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President Donald Trump thinks Bruce Springsteen is “highly overrated … not a talented guy – just a pushy, obnoxious Jerk.” Trump shared his always unfiltered comments on his Truth social media platform on Friday, following Springsteen’s admonishment of his administration at the opening of the E Street Band’s European “Land of Hopes and Dreams” tour Wednesday night (May 14) in Manchester, England.

“Sleepy Joe didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing, but Springsteen is ‘dumb as a rock,’ and couldn’t see what was going on, or could he (which is even worse!),” Trump wrote, referencing former President Joe Biden. “This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to Keep His Mouth Shut until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare’. Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”

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Bruce Springsteen has unearthed a previously unheard song titled “Repo Man.” Leaning into a honky tonk sound, it’s taken fron Somewhere North of Nashville, one of seven previously unreleased albums collected in his forthcoming compilation Tracks II: The Lost Albums, out June 27th (pre-order here). Stream it below.

Somewhere North of Nashville was recorded concurrently with Springsteen’s 11th studio album, The Ghost of Tom Joad, in the summer of 1995. It was tracked live in the studio with much of the same band personnel, including Danny Federici, Garry Tallent, and Gary Mallaber.

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Featuring other instruments like pedal steel from Marty Rifkin and fiddle from Soozie Tyrell, the album was inspired by honky tonk, rockabilly and uptempo country. “I’m singing ‘Repo Man’ in the afternoon and ‘The Line’ at night,” Springsteen recalled about the overlapping recording sessions.

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Bruce Springsteen has shared another unreleased preview from his upcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, this time unveiling “Repo Man,” a track from the country-inspired Somewhere North of Nashville that he recorded at the same time as 1995’s The Ghost of Tom Joad.

As opposed to the “socially conscious” and largely acoustic The Ghost of Tom Joad, the rockabilly rocker “Repo Man” finds Springsteen having some honky tonk fun in the studio alongside a band that features Danny Federici, Garry Tallent, Gary Mallaber and pedal steel player Marty Rifkin,...

The fact that “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” even exists goes against everything the Boss used to believe. Up until a few years ago, he admits he was “very superstitious” about filming the band.

“I didn’t believe that the magician should look too closely at his magic trick, that it might alter it in some way,” Springsteen tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast, in the Emmy season kickoff episode. “And we were doing fine… It’s really amazing that we have the films that we have from when we were a younger man, because I was pretty much against filming.”

Directed by longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, “Road Diary” — currently streaming on Hulu and Disney+ — contains loads of that archival film, including 1975 footage from London’s Hammersmith Apollo. “What got captured got captured almost by accident,” he says. “At the Hammersmith Apollo, the BBC just filmed it.

“Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,” Thom Zimny’s newest documentary, closely examines the famous musician’s life at a turning point. The movie, which came out in 2024, shows how strong Springsteen is as he leads his famous band back onto the world stage after the Covid-19 pandemic forced them to take a six-year break.

The documentary isn’t just a concert movie; it’s a complex look at how art can grow and emotion can last. Since Zimny has worked with Springsteen for a long time and directed “Springsteen on Broadway” and “Letter to You,” this project has his signature documentary style. He carefully stitches together performance footage, practice footage from behind the scenes, and personal thoughts to make a rich tapestry of Springsteen’s current musical journey.

Springsteen isn’t just playing at age 75; he’s making a deep statement about his dedication to art.

Grammy winning Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame member Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band recently documented their return to live performing post-covid in Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. While several current members of the E Street Band were a part of the group's original lineup, there have been several members who departed. The documentary released on Hulu offers a window into Springsteen's songwriting, creative process, and rehearsal style, while additionally shedding light on the rich history of the musician's rise to fame.

Several current members of the E Street Band remain integral in 75-year-old Springsteen's personal and professional life. Patti Scialifa, who currently lends harmony vocals, rhythm guitar, keys, and synthesizer to the group, is also married to Springsteen. The couple share three children together and became first-time grandparents in 2022. On the other hand, several of the departed members of the E Street Band...

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Hulu and Disney's new documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band reveals never-before-seen details and footage about the legendary singer/songwriter. A native of Freehold, New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen is one of the most prolific American singers, songwriters, and rock n roll artists who has ever lived. He established the E Street Band for the recording of his debut album Greetings from Ashbury Park, N.J. in October 1972. The E Street Band originally consisted of Garry Tallent (bass), Clarence Clemons (saxophone), Danny Federici (keyboards), Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez (drums), and David Sancious (keyboards).

