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...most celebrated R. and B. singers of his generation; of complications arising from a massive stroke in 2003; in Edison, New Jersey. In 1981, after years backing such artists as David Bowie, Roberta Flack and Carly Simon, he released the first of 15 well-received solo albums, which included such R. and B. hits as Give Me the Reason, Here and Now and Love Won't Let Me Wait. But he longed for a chart-topping crossover, which he achieved in 2003 with the starkly intimate Dance With My Father, a homage to the parent he lost...
...tugging ballads made him one of the most celebrated R&B singers of his generation; of undisclosed causes, two years after suffering a massive stroke; in Edison, N.J. In 1981, after years of backing artists like David Bowie and Roberta Flack, he released the first of 15 well-received solo albums, which included such R&B hits as Give Me the Reason, Here and Now and Love Won't Let Me Wait. But he longed for a chart-topping crossover and in 2003 achieved it with the starkly intimate Dance with My Father, an homage to the dad he lost...
Bowden arrived in Cambridge to be greeted by a barrage of psychological exams and interviews. Then came the Physical Abilities Test, which required Bowden to carry a ladder solo and drag a heavy dummy through a course alongside the other competitors, who she says were mostly...
...Memphis, after a concert in 1976. Springsteen and a couple of pals made a midnight pilgrimage out to Graceland, where rock's first real King still dwelled. Outside those gates, a certain madness took hold. The Boss wanted to meet Elvis, and he made a sudden, sprung-loose, solo commando raid on the sacred fortress. He was grabbed and turned back, and it was then, as he still likes to tell it, that he cashed in all his chips. "I'm Bruce Springsteen!" he yelled. "I was on the cover of TIME! The cover of Newsweek! I got an album...
...entire Brat Pack, while fueling endless idle speculation about a future in Hollywood. In a half-decade full of switchback curves and turning points, however, the starting line may have been a moment when Springsteen opened Joe Klein's luminous 1980 biography of Woody Guthrie. Nebraska, the solo album he released in 1982, has direct roots in Guthrie tunes like Pretty Boy Floyd, just as Springsteen's current populism has models in the blue-collar activism of the 1930s...