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Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his work with the E Street Band, Springsteens recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful albums, Born to Run and Born in the U. S. A. find pleasures in the struggles of daily American life. He has sold more 120 million records worldwide and more than 64 million records in the United States, in 2009, Springsteen was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient, in 2013 was named MusiCares person of the year and in 2016 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He married Patti Scialfa in 1991, and the couple have had three children – Evan James, Jessica Rae and Sam Ryan, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen was born on September 23,1949, at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, New Jersey. He was brought home from the hospital to Freehold Borough where he spent his childhood and he lived on South Street and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry, Springsteen said his mother, Adele Ann, a legal secretary and of Italian ancestry, was the main breadwinner. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a town near Naples and he has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full-time, she took photos for his Human Touch, Lucky Town. The Springsteens are among the early Dutch families who settled in the colony of New Netherland in the 1600s, raised a Roman Catholic, Springsteen attended the St. In a 2012 interview, he explained that it was his Catholic upbringing rather than political ideology that most influenced his music and he noted in the interview that his faith had given him a very active spiritual life, although he joked that this made it very difficult sexually. He added, Once a Catholic, always a Catholic, in the ninth grade, Springsteen transferred to the public Freehold High School, but did not fit in there either. Former teachers have said he was a loner, who wanted nothing more than to play his guitar and he completed high school, but felt so uncomfortable that he skipped his own graduation ceremony. He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out, Springsteen grew up hearing fellow New Jersey singer Frank Sinatra on the radio. He became interested in being involved in music himself when, in 1956 at the age of seven, in 1964, Springsteens mother bought him his first guitar for $18. 1964 was also an important year for Springsteen, having seen The Beatles appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, thereafter he started playing for audiences with a band called the Rogues at local venues such as the Elks Lodge in Freehold. In 1965, Springsteens mother took out a loan to buy her 16-year-old son a $60 Kent guitar, in the same year, he went to the house of Tex and Marion Vinyard, who sponsored young bands in town. They helped him become the lead guitarist and subsequently one of the singers of the Castiles
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Columbia Records
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Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. the United States division of Sony Corporation. It was founded in 1887, evolving from an enterprise named the American Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the sound business. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of singers, instrumentalists. It is one of Sony Musics three flagship record labels alongside RCA Records and Epic Records, rather, as above, it was connected to CBS, a broadcasting media company which had purchased the company in 1938, and had been co-founded in 1927 by Columbia Records itself. Though Arista Records was sold to Bertelsmann Music Group, it would become a sister label of Columbia Records through its mutual connection to Sony Music. The Columbia Phonograph Company was founded in 1887 by stenographer, lawyer and New Jersey native Edward Easton and it derived its name from the District of Columbia, where it was headquartered. At first it had a monopoly on sales and service of Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington. As was the custom of some of the regional companies, Columbia produced many commercial cylinder recordings of its own. Columbias ties to Edison and the North American Phonograph Company were severed in 1894 with the North American Phonograph Companys breakup, thereafter it sold only records and phonographs of its own manufacture. In 1902, Columbia introduced the XP record, a brown wax record. According to Gracyk, the molded brown waxes may have sold to Sears for distribution. Columbia began selling records and phonographs in addition to the cylinder system in 1901, preceded only by their Toy Graphophone of 1899. For a decade, Columbia competed with both the Edison Phonograph Company cylinders and the Victor Talking Machine Company disc records as one of the top three names in American recorded sound. In order to add prestige to its catalog of artists. The firm also introduced the internal-horn Grafonola to compete with the extremely popular Victrola sold by the rival Victor Talking Machine Company, during this era, Columbia used the famous Magic Notes logo—a pair of sixteenth notes in a circle—both in the United States and overseas. Columbia was split into two companies, one to make records and one to make players, Columbia Phonograph was moved to Connecticut, and Ed Easton went with it. Eventually it was renamed the Dictaphone Corporation, in late 1923, Columbia went into receivership
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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The E Street Band
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The E Street Band is an American rock band, and has been musician Bruce Springsteens primary backing band since 1972. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. S, Bonds, Darlene Love, Southside Johnny, The Grateful Dead, Santana, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Tracy Chapman, Lady Gaga and Aretha Franklin. The E Street Band was founded in October 1972, but it was not formally named until September 1974, Springsteen has put together other backing bands during his career, but the E Street Band has been together more or less continuously since its inception. The original lineup included Garry Tallent, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Vini Mad Dog Lopez, the band took its name from the street in Belmar, New Jersey, where Sancious mother lived. She allowed the band to rehearse in her garage, ‘Bruce’ tourists to the area often mistakenly believe the house was on the corner of E Street and 10th Avenue, perhaps due to the song Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out about the bands beginnings. The Sancious house was at 1107 E Street with the garage squeezed between the house and the southside fence, Springsteens debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N. J. appeared in 1972, and the bands first national tour began in October 1972. Sancious, even though he played on the album, missed that first tour and it was not until June 1973 that he began appearing regularly on stage with the band. In February 1974, Lopez was asked to resign, and was replaced by Ernest Boom Carter. A few months later, in August 1974, Sancious and Carter left to form their own jazz band called Tone. They were replaced in September 1974 by Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg, violinist Suki Lahav was briefly a member of the band before leaving in March 1975 to emigrate to Israel. Steven Van Zandt, who had long associated with Springsteen and had played in previous bands with him. This lineup remained stable until the early 1980s when Van Zandt left to pursue his own career and he would later rejoin the band in 1995. In June 1984 Nils Lofgren was added to replace Van Zandt, Springsteens future wife, by 2002, the band also included Soozie Tyrell. Tyrell had earlier worked with Scialfa touring with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, whether Tyrell became as full-fledged a member as the others remains unclear. When asked about the lack of mention in a release prior to the Magic Tour, Springsteen just said in response. Springsteen stated at the time, Danny is one of the pillars of our sound and has played beside me as a friend for more than 40 years. We all eagerly await his healthy and speedy return, Federici made his only return to the stage on March 20,2008, when he appeared for portions of a Springsteen and E Street Band performance at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Federici died on April 17,2008 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Springsteens album, Working on a Dream, is dedicated to him
