Late Night with Jimmy Fallon kicked off a weeklong tribute to Bruce Springsteen Monday with appearances by The Boss and his E Street Band. The band performed two songs: "We Take Care of Our Own," and the title track from the upcoming Wrecking Ball album, which hits stores on March 6.
Tom Morello is going to be featured on the Boss' upcoming new album, Wrecking Ball, which is due out on March 6. Bruce's longtime manager, Jon Landau, told Rolling Stone that the new album “was an experimental effort with a new producer ... Bruce and Ron used a wide variety of players to create something that both rocks and is very fresh."
A busker playing guitar for spare change in Boston’s Public Gardens got a quite a shock when music legend Bruce Springsteen approached him yesterday, and asked if he could borrow his instrument. Bruce then began strumming a tune for the passersby, with a huge grin on his face. Speculation is that Springsteen was in Boston dropping son Evan off at Boston College.
No word on how much The Boss collected in tips.
Six days after suffering a massive stroke, saxophone legend and longtime E Street Band member Clarence Clemons has died at the age of 69.
Despite initial reports that Clemons was responding well to treatment – and despite a pair of brain surgeries to repair the damage wrought by the stroke – his condition worsened as the week wore on, and he died on Saturday, June 18.
So Rolling Stone recently polled their readers and asked them what they thought was the best album of the ‘80s. U2’s The Joshua Tree scored the most votes, edging out Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction and Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA came in fourth, AC/DC’s Back in Black took the number six spot and Metallica’s Master of Puppets wound up in tenth. See the whole list at RollingStone.com.
The major record companies have joined forces to create a new digital-only compilation CD to benefit the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. It’s called Songs for Japan and includes John Lennon’s “Imagine,” U2’s “Walk On,” Bob Dylan’s “Shelter from the Storm,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Human Touch,” Bon Jovi’s “What Do You Got?,” Elton John’s “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” Sting’s “Fragile” and many other songs from classic and newer artists
