-9562722-0-1
- The Light in Darkness. A history of the Darkness on The Edge of Town album and tour. Lawrence Kirsch Communications. 2009 ISBN 978-0-9784156-1-7
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| Short description | An American singer-songwriter |
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| Place of birth | Long Branch, New Jersey, United States |
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| Sir Paul McCartney MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM |
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 McCartney performing in England, 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | James Paul McCartney |
| Born | (1942-06-18) 18 June 1942 (age 70) Liverpool, England, UK |
| Genres | Rock, pop, classical, electronica |
| Occupations | Musician, composer, music producer, film producer, businessman |
| Instruments | Vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, drums, ukulele, mandolin, recorder |
| Years active | 1957–present |
| Labels | Hear, Apple, Parlophone, Capitol, Columbia, Concord, EMI, One Little Indian, Vee-Jay |
| Associated acts | The Quarrymen, The Beatles, Wings, The Fireman, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine |
| Website | www.paulmccartney.com |
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Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles.[1] With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
According to the BBC, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists—more than any other song. Wings' 1977 release, "Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness.[2] As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.
He has composed film scores, classical and electronic music, and released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist. He has taken part in projects to help international charities, and has been an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education; he has been active in campaigns against landmines and seal hunting, and supported efforts such as Make Poverty History. His company MPL Communications owns the copyrights to more than 25,000 songs, including those written by Buddy Holly, as well as the publishing rights to the musicals Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease. He is one of the UK's wealthiest people, with an estimated fortune of £475 million in 2010. He has been married three times and is the father of five children.
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Childhood[link]
Main article: Jim and Mary McCartney
McCartney was born in Walton Hospital in Liverpool England, where his mother, Mary (née Mohin), had twelve years earlier, "satisfied her state registry requirements" for nursing, writes Beatles biographer Bob Spitz.[3] His father James, or "Jim" McCartney, was absent at his son's birth due to his work as a volunteer fire fighter during World War II.[3] McCartney has one brother, Michael, born 7 January 1944, and though they were baptised in their mother's Roman Catholic faith, "religion did not play a part in their upbringing" according to biographer Barry Miles, as McCartney's father was a Protestant turned agnostic.[4]
In 1947 he began attending Stockton Wood Road Primary School, by 1952 Joseph Williams Junior School,[5] where he passed the 11-plus exam in 1953 with three others out of ninety examinees, thus gaining admission to the Liverpool Institute.[6] However, when he took his A-level exams at age nineteen, he passed only one subject – Art.[7] In 1954, while taking the bus from his home in the suburb of Speke to the Institute, he met George Harrison,[8] who had also passed the exam, meaning they could both go to a grammar school rather than a secondary modern school, which the majority of pupils attended until they were eligible to work.[9]
In 1955 the McCartneys moved to 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, where they lived through 1964.[10] Paul was the first member of his family to own a car and his mother rode a bicycle to houses where she worked as a midwife; he describes an early memory of her leaving at "about three in the morning" the "streets ... thick with snow".[11] On 31 October 1956, when he was fourteen, his mother died of an embolism after a mastectomy operation to stop the spread of her breast cancer.[12] The loss of his mother at fourteen was later a point of relation with John Lennon, whose mother Julia also died when he was young, after being struck by a car when he was seventeen.[13]
McCartney's father was a trumpet player and pianist who had led Jim Mac's Jazz Band in the 1920s and encouraged his son to be musical. He kept an upright piano in the front room that he purchased from Epstein's North End Music Stores.[14] His father, Joe McCartney, played an E-flat tuba.[15] Jim McCartney used to point out the bass parts in songs on the radio, and often took his son to local brass band concerts.[16] Jim gave his son a nickel-plated trumpet for his fourteenth birthday,[17] but when rock and roll became popular on Radio Luxembourg,[18] Paul traded it for a £15 Framus Zenith (model 17) acoustic guitar, realising it would be too difficult to sing, "with a trumpet stuck in your mouth."[17] Being left-handed, he found right-handed guitars difficult to play, but when he saw a poster advertising a Slim Whitman concert, he realised that Whitman played left-handed with his right-handed guitar strung the opposite way. He then restrung his guitar and after some adjustments, found it easier to play.[17] McCartney wrote his first song ("I Lost My Little Girl") on the Zenith, and an early tune which became, "When I'm Sixty-Four", on the piano, for which, despite his father's advice, he took only a couple of lessons for, preferring instead he says, to learn "by ear."[14] He was heavily influenced by American rhythm and blues music, and has stated that Little Richard was his idol when he was in school. The first song he ever sang on a stage in public was "Long Tall Sally", at a Butlins holiday camp talent competition.[19]
Musical career[link]
Main article: Paul McCartney's musical career
1957–1960: The Quarrymen[link]
Main article: The Quarrymen
McCartney met Lennon and the Quarrymen at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton on 6 July 1957, when he was fifteen years old.[20] He joined the group soon after, and formed a close working relationship with Lennon. Harrison joined in 1958 as lead guitarist, followed in 1960 by Lennon's art school friend, Stuart Sutcliffe on bass.[21] By May 1960, they had tried several new names, including "Johnny and the Moondogs" and "the Silver Beetles", playing a tour of Scotland under that name with Johnny Gentle. They changed the name of the group to "the Beatles" in mid-August 1960 and recruited Pete Best on drums prior to the first of what would be five engagements in Hamburg, Germany.[22]
1960–1970: The Beatles[link]
Main article: The Beatles