Road Diary offers views a behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsal process leading up to Bruce Springsteen's current world tour with the E Street Band. The tour began on February 1, 2023, in Tampa, Florida, and is set to conclude on July 2, 2025. Springsteen was...

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It’s time to go backstage with the Boss. The New Jersey rock legend and his band of fifty years aren’t slowing down any time soon in the original documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, now streaming on Hulu.

Directed by frequent collaborator Thom Zimny with Springsteen co-producing, the film follows the band throughout their electrifying 2023-24 tour, offering “the most in-depth look ever...

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The Boss is bringing fans backstage with his new tour documentary.

Hulu original film Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band offers “the most in-depth look ever at the creation of their legendary live performances, including footage of band rehearsals, backstage moments, rare archival clips and personal reflections from [the legendary rocker] himself,” per the film’s logline.

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Directed by frequent collaborator Thom Zimny, the music film runs one hour and 39 minutes and follows Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band during their 2023-24 tour, their first since 2017. The documentary features interviews with band members including guitarists Nils Lofgren and Steven Van Zandt (who also served as the tour’s official music director), bassist Garry Tallent, pianist Roy Bittan, drummer Max Weinberg, late saxophonist Clarence Clemons (who died in 2011) and late founding member Danny Federici (who died in...

As they prepare to embark on their first tour in six years, the E Street Band reflect on the “responsibility” they feel to deliver on the sort of energetic, virtuosic shows they’ve built their reputation on.

“People would expect musicians in their 70s to play that loping thing, which is unfortunate,” drummer Max Weinberg bemoans of a sluggish early rehearsal. “We had to recall some of that manic, out-of-control way we played 50 years ago. Really get back to where we were.”

But Disney+ / Hulu’s Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is no deluded attempt to deny the passage of time. Directed by Thom Zimny — who over the past quarter-century has worked on countless films and music videos for the Boss, including the 2018 Netflix special Springsteen on Broadway — the documentary is as much a celebration of what’s changed about the group as what hasn’t,...

Ever since they returned to the road in February 2023 following a six-year hiatus, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have largely stuck to a rigid setlist that tells a story about friendship, loss, resilience, and making the most of the time we have left. This has frustrated some longtime fans who travel across the globe to see multiple shows, but as the upcoming documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band reveals, it was inspired by Springsteen’s experience on Broadway in 2017-18, and crafted with meticulous care.

We’re not exactly starved for documentary content revolving around Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band, but that doesn’t mean the continued chronicles (and chronicling) of The Boss and America’s most enduring rock band don’t remain welcome entries in the nonfiction world. The latest true-life look at the Boss in this particular moment is directed by “The Promise: The Making of the Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “Springsteen on Broadway,” and many (many) Springsteen music videos filmmaker Thom Zimny, who continues to evolve his vision of Springsteen alongside the seminal American icon.

And if all those fawning words — “most enduring,” “seminal,” “icon” — don’t make it clear enough: this critic is very much a Springsteen fan, but that is not required to enjoy Springsteen and Zimny’s latest offering, “Road Diary.” While ostensibly focused on the band coming back to touring after nearly seven years...

You’re used to hearing the sound of “Bruce! Bruuuce! Broooooooooose!” in giant, rock-friendly arenas all over the world. The echo of fans screaming out Bruce Springsteen’s name in the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, however, feels weird — the 2,600 capacity venue is pretty intimate compared to most places the E Street band and its leader play. (It’s more than twice as big as the Walter Kerr Theatre, where Bruce did his Broadway show in 2017, and has more seats than the St. James Theatre, where he did a limited encore run in 2021, but still.

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen spoke candidly about his life and decades-long music career at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. The festival premiered “Road Diary,” a new documentary by longtime collaborator Thom Zimny. The film follows Springsteen and the E Street Band on their latest world tour.

At a post-screening question and answer session, the 74-year-old musician, known to fans as “The Boss,” reflected on his journey in the music industry. “If I went tomorrow, it’s Ok,” Springsteen told the packed house, prompting loud applause. “What a ride it’s been!” he added. Despite contemplating his legacy, Springsteen said he has no plans to retire and wants to keep performing with E Street Band for as long as possible.

