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Thank You Bruce for Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Rocking All Night!

  My Opera loving Dad will appreciate this quote from Bruce:   "And I had an interesting moment — I got to know Luciano Pavarotti a little bit before he died. I went to his apartment one night and he made me and my wife spaghetti. And so we're sitting and eating and he invites me to the opera. So I go to the opera, which I've never been to in my life, and I watch him perform. And after the opera, we're out having a drink and he says, "What do you think, Bruce? What did you really think of the opera?" I said, "Well, it was incredible." You know, there's no mic; he came out, his voice was, to me, still in fantastic shape. And he says, "Well, yes, but the popular singer has it over the opera singer." I said, "Really? Why is that?" "The popular singer sings the way people speak." I thought about Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, and I thought: Yeah, that's true; they sing colloquially, the way people speak to one an...

  New Song "Letter To You" Out Now! Bruce’s new studio album with the E Street Band,  Letter To You ,  will be released on October 23. A rock album fueled by the band's  heart-stopping, house-rocking signature sound,  the 12 track  Letter To You    is Bruce’s 20th studio album,  and was recorded at his home studio in New Jersey. Listen to the album's title track and watch the new video   here . “I love the emotional nature of  Letter To You ,” says Bruce.  “And I love the sound of the E Street Band playing completely live  in the studio,  in a way we’ve never done before, and with no overdubs.  We made the album in only five days, and it turned out to be  one of the greatest recording experiences I’ve ever had.”   Letter to You  includes nine recently written Springsteen songs,  as well as new recordings of three of his legendary,  but previously unreleased, compositions from the 1970s....

by Gregg Chadwick Bruce Springsteen released a beautiful new video as a thank you to fans that sets  highlights  from the just completed Wrecking Ball tour to a new recording of   “Dream Baby Dream.” Video edited by Thom Zimny, shot by Chris Hilson.  Audio produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen, mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Read Bruce's personal thank you to fans:  Song by Song Reviews of Wrecking Ball by Gregg Chadwick: 1.  We Take Care of Our Own 2.  Easy Money 3.  Shackled and Drawn 4.  Jack of All Trades 5.  Death to My Hometown 6.  This Depression 7.  Wrecking Ball 8.  You've Got It 9.  Rocky Ground 10.  Land of Hope and Dreams ...

by Gregg Chadwick Yesterday in Coventry, Bruce Springsteen dedicated a live full-album performance of  Born to Run  to the recently-departed actor James Gandolfini. Born to Run is a cinematic album that conjures up the  noirish romance of New York and New Jersey seen through the eyes of a youthful protagonist. Unspoken desires and Jersey lowlifes haunt this character as he roams a landscape of broken dreams from the break of day until the dark morning hours.   Gandolfini's characters seemed to embody this endless search for something more, something bigger, something more real.  Gandolfini will be deeply missed. Video: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Play Meeting Across The River  for James Gandolfini in Coventry on June 20, 2013 Little Steven and James Gandolfini on April 7, 2002, during a Hard Rock Cafe Presents "Little Steven's Underground Garage" radio show at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York. photo by Kevin Mazur / Wi...

The President Responds via Twitter to Romney's Ill Advised Birther Joke: Barack Obama  ‏ @ BarackObama Song of  the  day:  Born   in   the   U.S.A.   http://OFA.BO/irL3ZV Retweeted 1388 times Love that our President has a great sense of humor and great taste in music! Gregg Chadwick American Dreams: Obama Study

Bruce Springsteen dedica 'The River' a #vaportiNacho Emocionó a las 60.000 personas que abarrotaron el Santiago Bernabéu Song by Song Reviews of Wrecking Ball on Speed of Life: 1.  We Take Care of Our Own 2.  Easy Money 3.  Shackled and Drawn 4.  Jack of All Trades 5.  Death to My Hometown 6.  This Depression 7.  Wrecking Ball 8.  You've Got It 9.  Rocky Ground 10.  Land of Hope and Dreams 11.  We Are Alive

by Gregg Chadwick "This was perhaps the most inspirational show I’ve witnessed in 30 years of attending thousands of concerts, including at least a dozen by Springsteen. There was maybe one better: When he played Jazz Fest in New Orleans after Katrina and turned the city of ruins into a city reborn. But Morello’s lead on “Ghost of Tom Joad” will be forever seared into my conscience as a testimonial, and a hope."   - Evelyn McDonnell , The Los Angeles Times   Last night the skies of Los Angeles cleared. The storms of the past few days receded only to be followed by the fierce weather of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Wrecking Ball Tour . The sold out Los Angeles Sports Arena sported a new coat of paint but the ghosts of past political and musical triumphs seemed to hang in the air.  With the house lights up, the band entered the arena with the theme from the film The Magnificent Seven blasting. This 1960 American film, directed by John...