From August 1960 the Beatles were booked by Allan Williams to perform in Hamburg, and during their extended stays there over the next two years, they performed as the resident group at two of Bruno Koschmider's clubs, the Indra, then the Kaiserkeller, and upon returns to Liverpool, at the Cavern Club.[23] In 1961 Sutcliffe left the band, and McCartney reluctantly became their bass player.[24] The Beatles recorded their first published music in Hamburg, performing as the backing band for Tony Sheridan on the single "My Bonnie".[25] The recording would later bring them to the attention of a key figure in their subsequent development and commercial success, Brian Epstein, who became their manager in January 1962.[26] Epstein eventually negotiated a record contract for the group with Parlophone in May of that year.[27] After replacing Best with Ringo Starr in August, they became increasingly popular in the UK during 1963 and in the US in 1964, in a frenzied adolation that became known as "Beatlemania",[28] during which McCartney was dubbed, "the cute Beatle", according to Miles.[29] In 1965 they were each appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).[30]
After the recording of the Beatles hit "Yesterday" (1965), McCartney contacted the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale London, to ask if they would record an electronic version of the song, but he never followed up.[31] When visiting artist John Dunbar's flat in London, he would bring along tapes he had compiled at then girlfriend Jane Asher's home,[32] mixes of various songs, musical pieces and comments made by McCartney that Dick James made into a demo for him.[33] Heavily influenced by American avant-garde musician John Cage, he made tape loops by recording voices, guitars, and bongos on a Brenell tape recorder, and splicing the various loops together. He reversed the tapes, sped them up, and slowed them down to create the effects he wanted, some of which were later used on Beatles' recordings, such as "Tomorrow Never Knows" (1966). He referred to the tapes as "electronic symphonies".[34] In 1966 he rented a ground floor and basement flat from Starr at 34 Montagu Square, to be used as a small studio for spoken-word recordings by poets, writers (including William S. Burroughs) and avant-garde musicians.[35] The Beatles' Apple Records then launched a sub-label, Zapple with Miles as its manager, ostensibly to release recordings of a similar aesthetic, although few releases would ultimately come of the endeavour as Apple and the Beatles slid into business and personal difficulties.[35] After touring almost non-stop for a period of nearly four years, and giving more than 1,400 live performances internationally,[36] the group gave their final commercial concert at the end of their 1966 US tour.[37]
They continued to work in the recording studio and before their break-up in 1970 produced what some critics consider to be their finest material, including the innovative and widely influential albums Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles (1968) and Abbey Road (1969).[38] Between 1963 and 1970 the group released twenty-two UK singles and twelve LPs, of which seventeen of the singles and eleven of the LPs became number ones.[39] The band topped the US Billboard Hot 100 twenty times, and recorded fourteen number one albums.[40] Lennon and McCartney became one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.[41] McCartney's contributions to the band's hit song's include: "Can't Buy Me Love" (1964), "Yesterday" (1965), Paperback Writer" and "Eleanor Rigby" (1966), "Hello, Goodbye" (1967), "Hey Jude" (1968), "Get Back (1969)", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" (1970).[42]
In March 1969 he married Linda Eastman, whom he first met in May 1967. The couple had their first child together, Mary, named after Paul's late mother, in August 1969.[43] In October 1969 a rumour surfaced that McCartney had died in a car crash, but it was quickly proven false when a November Life magazine cover featured him and his family with the caption, "Paul is Still With Us."[44]
1970–1981: Wings[link]
Main article: Wings (band)
After the Beatles break-up in 1970 McCartney continued his musical career, releasing his first solo album, McCartney, in 1970, which contained the stand-out track "Maybe I'm Amazed", written for Linda.[45] With the exception of some vocal contributions from her, it is a "one-man album with Paul playing all the instruments" himself, writes Beatles biographer Bill Harry.[46] In 1971 Paul collaborated with Linda on a second album, Ram, a UK number one which included the co-written US number one hit song, "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey".[47] Later that year, the pair were joined by ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine and drummer Denny Seiwell to form the group Wings, and release their first album together, Wild Life. In September 1971 the McCartney family added a second child, Stella, named in honour of Linda's grandmothers.[48]
In 1973 McCartney wrote Wings' first US number one, "My Love", included on their second LP, Red Rose Speedway, and his collaboration with Linda and former Beatles' producer George Martin resulted in the James Bond theme song and Wings hit, "Live and Let Die", which was nominated for an Oscar, and earned Martin a Grammy for his orchestral arrangement.[49] In 1974 Paul wrote a second US number one for Wings, "Band on the Run"; the acclaimed album of the same name, Wings' third, was a massive success that became their first platinum LP.[50] They followed with the chart topping LPs, Venus and Mars (1975) and Wings at the Speed of Sound (1976).[51] In September 1977 a third child was born to the McCartneys, a son they named James,[52] and in November, the Wings song "Mull of Kintyre" was fast becoming "the best-selling single in UK history", writes Beatles biographer Peter Doggett.[53] Achieving double the sales of the previous record holder, "She Loves You", the track would go on to sell 2.5 million copies, and hold the UK sales record until the 1984 charity single, "Do They Know It's Christmas?".[54] In 1977 he released Thrillington, an orchestral arrangement of Ram, under the pseudonym Percy "Thrills" Thrillington[55], with a cover designed by Hipgnosis.[56]
While London Town (1978) and Back to the Egg (1979) passed with little critical or commercial notice,[57] the latter involved McCartney's collaboration with a rock supergroup dubbed, "the Rockestra", though credited to Wings, that included Pete Townshend, David Gilmour, Gary Brooker, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham.[58] Active through 1981, Wings produced seven studio albums, five of which topped the US charts,[59] as well as their live triple LP, Wings over America,[60] one of few live albums ever to achieve the top spot in America.[61] They also recorded six US number one singles including, "Listen to What the Man Said", "Silly Love Songs, "With a Little Luck", and "Coming Up".[62]
1982–1989[link]
In 1980 he released his second solo LP, the self-produced McCartney II, and as with his first, he composed all the music and performed the instrumentation himself. The album contained the hit songs "Coming Up", "Waterfalls", and "Temporary Secretary".[63] In 1982 he collaborated with Stevie Wonder on the Martin produced number one hit, "Ebony and Ivory", included on McCartney's Tug of War LP, and with Michael Jackson on "The Girl Is Mine" from Thriller.[64] The following year he worked with Jackson on the US number one, "Say Say Say", and he earned a UK number one with the title track of his LP release that year, "Pipes of Peace".[65]