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Tracks (Bruce Springsteen album)
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Tracks is a four-disc box set by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1998 containing 66 songs. The project began in early 1998, when Springsteen and his recording engineer, Toby Scott. Springsteen had been known as a prolific songwriter, and by 1998 the number of unreleased songs was up to more than 350- 3/4 of all his recorded material. Although the idea of releasing the rough demos of the songs was kicked around. Springsteen, Scott, and three sets of engineers spent most of 1998 going through his massive song library, mixing songs, sometimes, a song would need extra parts added on, such as in the case of Thundercrack, a song dating back to 1973. Springsteen called in then-former bandmates Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons, along with original drummer Vini Lopez to fill in the missing pieces, by July,100 songs had been selected as the songs for the boxset, and it was being prepared for commercial release. However, Springsteen eventually decided to cut the number to 66, the project was completed in mid-September 1998, and was released two months later. Songs from the Electric Nebraska sessions, as well as songs from an unreleased 1994 album, were also missing, however, the take of Stand on It included on Tracks is a previously unknown alternate version that features an extra verse and a fully finished ending. Hearts of Stone was previously recorded by Southside Johnny, a rerecorded This Hard Land was released on Greatest Hits, although the original recording did not appear until Tracks. V. Movie, and Back in Your Arms had previously been released on bootlegs. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Lions Den were documented to exist, the box set was a minor success, peaking at #27 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It has been certified platinum in the U. S. since its release,44 of the songs on the set have been played live at least once, with My Love Will Not Let You Down receiving the most attention at over 100 plays. The box set was later condensed into an album called 18 Tracks, all tracks written by Bruce Springsteen, except where noted
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Darkness on the Edge of Town
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Darkness on the Edge of Town is the fourth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released on June 2,1978. The album marked the end of a gap between albums brought on by contractual obligations and legal battling with former manager Mike Appel. Although the album did not produce high-charting singles it remained on the charts for 97 weeks, a steady seller in Springsteens catalog, it has been certified triple Platinum by the RIAA. Reviews for Darkness on the Edge of Town were overwhelmingly positive, critics notably praised the maturity of the albums themes and lyrics. It remains one of Springsteens most highly regarded records by both fans and critics and several of its songs have become staples of Springsteens live performances, in September 2010, a documentary film chronicling the making of Darkness was first shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. Quoting Springsteen as saying More than rich, more than famous, reviewer Stephen Whitty of the Newark Star-Ledger commented, For many fans, that long journey pulled onto the Turnpike here. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it at #151 on their list of the greatest albums of all time, recovering from legal troubles and the stress of the breakthrough success of Born to Run, Springsteen released a somewhat less commercial album in Darkness on the Edge of Town. Unlike Born to Run, the songs were recorded by the band at once. Steven Van Zandt received a credit for production assistance for helping Springsteen tighten the arrangements from Born to Runs epic sound and he went on tour for this album. Though the album failed to any substantial hit singles, Darkness was critically well-received and claimed the No.1 slot on NME album of the year. In 2003, the album was ranked No.151 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the cover shot and inner sleeve photo were taken by photographer Frank Stefanko inside Stefankos Haddonfield, New Jersey, home. Springsteen says, When I saw the picture I said, Thats the guy in the songs, I wanted the part of me thats still that guy to be on the cover. Frank stripped away all your celebrity and left you with your essence, Thats what that record was about. A reissue box set was released in November 2010 and this had initially been planned for 2008 to mark the 30th anniversary of the original albums release but was delayed presumably due to Springsteens numerous other 2008 projects. By January 2009, Springsteens manager, Jon Landau, was saying the project was still in the works, When we can find six weeks to sit down, a documentary entitled The Promise, The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town was produced for the box set. The documentary premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in the fall of 2010, during the Darkness sessions, Springsteen wrote or recorded many songs that he ended up not using on the album. This was to keep the albums thematic feel intact, even at the expense of not having hits on it, according to Jimmy Iovine, Springsteen wrote at least 70 songs during the sessions and 52 of those songs were recorded with some not fully completed. S. Bonds, and several tracks for Southside Johnny including 3 songs released on the Asbury Jukes album entitled Hearts of Stone and that would do, in short, all the marvelous things rock had always promised to do
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Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
