Springsteen, Bruce (1949—)
Bruce Springsteen has placed himself in a lineage of folk and popular musicians, including Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, who have sought to effect social change. An acc...
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Critical Essay by Peter Knobler with Greg Mitchell
Bruce Springsteen … has been hiding in New Jersey writing these incredible songs…. [He] can be easily dismissed as "justanother...
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Critical Essay by Henry Edwards
A good part of Springsteen's appeal stems from the words he sings. In his most recent engagements, he has commenced his shows with "Thunder Road,"...
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Critical Essay by Nik Cohn
Objectively, I know that Springsteen is faking. He is only striking postures, drumming up teen dreams by numbers, and his lyrics are quite absurdly inflated. But I fall for...
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Critical Essay by Jay Cocks
[Springsteen's] music is primal, directly in touch with all the impulses of wild humor and glancing melancholy, street tragedy and punk anarchy that have made rock ...
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Critical Essay by Jim Miller
Springsteen conveys a timeless world of perpetual youth, where all the archetypal characters of the rock 'n' roll world find a home. In the process, he make...
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Critical Essay by Paul Williams
[Springsteen and the E Street Band] are doing for the seventies what Liverpool's Beatles did to the sixties: bringing rock and roll music back from the edge of ...
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Critical Essay by Richard Williams
It could be ten summers ago, a sunny truant afternoon … transfixed by "Freewheelin'" marvelling that this guy named Dylan could articula...
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Critical Essay by Peter Knobler
You think of Bruce Springsteen as a guy who can take care of himself in a scuffle, who would intimidate his way out of a fight rather than duke it out. Just nobody mes...
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Critical Essay by Susan Hill
"Born To Run" isn't merely a nerveless fusion of the best pop tenor sax since Junior Walker, passionately penetrating lead, and some of rock's...
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Critical Essay by Dave Marsh
Bruce Springsteen is the last of rock's great innocents. There can never be another quite like him. (pp. 6-7)
It was Bruce Springsteen's fate to become t...
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Critical Essay by Ariel Swartley
I'm going to be a sucker for someone who takes rock and roll as a religion, and romanticizes the hell out of mundane details. For someone who says "Spar...
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Critical Essay by Jon Landau
Last Thursday, at the Harvard Square theatre, I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its n...
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Critical Essay by Michael Watts
[Bruce Springsteen is] not just another good version of an old product, but a new genius in our midst, the artist we've been waiting for in these long doldrum y...
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Critical Essay by Robert Ward
[Joy] is perhaps the real secret of Bruce Springsteen's art. Springsteen loves the world: the pimps, hustlers, humbug, tomfoolery, switchblade knives and kisses u...
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The funniest TV lines of 2007. ''Five of us transferred from Stamford. There's two of us left—me and Karen. It's like we're touring Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and dropping off one by one...
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It was an unlikely combination of entertainers: Bruce Springsteen singing "Thunder Road," a Marine Corps band playing taps and "Amazing Grace," Robin Williams cracking off-color jokes.They all shar...
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Bob Woodruff was just beginning to recover from the Iraq roadside bombing that tore off part of his skull, drove shrapnel into his head and almost killed him, his wife says they told each other jok...
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Simon Cowell says he's bigger than The Boss. In an interview to air Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes," the "American Idol" judge says he's worth five times more to Sony BMG than Bruce Springsteen."I sell...
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Feeling a little lost in love? Let the smooth sounds of Juilliard students covering songs from Bruce Springsteen to Leonard Bernstein soothe your aching heart at the New York Festival of Song's "A ...
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John Hiatt slept under a park bench on his first night in Nashville in 1979. Now the city has given the singer-songwriter the star treatment.On Sunday, Hiatt was among six inductees to the Music Ci...
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Leipzig, Germany (dpa) - A German athlete set off Wednesday to run
around the world to raise money for charity.
Robby Clemens reckons he'll wear out 50 pairs of runn...
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From Boldface Names, The New York Times, March 28, 2003:
How Do I Get a Cute Actress To Add Sizzle to My Steak?
Next to MAER ROSHAN, who has gotten endless attention for a magazine he has not pub...
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Online, the word "niche" has new meaning. You may be impressed that there's a site, for example, specializing in passive aggressive notes; (it's true: http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com). But ho...
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Springsteen, Bruce (1949—)
Critical Essay by Peter Knobler with Greg Mitchell
Remains of the Day: The Office, Michael Kidd, Bruce Springsteen