In 1984 he wrote, produced, and starred in the feature film Give My Regards to Broad Street, a musical which "was savagely panned by the critics" according to Harry; and described by Variety as: "Characterless, bloodless, and pointless."[66] Roger Ebert awarded the film a single star and wrote, "you can safely skip the movie and proceed directly to the sound track",[67] which fared much better, reaching number one in the UK, and producing the hit single, "No More Lonely Nights", featuring Gilmour on lead guitar.[68]
He collaborated with Eric Stewart on Press to Play (1986), who co-wrote more than half the songs on the LP, and in 1988, McCartney released Снова в СССР, a Russia-only title that contained eighteen covers which he recorded over the course of two days.[69] In 1989 he joined forces with fellow Merseysiders including Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers and Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood to record a new version of "Ferry Cross the Mersey", originally recorded twenty-five years earlier by Gerry and the Pacemakers, to generate money for the appeal fund of the Hillsborough disaster, which occurred in April that year when ninety-five Liverpool F.C. fans died as a result of their injuries. The recording was a number one hit in the UK.[70] In 1989 he released Flowers in the Dirt, a collaborative effort with Elvis Costello which included musical contributions from Gilmour and Nicky Hopkins.[71]
1990–2000[link]
In 1990 he released the triple LP, Tripping the Live Fantastic, which contained select performances from The Paul McCartney World Tour, his first in over a decade.[72] The following year he ventured into orchestral music, when the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society commissioned a musical piece by him to celebrate its sesquicentennial. He collaborated with Carl Davis to release Liverpool Oratorio; involving opera singers Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sally Burgess, Jerry Hadley and Willard White, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the choir of Liverpool Cathedral.[73] The Guardian was critical of the work stating that the music is, "afraid of anything approaching a fast tempo", and the piece has "little awareness of the need for recurrent ideas that will bind the work into a whole".[74] In response, McCartney wrote a defensive letter to the paper, which they published, where he states: "Happily, history shows that many good pieces of music were not liked by the critics of the time so I am content to ... let people judge for themselves the merits of the work."[74]
During the 1990s he twice collaborated with Youth of Killing Joke under the alias the Fireman, and released the electronica albums: Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest (1993) and Rushes (1998).[75] Released in 1993, the rock album Off the Ground was supported by "The New World Tour", which produced the album, Paul Is Live later that year.[76] Starting in 1994 he took a four-year hiatus from his solo career to work on Apple's the Beatles Anthology project with Harrison, Starr and Martin. He recorded a radio series called "Oobu Joobu" in 1995, for the American network Westwood One, which he described as being "wide-screen radio".[77] Also in 1995 Prince Charles presented him with an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal College of Music, "kind of amazing for somebody who doesn't read a note of music", commented McCartney,[78] and in December 1996 he was informed that he was to be named in the 1997 New Year Honours and knighted for services to music; his ceremony took place in March 1997.[79]
In 1997 he released the rock album Flaming Pie, and the classical work Standing Stone; in 1998 Rushes, his second electronica album as the Fireman.[80] Run Devil Run (1999), featuring Ian Paice and Gilmour, was primarily an album of covers with three McCartney originals, something he said he had "wanted to do for years", having been previously encouraged to do so by Linda, who had died in April 1998 after losing a seventeen-month battle with cancer.[81] He contributed a song, "Nova", to a tribute album of choral music dedicated to her called, A Garland for Linda (2000).[82] He continued his experimentation with orchestral music on Working Classical (1999), and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in March of the same year.[83] In May 2000 he was awarded a Fellowship by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and in August he released the electronica album, Liverpool Sound Collage with Super Furry Animals and Youth, utilising the sound collage and musique concrète techniques that fascinated him in the mid-1960s.[84]
2001–present[link]
In 2001 McCartney released a live album of acoustic-only performances called, Unplugged (The Official Bootleg).[85] Having witnessed the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks from the JFK airport tarmac, he was inspired to take a lead role in organising The Concert for New York City, and his studio album release that year Driving Rain included the song "Freedom", written for the event as a response to the tragedy.[86] He toured in support of Driving Rain and in 2002 released the double live album Back in the U.S. (released internationally in 2003 as Back in the World.[87] In November 2002, on the first anniversary of Harrison's death, McCartney performed at the Concert for George.[88] He has also participated in the National Football League's Super Bowl, performing "Freedom" in the pre-game show for Super Bowl XXXVI[89] and headlining the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXIX.[90]
In 2005 he released the rock album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, and the electronica offering, Twin Freaks; a collaborative project with bootleg producer and remixer Freelance Hellraiser, consisting of remixed versions of songs from throughout his solo career.[91] In 2006 he released the classical work Ecce Cor Meum; the rock album Memory Almost Full followed in 2007, and in 2008, his third Fireman release, Electric Arguments. In 2008 he performed at a concert in Liverpool to celebrate the city's year as European Capital of Culture.[92] In 2009, more than forty-five years after the Beatles first appeared on American television during The Ed Sullivan Show, he returned to the same New York theatre to perform on Late Show with David Letterman.[93] In 2010 he was honoured by Barack Obama with the Gershwin Prize for his contributions to popular music in a live show for the White House with performances by Stevie Wonder, Lang Lang and others.[94] He returned to the White House later that year as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
McCartney's enduring fame has made him a popular choice to open new venues. In 2009 he played three sold out concerts at the newly built Citi Field in Queens, New York, constructed to replace Shea Stadium, and he released a double live album culled from those performances called, Good Evening New York City later that year.[95] In 2010 he opened the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,[96] and in 2011 he performed the first concerts at the new Yankee Stadium, and released the classical work, "Ocean's Kingdom". He has been touring since 2001 with guitarists Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray, Paul "Wix" Wickens on keyboards and drummer Abe Laboriel, Jr. An upcoming tribute album is expected in June 2012, to coincide with his 70th birthday, featuring recordings of his songs by Kiss, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, Willie Nelson, Steve Miller, B.B. King and others.[97] Kisses on the Bottom, a collection of standards, was released in February 2012,[98] that same month he was honoured as MusiCares Person of the Year, two days prior to his performance at the 54th Grammy Awards.[99]