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Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes are a Jersey Shore musical group led by Southside Johnny. They have been recording albums since 1976 and are associated with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. They have recorded and/or performed several Springsteen songs, including The Fever, Springsteen has also performed with the band on numerous occasions and in 1991 guested on their Better Days album. The bands horn section – the Miami Horns – has also toured and recorded with Springsteen, more than one hundred musicians can claim to have been members of the Asbury Jukes, including Jon Bon Jovi who toured with the band as a special guest during 1990. Bon Jovi has also cited the band as an influence and Jukes Bobby Bandiera, Southside Johnny and Steve Van Zandt, the two prime movers behind the formation of the Jukes, began playing together in various bands during the early 1970s. Amongst the earliest of these bands was Funky Dusty & The Soul Broom, the same quartet also acted as backing band for a local folksinger Jeannie Clark. At the time Van Zandt was also a member of Steel Mill while Southside had just left one of his formative bands, next came Steve Van Zandt & Friends, a January 1971 band that also included Springsteen, Tallent, Williams, and Danny Federici. By February 1971 Van Zandt and Southside, together with Tallent, in March 1971, Van Zandt and Southside also featured in a short-lived Springsteen band, The Friendly Enemies. The highlight of their existence was opening for The Allman Brothers. Other members of band included Tallent, Sancious, Williams. In April 1971, Van Zandt and Southside also began co-leading The Sundance Blues Band, a group whose line-up would also feature Springsteen, Lopez, Tallent, and Sancious. In May 1971, Springsteen also recruited all the members of The Sundance Blues Band to play in his very short-lived band, among the many musicians to play with this group was Kevin Kavanagh, a future Juke. Kavanagh grew up in Middletown, New Jersey and was a friend of Van Zandt. They had also played together in a band called The Shadows, from July 1971, Van Zandt, Lopez, Tallent, and Sancious also began backing Springsteen as The Bruce Springsteen Band and they would eventually evolve into The E Street Band. Southside would also play with this band. 1972 would prove to be active year for Van Zandt. It was this band that evolved into the Asbury Jukes. The original BBB had been playing together since 1968 and by 1974 featured a line-up of Paul Green, Paul Dickler, David Meyers and they had established themselves as the house band at a new club, The Stone Pony
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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RIAA
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The Recording Industry Association of America is a continental North and South American trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA says create, the RIAA headquarters is in Washington, D. C. The RIAA was formed in 1952 and its original mission was to administer recording copyright fees and problems, work with trade unions, and do research relating to the record industry and government regulations. Early RIAA standards included the RIAA equalization curve, the format of the record groove and the dimensions of 33 1/3 rpm,45 rpm. Since 2001, the RIAA has spent $2 to $6 million each year on lobbying in the United States, the RIAA also participates in the collective rights management of sound recordings, and it is responsible for certifying Gold and Platinum albums and singles in the United States. Cary Sherman has been the RIAAs chairman and CEO since 2011, Sherman joined the RIAA as its general counsel in 1997 and became president of the board of directors in 2001, serving in that position until being made chairman and CEO. Mitch Glazier has been the RIAAs senior executive vice president since 2011 and he served as executive vice president for public policy and industry relations from 2000 to 2011. The past RIAA chairman and CEO is Mitch Bainwol, who served from 2003 to 2011 and he left in 2011 to become president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. The board of directors consists of 26 members of the board, the RIAA operates an award program for albums that sell a large number of copies. The program originally began in 1958, with a Gold Award for singles, the criterion was changed in 1975 to the number of copies sold, with albums selling 500,000 copies awarded the Gold Award. In 1976, a Platinum Award was added for one million sales, the awards are open to both RIAA members and non-members. Since 2000, the RIAA also operates a program for Latin music sales. Currently, a Disco De Oro is awarded for 30,000 units, the RIAA defines Latin music as a type of release with 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish. In 2006, digital ringtones were added to branch of certification. In the same year, the RIAA introduced the Latin Digital Award for digital recordings in Spanish and this release format includes DVD and VHS releases, and certain live albums and compilation albums. The certification criteria is different from other styles. Gold,50,000 Platinum,100,000 Multi-Platinum,200,000 copies The RIAA opposes unauthorized sharing of its music, studies conducted since the association began its campaign against peer-to-peer file-sharing have concluded that losses incurred per download range from negligible to moderate. The association has commenced high-profile lawsuits against file sharing service providers and it has also commenced a series of lawsuits against individuals suspected of file sharing, notably college students and parents of file sharing children
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Grammy Award for Best Rock Song
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The award, reserved for songwriters, was first presented to English musician Sting in 1992. According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, Songs containing prominent samples or interpolations are not eligible. Bruce Springsteen holds the records for the most wins and nominations, other winners of multiple awards include Alanis Morissette as well as the bands Red Hot Chili Peppers and U2, with two. Coldplay holds the record for the most nominations without a win, ^ The performing artist is only listed but does not receive the award. ^ Showing the name of the songwriter, the nominated song, list of Grammy Award categories Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rock Songs Official site of the Grammy Awards
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Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
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Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male, the award was first presented to Bob Dylan in 1980. Beginning with the 1995 ceremony, the name of the award was changed to Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, the solo category was later renamed to Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance beginning in 2005. This fusion has been criticized, especially when females are not nominated under the solo category, the Academy has cited a lack of eligible recordings in the female rock category as the reason for the mergers. While the award has not been presented since the merge in 2005. Lenny Kravitz holds the record for the most wins in this category, bruce Springsteen has been presented the award three times, and two-time winners include Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Don Henley, and Robert Palmer. American rock Official site of the Grammy Awards
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Born in the U.S.A. (song)
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Born in the U. S. A. is a 1984 song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, and released on the album of the same name. One of Springsteens best-known singles, Rolling Stone ranked the song 275th on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in 2001, the song addresses the harmful effects of the Vietnam War on Americans and the treatment of Vietnam veterans upon their return home. It is a retort to the indifference and hostility with which Vietnam veterans were met. The song was written in 1981 as the song for a film that Paul Schrader was contemplating making. Springsteen thanks Schrader in the notes of the album Born in the U. S. A. Casual home demos were later that year, following the completion of The River Tour. Acoustic versions of other songs that eventually appeared on the Born in the U. S. A. album were also on this demo, including Working on the Highway. As a result, the song was shelved, in March 1982, Springsteen revived the song with a different melody line and musical structure. The famous snare drum sound on record was obtained by engineer Toby Scott running the top snare microphone through a broken reverb plate which could only sustain four seconds of gated reverb. This