Bruce Springsteen

2022 - 5 - 24

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Someone has to Say it: Bruce Springsteen Totally Stinks (Crossing Broad)

Would it be career suicide for a Philadelphia sports writer to criticize THE BOSS? Perhaps. Bruce Springsteen is held in insanely high regard in these parts ...

The fact of the matter is that Bruce is a storyteller disguised as a musician. He’s the first guy to get to the stadium and the last guy to leave. The biggest lesson Bruce needed to learn is that sometimes less is more, but not less to the point where it’s you, an acoustic guitar, and a harmonica with a four track. He is the underdog that so many sportswriters want to see in themselves, which is how they end up composing endless paeans to the sax break in ‘Born to Run.'” It’s about the idea of Bruce Springsteen and what he sings about. “Bruce Springsteen is the perfect embodiment of what sportswriters want to see in the athletes they cover. And what’s with the tambourine and percussion block in the video? Most of his songs show something but are left incomplete, which is the most frustrating bit of all of this. When I went on Twitter to rip Bruce earlier this week, I had a lot of baseball fans in my mentions who were criticizing soccer, which was incredibly strange at first. Like FOX 29, “we go there,” and in this case I’d like to share some thoughts on the most overrated performer of the last 45 years, who announced this week the dates for a 2023 European tour. Springsteen fans make The People’s Temple look like noobs, and don’t even get me started on the sports writers who worship at the altar of Asbury Park. I’m willing to bet they’ve already booked tickets to Dusseldorf for the upcoming tour, because seeing Bruce 37 times in Philly and New Jersey is not enough. “Johnny worked in the factory but wanted to be a race car driver” or some shit.

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In Defense of Bruce Springsteen (Crossing Broad)

No matter what Kevin Kinkead may tell you, Bruce Springsteen doesn't suck. He has millions of record sales and a legion of fans to prove it.

He’s the first guy to get to the stadium and the last guy to leave.” If you’re skeptical, just take some time and take in excerpts from The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town. Watch a tortured artist at the height of his fame and nothing to prove devote himself to shaping a great record from a collection of 70 songs. We would take the “back roads,” my mom in constant search of corn and tomatoes, stopping once at a retro McDonald’s in Berlin on Route 73 along the way. He’s Michael Jordan, pushing his teammates and himself to the edge in their quest to make one more trip to the mountaintop. The long-misinterpreted “Born in the USA” is not a blindly patriotic anthem, but the story of a Vietnam veteran who returned home without a job and damaged by his country’s broken promises. I remember my dad telling me of people walking out of the venue when Bruce started singing “American Skin.” It was controversial and divisive within his fan base, but Springsteen played it anyway. But you’ll also notice a large number of younger people whose parents introduced them to Bruce Springsteen and who, over the years, came to appreciate the music he plays in their own way. If Bruce Springsteen didn’t take chances as a musician, he wouldn’t have radically departed from the sound on Born to Run that made him an international sensation when it came time to produce Darkness on the Edge of Town. He wouldn’t have released “American Skin,” a protest song in response to the police shooting of Amadou Diallo in 1999 that presaged the unrest our country would experience more than twenty years later. That’s because we have all felt alone at one time or another, forced to make peace with our arrested ambitions as we wander down to “The River” and ponder the eternal question: “Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true? Read the lyrics to “It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City” and tell me that the song can’t just as easily apply to someone growing up today. If you want a stripped down version of Bruce Springsteen, move away from the hits and start exploring Darkness on the Edge of Town and Nebraska, the latter a critically acclaimed solo album and a radical departure from the louder tracks of the Born to Run era. The man has sold millions of records, collected all sorts of awards, and earned his place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Announce 2023 Tour (Pitchfork)

The Boss is hitting the road with the full E Street lineup for the first time since 2017.

He released two solo albums: 2019’s Western Stars and 2020’s Letter to You, which both also got accompanying films. He launched a Broadway show, which got an accompanying Netflix film and earned him a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year,” Springsteen said in a statement.

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Springsteen teasing new tour announcement? Sure looks like it! (nj.com)

Could Springsteen and The E Street Band finally return to the stage this year?

A spokesperson for Springsteen declined comment Tuesday prior to the video’s posting and did not immediately return a request for comment after the video went up. A spokesperson for MetLife Stadium declined comment Tuesday afternoon. The band’s last concert together was in February 2017; their last New Jersey show was at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford in September 2016.

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Bruce Springsteen will announce … something on May 24 (njarts.net)

The appearance of the E Street Band in the video implies that it will be a band project and not a solo album and/or tour. And that mere fact that he did this ...