Musicianship[link]
As a musician, McCartney was largely self-taught, musicologist Ian MacDonald describes his approach as, "by nature drawn to music's formal aspects yet wholly untutoured ... [He] produced technically 'finished' work almost entirely by instinct, his harmonic judgement based mainly on perfect pitch and an acute pair of ears."[100]
- Bass guitar
He has been acknowledged by a diverse group of bass players including, Sting, long-time Dr. Dre bassist Mike Elizondo, and Colin Moulding of XTC.[101] McCartney is known to play using a plectrum, or pick almost exclusively, but he occasionally plays fingerstyle as well.[102] During his early years with the Beatles he primarily used a Höfner 500/1 bass live and when recording, though in 1965 he began using a Rickenbacker 4001s for recording, while consistently using Vox amplifiers.[103] In recent years he has used Mesa Boogie bass amplifiers live and while recording. McCartney confirms the influence of Motown on his playing, in particular that of James Jamerson, whom he described as a "hero", and included with Brian Wilson as his "two biggest influences".[104]
"He's an egomaniac about everything else but his bass playing he'd always been a bit coy about".[105]
~ John Lennon
Whereas MacDonald identifies "She's a Woman" as the point in time which McCartney's bass playing began to evolve dramatically,[106] Beatles biographer Chris Ingham singles out Rubber Soul as the time when his bass playing, "began to come into its own", particularly on "The Word".[105] Authors Tony Bacon and Gareth Morgan agree, calling his "groove" on the track, "a high point in pop bass playing" and "the first proof on a recording of his serious technical ability on the instrument."[107] MacDonald infers the influence of James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", and Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour", American soul tracks from which McCartney absorbed elements and drew inspiration as he "delivers his most spontaneous bass-part to date". He also played piano on the recording.[108]
Bacon and Morgan describe his bassline for the Beatles' song "Rain" as "an astonishing piece of playing ... [McCartney] thinking in terms of both rhythm and 'lead bass' ... [choosing] the area of the neck ... he correctly perceives will give him clarity for melody without rendering his sound too thin for groove."[109] MacDonald calls it the Beatles "finest B-side", its "clangorously saturated texture resona[ting] around McCartney's bass".[110] He describes the bassline as "so inventive that it threatens to overwhelm the track", and he draws attention to the influence of Indian classical music in "exotic melismas in the bass part".[110]
- Acoustic guitar
Examples of his acoustic guitar playing on Beatles tracks include: "Yesterday", "I'm Looking Through You", "Michelle", "Blackbird", "I Will", "Mother Nature's Son" and "Rocky Raccoon".[111] He played an Epiphone Texan on many, if not most of his acoustic recordings, but he has also used a Martin D-28.[112]
- Electric guitar
He played lead electric guitar on several Beatles' recordings, including what MacDonald describes as a "fiercely angular slide guitar solo" on "Drive My Car",[113] which he played on an Epiphone Casino, about which McCartney said: "If I had to pick one electric guitar it would be this."[114] He also contributed what MacDonald calls "a startling guitar solo" on the Harrison composition, "Taxman", and the "shrieking" guitar on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Helter Skelter", as well as "a coruscating pseudo-Indian" solo on "Good Morning Good Morning".[115] In recent years he has primarily used a Gibson Les Paul for electric work, particularly while performing live.
- Piano
He played a piano on many Beatles' songs including, "Every Little Thing", "For No One", "A Day in the Life", "Hello, Goodbye", "Hey Jude", "Lady Madonna", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road".[116]
Creative outlets[link]
During the 1960s, McCartney delved into the visual arts, becoming a close friend of leading art dealers and gallery owners, explored experimental film, and regularly attended movie, theatrical and classical music performances. His first contact with the London avant-garde scene was through artist John Dunbar, who introduced him to the art dealer Robert Fraser, who in turn introduced McCartney to an array of writers and artists.[117] He later became involved in the renovation and publicising of the Indica Gallery in Mason's Yard, London — where Lennon first met Yoko Ono.[118] The Indica Gallery brought McCartney into contact with Miles, whose underground newspaper, the International Times, McCartney helped to start.[119] Miles would become de facto manager of Apple's short-lived Zapple Records label,[120] and he wrote McCartney's official biography, Many Years From Now (1997).[121]
While living at then girlfriend Jane Asher's parent's house, he took piano lessons arranged by Jane's mother, provided by a teacher from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a school Beatles' producer Martin had previously attended.[122] McCartney studied composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio.[123] He later wrote and released several pieces of modern classical music and ambient electronica, as well as writing poetry and painting. He is lead patron of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, an arts school in the building formerly occupied by the Liverpool Institute for Boys. The 1837 building, which he attended during his schooldays, had become derelict by the mid-1980s, however, on 7 June 1996, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the redeveloped building.[124]
- Painting
In 1966 he met art gallery-owner Robert Fraser, whose flat was visited by many well-known artists, some of which McCartney met, including; Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Blake, and Richard Hamilton, and it was at Fraser's flat where McCartney first learned about art appreciation.[125] He later started buying paintings by Magritte, using his painting of an apple for the Apple Records logo, and McCartney now owns one of Magritte's easels and a pair of his spectacles.[126]
McCartney's love of painting surfaced after watching artist Willem de Kooning paint, in Kooning's Long Island studio.[127] He took up painting in 1983,[128] and in 1999, he exhibited his paintings (featuring McCartney's portraits of John Lennon, Andy Warhol, and David Bowie) for the first time in Siegen, Germany, and included photographs by Linda. He chose the gallery because Wolfgang Suttner (local events organiser) was genuinely interested in his art, and the positive reaction led to McCartney showing his work in UK galleries.[129] The first UK exhibition of his work was opened in Bristol, England with more than 50 paintings on display. McCartney had previously believed that "only people that had been to art school were allowed to paint" – as Lennon had.[129]