“Road Diary” offers viewers an intimate look inside the legendary band. It shows the meticulous planning that transforms their music into live performances. “That’s how we make the sausage,...

Toronto welcomed “The Boss” on Sunday night.

But it was a more contemplative Bruce Springsteen on display at the Roy Thomson Hall for the world premiere of “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band,” a look at the rock legend and his tight-knit group of collaborators, which also served as a meditation on mortality. Throughout the film and in the post-screening Q&a, though, the 74-year-old rocker stressed that he doesn’t plan to hang up his guitar any time soon. He wants to keep rocking until “the wheels come off.”

“If I went tomorrow, it’s Ok,” Springsteen told the crowd to loud applause. “What a fucking ride!”

Also in the documentary, Springsteen’s wife and E Street bandmate Patti Scialfa revealed she was diagnosed in 2018 with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. Her illness has made it difficult for her to perform and, as a result,...

Over the past five decades, Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band have set the bar for live rock’n’roll shows. Their epic performances regularly steam past the three-hour mark, with their longest ever set, a 2012 gig in Helsinki, Finland, clocking in at a staggering four hours and six minutes. Earlier this month, Sir Paul McCartney was asked why his own solo shows have grown ever longer in recent years. “I blame Bruce Springsteen,” the former Beatle told the Fly on the Wall podcast. “I know him and I said to him, ‘It’s your fault, man’… the rest of us look measly if we do an hour.”

Springsteen’s stellar live reputation doesn’t just come from quantity, of course, but sheer crowd-pleasing quality. In a 2011 poll, Rolling Stone readers voted Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band the greatest live act of all time. To witness Springsteen...

Bruce Springsteen looks old. He doesn’t seem like he’s old — at 71, he appears to be in better physical shape than most of us were at 21. Judging from the vigor he shows in Letter to You, Thom Zimny’s documentary (it begins streaming on Apple TV on Oct. 23rd), you sense that he could walk onstage right now and easily knock out a four-hour live show, if live shows were still a thing. His songwriting hasn’t diminished, as this look at the recording of the album of the...

Bruce Springsteen might never get old, but he sure as hell isn’t getting any younger. Seventy-one this past September and fresh off a sublime Broadway run that saw him burnish his own myth by stepping out of its shadow, the Boss still looks like he’s 45, reflects on the past like he’s 90, and plays the guitar like he’s immortal. And yet time is catching up with him all the same, if only through his friends. E Street Band co-founder Danny Federici died in 2008, followed by saxophonist Clarence Clemons in 2011; when former Castiles legend George Theiss succumbed to lung cancer in 2018, Springsteen became the last surviving member of his first band.

In the twilight of a career that’s always been punctuated by songs that sound like ghost stories of one kind or another — “The River,” “The Rising,” and “American Skin (41 Shots)” are just a handful of a hundred examples,...

Fan recordings of Bruce Springsteen’s emotional Asbury Park show have been circling in the years since the Boss hit the stage on November 24th, 1996 for the start of a three-night stand. Now, Springsteen has just officially released the show as the latest offering from his ongoing live download series.

At this show — part of his acoustic Ghost of Tom Joad tour — Springsteen was joined by a host of guests, including Patti Scialfa, E Street Band keyboardist Danny Federici and future E Street Band violinist Soozie Tyrell. The setlist was...

Earlier this month, Bruce Springsteen released his October 13th, 1986, acoustic set at the Bridge School Benefit as an official live download. The hotly anticipated set was his first major performance since the end of the Born in the U.S.A. tour a year earlier. With Springsteen backed only by guitarist Nils Lofgren and organist Danny Federici, it features stripped-down renditions of “Fire,” “Glory Days,” “Mansion on the Hill,” and others. The set has circulated in bootleg circles for years, but the sound quality has never been this good even...

Bruce Springsteen surprise-released a new live album chronicling his October 13th, 1986 acoustic set at Neil Young’s inaugural Bridge School Benefit Concert at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California.

The concert marked Springsteen’s first major appearance since the end of his massive Born In the U.S.A. tour, during which he played 156 shows across four continents between June 1984 and October 1985. The stripped-down show also marked Springsteen’s first acoustic set since 1972.

The new 10-song collection opens with two Springsteen solo offerings — an a cappella version of “You...

