The show is a benefit for the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which was founded by the ABC News anchor after being severly wounded while covering the war in Iraq in 2006.
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy brought out some big names from the rock community to lend their voices in support. Last night, a one-hour telethon, ‘Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together,’ was broadcast to raise money for the American Red Cross' disaster relief efforts.
The Big Man of the Year award is named after E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who received the award in 2009. Van Zandt has devoted considerably time to Little Kids Rock over the years, and, after calling Springsteen a liar, spoke of their importance in his acceptance speech.
According to those in the general admission line that afternoon, Springsteen had rehearsed the song at soundcheck, so its inclusion was not a shock to the fans up front. But opening a stadium show with an obscure song tells the crowd that anything can happen.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are making plenty of memories in 2012, this time playing the rare concert at another baseball shrine, Chicago's Wrigley Field. "The Boss" and his band also couldn't help but invite a couple of longtime Chicago favorites - Eddie Vedder and Tom Morello - to join them frequently during the first of two performances in the Windy City.
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We all knew Bruce Springsteen was a master poet and songwriter, but who knew the guy was an financial oracle? Apparently Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister did, naming “The Boss” as his economic hero.
The notion that Bruce Springsteen has never done drugs in his life has long been looked at with skepticism as a way of creating a myth of him as a clean-cut, all-American rocker. After all, he came of age in the mid ’60s, and his first album contains lyrics like, “Wizard imps and sweatshop pimps / Interstellar mongrel nymphs,” so something mind-altering had to have been inside his brain at some po
If you liked Bruce Springsteen‘s ‘Wrecking Ball‘ album and his current world tour and were looking for another way to enjoy it, you can now play a musical instrument along with it. Alfred Music Publishing has released the songbook for ‘Wrecking Ball.’