In October 2000, Ono and McCartney presented art exhibitions in New York and London. McCartney said, "I've been offered an exhibition of my paintings at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool where John and I used to spend many a pleasant afternoon. So I'm really excited about it. I didn't tell anybody I painted for 15 years but now I'm out of the closet."[130] McCartney designed a series of six postage stamps issued by the Isle of Man Post in 2002, and according to BBC News, he is the first major rock star in the world to do so.[131]
- Writing and poetry
When he was young, his mother read him poems and encouraged him to read books, and his father was interested in crosswords and invited he and his brother Michael to solve them with him, so as to increase their "word power", says McCartney.[132] He was later inspired – in his school years – by Alan Durband, an English literature teacher at the Liverpool Institute.[133] Durband was a co-founder and fund-raiser at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, where Willy Russell also worked, and introduced McCartney to Geoffrey Chaucer's works.[134]
In 2001 he published 'Blackbird Singing', a volume of poems and lyrics to his songs for which he gave readings in Liverpool and New York City.[135] In the foreword of the book, he explains: "When I was a teenager ... I had an overwhelming desire to have a poem published in the school magazine. I wrote something deep and meaningful——which was promptly rejected——and I suppose I have been trying to get my own back ever since."[136] Years later, he wrote a poem about the death of his childhood friend, Ivan Vaughan.[136] In 2005 he collaborated with author Philip Ardagh and animator Geoff Dunbar to write, High in the Clouds: An Urban Furry Tail, which The Guardian labelled an "anti-capitalist children's book".[137]
- Film
He was interested in animated films as a child, and in 1981 he asked Geoff Dunbar to direct a short animated film called Rupert and the Frog Song. McCartney was the writer and producer and he also added some of the character voices.[138] In 1992 he worked with Dunbar on an animated film about the work of French artist Honoré Daumier, which won both of them a BAFTA award.[139] In 2004 they worked together on the animated short film, Tropic Island Hum. In 1995 he made a guest appearance in the "Lisa the Vegetarian" episode of The Simpsons, and directed a short documentary about the Grateful Dead.[140]
In May 2000 he released Wingspan: An Intimate Portrait, a retrospective documentary that features behind-the-scenes film and photographs that he and Linda took of their family and bands.[141] Interspersed throughout the eighty-eight minute film is an interview by Mary McCartney with her father. Mary was the baby photographed inside McCartney's jacket on the back cover of his first solo album, McCartney, and was one of the producers of the documentary.[142]
Lifestyle[link]
- Drugs
McCartney's introduction to drugs started in Hamburg, Germany, when the Beatles would play for long hours and were often using Preludin to maintain energy, sometimes supplied by friend Astrid Kirchherr. According to McCartney, he would usually take only one, but Lennon would often take four or five by the end of a night.[143] He recalls getting "very high" and "giggling uncontrollably" when the Beatles were introduced to marijuana by Bob Dylan in a New York hotel room in 1964.[144] His use of which soon after became habitual,[145] and according to Miles, any future Beatles' lyrics containing the words "high", or "grass" were written specifically as a reference to cannabis, as was the phrase "another kind of mind" in "Got to Get You into My Life".[146] During the filming of Help!, he claims he occasionally smoked a joint in the car on the way to the studio during filming, which often made him forget his lines.[147] Director Dick Lester says that he overheard "two beautiful women" trying to cajole McCartney into using heroin, but he refused.[147] He was introduced to cocaine by art dealer Robert Fraser, and it was readily available during the recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[148] McCartney admits that he used the drug for about a year but stopped because of his dislike of the unpleasant melancholy he felt after the drug wore off.[149]
While initially reluctant to try LSD, he eventually did so in the fall of 1966 with friend Tara Browne.[150] He took his second "acid trip" with Lennon on 21 March 1967 after a Sgt. Pepper studio session.[151] He later became the first Beatle to discuss the drug publicly, declaring in a magazine interview that "it opened my eyes" and "made me a better, more honest, more tolerant member of society."[152] His attitude about cannabis was made public in 1967, when he added his name to a 24 July advertisement in The Times which called for its legalisation, the release of all prisoners imprisoned because of possession, and research into marijuana's medical uses. The advertisement was produced by a group called Soma and was signed by sixty-five people, including Members of Parliament, the Beatles, Epstein, RD Laing, Francis Crick, and Graham Greene.[153]
Though never arrested by Norman Pilcher's Drug Squad, as Lennon, Harrison, and Mick Jagger had been,[154] in 1972 Swedish police fined him for cannabis possession, and soon after Scottish police found plants growing on his farm.[155] He was again arrested for marijuana possession in 1975, and in January 1980, when Wings flew to Tokyo for an eleven concert tour of Japan, as McCartney was going through customs, officials found approximately 8 ounces (218.3 g) of cannabis in his luggage, and he was arrested and taken to a local jail while the Japanese government decided what to do. After ten days, he was released without charge and deported.[156] He was again arrested for possession of marijuana in 1984 and in 1997, he spoke out in support of decriminalisation, stating "People are smoking pot anyway and to make them criminals is wrong."[157]
- Activism
Paul and Linda became outspoken animal rights activists after their vegetarianism was realised when Paul happened to notice through a window, lambs in a field, as they ate a meal of lamb.[158] He has also credited the 1942 Disney film Bambi, in which the young deer's mother is shot by a hunter, as the original inspiration for him to take an interest in animal rights.[159] In his first interview after Linda's death, he promised to continue working for animal rights.[160] In 1999 he spent £3,000,000 to ensure Linda McCartney Foods remained free of genetically engineered ingredients.[161]
Following his marriage to Mills, he joined her in a campaign against landmines, becoming patrons of Adopt-A-Minefield.[162] In 2003 he played a personal concert for the wife of a wealthy banker and donated his one million dollar fee to the charity.[163] He also wore an anti-landmines t-shirt during the Back in the World tour.[164] In 2006 the McCartneys travelled to Prince Edward Island to bring international attention to the seal hunt, this would be their final public appearance together. Their arrival sparked attention in Newfoundland and Labrador where the hunt is of economic significance.[165] The couple also debated with Newfoundland's Premier Danny Williams on the CNN show Larry King Live. They further stated that the fishermen should quit hunting seals and begin a seal watching business.[166] McCartney has also criticised China's fur trade[167] and supports the Make Poverty History campaign.[168]
