Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen: In His Own Words, Channel 4Friday, 30 December 2016A 90-minute biographical documentary about Bruce Springsteen, you may think, is for Springsteen fans only. But really anyone who is interested in fame, friendship, family relationships and the creative process will have enjoyed this – a revealing... Read more... |
Bruce Springsteen - High HopesSaturday, 11 January 2014As fans of Dylan’s Bootleg series will testify, “odds and ends” albums may require a small modification of expectations. High Hopes falls into a similar category: it’s a collection of 12 re-recordings, outtakes and covers of material that the Boss... Read more... |
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Hard Rock Calling, Olympic ParkMonday, 01 July 2013"Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park" is a wonderfully grand name for the venue for this summer's Hard Rock Calling festival, but the reality doesn't quite match up. Rather than basking in the glory (and shiny new stadium architecture) of Mo and Jessica's... Read more... |
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Etihad Stadium, ManchesterMonday, 25 June 2012When Clarence “Big Man” Clemons, the E Street Band’s charismatic saxophone player, died of stroke-related complications this time last year, there were those among us who wondered if we’d ever see the band together again. His on-stage interplay with... Read more... |
CD: Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking BallSunday, 04 March 2012It’s a sign of Bruce Springsteen’s contribution to the canon of American rock music that we no longer spend time comparing his music to others. Springsteen’s problem tends to be living up to different versions of himself. It seems like every... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Bruce SpringsteenSaturday, 18 December 2010It's a season of retrospection for Bruce Springsteen. New light has been thrown on his pivotal 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town with the release of The Promise, a double CD of out-takes and unreleased songs, alongside an expanded box set of... Read more... |
Imagine: Bruce Springsteen, Darkness Revisited, BBC OneTuesday, 07 December 2010Anyone who has ever spent even a little time in a recording studio will be aware that the process of making an album lies somewhere between “watching paint dry” and “ripping out your own toenails” on the scale of interesting and enjoyable activities... Read more... |
DVD: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, London Calling, Live in Hyde ParkMonday, 26 July 2010One of those deathless Sopranos moments is where Christopher Moltisanti turns up late at the Bada Bing club for a meeting with Silvio Dante and Tony Soprano, and they ask him what kept him. “The highway was jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance... Read more... |
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