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While waiting to find out if his second Oscar-nominated song, "Dead Man Walking," will turn into a second win, Bruce Springsteen talks to the gay press for the first time "The bonus I got out of writing 'Streets of Philadelphia' was that all of a sudden I could go out and meet some gay man somewhere and he wouldn't be afraid to talk to me and say, 'Hey, that song really meant something to me.' My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights," says rock's most thoughtful megastar, Bruce Springsteen.
Bruce Springsteen: The Advocate Interview | Article Vault | Greasy Lake
Landau's Creative Touch with Springsteen
Billboard, Jun 13, 1992 by Thom Duffy NEW YORK--On June 15, Bruce Springsteen will kick off his first worldwide tour in four years in Stockholm, showcasing his two new Columbia Records albums "Human Touch" and "Lucky Town" with a new band--guitarist Shane Fontayne, drummer Zachary Alford, bassist Tommy Simms, and E Street Band keyboardist Roy Bittan. He previewed the tour June 5 with a live international broadcast from Los Angeles syndicated by the Album Network and will open his U.S. tour at New Jersey's Meadowlands Arena July 23. Recently, Springsteen's longtime manager and producer, Jon Landau, sat down for a rare interview with Billboard to discuss the making and the marketing of these new albums and his role in bringing forth Springsteen's music, in what Landau calls a 17-year-long creative dialog.Columbia Radio Hour Interview
transcript from: http://www.monmouth.com/user_pages/pwalton/springsteen [Bruce Springsteen was interviewed by Bob Costas about "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and other subjects for the Columbia Radio Hour. The syndicated broadcast aired on various stations in late November of 1995.
Columbia Radio Hour Interview Pt. 2
transcript from: http://www.monmouth.com/user_pages/pwalton/springsteen [Bruce Springsteen was interviewed by Bob Costas about "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and other subjects for the Columbia Radio Hour. The syndicated broadcast aired on various stations in late November of 1995. Most of the interview is transcribed here and on subsequent pages.]
Los Angeles Times, Sunday, April 1, 2001 by Robert Hilburn Wanting a new song for the final shows of his 1999-2000 reunion tour with the E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen thumbed through his notebook early last year and noticed the words "American Skin." It felt like the ideal title for a song he wanted write about race relations in America.
Under The Boss' Skin
Bruce Springsteen: Chords for Change
The New York Times, August 5, 2004, nytimes.com by Bruce Springsteen A nation's artists and musicians have a particular place in its social and political life. Over the years I've tried to think long and hard about what it means to be American: about the distinctive identity and position we have in the world, and how that position is best carried.Rolling Stone, September 22, 2004, RollingStone.com by Jann S. Wenner Do you see these Vote for Change concerts reaching undecided voters, or are they more to rally the energy of people who have made up their minds?
Springsteen: "We've Been Misled"
From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bru
Will Percy : When did books start influencing your songwriting and music? I remember as early as 1978, when I saw you in concert, you mentioned Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, and you dedicated a song to him. Bruce Springsteen : I picked up that book in a drugstore in Arizona while I was driving across the country with a friend of mine.
DoubleTake 12: Will Percy Interviews Bruce Springsteen
Nick Hornby talks to Bruce Springsteen | Music | Observer Music Monthly
Earlier on in the week that I met Bruce Springsteen, and before I knew I was going to meet him, I'd decided I was going to send him a copy of my new book. I got his home address off a mutual friend, and signed it to him, and the book was lying around in my office in an unstamped Jiffy bag when the editor of this magazine asked if I'd like to do this interview. So I took the book with me. I wasn't expecting him to read the bloody thing, nor even to keep it, and yet even so it seemed like something I needed to do.Bruce Springsteen: 'What was done to my country was un-American' | Music
'Pessimism and optimism slam against each other in my music' … Bruce Springsteen. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage At a Paris press conference on Thursday night, Bruce Springsteen was asked whether he was advocating an armed uprising in America. He laughed at the idea, but that the question was even posed at all gives you some idea of the fury of his new album Wrecking Ball.
It's a cold winter's day, and I'm driving through snowy fields on my way to meet Bruce Springsteen . Towards the end of the 18th century, a Scottish emigré came to this part of northern New Jersey in search of a new world. He bought land, built a house for his family and settled down to the life of a farmer.
Interview with Bruce Springsteen: a new president provides the Boss with fresh optimism | Music | The Observer
Rock's Backpages | Classic Bruce Springsteen Interview: How Born To Run Saved The Boss
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN SITS cross-legged on his half-made bed, and surveys the scene. Records are strewn across the room, singles mostly, intermixed with empty Pepsi bottles, a motley of underwear, socks and jeans, half-read and half-written letters, an assortment of tapes, and a copy of Richard Williams' Out of His Head , the biography of Phil Spector. The space is small, but Bruce and the two friends listening to Harold Dorman's 'Mountain of Love' don't mind. They're listening for the final few bars of 'Mountain', in which the drummer collapses and loses the beat – the song slows down to a noticeably improper tempo, and the effect is nothing less than absurd. Unfortunately, Springsteen, unlubricated by anything more than the spirit of the thing, is having trouble getting the turntable to spin consistently.Bruce Springsteen and Ed Norton talk on stage at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. George Pimentel/WireImage for TIFF In 1975, the album Born to Run catapulted Bruce Springsteen from a regional critical favorite to a worldwide megastar.