He has been involved with several charity recordings and performances, such as the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Ferry Aid, Band Aid, Live Aid, and the recording of "Ferry Cross the Mersey" (1989) following the Hillsborough disaster.[169] In 2004 he donated a song to an album to aid the "US Campaign for Burma", in support of Burmese Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi,[170] and in 2008 he donated a song to Aid Still Required's CD to assist with the restoration of the devastation done to Southeast Asia from the 2004 Tsunami.[171]
In 2009, he wrote to the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, and asked him why he wasn't a vegetarian, McCartney explains: "He wrote back very kindly, saying, my doctors tell me that I must eat meat. And I wrote back again, saying, you know, I don't think that's right. So we had a little correspondence [and] I think now he's vegetarian most of the time. I think he's now being told ... that he can get his protein somewhere else. It's a little old-fashioned to think that he can only get it from meat [and] It just doesn't seem right – the Dalai Lama, on the one hand, saying, 'Hey guys, don't harm sentient beings ... Oh, and by the way, I'm having a steak.'"[172]
- Football
He attended the 1968 FA Cup Final played by West Bromwich Albion against the Everton Football Club, and after the match, shared cigarettes and whisky with other fans.[173] Though he has publicly professed support for Everton,[174] he has also shown support for Liverpool F.C., as in 1968 when he was photographed wearing their rosette.[175] The ex-Liverpool footballer, Albert Stubbins, was shown on the Sgt. Pepper cover,[176] and the video for his song "Pipes of Peace" (1983) recreated the 1915 Christmas football game played between German and British troops during World War I.[177] At the end of "Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)" the crowd chants "Paul McCartney!" until McCartney takes over and changes it to "Kenny Dalglish!", referring to then Liverpool and Scotland striker. At the same concert, Gordon Smith, former football player for the Rangers and Brighton & Hove Albion, met the McCartneys, and later accepted an invitation to visit their home in East Sussex in 1980. Smith later said that McCartney was "thrilled I knew Kenny Dalglish"[178]
He attended the 1986 FA Cup Final between Liverpool and Everton,[173] and performed at the Liverpool F.C. Anfield stadium in 2008, as a part of Liverpool's European Capital of Culture year. Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters sang with McCartney on "Band on the Run", and played drums on "Back in the U.S.S.R.".[179] Ono and Olivia Harrison attended the concert, along with Ken Dodd, and the former Liverpool F.C. football manager Rafael Benítez.[180] In 2008 he ended speculation about his allegiance when he said: "Here's the deal: my father was born in Everton, my family are officially Evertonians, so if it comes down to a derby match or an FA Cup final between the two, I would have to support Everton. But after a concert at Wembley Arena I got a bit of a friendship with Kenny Dalglish, who had been to the gig and I thought 'You know what? I am just going to support them both because it's all Liverpool."[181]
- Meditation
On 24 August 1967, McCartney met the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the London Hilton, and later went to Bangor, in North Wales, to attend a weekend 'initiation' conference, at which time he and the other Beatles learned Transcendental Meditation (TM).[182] "The whole meditation experience was very good and I still use the mantra ... I find it soothing and I can imagine that the more you were to get into it, the more interesting it would get."[183] The time McCartney later spent in India at the Maharishi's ashram was highly productive, as nearly all of the songs that would later be recorded for The White Album and Abbey Road were composed there.[184] Although he was told never to repeat the mantra to anyone else, he admitted he told Linda, and said he meditated a lot while he was in jail in Japan.[185] In 2009 McCartney and Starr headlined a benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall, raising three million dollars for the David Lynch Foundation to fund instruction in Transcendental Meditation for at-risk youth.[186]
Personal relationships[link]
Main article: Personal relationships of Paul McCartney
Girlfriends[link]
- Dot Rhone
McCartney's first serious girlfriend in Liverpool was Dot Rhone, whom he met at the Casbah club in 1959.[187] According to Spitz, Rhone feels McCartney had a compulsion to control situations, chosing clothes and make-up for Rhone, encouraging her to grow her hair out like Brigitte Bardot's,[188] and at least once insisting she have it re-styled, to disappointing effect.[189] When he first went to Hamburg with the Beatles, he wrote to Rhone regularly, and she accompanied Cynthia Lennon to Hamburg when they played there again in 1962.[190] The couple had a two-and-a-half-year relationship, and were due to marry until Rhone's miscarriage, when according to Spitz, McCartney now "free of obligation", ended the engagement.[191]
- Jane Asher
He first met the British actress Jane Asher on 18 April 1963, when a photographer asked them to pose together at a Beatles performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.[192] The two began a relationship and he took up residence with Asher at her parents' house at 57 Wimpole Street London, where he lived for nearly three years before the couple moved to McCartney's own house in St. John's Wood.[193] He wrote several songs while at the Ashers', including "Yesterday" and several inspired by Asher, among them "And I Love Her", "You Won't See Me", and "I'm Looking Through You".[194] They had a five-year relationship, and planned to marry, but Asher broke off the engagement after she discovered he had become involved with another woman, Francie Schwartz.[195]
Wives[link]
- Linda Eastman
Linda Eastman was a music fan who once commented: "All my teen years were spent with an ear to the radio", and who would at times be truant from school to instead see artists such as: Fabian, Bobby Darin, and Chuck Berry.[196] She was a popular photographer with groups such as: the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Grateful Dead, the Doors, and the Beatles, whom she first met at Shea Stadium in 1966, about which she commented: "It was John who interested me at the start. He was my Beatle hero. But when I met him the facination faded fast and I found it was Paul I liked."[197] The pair first properly met in 1967 at a Georgie Fame concert at The Bag O'Nails club,[198] during her UK assignment to take photographs of rock musicians in London,[199] Paul remembers: "The night Linda and I met, I spotted her across a crowded club, and although I would normally have been nervous chatting her up, I realised I had to ... Pushiness worked for me that night!"[197] Linda said this about their meeting: "I was quite shameless really. I was with somebody else [that night] ... and I saw Paul at the other side of the room. He looked so beautiful that I made up my mind I would have to pick him up."[197] The pair were married in 1969; he describes their relationship: "We had a lot of fun together ... just the nature of how we are, our favourite thing really is to just hang, to have fun. And Linda's very big on just following the moment."[200] He also added, "We were crazy. We had a big argument the night before we got married and it was nearly called off ... [its] miraculous that we made it. But we did."[201]
