It’s been a huge year for live music, so let’s take a tour.
Bruce Springsteen
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‘We Are Alive’: Six Longreads About Music
The soundtrack of my life goes back a long way. Here are six longreads about music, for the love of it.
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A Long, Lonely Time
“It’s strange to think that the Righteous Brothers outlive my mother. Sometimes I pretend they are singing to her.”
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Bruce Springsteen: Sadness, Love, Madness, and Soul
“All you needed to do,” Springsteen says, “was to risk being your true self.” We ignore our demons at our peril.
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The Escapism of Bruce Springsteen
The appeal of Springsteen’s “Baby, we were born to run!”
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I Want to Know if Love is Real: Springsteen on His New Book, Born to Run
At Vanity Fair, David Kamp interviews Bruce Springsteen on his upbringing, depression, and the seeds of his upcoming book, ‘Born to Run.’
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Bruce Springsteen’s Asbury Park
After an unremarkable stint at Ocean County Community College, [Bruce Springsteen] relocated to Asbury Park, a gritty coastal community that scarcely resembled the glitzy seaside resort of its earlier days. By that time, jet travel and air conditioning had made distant locations like California, Florida, and the Caribbean more attractive to local vacationers. Deeply segregated and […]
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A rock icon at age 62. A look inside Bruce Springsteen’s life, at home and in preparation for another tour, following the losses of bandmates Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici: For the next hour and a half, the band plays through a set that alternates tales of economic pain with party-time escape. While the band […]