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- Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Bruce was the only child of a divorced mother. He grew up in "The Bluff" neighborhood of northwest Atlanta, an area that has a history of crime and poverty.
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Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Bruce was the only child of a divorced mother. [5] He grew up in "The Bluff" neighborhood of northwest Atlanta, an area that has a history of crime and poverty. [6] Bruce was funny from a young age and was a class clown. [2]
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- Early life and singer-songwriter period
- From Born to Run to Born in the U.S.A.
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Bruce Springsteen is an American singer, songwriter, and bandleader who became the archetypal rock performer of the 1970s and ’80s. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
What was Bruce Springsteen's breakout album?
With his third album, Born to Run (1975), Bruce Springsteen transformed into a full-fledged rock and roller. The album, a diurnal song cycle, was a sensation even before it hit the shelves. The week of the album’s release, Springsteen was on the covers of both Time and Newsweek.
What awards did Bruce Springsteen win for "Streets of Philadelphia"?
Bruce Springsteen won both an Academy Award and a Grammy Award for his 1994 hit single, the AIDS-related “Streets of Philadelphia,” from the film Philadelphia.
When did Bruce Springsteen's album Born in the U.S.A. come out?
Springsteen grew up in Freehold, a mill town where his father worked as a labourer. His rebellious and artistic side led him to the nearby Jersey Shore, where his imagination was sparked by the rock band scene and the boardwalk life, high and low. After an apprenticeship in bar bands on the mid-Atlantic coast, Springsteen turned himself into a solo...
With his third album, Born to Run (1975), Springsteen transformed into a full-fledged rock and roller, heavily indebted to Phil Spector and Roy Orbison. The album, a diurnal song cycle, was a sensation even before it hit the shelves; indeed, the week of the album’s release, Columbia’s public relations campaign landed Springsteen on the covers of both Time and Newsweek. But it sold only middling well, and three years passed before the follow-up—the darker, tougher Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)—appeared.
With “Hungry Heart,” from The River (1980), Springsteen finally scored an international hit single. By then, however, he was best known for his stage shows, three- and four-hour extravaganzas with his E Street Band that blended rock, folk, and soul with dramatic intensity and exuberant humour. The band—a crew of mixed stereotypes, from rock-and-roll bandit to cool music professional—was more like a gang than a musical unit, apparently held together by little other than faith in its leader. Springsteen’s relationship and interplay onstage with African American saxophonist Clarence Clemons was particularly iconic.
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Springsteen’s refusal, after Born to Run, to cooperate with much of the record company’s public relations and marketing machinery, coupled with his painstaking recording process and the draining live shows, helped earn his reputation as a performer of principle as well as of power and popularity. Yet to that point Springsteen was probably more important as a regional hero of the Eastern Seaboard from Boston to Virginia, where his songs and attitudes metaphorically summed up a certain rock-based lifestyle, than as a figure of national or international importance.
Nebraska (1982), a stark set of acoustic songs, most in some way concerned with death, was an unusual interlude. It was Born in the U.S.A. (1984) and his subsequent 18-month world tour that cinched Springsteen’s reputation as the preeminent writer-performer of his rock-and-roll period. The album produced seven hit singles, most notably the title track, a sympathetic portrayal of Vietnam War veterans widely misinterpreted as a patriotic anthem.
Springsteen’s social perspective was distinctly working-class throughout his career, a point emphasized both by his 1995 album, The Ghost of Tom Joad, which concerned itself with America’s economically and spiritually destitute, and by his 1994 hit single (his first in eight years), the AIDS-related “Streets of Philadelphia,” from the film Philadelphia, for which he won both an Academy Award and a Grammy Award.
The other side of Springsteen’s work is reflected in the albums that he produced in the period beginning with Tunnel of Love (1987) and including Human Touch and Lucky Town (released simultaneously in 1992). The songs on those albums are intensely personal reflections on intimate relationships. In general, they have not been as popular.
Bridging all that is the five-record set Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975–1985 (1986), which captures as much of his highly visual stage show of that period as can be rendered in a solely audio form. (His work in music video has been judged to be far less good, showing his tendency to be somewhat stilted on TV despite his being a naturally gifted stage performer.)
The breakup of the E Street Band in 1989 and general trends in pop music fashion curbed Springsteen’s popularity. In 1998 he put together a box set, Tracks, consisting for the most part of leftover material that had failed to make the cut on his albums with the band. That grandiose gesture established him as prolix beyond all but a couple of peers. Sales of Tracks were trivial compared with those for Live.
Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein in what was then West Germany. [3] His mother, Marlene, [4] was German, from Kassel, [5] and his father, David Willis, was an American soldier. He has a younger sister, Florence, and two younger brothers, Robert (deceased) and David. [6]
He is of Dutch, Irish, and Italian descent, [14] and grew up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey. Springsteen's paternal ancestors were among the early Dutch families who, in the 17th century, settled in colonial-era America, then part of the Dutch Republic known as New Netherland. [15] .
His next break came when he won a spot on HBO's popular Def Comedy Jam television show in 1992, a solid sign that his star was rising in the business of comedy. In 1994 Bruce appeared on Showtime at the Apollo, hosted by comedian Steve Harvey. Bruce was now appearing with big names in the business.
Aug 21, 2024 · Bruce Lee (born November 27, 1940, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died July 20, 1973, Hong Kong) was an American-born film actor who was renowned for his martial arts prowess and who helped popularize martial arts movies in the 1970s. Lee was born in San Francisco, but he grew up in Hong Kong.
May 10, 2024 · Bruce wasn’t an only child for long; he grew up alongside two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela Springsteen, who would also find their own artistic paths as adults. In Freehold, a town that epitomized small-town America with its community-centric lifestyle, Bruce’s early life was modest.