They collaborated musically after the break-up of the Beatles, and later formed Wings together in 1971, a commercially successful band that was active through 1981.[202] They were both vegetarian and supported the animal rights organisation PETA.[203] They had four children – Linda's daughter Heather (legally adopted by Paul), Mary, Stella and James – and remained married until Linda's death from breast cancer in 1998.[204] After her death, Paul stated in The Daily Mail: "I got a counsellor because I knew that I would need some help. He was great, particularly in helping me get rid of my guilt [about wishing I'd been] perfect all the time ... a real bugger. But then I thought, hang on a minute. We're just human. That was the beautiful thing about our marriage. We were just a boyfriend and girlfriend having babies."[205]
- Heather Mills
In 2002 he married Heather Mills, a former model and anti-landmines campaigner.[206] In 2003, the couple had a child, Beatrice Milly, the first name in honour of Heather's late mother, the second for one of Paul's aunts.[207] They separated in April 2006 and were divorced in March 2008.[208] In 2004 he commented on media animosity toward his partners, "They [the British public] didn't like me giving up on Jane Asher", "I married a New York divorcee with a child, and at the time they didn't like that."[209]
- Nancy Shevell
He married New Yorker Nancy Shevell in a civil ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall, London on 9 October 2011. The wedding was a "low-key affair" attended by a group of around 30 family and friends.[210] The couple had been dating since November 2007.[211] A breast cancer survivor,[212] she is a member of the board of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority as well as vice president of a family-owned transportation conglomerate which owns New England Motor Freight.[213]
Beatles[link]
This section is about social and other general interactions. For creative collaborations, see Collaborations between ex-Beatles.
- John Lennon
Despite a strained relationship with Lennon, they briefly became close again in 1974, and played music together on two occasions, the only times since the Beatles break-up in 1970.[214] In later years however, the two grew apart.[215] While McCartney would often phone, he was apprehensive about the reception he would receive, as during one call when he was told, "You're all pizza and fairytales!"[216] In McCartney's effort to avoid talking with him only about business, they often spoke of cats, baking bread, or babies.[217]
On 24 April 1976,[218] the two were watching an episode of Saturday Night Live together at Lennon's home in New York City, during which Lorne Michaels made a $3,000 cash offer for the Beatles to reunite, and while they seriously considered going to the SNL studio just a few blocks away, they decided it was "too late" and according to Lennon, this was the last time he and McCartney ever spent time together.[219] This event was fictionalised in the 2000 television film Two of Us.[220] His last telephone call to Lennon, just days before Lennon and Ono released Double Fantasy, was friendly, he said this about the phone call: "[It is] a consoling factor for me, because I do feel it was sad that we never actually sat down and straightened our differences out. But fortunately for me, the last phone conversation I ever had with him was really great, and we didn't have any kind of blow-up."[221]
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- Reaction to Lennon's murder
Main article: Death of John Lennon
On the morning of 9 December 1980, he awoke to the news that Lennon had been murdered the previous night, his death creating a media frenzy around the surviving members of the band.[222] During the evening of 9 December, as he was leaving an Oxford Street recording studio, he was surrounded by reporters and asked for a reaction. He was later criticised for what appeared, when published, to be a superficial response: "It's a drag".[218] He later explained, "When John was killed somebody stuck a microphone at me and said: 'What do you think about it?' I said, 'It's a dra-a-ag' and meant it with every inch of melancholy I could muster. When you put that in print it says, 'McCartney in London today when asked for a comment on his dead friend said, "It's a drag."' It seemed a very flippant comment to make."[218] He describes his first exchange with Ono after the murder, and his last conversation with Lennon:
I talked to Yoko the day after he was killed and the first thing she said was, "John was really fond of you." The last telephone conversation I had with him we were still the best of mates. He was always a very warm guy, John. His bluff was all on the surface. He used to take his glasses down, those granny glasses, and say, "It's only me." They were like a wall, you know? A shield. Those are the moments I treasure.[218]
In 1983, he said: "I would not have been as typically human and standoffish as I was if I knew John was going to die. I would have made more of an effort to try and get behind his "mask" and have a better relationship with him."[218] He said that he went home that night and watched the news on television – while sitting with his children – crying most of the evening. In 1997, he admitted the ex-Beatles were nervous at the time that they might be the "next" one murdered.[223] In 2002 he told Mojo magazine that Lennon was his greatest "hero".[224] In June 1981, six months after the murder, McCartney sang backup on Harrison's tribute to their ex-bandmate, "All Those Years Ago", which also featured Starr on drums.[225] In 1982 McCartney released "Here Today", a song musicologist Walter Everett describes as "a haunting tribute" to their friendship.[226]
- George Harrison
Harrison said this about working with McCartney: "Paul would always help along when you'd done his ten songs—then when he got 'round to doing one of my songs, he would help. It was silly. It was very selfish, actually ... There were a lot of tracks, though, where I played bass ... because what Paul would do—if he'd written a song, he'd learn all the parts for Paul and then come in the studio and say (sometimes he was very difficult): "Do this." He'd never give you the opportunity to come out with something.[227]
In late 2001, McCartney learned that Harrison was losing his battle with cancer, and upon his death on 29 November 2001, McCartney issued a statement outside his home in St. John's Wood, calling him "a lovely guy and a very brave man who had a wonderful sense of humour", "We grew up together and we just had so many beautiful times together – that's what I am going to remember. I'll always love him, he's my baby brother."[228] Harrison spent his last days in a Hollywood Hills mansion that was once leased by McCartney.[229] On the first anniversary of his death, McCartney played Harrison's "Something" on a ukulele at the Concert for George.[88] He also performed "For You Blue" and "All Things Must Pass", as well as playing the piano on Eric Clapton's rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".[230]
- Ringo Starr
