Bruce Springsteen may be off the road for the foreseeable future, but priceless artifacts from his long career are going to travel across America as part of the new Bruce Springsteen Live! exhibit. Created by the Grammy Museum and Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University, …
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The 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, are officially underway (in 2021, of course) with the lighting of the cauldron at National Stadium. Now, the best athletes in the world will vie for medals across 339 sporting events over the next 16 days. With so many stories swirling around, it …
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A recent debate over a lyric in a beloved Bruce Springsteen song has been settled by one of the rock legend’s closest collaborators. The intense argument between Springsteen fans began on July 3rd when New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman tweeted the “Thunder Road” opening lyric prior to a Springsteen …
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At a virtual hearing Wednesday related to the charges stemming from Bruce Springsteen’s DWI arrest at a New Jersey national park in November, the U.S. government dismissed the charges of DWI and reckless driving against the singer. As part of a pre-hearing agreement between U.S. attorneys and Springsteen’s legal team, …
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed a pair of Letter to You songs live together for the first time as musical guest on the latest Saturday Night Live. Springsteen and company opened their SNL appearance with a rousing, enthusiastic rendition of “Ghosts”; earlier in the week, Springsteen told …
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Ahead of the E Street Band’s return to Saturday Night Live this weekend, Bruce Springsteen visited the Tonight Show Thursday to talk about Letter to You, the song that changed his life, his teenaged gigs, and why he’s never made a Christmas album. “I always liked music where the singer …
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In 1989, Crystal Taliefero got a call from someone she knew from her days touring as a percussionist and backup singer in John Mellencamp‘s band. He wanted to know if she was available for a recording session in New York and a possible tour with another artist. “I said, ‘Sure. …
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Rolling Stone, in partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures, hosted a special screening and panel discussion for Blinded by the Light — which opens in wide release in the U.K. on August 9th and in the U.S. on August 16th — in New York City on Tuesday night. Following a screening …
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Just five days after keyboardist Danny Federici died from melanoma in April of 2008, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band played one of the most emotional shows of their long career at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida. The entire band attended Federici’s funeral at Red Bank, …
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