Artist: Bruce Springsteen Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock: Folk
Discography:
Magic Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (American Land Edition) Year: 2006
Tracks: 18
Hammersmith Odeon London '75 CD2 Year: 2006
Tracks: 7
Hammersmith Odeon London '75 CD1 Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
Devils and Dust Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
The Essential (CD 3) Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
The Essential (CD 2) Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
The Essential (CD 1) Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Born In The U.S.A. Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
The Rising Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Darkness On The Edge Of Town Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
18 Tracks Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
Greatest Hits Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hits Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Human Touch Year: 1992
Tracks: 14
Chimes Of Freedom Year: 1988
Tracks: 4
Tunnel Of Love Year: 1987
Tracks: 12
Live - 1975-85 (CD 3) Year: 1986
Tracks: 13
Live - 1975-85 (CD 2) Year: 1986
Tracks: 14
Live - 1975-85 (CD 1) Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
The River (Special Edition) (CD 2) Year: 1980
Tracks: 9
The River (Special Edition) (CD 1) Year: 1980
Tracks: 11
Born To Run Year: 1977
Tracks: 8
The Wild, The Innocent and The E Year: 1973
Tracks: 7
Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Year: 1973
Tracks: 9
Tracks (CD 4) Year:
Tracks: 14
Tracks (CD 3) Year:
Tracks: 18
Tracks (CD 2) Year:
Tracks: 17
Tracks (CD 1) Year:
Tracks: 17
Nebraska Year:
Tracks: 10
Lucky Town Year:
Tracks: 10
Ghost Of Tom Joad Year:
Tracks: 12
When Bruce Springsteen eventually skint through to national recognition in the fall of 1975 afterwards a decennary of trying, critics hailed him as the deliverer of rock-and-roll & roll, the single originative person wHO brought together all the exuberance of '50s rock and the thoughtfulness of '60s rock, wrought into a '70s style. He rocked as strong as Jerry Lee Lewis, his lyrics were as complicated as Bob Dylan's, and his concerts were near-religious celebrations of all that was best in music. One critic became so infatuated that he whole tone down reviewing to go Springsteen's handler.
Just the hosannas, when piped through the publicity machine of a major record company, were perceived as plug by a significant part of the world as comfortably as the mainstream media -- Springsteen landed on the covers of Time and Newsweek, but both magazines were covering the phenomenon, not the music. Springsteen's album,
Born to Run, became a collide with, and he jumped to stadium condition as a live act, merely as many people were sour off by the press run as turned on by the records and shows.
Two decades afterward, however, Springsteen remained an established asterisk world Health Organization could attend back on a calling that had produced unmatched of the best-selling albums of all time, sold-out sports stadium shows, Grammy awards and an Oscar, and a grouping of imitators world Health Organization established their own subgenre of democratic music. If he no longer seemed divine, he remained popular enough for his
Greatest Hits record album to record the charts at number one, and he had south Korean won over many of those skeptics from 1975.
Growing up in southerly New Jersey, Springsteen turned to sway & flap as a teenager and played in a series of bands from the mid-'60s on, varying in style from garage tilt to power triad blues-rock. By the early '70s, he was trying his handwriting at organism a folky singer/songwriter in Greenwich Village. But when he was signed to Columbia Records in 1972, he brought into the studio many of the New Jersey-based musicians with whom he'd played over the long time.
The resultant role was
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (Jan 1973), which went unnoticed upon initial release, though Manfred Mann's Earth Band would turn its leadoff raceway, "Blinded by the Light," into a number unmatchable strike four-spot long time by and by.
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (September 1973) besides failed to sell despite some jabber reviews. (Both albums have since at rest pt.)
The next year, Springsteen revised his backup group -- dubbed the E Street Band -- settling on a batting order that included sax musician Clarence Clemons, second guitarist "Miami" Steve Van Zandt, organist Danny Federici, piano player Roy Bittan, bassist Garry Tallent, and drummer Max Weinberg. With this building block he barnstormed the nation spell working on his third gear and final luck with Columbia. By the time
Born to Run (August 1975) was released, the critics and a significant cult interview were with him, and the title song became a Top 40 reach spell the album reached the Top Ten.