Though Starr once described McCartney as "pleasantly insincere", the two generally enjoy each other's company, and at least once vacationed together in Greece, including stops in Athens and on the islands Corfu and Rhodes.[231] Starr recalls: "We couldn't understand a word of the songs the hotel band were playing, so on the last night Paul and I did a few rockers like "What'd I Say." [231] There was at times discord between them as well, particularly during Beatles' sessions for "The White Album", as Apple's Peter Brown recalls, "It was a poorly kept secret among Beatle intimates that after Ringo left the studio Paul would often dub in the drum tracks himself ... [Starr] would pretend not to notice".[232] In August 1968 the two got into an argument over McCartney's critique of Starr's drum part for "Back in the USSR", which led to Starr temporarily leaving the band.[232] He returned in September[233] to find bouquets of flowers on his drum kit. Starr comments on working with McCartney: "Paul is the greatest bass player in the world. But he is also very determined ... [to] get his own way ... [thus] musical disagreements inevitably arose from time to time."[232]
Recognition and achievements[link]
Main article: List of awards received by Paul McCartney
McCartney has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million albums, 100 million singles, and a writer's credit on forty-three songs that have sold over one million copies each.[1] According to Guinness, he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK singles chart history, and has written or co-written "188 charted records, of which 129 are different songs. Of these records, 91 reached the Top 10 and 33 made it to No.1. In total, the songs have spent 1,662 weeks on the chart (up to the beginning of 2007)."[2] In 1986 he received acclaim from the Guinness Book of Records Hall of Fame, "as the most successful musician of all-time."[234]
In the US, as a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100; including twenty with the Beatles and nine solo and/or with Wings,[235] one as a co-writer on Elton John's cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds",[236] and one as a co-writer of "A World Without Love", a number one single for Peter and Gordon.[237] As of 2012, he has sold 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.[238]
Although Elvis Presley has achieved the most UK number-ones as a solo artist with eighteen,[239] McCartney has been involved in more number-ones in the UK than any other artist under a variety of credits, totalling twenty-four singles: including seventeen with the Beatles, one solo, and one each with Wings, Stevie Wonder, Ferry Aid, Band Aid, Band Aid 20 and one with "The Christians et all".[240] He is the only artist to reach the UK number one as a soloist ("Pipes of Peace"), duo ("Ebony and Ivory" with Wonder), trio ("Mull of Kintyre", Wings), quartet ("She Loves You", the Beatles), quintet ("Get Back", the Beatles with Billy Preston), and as part of a musical ensemble for charity (Ferry Aid).[241]
His song "Yesterday" is thought to be the most covered in history with more than 2,200 recorded versions,[242] and according to the BBC, "The track is the only one by a UK writer to have been aired more than seven million times on American TV and radio and is third in the all-time list ... [and] is the most played song by a British writer this century in the US."[243] His 1968 Beatles composition, "Hey Jude", is also a career highlight. It achieved the highest sales in the UK that year, and topped the US charts for nine weeks, longer than any other Beatles' single. It was also the longest single ever released by the band, and at seven minutes fifteen seconds was the longest of any number one to that point. Its been covered by several notable artists, including Presley, Bing Crosby, Count Basie, and Wilson Pickett.[244] It is the best-selling Beatles' single of all-time, with sales of over five million copies achieved soon after its release.[245]
He played for the largest stadium audience in history when 184,000 people paid to see him perform at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 21 April 1990,[246] that year the minor planet 4148, was named "McCartney" in his honour.[247] In July 2005 he was involved with the fastest-released single in history, when his performance of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with U2 at Live 8 was released before the concert was over. The single reached number six on the Billboard charts, just hours after the single's release, and hit number one on numerous online download charts across the world.[248]
On 18 June 2006, McCartney celebrated his 64th birthday, a milestone that was the subject of a tune he wrote at the age of sixteen, which would later become the Beatles' song "When I'm Sixty-Four".[249] In 2008 he received a BRIT award for Outstanding Contribution to Music,[250] as well as an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Yale University.[251] In 2012 he became the last of the "Fab Four" to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[252]
- Business
McCartney is one of the UK's wealthiest people, with an estimated fortune of £475 million in 2010.[253] In addition to an interest in Apple Corps, MPL Communications, an umbrella company for his business interests, owns a significant music publishing catalogue, with access to over 25,000 copyrights,[254] including the publishing rights to the musicals Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease.[255] He earned £40 million in 2003, making him Britain's highest media earner.[256] This rose to £48.5 million by 2005.[257] In 2006 the Trademarks Registry reported that MPL had started a process to secure the protections associated with registering the name "Paul McCartney" as a trademark.[258]
- Northern Songs
Northern Songs was established in 1963 by Dick James to publish the songs of Lennon–McCartney.[259] The Beatles' partnership was replaced in 1968 by a jointly held company, Apple Corps, which continues to control Apple's commercial interests. Northern Songs was purchased by Associated Television (ATV) in 1969, and was sold in 1985 to Michael Jackson. For many years McCartney was unhappy about Jackson's purchase and handling of Northern Songs.[260]
Despite the lack of publishing rights to most of his Beatles' songs, he continues to receive his respective share of the writers' royalties, which together are 33⅓% of total commercial proceeds in the US and which vary elsewhere around the world between 50 and 55%.[261] Two of the Beatles' earliest songs—"Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You"—were published by an EMI subsidiary, Ardmore & Beechwood, before signing with James. McCartney acquired their publishing rights from Ardmore in the mid 1980s,[262] and they are the only two Beatles songs owned by MPL Communications.[263]
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- Benitez, Vincent Perez (2010). The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-34969-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=bYxJWNiLO94C&dq.
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| Name | McCartney, Paul |
| Alternative names | Sir James Paul McCartney |
| Short description | English rock musician |
| Date of birth | 18 June 1942 |
| Place of birth | Liverpool, UK |
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