is the version that appeared on the Born in the U. S. A. album, the studio recording also originally ended with a lengthy jam session, which was later edited for the songs commercial release. In a 1986 speaking engagement at the University of Georgia, Max Weinberg stated that Born in the U. S. A. was his favorite song that the band had recorded. Later, in a question and answer session, Weinberg explained that it was his favorite because the song was not written in advance for the various instrumental parts. Even Springsteen came out and started singing vocals and it sounded so good that they did it again and recorded it. Without reviewing the recording, Springsteen said, lets do one more time. So they recorded the second take and that second studio take was the CD release on the Born in the U. S. A. album. The songs narrative traces the protagonists working-class origins, induction into the armed forces, and disaffected return to the States. In late August 1984, the Born in the U. S. A. album was selling well, its songs were frequently aired on radio stations. He wrote, I have not got a clue about Springsteens politics, if any and he is no whiner, and the recitation of closed factories and other problems always seems punctuated by a grand, cheerful affirmation, Born in the U. S. A
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Pink Cadillac (song)
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Pink Cadillac is a song by Bruce Springsteen released as the non-album B-side of Dancing in the Dark in 1984. The song received airplay on album-oriented rock radio, appearing on the Billboard Top Tracks chart for 14 weeks. The song was also a prominent concert number during Springsteens 1984-85 Born in the U. S. A, Springsteen, in fact, vetoed the first attempt by a female singer to release a version of Pink Cadillac, that being Bette Midler in 1983. However, Pink Cadillac had its highest profile incarnation via an R&B interpretation by Natalie Cole, which became a top-ten single in 1988. The first lyrics Springsteen wrote for Pink Cadillac were, They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple, album, in the spring of 1983. Springsteens version of Pink Cadillac is often compared to the Peter Gunn theme by Henry Mancini, in 2006, Bruce Springsteen was featured on a recording of Pink Cadillac by Jerry Lee Lewis on his album Last Man Standing. Springsteen performed the song at a concert in Turku, Finland and he was very passionate about his work his enthusiasm gave me the confidence that I could pull off. Coles Pink Cadillac also reached #9 R&B, #16 A/C and - via a remix by David Cole, according to Cole, word got back to her that Bruce Springsteen thought it was very cool that a woman could and it would come out so great. According to the Midler biography Still Divine by Mark Bego, Midler was severely disappointed by Springsteens veto, midlers August 1984 video release Art or Burst video - comprising footage from the two De Tour concerts at the University of Minnesota - features Pink Cadillac as the opening number. Freeway of Love prominently features Clarence Clemons of Springsteens E Street Band on saxophone, etheridge has never recorded Pink Cadillac although her live performance is widely available as a bootleg recording. Legendary rock and roll pianist Jerry Lee Lewis covered the song on his 2006 album Last Man Standing with additional vocals by Springsteen himself, the single was released in December 2006 on country music stations in the United States. The computer-animated music video premiered on CMT in November 2006, the Chipettes recorded a cover of Natalie Coles version for their 1988 album The Chipmunks and The Chipettes, Born to Rock. Carl Perkins recorded a version of Pink Cadillac on his album Friends, originally released on the album Killbilly Hill and again on their greatest hits album, 1980s country/rock band, Southern Pacific has a live recording of Pink Cadillac. Brian Conley recorded Pink Cadillac for his 1993 Brian Conley Sings album, the 2003 album Light of Day, A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen features a rendition of Pink Cadillac by Graham Parker. It appeared on the 2004 album Live in Asbury Park, Vol.2 by Clarence Clemons, glory Days, Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s. Pink Cadillac page at SpringsteenLyrics. com - Detailed info and lyrics transcriptions for several versions Bruce-base recording sessions history
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I'm Goin' Down
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Im Goin Down is a song written and performed by American singer Bruce Springsteen that was released as the sixth single from his album Born in the U. S. A. in August 1985. The song is one of several of the tracks that he recorded with the E Street Band in May 1982 at the Power Station music studio. S. A. He later decided to use several of the May 1982 recordings on Born in the U. S. A, Im Goin Down beat out contender Pink Cadillac for a spot on the album. Im Goin Down, which features a prominent drum performance and possesses an energetic feel, as a single, it reached No.9 in the United States and the top 40 in Sweden, Canada, and Italy. The song, which has received positive appraisal from critics, has not been performed often by Springsteen since his Born in the U. S. A. Tour, between 2009 and 2014, he played it at less than 12 percent of his concerts whose set lists his official website has published. Cover versions of Im Goin Down include renditions by Frank Black and the Catholics, Free Energy, Vampire Weekend, Dessa, in October 1980, Springsteen released his fifth album, The River. For his next album, which would become Nebraska, he recorded a demo cassette by himself of over a dozen songs on January 3,1982. At first, Springsteen attempted full-band versions of Nebraska songs at these sessions, including Atlantic City, Nebraska, however, he and his co-producers were unsatisfied with the group renditions of the demo songs. To buy time to decide on a solution, by May the band had begun recording material, including Im Goin Down. Glory Days, Downbound Train, Darlington County, Working on the Highway, Im Goin Down was recorded on May 12. Eventually, Springsteen decided to release the January demos as the Nebraska album, in 1983, he did more songs with the E Street Band, but was considering instead recording his next album solo, like Nebraska. By the following year, Landau and Plotkin had convinced Springsteen to release band tracks, including several from May 1982 and a number of subsequently recorded songs. At one point, Springsteen was not going to include Im Goin Down on Born in The U. S. A. but later added it in place of Pink Cadillac, which he used as the B-side of the Dancing in the Dark single. Im Goin Down features a rhythm, propelled by a heavy drumbeat by Weinberg. The music has a chord progression of A–E–F#m–D. Then you come back a bit later, and, uh-oh. Its like Are you gonna make love to me tonight, or are we gonna wait for the moon again
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Sad Eyes (Bruce Springsteen song)
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Sad Eyes is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. While recording the album, Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine, who had worked with Springsteen, found out that Iglesias was a fan of his. The song was released as the fifth and final single from the album, the album version was not released to radio but rather the HQ2 remix which gave the song a more pop sound. Iglesias did not promote the song and it was not as successful as the singles from the album. However, the collected remixes charted high on the play charts. A Spanish version of the song was also recorded titled Más Es Amar, a music video was shot, directed by David LaChapelle, but it was shelved at the time due to its sexual content. It depicts Iglesias alone in a motel room indulging erotic fantasies about a girl he sees in a phone-sex ad. In 2009, the video was uploaded to LaChappelles website but was removed at the request of Universal Music. The music video uses the HQ2 remix as opposed to the album version. Australia Sad Eyes -4,08 Sad Eyes -4,13 Sad Eyes -5,17 Sad Eyes -3,46 America Sad Eyes -4,08 Sad Eyes -6,08 Sad Eyes -9,29 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The Promise (Bruce Springsteen album)