What Springsteen requisite to do in the inflame of the hype, of course, was to play and record more to consolidate his locating. He was prevented at least from the latter by a former handler, world Health Organization unbroken him in court during the future match of years. Meanwhile, the musical universe changed. Part of the cause critics had welcomed Springsteen so enthusiastically in 1975 was that he seemed a return to basic rock-and-roll & flap values in a world of cushy rock candy, leaden metal, and art stone.
By the time Springsteen returned with his quarter album,
Darkness on the Edge of Town (June 1978), even so, the punk/new wave apparent movement had outflanked him, push him from the van to the mainstream. Similar sounding heartland rockers such as Bob Seger had appeared, so that Springsteen sounded less like an trailblazer than a member of an accomplished genre.
Yet, he set about winning fans with an album that set up the lost children of his former albums stuck in mill jobs, still hungriness for some leak. The record album was a tally, though it did not match the success of
Born to Run. Springsteen returned with the two-fold album
The River (Oct 1980), which topped the charts and featured his low gear Top Ten reach, "Hungry Heart."
Nonentity was career him a hype anymore, merely Springsteen retreated from his expanding success, adjacent recording the low-key album
Cornhusker State (September 1982), a virtual demo tape on vinyl. (Springsteen did non duty tour to promote the record album, and in the interim E Street Band guitar player Van Zandt amicably left the group for a solo career, to be replaced by Nils Lofgren.)
Simply then came
Born in the U.S.A. (June 1984) and a biennial international term of enlistment. The record album threw off 7 attain singles and sold over ten-spot trillion copies, putting Springsteen in the pop celestial sphere with Michael Jackson and Prince. After touring for more than a year, he released a five-LP/three-CD concert album,
Live/1975-85 (November 1986), which topped the charts.
Characteristically, Springsteen returned with a more introverted exploit,
Tunnel of Love (October 1987), which presaged his split up from his showtime married woman. (He married a indorsement clock time to singer Patti Scialfa, world Health Organization had joined the E Street Band.)
After some other marathon tour of duty, Springsteen gave the E Street Band notification in November 1989, break up a historied unit wHO had stayed together 15 age. In March 1992, he simultaneously released
Human Touch and
Golden Town, and though the albums premiered close the top of the charts, they were less successful with fans than late efforts. In the fall, Springsteen taped an
MTV Unplugged segment (though he plugged in after one song), and the performance was released as an album in Europe in 1993.
Springsteen continued to circuit until July 1993. In the fall, he wrote and recorded "Streets of Philadelphia" for the soundtrack to the film
Philadelphia, which concerned a lawyer dying of AIDS. The sung became a Top Ten stumble in 1994, taking the Academy Award for Best Song and cleansing up at the Grammys the following year. At the same time, Springsteen had readied his
Sterling Hits album (Feb 1995), reassembling the E Street Band to record a few new tracks. The album was an immediate best seller. Springsteen followed it with
The Ghost of Tom Joad (November 1995), some other subdued, low-spirited, near-acoustic feat and embarked upon a brief solo duty tour. In 1999, soon after his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band (including both Lofgren and Van Zandt on guitars) and embarked on a earth circuit that lasted until mid-2000, its final dates resulting in the album
Lively in New York City.
He then made his showtime new full-length studio album to feature the group as a whole since
Natural in the U.S.A.,
The Rising, his first gear album of new studio recordings since
The Ghost of Tom Joad. Released in July 2002, it was followed by another successful term of t and recording roger Sessions for a new album, released as
Devils & Dust in 2005. One class later he released the kickoff covers record album of his career, a tribute to the songs of Pete Seeger titled
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions.
Live in Dublin, featuring concert tracks done on the term of enlistment supporting the Seeger objectify, was released on both CD and DVD in 2007. Then it was back to on the job with the E Street Band for the release of
Illusion in the fall of 2007.
