Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his work with the E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss", Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey and his lengthy and energetic stage performances, with concerts from the 1970s to the present decade running up to an uninterrupted 250 minutes in length. Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 64 million albums in the United States making him the fifteenth highest selling artist of all-time and more than 120 million albums worldwide.==Links To Peel== On 18 November 1975, exactly six months before he fell in love with the Ramones, he attended a gig by the up and coming Bruce Springsteen and wrote in The Listener:


 * "His fist few numbers were a trifle theatrical, like off cuts from West Side Story... Don't think he is, as Rolling Stone have claimed, the future of rock 'n' roll, but rather a summary of it's past. Vocally Van Morrisonish  and I thought he rather overdid the street punk routine."

Since that gig, he never played any of Bruce Springsteen's material on his show, except when listeners voted Born To Run at number 26 on the 1978 Festive Fifty. However he did play covers of Bruce Springsteen songs, especially ones by the Dawn Chorus & The Blue Tits in 1985 and ballboy in 2002, whose cover of Born In The USA reached number 38 on the 2003 Festive Fifty.

Festive Fifty Entries

 * 1978 Festive Fifty: Born To Run #26

Other Shows Played
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1978
 * 27 December 1978: Born To Run (LP - Born to Run, 1975) Columbia
 * 1978 Festive Fifty Compilation: 'Born To Run (LP-Born To Run)' (CBS)