Research Catalog

Title

Bruce Springsteen FAQ : all that's left to know about The Boss / John D. Luerssen.

Author

Luerssen, John D.

Publication

Milwaukee, WI : Backbeat Books, 2012.

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Details

Description

xiv, 437 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• Bruce Springsteen FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Boss covers those early years and beyond. It investigates Springsteen's superstar Born in the U.S.A. album and tour, the dissolution and reunion of the E Street Band, the legal wrangling that held up 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town, the group's post-millennium resurgence, the untimely passing of core band members Danny Federic and Clarence Clemons, and more.
• For many, high school is where the garage-band dreams die, but time spent fronting a band called Steel Mill in the heyday of Asbury Park's Upstage scene gave Springsteen the courage to sidestep college and put his name out in front, soon enough making him "The Boss" to his band. After working diligently for five more years on that dream, Springsteen had landed the dueling Time and Newsweek covers. The nationwide exposure, supported by the strength of his album Born to Run, made him an instant household name.
• Long before he sold 120 million albums globally in a career that has endured artistically and commercially like no other performer's in the rock era, Bruce Springsteen was a working-class New Jersey kid with a dream and a guitar. By the time he was sixteen, he was playing ShopRite openings and school dances around his hometown of Freehold.
• This indispensable read, packed with countless images of rare memorabilia, is a volume Springsteen fans will treasure.

Series Statement

FAQ series

Subjects

• Rock musicians > United States > Biography
• Springsteen, Bruce

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: Yorn in the U.S.A. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Baby, I'm a Rocker -- 1. I Was Born Blue and Weathered: Springsteen's Childhood -- 2. I Hear the Lead Singer Shoutin' Out, Girl: 1965-1968 -- 3. I Wanna be Where the Bands are: 1968-1970 -- 4. Cut Loose Like a Deuce: 1971-1972 -- 5. The Record Company, Rosie, Just Offered me a Big Advance: Signing to Columbia Records -- 6. Just Like a Supernova: Greetings from Asbury Part, N. J. -- 7. The Aurora Is Risin' Behind Us: The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle -- 8. I Wanna Be a Slave to the Beat: Artists Springsteen Opened For -- 9. Out on a Midnight Run: After The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle -- 10. Will You Walk with Me out on the Wire? Meeting Jon Landau -- 11. Monday When the Foreman Calls Time: The Boss -- 12. And the Band Played: The E Street Band -- 13. Pulling out of Here to Win: Born to Run -- 14. Runaway American Dream: Springsteen Versus Appel -- 15. I Got the Radio on and I'm Just Killing Time: 1976-1977 -- 16. We Drove Eight Hundred Miles Without Seeing a Cop: Bruce Stories -- 17. Tonight I'll be on that Hill' Cause I Can't Stop: Darkness on the Edge of Town -- 18. You've Got to Live it Every Day: Springsteen's 1978 Tour -- 19. We're Runnin' Now, but Darlin' Will We Stand in Time? The River -- 20. Ten Years Burning Down This Road: Springsteen Tours 1980-1989 -- 21. Maybe Everything That Dies Someday Comes back: Nebraska -- 22. I'm Ready to Grow Young Again: Born in the U.S.A. -- 23. What I Got I Have Earned: Live/1975-85 -- 24. All the Kids are Dancin': Springsteen's Other Concert Albums -- 25. Spare Parts and Broken Hearts Keep the World Turnin' Around: Tunnel of Love -- 26. Cuddle Up: Springsteen's Girlfriends and Wives -- 27. Waitin' for That Shout from the Crowd: A Dozen Indispensable New Jersey Springsteen Shows -- 28. In the Dumps with the Mumps as the Adolescent Pumps His Way into His Hat: Debacles, Dangers, Controversies, and Embarrassments -- 29. When It Comes to Luck, You Make Your Own: Human Touch and Lucky Town -- 30. Saw My Reflection in a Window: Springsteen's "Best of" Compliations -- 31. The Highway is Alive Tonight: The Ghost of Tom Joad -- 32. You Ain't Lived till You've Had Your Tires Rotated: Springsteen's '90s Tours -- 33. Somebody Shake My Brains: Tracks -- 34. Rockaway the Nights: Roll Call at the Rock Hall -- 35. I Close My Eyes and Feel So Many Friends Around me: The Reunion Tour -- 36. There's Spirits Above and Behind Me: The Rising -- 37. You Can't Forsake the Ties that Bind: Benefit Shows, Charities, and Causes -- 38. I Feel a Dirty Wind Blowing: Devils and Dust -- 39. Brothers and Sisters Don't You Cry, There'll be Good Times By and By: The Seeger Sessions -- 40. Is There Anybody Alive out There? Magic -- 41. Sunrise Come, I Climb the Ladder: Working on a Dream -- 42. Your Loving Grace Surrounds Me: On the Road from The Rising to the Wrecking Ball -- 43. Cool Rocking Daddy: Family Life -- 44. Till My TV Lay in Pieces There at My Feet: The Best of the Boss on Television -- 45. I Believe in the Promised Land: Politics -- 46. Lookin' for That Million-Dollar Sound: The Promise -- 47. Tell Me Friend, Can You Ask for Anything More? Significant Honors and Awards -- 48. Wherever This Flag is Flown: Wrecking Ball -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781617130939
• 1617130931

LCCN

^^2012026374

OCLC

779264026

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library