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The Promise is an album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released November 16,2010 on Columbia Records. The album is a collection of unreleased songs recorded during the Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions in 1977–1978 with modern vocals. It was released in 2CD and 3LP formats, the album is also available as part of the box set The Promise, The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story. The two-CD version of the release entered the UK Albums Chart at number 7 and it had been in production for many years and was originally scheduled to be released for the 30th anniversary in 2008. The Promise debuted at #16 on the Billboard 200, while the box set, The Promise, The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story, the album features one of the last appearances of Clarence Clemons before his death in June 2011. Clemons is featured on the song Save My Love, which was the song on the album completely re-recorded by Springsteen. On November 16,2010, Springsteen performed Because the Night and Save My Love with Steven Van Zandt, Roy Bittan, songs from the album were performed during Springsteens Wrecking Ball Tour in 2012–2013. Upon its release, The Promise received acclaim from most music critics, at Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 94, based on 17 reviews, which indicates universal acclaim. The Promise debuted at #16 on the Billboard 200, while not selling as well as his previous studio albums on the American charts, the set did well on the European charts, opening at No.1 in Germany, Spain, and Norway. It also charted at No.4 in The Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland, No.5 in Austria, No.7 in the United Kingdom, all songs written by Bruce Springsteen, except where noted
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E Street Band
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The E Street Band is an American rock band, and has been musician Bruce Springsteens primary backing band since 1972. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. S, Bonds, Darlene Love, Southside Johnny, The Grateful Dead, Santana, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Tracy Chapman, Lady Gaga and Aretha Franklin. The E Street Band was founded in October 1972, but it was not formally named until September 1974, Springsteen has put together other backing bands during his career, but the E Street Band has been together more or less continuously since its inception. The original lineup included Garry Tallent, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Vini Mad Dog Lopez, the band took its name from the street in Belmar, New Jersey, where Sancious mother lived. She allowed the band to rehearse in her garage, ‘Bruce’ tourists to the area often mistakenly believe the house was on the corner of E Street and 10th Avenue, perhaps due to the song Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out about the bands beginnings. The Sancious house was at 1107 E Street with the garage squeezed between the house and the southside fence, Springsteens debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N. J. appeared in 1972, and the bands first national tour began in October 1972. Sancious, even though he played on the album, missed that first tour and it was not until June 1973 that he began appearing regularly on stage with the band. In February 1974, Lopez was asked to resign, and was replaced by Ernest Boom Carter. A few months later, in August 1974, Sancious and Carter left to form their own jazz band called Tone. They were replaced in September 1974 by Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg, violinist Suki Lahav was briefly a member of the band before leaving in March 1975 to emigrate to Israel. Steven Van Zandt, who had long associated with Springsteen and had played in previous bands with him. This lineup remained stable until the early 1980s when Van Zandt left to pursue his own career and he would later rejoin the band in 1995. In June 1984 Nils Lofgren was added to replace Van Zandt, Springsteens future wife, by 2002, the band also included Soozie Tyrell. Tyrell had earlier worked with Scialfa touring with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, whether Tyrell became as full-fledged a member as the others remains unclear. When asked about the lack of mention in a release prior to the Magic Tour, Springsteen just said in response. Springsteen stated at the time, Danny is one of the pillars of our sound and has played beside me as a friend for more than 40 years. We all eagerly await his healthy and speedy return, Federici made his only return to the stage on March 20,2008, when he appeared for portions of a Springsteen and E Street Band performance at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Federici died on April 17,2008 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Springsteens album, Working on a Dream, is dedicated to him
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Garry Tallent
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As of 2013, and not counting Springsteen himself, Tallent is the only original member of the E Street Band remaining in the band. Tallent was inducted as a member of the E Street Band into the Rock, growing up in Neptune City around the Jersey shore, Tallent took up first the tuba and then the bass. He was influenced by James Jamerson, Donald Duck Dunn, and he started playing with Springsteen in 1971 in two earlier bands and then was an original member of the E Street Band, who formed in 1972. During the E Street Bands early years, he played the tuba on some of Springsteens quirkier early songs. In addition to his work with Springsteen, Tallent has recorded numerous other artists. In 1987 Tallent produced the song Crying, Waiting, Hoping for Marshall Crenshaw on La Bamba soundtrack, during the long time the E Street Band was inactive in the 1990s, Tallent moved to Nashville, having an affinity for country and western and rockabilly music. There he opened the MoonDog recording studio and helped start the DVille Record Group label, Tallent has produced such artists as Jim Lauderdale and Steve Forbert
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Max Weinberg