The appearance of the E Street Band in the video implies that it will be a band project and not a solo album and/or tour. Its continued existence depends on support from members of that scene, and the state’s arts lovers. Bruce Springsteen posted a short video to social media today of him and the E Street Band performing “Born in the USA,” with the words “May 24, 2022, BruceSpringsteen.net” at the end. Springsteen’s last album was Letter to You, in 2020. Fans are hoping for that something to be concert dates. The use of the song “Born in the USA” could be a hint that the announcement will be of a deluxe re-release of Springsteen’s Born in the USA album, which would follow the deluxe re-releases of Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River. But the glimpses of Jake Clemons and Charles Giordano in the video — both musicians did not begin backing Springsteen until well after the Born in the USA Era — would suggest that the announcement has to do with a tour (or both an album and a tour), and not just an archival release.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Announce 2023 Tour Dates (Variety)

The group last played publicly on “Saturday Night Live” in December of 2020, where they performed two songs from their most recent studio album, “Letter to You.

The group last played publicly on “Saturday Night Live” in December of 2020, where they performed two songs from their most recent studio album, “Letter to You.” Said Springsteen: “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year. The 2023 dates will mark the first live shows for Springsteen and the E Street Band since the conclusion of their 14-month, worldwide “The River” tour in Australia in February of 2017.

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Bruce Springsteen teases E Street Band tour announcement (Asbury Park Press)

The social media accounts of Bruce Springsteen shared a 15 second live clip of the E Street Band performing the intro of 'Born in the U.S.A.'

“We're getting our plans for touring together, we'll be out there,” Springsteen said. It appears to be a lot. “We hope to be out there this year.

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Announce 2023 ... (Billboard)

The group announced first thing Tuesday (May 24) that they will embark on their first tour together since the 14-month global River Tour that kicked off in 2016 ...

The Boss previously teased plans for an E Street Band tour during an appearance on SiriusXM’s E Street Radio with Jim Rotolo back in March. “We’re getting our plans for touring together, we’ll be out there,” Springsteen said. “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year,” Springsteen said in a press statement. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band last reconnected to perform on Saturday Night Live in December 2020, where they launched live versions of two songs from their most recent studio album, Letter to You.

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Bruce Springsteen on Breaking “the Chain of Trauma” (Oprah Mag)

The superstar musician reveals his struggles with depression and how Terrence Real, author of the new book “Us”—which is excerpted here—helped him heal his ...

What follows is a journey toward mastery, from reactivity to responsibility, in those moments of choice. Money? Status? Security? Moses looked out at the scene and said, “There is a path toward life, there is a path toward death. And at the end of the day, the way we honor our parents and their efforts is by carrying on their blessings and doing our best to not pass forward their troubles, their faults, to our own children. We have lost us consciousness, an appreciation for the whole, and instead we have shifted into you and me. We get what we get, and then we react to it. Terry’s writing is loving and kind, clever and strong, and he’s written a beautiful and important book, particularly for the moment we are in. For my wife, Patti, and me, Terrence Real has been one of those guides, and this book is a map through those trees. Looking more broadly, the price we pay as a society for our toxic individualism and patriarchy is our permanent estrangement from one another. Even more frustrating, the things that made me good at my job—my easy tolerance, even hunger, for the isolation of creativity, my ability to comfortably and deeply reside within myself and put all my energy into my work for days, weeks, years at a time—doomed my personal life to failure. “I was lost in a deep dark forest, largely of my own making, without a map,” he writes, a Dantean echo, “trying to find my way through the shadowed trees, down to the river of a sustaining life.” Real’s program pointed the way back to the anchors of art and family and responsibility, revealing that a man’s vulnerability may be his greatest strength. The eye-to-eye democracy of real adult love struck fear and insecurity deep in my heart. I didn’t have the judgment, the courage, or the skills to bring a real life to fruition.

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Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band announce international tour to ... (Asbury Park Press)

A second North American tour leg starts in August of 2023. The planned European stadium shows will be in Barcelona, Dublin, Paris, Ferrara, Rome, Amsterdam, ...

“As far as my own plans, you know, I think you’re concerned about ever playing again,” said Springsteen to Brian Hiatt of Rolling Stone in September of 2020. “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year,” said Springsteen in a statement. Eradication is not possible.” “So that weighs on your mind a little bit because, well, it was fun. Other major music acts, including Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, and Halsey, have either been touring or have announced plans to tour. A second North American tour leg starts in August of 2023.

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Bruce Springsteen announces an international tour for 2023. But ... (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

That's when the Boss and his bandmates will launch “a string of to-be-announced U.S. arena dates,” that will be followed by a batch of European stadium shows.

