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The longest break between Bruce Springsteen albums was the nearly five years that passed between Tunnel of Love and its followups, Human Touch and Lucky Town, released simultaneously in April 1992. During that hiatus, Springsteen parted ways with the E Street Band, married singer Patty Scialfa and began raising a family. He supported Human Touch and Lucky Town with a tour for which he assembled a new band, retaining only keyboardist Roy Bittan from the old crew. In 1994, Springsteen contributed the somber “Streets of Philadelphia” to the soundtrack of the film Philadelphia. It became his first Top Ten single since “Tunnel of Love” and won four Grammys and an Academy Award.
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Bruce Springsteen is the world's greatest living rock 'n' roll star. The last thirty years, The Boss, Springsteen has scored a high number of worldwide hits and released more than 15 albums. In 1999, Bruce Springsteen embarked a well-received world tour with the E Street Band. Shortly after, Springsteen and the E Street Band reunited to record their first new studio set since 1984. The Rising was released in 2002. The album was inspired by the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the year before.
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Bruce Springsteen's career started off when he met the E Street Band, a popular bar act that included saxophone player Clarence Clemons. He received little commercial success though with his debut album Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ (1973) and the follow-up called The Wild, the Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle. Manfred Mann's Earth Band would turn his debut album's leadoff track Blinded by the Light into a number one hit four years later. Although the critics praised him and compared him to Bob Dylan, Springsteen's breakthrough was to be helped by the band Chicago. A tour with them brought Springsteen's captivating live performances in the spotlights.
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Bruce Springsteen has placed himself in a lineage of folk and popular musicians, including Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, who have sought to effect social change. An acclaimed songwriter and energetic performer, Springsteen spent his early years singing in New Jersey bars, garnered a sizable commercial audience by 1975, and achieved superstar status with the release of Born in the USA (1984). His tremendous popularity, combined with his own ambition for success, opened his music to interpretations that seemed to conflict with his populist lyrics. Anxious to ride the bandwagon of his success, politicians and pundits appropriated his image to support their own perspectives. In much of the work that followed Born in the USA, ..., Springsteen made a self-conscious effort to elucidate a liberal cultural politics.
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Bruce Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey on September 23, 1949. His father, Douglas Springsteen, was a bus driver of Dutch and Irish ancestry and his mother, Adele Zirilli Springsteen was a secretary with an Italian-American background. The family moved to Freehold Borough, New Jersey where Bruce grew up. At age 13 he bought his first guitar for $18. At age 16 his mother saw his potential and borrowed money to buy him a $60 Kent guitar, an event he memorializes with the song "The Wish". He began to perform in 1969 and for the next two years with his three band mates, two of whom are still in the E Street Band today, performed in the region surrounding the area where they lived.
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Bruce Springsteen was born on September 23, 1949, in Freehold in the American state of New Jersey. He grew up in a middle-class family. In high school he experimented with guitar and he played in a series of bands, varying from garage rock to power trio blues-rock. After his graduation, he decided to continue his musical aspirations in folk. He moved to New York but fell short in establishing himself in the New York folk happening. Springsteen unwillingly returned to New Jersey within a year.
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