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Weinberg grew up in suburban New Jersey and began drumming at an early age. He attended college planning to be a lawyer but got his big break in music in 1974 when he won an audition to become the drummer for Springsteen, Weinberg became a mainstay of Springsteens long concert performances. In 1993, Weinberg got the role as bandleader of The Max Weinberg 7 for Late Night with Conan OBrien, Weinbergs drums-driven jump blues sound and his role as a comic foil prospered along with the show, giving him a second career. In 1999, Springsteen re-formed the E Street Band for a series of tours and albums, in 2009, Weinberg moved to the short-lived Tonight Show with Conan OBrien as leader of Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band. After that ended, he began touring with his own ensembles, Weinberg continued playing with Springsteen, and in 2014 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band. Weinberg was born to a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey to parents Bertram Weinberg, an attorney, and Ruth Weinberg and he has three sisters, Patty, Nancy and Abby. He grew up in Newark as well as in the suburban towns of South Orange. The young Max was exposed to early on, attending Broadway shows weekly from the age of two and liking the big sound put forth by the pit orchestras. He then liked the rhythms of country and western music and he knew he wanted to be a drummer from the age of five, when he saw Elvis Presley and his drummer, D. J. Fontana, appear on The Milton Berle Show in April 1956. Decades later, Weinberg said, I think anybody who wanted to develop a life in rock n roll music had a moment and that was my moment, and Fontana became a major influence on him. Weinberg started actually playing at the age of six and his first public appearance came at the age of seven when he sat in on a bar mitzvah band playing When the Saints Go Marching In. The bandleader, Herbie Zane, was the act for bar mitzvahs and weddings in the area, he was impressed with young Weinberg. Weinberg thus became a child star, drumming in a three-piece mohair suit. He would later say that the Jewish concept of seder, meaning order, witnessing his father lose two summer camps in The Poconos impressed upon him the fragility of economic success and led to a strong work ethic. When the British Invasion hit in 1964, the Beatles and their drummer, Ringo Starr and he began playing in local New Jersey rock bands, playing the music of The Rolling Stones, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, and The Young Rascals. While a member of The Epsilons, he played at the 1964 New York Worlds Fair and he attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, there he knew Leigh Howard Stevens, who would become a famous percussionist in his own right. Weinberg graduated from Columbia High in 1969, another band he was in, Blackstone, recorded an eponymous album for Epic Records in 1970. Weinberg first attended Adelphi University, and later Seton Hall University and his general goal was to become a lawyer, but he was still most viscerally interested in a music career and kept his drum set in his car in case any chances to play arose
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Steven Van Zandt
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Steven Van Zandt is an American musician and actor, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve. He is a member of Bruce Springsteens E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and he has also acted in television dramas such as The Sopranos and Lilyhammer. Van Zandt also had his own band called Little Steven. In 2014, Van Zandt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band, Steven Van Zandt was born on November 22,1950, in Boston, Massachusetts. Steven Van Zandt was born as Steven Lento and is of South Italian descent and he lived at 16 Edgecliff Road in Watertown, Massachusetts. His mother, Mary Lento, remarried in 1957 and Steven took the last name of his stepfather, the family moved from Massachusetts to Middletown Township, New Jersey, when he was seven. Steven Van Zandt found his love for music at an early age and he watched the performances of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and Rolling Stones on Hollywood Palace in 1964 and referred to the former as The Big Bang of Rock n Roll. He said that when he was 13, George Harrison was his favorite Beatle, around August 1964, Steven formed his first band, the Whirlwinds, which was short lived. He would later form the Mates in 1965 and join the Shadows in May 1966, Van Zandt would later cite British Invasion bands such as the Dave Clark Five, as well as Ravi Shankar and the culture of India as early influences. Steven Van Zandt attended Middletown High School, where he got kicked out for having long hair and he went back to school to make his mother happy and graduated in 1968. Actor/playwright/producer Billy Van Zandt is Stevens half-brother, making actress Adrienne Barbeau his sister-in-law, Steven also has a half-sister named Kathi who is a writer. Bruce Springsteen met Steven Van Zandt for the first time in 1966 or 1967 when Springsteen went to the Hullabaloo club in Middletown, Van Zandt was performing a cover of the Turtles Happy Together with the Shadows. Van Zandt grew up in the Jersey Shore music scene, and was an early friend and they performed together in bands such as Steel Mill and the Bruce Springsteen Band. During the early 1970s, Van Zandt worked in construction for 2 years. In 1973, he toured with The Dovells, the tour ended in Miami during Dick Clarks New Years Show at the Deauville Hotel. After going back to Jersey, Steven continued to wear Hawaiian shirts because he did not like winter and he co-founded Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, in addition to The Miami Horns, who got their name from Stevens nickname. Van Zandt helped establish the rhythm and blues oriented style of music that the band performed and he also produced Southsides first three albums. Overall, Van Zandt wrote a significant bulk of Southsides music which helped them with the success that they achieved
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Nils Lofgren
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Nils Hilmer Lofgren is an American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with his work as a solo artist, he is a member of Bruce Springsteens E Street Band since 1984, a member of Crazy Horse. Lofgren was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band in 2014, Lofgren was born in Chicago in 1951 to an Italian mother and a Swedish father. When Lofgren was a child, the family moved to the Washington, D. C. suburb of Garrett Park. Lofgrens first instrument was classical accordion, beginning at age 5, after studying classical music and jazz, throughout his youth, Lofgren switched his emphasis to rock music, and focused on the piano and the guitar. By 1968, Lofgren formed the band Grin originally with bassist George Daly, the group played in venues throughout the Washington, D. C. area. Lofgren had been a competitive gymnast in high school, a skill that popped up later in his career, during this time, Lofgren met Neil Young and played for him. Young invited Lofgren to come to California and the Grin trio drove out west, Lofgren joined Neil Youngs band at age 19, playing piano and guitar on the album After the Gold Rush. Lofgren worked on his parts around-the-clock when recording was not in session, Lofgren maintained a close musical relationship with Young, appearing on his Tonights the Night album and tour among others. He was also briefly a member of Crazy Horse, appearing on their 1971 LP, Lofgren used the Neil Young album credits to land his band Grin a record deal in 1971. Lofgren had formed the band originally with bassist George Daly and drummer Bob Berberich, the single White Lies got heavy airplay on Washington, D. C. -area radio. Lofgren wrote the majority of the songs, and often shared vocal duties with other members of the band. After the second album Nils added brother Tom Lofgren as a rhythm guitarist, Grin failed to hit the big time, and were released by their record company. He achieved progressive rock radio hits in the mid-1970s with Back It Up, Keith Dont Go and his song Bullets Fever, about the 1978 NBA champion Washington Bullets, would become a favorite in the Washington area. Throughout the 1970s, Lofgren released solo albums and toured extensively with a band that again usually included brother Tom on rhythm guitar. Lofgrens concerts displayed his reputation for theatrics, such as playing guitar while doing flips on a trampoline, in 1971 he appeared on stage on the Roy Buchanan Special, PBS TV, with Bill Graham. In 1973 he appeared with Grin on NBC on Midnight Special, in 1978 he wrote and sang the Nobody Bothers Me theme for a D. C. Jhoon Rhee Tae Kwon Do advertisement, and also appeared in the ill-received Sgt, peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band movie