Because while the first run of unannounced arena dates will precede the European stadium shows, there will be a second run of U.S. arena dates that won’t begin until August 2023. Springsteen last performed in Philadelphia for two shows at Citizens Bank Park in 2016. Maybe the Philly dates will be in that second batch. Springsteen said in a statement: “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year. Those dates were officially revealed in a hotly anticipated tour announcement at the stroke of midnight Tuesday morning. In all likelihood, it will be sometime early in 2023 when Springsteen and the E Street Band return to the road for the first time since 2017.

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Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band to tour in US, Europe (ABC News)

The European concerts will begin April 28th in Barcelona. Other stops in Europe will include Dublin, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. The tour plans ...

The second leg of that tour will begin in August. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announced Monday that they will begin an arena tour in February in the United States, followed by stadium shows beginning in April in Europe. Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band to tour in US, Europe

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STORY REMOVED: US--Music-Bruce Springsteen-Tour (SFGate)

FILE - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform with the concert "The River Tour" at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, May 14, ...

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Bruce Springsteen Announces 2023 Tour With the E Street Band (Ultimate Classic Rock)

Bruce Springsteen announced he'd be touring alongside the E Street Band for the first time since 2017 in May 2022.

Even as Springsteen and the E Street Band’s members were focussed on their own projects, the musicians still collaborated. Springsteen’s last performance with the E Street Band took place Feb. 25, 2017, in Auckland, New Zealand, the conclusion of Summer ‘17 tour. Spin adds that a second U.S. leg will likely begin in August. Those dates have yet to be announced.

Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band to tour in US, Europe (Miami Herald)

FILE - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform with the concert "The River Tour" at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, May 14, ...

The European concerts will begin April 28th in Barcelona, the announcement said. Details on the cities the rockers will visit in the U.S. will be announced later, but it'll be the first time the group has toured since wrapping The River Tour in Australia in February 2017. The rockers announced Monday that they will begin an arena tour in February in the United States, followed by stadium shows beginning in April in Europe.

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STORY REMOVED: US–Music-Bruce Springsteen-Tour (The Seattle Times)

The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about an upcoming tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band because it was sent in error.

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Bruce Springsteen announces 2023 tour, 1st E Street Band shows in ... (nj.com)

Then, they will spend the spring and early summer in Europe. Those dates, beginning April 28 in Barcelona, were announced at midnight. See the full list here ...

See the full list here and below. Beyond Springsteen’s prolific catalog, the band has plenty of new material to play, between Springsteen’s solo effort, 2019′s “Western Stars,” and the booming full-band return in 2020′s “Letter To You.” Here’s what I believe the perfect new tour set list could look like. A new video was posted to Springsteen’s social media pages Monday at noon, depicting a montage of the full, current-era band performing “Born in the U.S.A.” on stage, ending with the short clip with a message that reads “May 24, 2022 Brucespringsteen.net.” The band’s last concert together was in New Zealand in February 2017; their last New Jersey show was at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford in September 2016, part of a trio of gigs that saw Springsteen break his record for longest U.S. performance each night. Springsteen and The E Street Band announced Tuesday a 2023 world tour, their first crop of concert tour dates in more than six years. Then, they will spend the spring and early summer in Europe. Those dates, beginning April 28 in Barcelona, were announced at midnight.

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Bruce Springsteen announces 2023 tour - Treble (Treble)

The tour will begin in February 2023 in venues across North America, and then will continue in Europe later in spring. Thus far, only the European dates have ...

5/5 Dublin, Ireland – RDS Arena “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year,” Springsteen said in a statement. The tour will begin in February 2023 in venues across North America, and then will continue in Europe later in spring.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announce 2023 concert tour (NBC News)

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will return to the road in early 2023, launching a series of to-be-announced U.S. arena dates in February.

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Bruce Springsteen Tour Dates 2023: Ticket Prices, Venues and More (Newsweek)

Bruce Springsteen has announced he is embarking on a world tour with The E Street Band in 2023.

Springsteen tour tickets in the past decade have been around the $50 or more mark. You can check out when and where is best to purchase your tickets via Bruce Springsteen's website. It is also the first big tour Springsteen has done with The E Street band since 2017. In a statement, Springsteen said: "After six years, I'm looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year. - Tuesday 13 – Zurich, Stadion Letzigrund Rock legend Bruce Springsteen is officially going on tour with his long-term collaborators, The E Street Band in 2023.

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Bruce Springsteen announces tour, says he has 'the jones to play ... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

But on Tuesday, The Boss did announce a European stadium tour that will begin April 28, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain. Advertisement. The European dates will be ...

