For a half-century, Bruce Springsteen’s job has been unlike any other. He has released 21 albums, collecting 20 Grammys, an Oscar, a Tony, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He’s written a best-selling memoir and sold more than 150 million records worldwide.
But the story of Springsteen is more than the scale of his success. He occupies a rarefied place in American life, maintaining an authenticity rare for a performer of his reach, even as he grapples with the contradictions of his existence. Springsteen is a tribune for the working class who became fabulously rich; a restless outsider who is a rooted family man; and the rock star who has seemingly everything but still wrestles with shadows he cannot shake.
Now Springsteen, 76, has undertaken another daring move: surrendering control to a team of filmmakers to tell the story of the most vulnerable period of his life. Deliver Me From Nowhere, in theaters Oct. 24, chronicles the making of Nebraska, his 1982 acoustic masterpiece. Jeremy Allen White plays Springsteen; Jeremy Strong portrays his longtime manager Jon Landau. The film captures a sliver of his early 30s, when he was battling his first bout of serious depression, and eventually seeking therapy—a step Springsteen credits with saving his life. “It could have gone in a lot of different directions,” he says.
Fifty years after Born to Run, he may be associated with getting out, but his life has been defined by sticking around. “What I worked very hard on was not running, but on standing, on making your life choices, and then standing with and for them,” he says. “That’s been my theme since that record.”
If the heroes of Born to Run found their glory in flight, Springsteen has since offered the counter-vision: that to stay put, to face your own demons head on, is its own form of heroism.
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Happy 74th birthday to legendary drummer Phil Collins 🥁
Much respect to this guy. To sit in front of a huge crowd and casually belt out vocals then go back and sit at drums right on time and nail it.
That's what you call TALENT.
Giuseppe Verdi died in the Grand Hotel et de Milan on this very day in 1901.
He spent extended periods of time living in suite 105 and he was adored by the Milanese public
"Paul McCartney, 82 años, pocos artistas de pop vivos han marcado a tanta gente. Anoche estuvo en Madrid para repartir felicidad. Había adolescentes con sus padres, parejas de abuelos, grupos de jóvenes. Gente dichosa, pasando el mejor lunes de sus vidas" https://t.co/VnaUnumNUe
La sensación de haber vivido algo histórico, de haber formado parte por un ratito de las canciones más bellas de la música. Paul McCartney es un genio y los Beatles serán eternos.
"Paul McCartney, 82 años, pocos artistas de pop vivos han marcado a tanta gente. Anoche estuvo en Madrid para repartir felicidad. Había adolescentes con sus padres, parejas de abuelos, grupos de jóvenes. Gente dichosa, pasando el mejor lunes de sus vidas" https://t.co/qQ1pt6B3Ra
When it comes to songwriting, even Bruce Springsteen doesn’t know when inspiration will strike.
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