My new book, Bruce Springsteen: The Stories Behind the Songs, tells the tales behind every officially released studio recording of Bruce Springsteen’s career so far. In addition to my years of Springsteen reporting, including five interviews with the man himself, the book draws on over 60 hours of brand-new interviews with musicians, producers, and other collaborators from throughout his career (including Max Weinberg, Roy Bittan, Nils Lofgren, Soozie Tyrell, Tom Morello, David Sancious and many, many more). I’m proud to debut this exclusive excerpt here at Rolling Stone, where...

Just five days after keyboardist Danny Federici died from melanoma in April of 2008, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band played one of the most emotional shows of their long career at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida. The entire band attended Federici’s funeral at Red Bank, New Jersey just day earlier and emotions were still raw when they took the stage in Florida where they were resuming the tour after postponing three shows. The concert has been a longtime favorite in Springsteen bootleg circles, but it was...

New York (AP) — Kiss made up, but its music went unheard. Nirvana used four women rockers to sing Kurt Cobain's songs. And Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band — predictably — turned its honor into a marathon. The three acts were ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Thursday in a colorful induction ceremony at Brooklyn's Barclays Center. They were joined by the blue-eyed soul duo Hall & Oates, British rocker Peter Gabriel, 1970s folkie Cat Stevens and the absent Linda Ronstadt. Nirvana was the emotional centerpiece. The trio rooted in the Seattle-area punk rock scene was voted into the hall in its first year of eligibility. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" hit like a thunderclap upon its 1991 release, but the band was done after Kurt Cobain committed suicide 20 years ago this month. "Nirvana fans walk up to me every day and say thank you for the music," said Krist Novoselic,...

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There are few names in the music business who can successfully maintain a level of greatness throughout their career (as unpopularly argued in another article of mine), particularly when the artist in question is a member of the elite of their genre. But for his troubles, and despite a couple of dodgy efforts, Bruce Springsteen is a fully deserving member of such a club.

This month will see the release of the Boss’ eighteenth studio album, High Hopes, and comes as Springsteen and the E Street band are riding on the crest of a wave, following their incredibly successful Wrecking Ball tour. Springsteen has always been a phenomenal live performer, and, despite the deaths of band members Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons, continues to produce a good standard of music, recruiting yet more top musicians to fill the void, whilst leaving emotional and tasteful tributes to his fallen colleagues.

Everyone knows that Bruce Springsteen's "Wrecking Ball" tour is on one level a months-long traveling memorial service for saxophone player and Springsteen muse Clarence Clemons, who died last June, and organist Danny Federici, who succumbed to melanoma in 2008. Springsteen has said that he hopes the tour lets the E Street Nation mourn together. It wasn't until I saw the show a second time - and from the legendary "pit," where the blessed few gather and commune, literally at Springsteen's feet right below the stage -- that I understood what a thoroughgoing, transcendent exercise in communal grief and joy it has become.

New York -- The power and the glory were unleashed in the heart of Harlem on Friday night as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band took to the stage of the storied Apollo Theater.

Springsteen, self-introduced in a deadpan delivery as "the hardest-working white man in show business," was intent on proving it with music and physical antics that whipped the packed house into a frenzy.

In a nod to Apollo legend James Brown, the "hardest-working man in show business," Springsteen milked his own Godfather of Soul shtick, staggering dramatically around the stage wearing a black towel "cape" that was ceremoniously draped onto his shoulders by guitarist Steven Van Zandt.

The show aired live on SiriusXM Radio's E Street Channel as part of the satellite company's 10th anniversary celebration. It was a prelude to a world tour that launches March 18 in Atlanta in support of the "Wrecking Ball" album,...

New York — Bruce Springsteen guitarist Steve Van Zandt says touring without saxophonist Clarence Clemons is sure to be emotional for the E Street Band and its audience.

Clemons died at age 69 last year after a stroke. Van Zandt said Thursday that the band's work will always be a tribute to Clemons and keyboard player Danny Federici, who died in 2008. Springsteen and the E Street Band begin a long tour next month.

Despite the emotion, Van Zandt says band members have to ask themselves whether their colleagues would have wanted them to carry on with the work. The guitarist said: "I think the answer's yes."

Besides the music, Van Zandt is promoting "Lilyhammer," Netflix's first original series. It is set in Norway and begins streaming Feb. 6 on Netflix.