- July 13, 2023: Copenhagen, Denmark, Parken And then of course we'll be playing a lot of the music that the fans have become familiar with and love to hear. And then because of the way we are, we, we, after a short period of time, we start switching it up anyway, just to keep it interesting for us. And, we got an old school, you know, tour planned where we'll be out there for quite a while and give everybody a chance to see us if they'd like to, gonna rehearse in January, start, as you said, in the state's arenas in February, the beginning of February there run that through, March, April, I guess, and then in May head over to Europe and run that through the beginning of August and then come back to the states, play a few summer shows outside. So, I'm deeply looking forward to getting out there in front of our fans. “It's kind of mind boggling to be honest with you,” he said.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Announce 2023 World Tour (Rolling Stone)

The musicians will start a European stadium leg April 28, 2023 in Barcelona, and follow it up with a second North American tour in August. In addition to ...

While no official reason was given for the postponement, the decision came just as Covid numbers were spiking due to the Omicron variant. This is the longest break the E Street Band have taken from the road since reforming in 1999. “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year,” Springsteen said in a statement.

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Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band heading back on tour - CNN (CNN)

(CNN) Get your tickets because Bruce Springsteen is hitting the road next year. "The Boss" and the E Street Band will kick off their next tour in 2023, ...

The Boss" and the E Street Band will kick off their next tour in 2023, their first together since 2017.The first tour date is April 28 in Barcelona. US tour dates have not been announced just yet.Springsteen posted the European leg of the tour to his Instagram on Tuesday.Tickets go on sale Friday.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Announce First Tour in Six ... (PEOPLE.com)

Though the "Born to Run" singer and the E Street Band did reunite briefly for a performance on Saturday Night Live in December 2020, the new string of dates ...

The show should feel contemporary and it should also make you feel at home at the same time. He also launched the Renegades podcast with former President Barack Obama, and joined fellow rocker John Mellencamp on his single "Wasted Days." So I'm deeply looking forward to getting out there in front of our fans."

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See Bruce Springsteen Play a Scorching 'Badlands' at 2012 ... (Rolling Stone)

The tour won't begin for another nine months, but Springsteen is already thinking about what songs he'll play. “I already wrote out a set list, just to have ...

See above for fan-shot footage of a wild “Badlands” at Estadi Olímpic on May 18, 2012, to get an idea of the frenzied atmosphere at one of these shows. “I already wrote out a set list, just to have something to do and an idea of like, ‘Oh, we could start from here and see where it’s gonna go,'” he said. Springsteen’s first Barcelona show took place on April 21, 1981, at the Palau dels Esports. To get a tiny sense of what it looked like, check out this primitive fan-shot footage.

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Bruce Springsteen's Wife: What To Know About His 2 Marriages (Hollywood Life)

Bruce Springsteen has been married twice, to actress Julianne Phillips and singer Patti Scialfa. Here's what you need to know about them.

Once Bruce and Julianne’s relationship fizzled and they separated, he moved in with Patti in 1988. The seeming overlap of the relationship caused controversy for the two singers, but Bruce maintains that he and Julianne had separated long before they made it public. The couple lived in New Jersey, then Los Angeles, where they welcomed their first child, a son, Evan James Springsteen, on July 25, 1990. It was finalized by March of 1989 — but the “Dancing in the Dark” singer had apparently already moved on and was living with E Street band member Patti. Patti joined the E Street band in 1984 ahead of the Born in the U.S.A. Tour. Bruce and Patti’s friendship seemed to be deepening, but he met and married Julianne before it could go anywhere. Bruce and Patti met in the early 1980s when he saw her perform alongside his friend Bobby Bandiera at a New Jersey bar.

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band are hitting the road for their ... (The A.V. Club)

The band has announced a string of European tour dates.

05-05 Dublin, Ireland - RDS Arena “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year,” Springsteen says in a statement. The Boss is back, as Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band announce their first tour dates in six years.

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Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band to tour in U.S., Europe (TribLIVE)

NEW YORK (AP) — The Boss is hitting the road again, and the E Street Band band is coming with him. The rockers announced Monday that they will begin an ...

The European concerts will begin April 28th in Barcelona, the announcement said. Details on the cities the rockers will visit in the U.S. will be announced later, but it’ll be the first time the group has toured since wrapping The River Tour in Australia in February 2017. The rockers announced Monday that they will begin an arena tour in February in the United States, followed by stadium shows beginning in April in Europe.

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Bruce Springsteen is probably coming back to Philly in 2023 (Axios)

Breathe easy, Philadelphia: We can be reasonably sure that Bruce Springsteen (and the E Street Band) will be playing here again next year, but we have to ...

And it wasonly 3 hours and 47 minutes long, which couldn't top the four-hour-plus barnstormer from a couple of nights before that remains his longest U.S. show ever. - I was on the field of Citizens Bank Park for Bruce's last show here back on Sept. 9, 2016. State of play: The Boss announced a spring 2023 international tour on Tuesday — his first sustained jaunt with the E Street Band in years — with a note that "a string of to-be-announced U.S. arena dates" are coming in February, along with another North American leg in August.

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