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Patti Scialfa
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Vivienne Patricia Patti Scialfa is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Scialfa has been a member of the E Street Band since 1984 and has married to Bruce Springsteen since 1991. In 2014, Scialfa was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band, Scialfa grew up in the Jersey Shore community of Deal, New Jersey. She was the child of Joseph Scialfa and Patricia Scialfa. Her father was of Sicilian ancestry and her mother is from Belfast and she also has half-siblings from her fathers second marriage. Her father was a local entrepreneur, who started with a single television store. Scialfa graduated from Asbury Park High School in 1971, Scialfa was writing songs from an early age and first worked professionally as a back-up singer for New Jersey bar bands after she completed high school. She has a degree from New York University, earned after she transferred from the University of Miamis jazz conservatory at the Frost School of Music. While in college, Scialfa was submitting original material to artists in the hope that it would be recorded. However, none of her songs were recorded, and after graduating, Scialfa worked as a busker, together with Soozie Tyrell and Lisa Lowell, she formed a street group known as Trickster. Scialfa had a role in The Stone Ponys house band Cats on a Smooth Surface. These gigs won her notice and, eventually, recording work with Southside Johnny, in 1984, Scialfa joined the E Street Band, three or four days before the opening show of the Born in the U. S. A. In 1986, she appeared on the Rolling Stones Dirty Work album and she worked with Keith Richards on his first solo disc Talk is Cheap. Steve Jordan, who co-produced the Richards record, was a friend of Scialfas from her Greenwich Village days, Scialfa maintains her music industry friendships over many years. Scialfa has recorded three albums, 1993s Rumble Doll, 2004s 23rd Street Lullaby and 2007s Play It as It Lays. Her first two albums received four-star reviews from Rolling Stone, while the third got three and a half and her records are a mix of confessional songwriting, impressive vocal range, and traditional country, folk and rock music. Springsteen and fellow E Street bandmates, like Lofgren and Roy Bittan, following the release of her second album, Scialfa played a series of club dates along the East Coast and she was also the opening act of the post-final night of the Vote for Change tour. When asked during the conference for the NFL Super Bowl in 2009 whether she was working on a new album
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Jake Clemons
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Jake Clemons is a singer-songwriter, an American musician and since 2012 is best known for being the saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Clemons took over the role of saxophonist for the band when his uncle, Clarence Clemons, Clemons also has performed various instruments including percussion and also provided backing vocals on the bands Wrecking Ball Tour and High Hopes Tour. Clemons attended the Virginia Governors School for the Arts to study jazz performance, Clemons also has performed with Eddie Vedder, Roger Waters, The Swell Season and The Roots. Jake has a new album released on January 13,2017 on BMG, the album is called Fear & Love
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Soozie Tyrell
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Soozie Tyrell, formerly known as Soozie Kirschner, is an American violinist and vocalist, most known for her work with Bruce Springsteen in the E Street Band and formerly The Sessions Band. Tyrell was born in Pisa, Italy and as the daughter of a military serviceman travelled extensively, eventually her family settled in Florida and she briefly took music theory classes at the University of South Florida. She then relocated to New York City where she became a musician for many years. Together with Patti Scialfa and Lisa Lowell, she formed a group known as Trickster. Tyrell began appearing on records with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Love is a Sacrifice in 1980 and she then led her own country and western band, Soozie & High in the Saddle. Tyrell first appeared with Bruce Springsteen in 1992 on his Lucky Town album, in 2002 her violin became a key part of the sound on Springsteens album The Rising, and Tyrell joined the E Street Band for the subsequent 2002–2003 Rising Tour. She also played a prominent role in his non-E Street, big band folk-oriented 2006 album We Shall Overcome, The Seeger Sessions, in 2003, Tyrells debut album White Lines was released on Treasure Records. In 2014 Tyrell was featured on the compilation Songs from a Stolen Spring, on the album she performed Danger Zone - a Percy Mayfield song made famous by Ray Charles
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Clarence Clemons
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Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. also known as The Big Man, was an American saxophonist, musician and actor. He was reported to be 65 tall, hence his nickname, from 1972 until his death, he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteens E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone. He released several albums and in 1985, had a hit single with Youre a Friend of Mine. As an actor Clemons featured in films, including New York, New York. He also made appearances in several TV series, including Diffrent Strokes, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons, My Wife and Kids. Together with his writer friend Don Reo he published his semi-fictional autobiography told in third person, Big Man, Real Life & Tall Tales. Clemons suffered a stroke on June 12,2011, and died of complications from it on June 18, Three years following his death, Clemons, along with the rest of the E Street Band, was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born in Norfolk County, Virginia, Clemons was the son of Clarence Clemons, Sr. a fish market owner and he was the oldest of their three children. His grandfather was a Southern Baptist preacher and, as a result, when he was nine, his father gave him an alto saxophone as a Christmas present and paid for music lessons. Clemons later switched to saxophone and played in a high school jazz band. His uncle also influenced his musical development when he bought him his first King Curtis album. Curtis, and his work with The Coasters in particular, would become an influence on Clemons. As a youth Clemons also showed potential as a football player and he played as a lineman on the same team as Art Shell and Emerson Boozer and attracted the attention of the Cleveland Browns, who offered him a trial. Clemons also tried out for the Dallas Cowboys, however, the day before, he was involved in a serious car accident which effectively ended any plans of a career in the National Football League. He would eventually be inducted into the universitys Athletics Hall of Fame on February 24,2012. He also performed with Daniel Petraitis, a New Jersey and Nashville legend and these sessions were eventually released in 2007, by Truth and Soul Records as Let Me Be Your Man. While at Maryland State College Clemons also joined his first band, The Vibratones, while still playing with this band he moved to Somerset, New Jersey, where he worked as a counselor for emotionally disturbed children at the Jamesburg Training School for Boys between 1962 and 1970. The story of how Clemons first met Bruce Springsteen has entered into E Street Band mythology, the E Street Shuffle with a monologue about how they met and the event was also immortalized in Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