Despite the loss of his iconic wingman, Clarence Clemons, Bruce Springsteen is soldiering on. The Boss confirmed that he and a revamped E Street Band will hit that thunder road again with a 2012 world tour. "Well, things are starting to heat up down on E Street," he said his official site, Brucespringsteen.net. The trek will be E Street's first in three years and first without its Big Man, who died last June at age 69 after suffering a stroke. There was no immediate word on how's Clemons' considerable stage presence will be replaced. Aside from Clemons, the E Street Band is also without original organist and keyboard player Danny Federici, who died in 2008 of melanoma at...

New York -- Steve Van Zandt says Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band will get together over the next couple of weeks to discuss how the band will proceed without Clarence Clemons. The saxophonist died in June following complications from a stroke.

Van Zandt said the band, which has periodically toured and recorded with Springsteen since 1972, will never be the same without Clemons. But then he added it wasn't the same after keyboard player Danny Federici died in 2008.

Clemons provided the band with its trademark horn sound apparent on such hits as "Blinded By the Light," "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," and "Jungleland."

"That's a void we will never replace," Van Zandt said.

But the E-Street band guitarist feels they will still play music until the end because he says: "That's what we do."

Van Zandt made the comments while attending "Ocean's Kingdom," in New York, a new ballet with music by Paul McCartney.

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E Street Band to Discuss Future: The fate of the E Street Band could be decided soon. Bruce Springsteen and the band are setting up meetings over the next few weeks to discuss the future of the group in the wake of the death of Clarence Clemons, guitarist and backup vocalist Steven Van Zandt told the Associated Press. Clemons, the long time saxophonist for the band,...

Bruce Springsteen fans are already awaiting the deluxe reissue his 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town this fall, but even better news may be the documentary about the making of the album that will premiere on HBO in October. Called The Promise, it will screen at the Toronto Film Festival in September. Rolling Stone reported some details about the doc after speaking to Thom Powers, the Toronto fest’s documentary programmer. Powers told the magazine, “The strength of this movie is that it just concentrates on the making of just one album. There’s not even much concert footage.

Bruce Springsteen's cousin and assistant road manager was found dead in the Kansas City's Intercontinental Hotel Monday, not long before Springsteen and his band were to take to the stage. "Lenny Sullivan, Bruce's cousin and the assistant road manager of the E Street Band for the last 10 years, passed away today at the age of 36," a statement on Springsteen's Web site read. "A warm and sensitive person, he was beloved by Bruce, the Band, the crew, and the entire Thrill Hill family." The death caused the cancellation of the show that night in Kansas City, Mo., with all tickets...

Ben Elton will team up with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the Phantom of the Opera sequel.

According to The Stage, Elton will write the book, Glen Slater will pen the lyrics, and Webber will produce the music.

Hairspray director Jack O'Brien is expected to helm to production.

Elton and Webber previously worked together on the The Beautiful Game in 2000. The comedian . . .

Danny Federici joined Bruce Springsteen and his colleagues in The E Street Band onstage on Thursday night for the first time since he quit live shows to undergo cancer treatment.

The keyboard player made a surprise appearance halfway through Springsteen and The E Street Band's gig at the Canseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Federici, who was forced to take a leave of absence from The E Street Band last November to recover from melanoma, played eight songs in total.

Last week (ends14Mar08), The E Street Band star Steve Van Zandt told Rolling Stone magazine Federici's ongoing recovery is "a bit miraculous".

Sunrise, Fla.: "Don't make me come out there and slaaaap that tan off ya." Bruce Springsteen's warnings to potentially restless crowds tend to have a local flavor. In September 1995, he began his tour in support of The Ghost of Tom Joad by telling a Los Angeles crowd to turn off their cellular phones. Here at the 3,968-seat Sunrise Musical Theater, in early December, some 100 shows later, he's still asking for quiet. What's changed is that a show he admits was initially "austere" is now a kaleidoscope of jokes,...

I wanna go out tonight

I wanna find out what I got

–Bruce Springsteen, “Badlands”

Los Angeles, Tuesday, July 4th

One of Bruce Springsteen’s most popular early songs is called “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).” That he is spending this Independence Day on the shores of the wrong ocean is an irony that escapes no one, including himself. L.A. is not terra incognita, but Springsteen does not yet reign here as he does back east, and perhaps the time is auspicious to change that. Although he has...