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Springsteen, Bruce (1949—) Summary
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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 acclaimed songwriter and energetic performer, Springsteen spent his early years singing...
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Bruce Springsteen Information
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American songwriter, singer and guitarist. He has frequently recorded and toured with the E Street Band. Springsteen is most widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop...


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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born 23 September 1949 ) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Born To Run (1975) 1.2 Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978) 1.3 The River (1980) 1.4 Born In The U.S.A. (1984) 1.5...


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The Village Voice
Bruce Springsteen
04/27/2005: 767 words, approx. 3 pages
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Devils & Dust Columbia ADULT IMAGERY The Boss, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford, slowing down to preach at us and pornographize The moment I finally reached adulthood didn't occur when I graduated college or signed the...
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The Washington Post
[ By 1978, Bruce Springsteen...]
01/05/2001: 372 words, approx. 1 pages
By 1978, Bruce Springsteen was already an icon, guaranteeing steady work for the E Street Band's junior auxiliary, also known as Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Johnny and the Jukes offered Springsteen's style of retro-rock without the mythic bombast that sometimes tripped up...
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The New York Observer
Remains of the Day: The Office, Michael Kidd, Bruce Springsteen
12/27/2007: 267 words, approx. 1 pages
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. Well, guess what? I'm not falling in a chocolate river.'' - Andy...
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AP Features
Bruce Springsteen, Robin Williams, Conan O'Brien help ABC's Woodruff honor military wounded
11/8/2007: 369 words, approx. 1 pages
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 shared the stage Wednesday night at a star-studded Manhattan benefit for wounded U.S. service members, organized by ABC's...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Dave Marsh
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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 the key figure in the transition from hippie music and back toward a more naturalistic rock style. Springsteen writes of cars and girls, the key icons of this macho movement, the way the hippie writers wrote of drugs and universal peace/love—with commitment and passion…. In Springsteen's songs, a questing, romantic spirit i...
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Critical Essay by Ariel Swartley
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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 "Sparks fly on E Street when the boy-prophets walk it handsome and hot." Bruce Springsteen wins my heart with the first line of The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, wins it over and over again. Used to be only rock critics took lyrics that seriously and turned the romance of the streets so explicitly into myth. But while Springste...
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Critical Essay by Peter Knobler
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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 messes with him. Maybe, on his home ground. Apparently not always.
 


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