Word: springsteen
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...Doors mournful song ?The End? and not think about the explosive, nightmarish opening images of Francis Ford Coppola's ?Apocalypse Now?. That war, and its aftermath, helped spawn a number of songs, from Marvin Gaye?s ?What?s Going On,? a plea for peace and understanding, to Bruce Springsteen?s ?Born in the U.S.A.,? which explored the pain and confusion of a returning war veteran: ?Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand/ Sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man.? ?Born in the U.S.A.? was famously misinterpreted...
...book artists, including Will Eisner, collaborated on a volume of stories about the attacks. And Friday night, every broadcast network and numerous cable channels aired the two-hour telethon America: A Tribute to Heroes. Surprisingly restrained, held on spare, candlelit stages, it featured elegiac performances from musicians including Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow and Alicia Keys and so many star presenters--Tom Hanks, Muhammad Ali, Julia Roberts--that the likes of Jack Nicholson and Meg Ryan were answering phones. But, mainly, pop culture redefined itself in terms of what...
...pink-slip-and-a-six-pack populist anger. But they were also one of the few acts in recent years to crack the charts with an unfiltered political message. They were, in their words, "calm like a bomb." Even higher-profile, socially conscious artists like Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen have seemed increasingly like museum docents in their recent work, curating the legacy of '30s-era populism...
...revival of protest music in the West: capital punishment in particular and law enforcement in general are bringing together black and white artists as few issues have since apartheid. The New York City police shooting of African immigrant Amadou Diallo created a mini-genre of tribute songs--Springsteen's heartfelt if monotonous American Skin, Wyclef Jean's lilting Diallo and Erykah Badu's oblique A.D. 2000. The justice system may be to the rebel music of the 21st century as the military...
...relation, by blood or by music. Ryan, 26, the former lead singer for the alt-country band Whiskeytown, writes songs that have the passion of youth and a melancholy that one might think would be beyond his years. Sometimes he sounds like the old Bruce Springsteen; other times he sounds like a new Hank Williams. Adams' last album, Heartbreaker (2000), was released on a small label, and few fans heard it. His new CD, Gold (due out Sept. 25), is his major-label debut and should win him the larger audience he deserves...