Word: springsteen
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With The Rising, Bruce Springsteen delivers his first studio album backed by the E Street Band in 15 years. In 1975, with the release of Born to Run, a cover story hailed the KID FROM NEW JERSEY...
...money is starting to flow in now: Springsteen takes home $350 a week...[He] lives sometimes with his girl friend Karen Darvin, 20, a freckled, leggy model from Texas, in a small apartment on Manhattan's East Side. More frequently, he is down on the Jersey shore, where he has just moved into more comfortable--but not lavish--quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly indifferent to clothing and personal adornment, although he wears a small gold cross around his neck--a vestigial remnant of Catholicism--and, probably to challenge it, a small gold ring...
...Bruce Springsteen has a songbook that reads like a union membership log. He has written about cops, fire fighters, soldiers, road builders, steelworkers, factory laborers and migrant workers. Springsteen himself has held exactly one real job. For a few weeks in 1968 when he was 18, he worked as a gardener. But his gift is not horticulture. His great gift--the one that makes him the best rock 'n' roll singer of his era--is empathy. Springsteen doesn't know what a 40-hour workweek feels like, but he knows how a 40-hour workweek makes you feel...
...Elton John: “If it hadn’t been for Elvis, I don’t know were popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.” Bruce Springsteen: “Elvis is my religion. But for him, I’d be selling encyclopedias right...
Danny Devito, Jon Bon Jovi, Calista Flockhart, Bruce Springsteen, Jason Alexander, James Gandolfini, Lauryn Hill (and the other two Fugees) and Thomas Edison are just a few of the notable natives who have made New Jersey the birthplace of fame itself...