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Danny Federici
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Daniel Paul Danny Federici was an American musician, best known as the organ, glockenspiel, and accordion player and a founding member for Bruce Springsteens E Street Band. In 2014, Federici was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band, Federici started to play accordion when he was seven years old, which he learned from watching The Lawrence Welk Show. When he mastered classical music and polka, his mother booked him at parties, clubs, Federici attended high school at Hunterdon Central High School in New Jersey. Federicis organ fills are a key component in the E Street sound and he pioneered the trademark E Street glockenspiel sound with a rare keyboard glockenspiel, one of only two tube o phone types known to exist. Both were purchased by Danny on separate trips to Europe, in photos showing the instrument sitting atop his Hammond B3 the metal tubes responsible for the sound can be seen protruding from the top in staggered lengths like miniature organ pipes. He subsequently used electronic keyboards to simulate the glockenspiel sound, another notable performance is his accordion solo on 4th of July, Asbury Park. Keyboard Magazine published an article in 2008 detailing the instrumentation Danny used, during the long time the E Street Band was inactive during the 1990s, Federici played with Country/Americana act Diamondback, releasing one record with Diamondback during this period, Ragin Wind. Federicis haunting accordion and B3 work became a component of their Southern Rock sound. During this time Federici recorded an album of jazz instrumentals called Flemington, after his hometown of Flemington. E-Street bandmates, bassist Garry Tallent and guitarist Nils Lofgren supplied backup on the album and this was originally released on Deadeye Records, then picked up by Music Masters Jazz label in 1997, it was later re-worked and re-issued as Danny Federici on Hip-O Records in 2001. Federici followed this up with a jazz album Sweet, self-released on Backstreets. com in 2004. Federici performed on other records as well, including those of Joan Armatrading, Graham Parker. Springsteen stated at the time, Danny is one of the pillars of our sound and has played beside me as a friend for more than 40 years. We all eagerly await his healthy and speedy return, Federici made his only return to the stage on March 20,2008, when he appeared for portions of a Springsteen and E Street Band performance at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Federici died on April 17,2008 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Springsteens album, Working on a Dream, is dedicated to him. The fund also aims to raise awareness for the disease. The tracks are taken from the Magic Tour, and feature a performance of 4th of July, various tours, 1972–1974 Born to Run tours, 1975–1977 Darkness Tour, 1978–1979 The River Tour, 1980–1981 Born in the U. S. A. Tour, 1984–1985 Tunnel of Love Express Tour,1988 Human Rights Now. S. A
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Ed Manion
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Ed Manion, also known as Eddie Kingfish Manion, is an American saxophonist who plays both tenor and baritone sax. He is a member of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, The Miami Horns and Little Steven. As a solo artist he released his own CD titled Follow Through in 2004, Manion attended Berklee College of Music after graduating from Lakewood High School in 1970 and as a youth played in several bar bands on the Jersey Shore. These included Lazarus who recorded an album in Nashville on the Shelby Singleton Label in 1970, The Dark Side and Little Joe and the Kokomos. It was while playing with these bands along with his late night jamming at the infamous Upstage Club in the sixties that he first met Southside Johnny. In 1976, together with trumpet player Tony Palligrosi, he auditioned and joined the Asbury Jukes and he subsequently became a permanent member of the bands horn section – The Miami Horns. He is featured prominently on the album Hearts Of Stone, playing a sax solo on the track I Played The Fool. In the early 1980s, Manion was also featured on Van Zandts solo album, Men Without Women and he provided another baritone sax solo on the track Forever. On 2/1/09 Manion performed and played baritone sax as part of a 5 piece horn section with Bruce Springsteen and he has also toured and recorded intermittently with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. He first toured with Springsteen in August 1976 during the Born to Run tour, during the Born in the U. S. A. The subsequent Tunnel Of Love Express tour of 1988, did feature a horn section much more prominently. Manion together with Rosenberg, Pender, Spengler and Mario Cruz, sometimes referred to as The Tunnel Of Love Horns and they also made occasional guest appearances during the Human Rights Now. From 2012-2014, Manion was part of the E Street Horns appearing on the Wrecking Ball World Tour, between 1991 and 1994, Manion was also a full-time member of The Robert Cray Band and played alongside B. B. King, Albert Collins and John Lee Hooker. Together with trumpet player Mark Pender, they played and arranged horns on the Grammy-nominated Cray album, Shame + A Sin. S
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Tom Morello
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Thomas Baptiste Tom Morello is an American musician, singer, songwriter, actor and political activist. He is best known for his tenure with the band Rage Against the Machine, as of 2016, Morello is a member of the supergroup Prophets of Rage. Morello was also a musician with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. He is also known for his solo act called The Nightwatchman. Morello is also the co-founder of the political activist organization Axis of Justice. Born in Harlem, New York, and raised in Libertyville, Illinois, Morello became interested in music and he attended Harvard University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies. After his previous band Lock Up disbanded, Morello met Zack de la Rocha, the group went on to become one of the most popular and influential rock acts of the 1990s. He is best known for his unique and creative guitar playing style, Morello is also noted for his leftist political views and activism, his creation of his side project The Nightwatchman offered an outlet for his views while playing apolitical music with Audioslave. He was ranked number 40 in Rolling Stone magazines list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, Tom Morello was born on May 30,1964, in Harlem, New York, to Ngethe Njoroge and Mary Morello. Morello is of Italian and Irish descent on his maternal side and his father was a Kenyan participant in the Mau Mau Uprising, and served as Kenyas first ambassador to the United Nations. Morellos paternal great-uncle, Jomo Kenyatta, was the first elected president in Kenyan history and his parents met in August 1963 while attending a pro-democracy protest in Nairobi, Kenya. After discovering her pregnancy, Mary returned to the United States with Njoroge in November, when Morello was 16 months old, Njoroge returned to his native Kenya, and denied his paternity of his son. Morello was raised by his mother in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, there he attended Libertyville High School, where his mother was a U. S. history teacher. She was the teacher for Toms classmate and fellow guitarist Adam Jones, of the band Tool. Morello sang in the choir and was active in speech and drama club. Morello developed leftist political leanings early, and has described himself as having been the only anarchist in a high school. In the 1980 mock elections at Libertyville, he campaigned for a fictitious anarchist candidate named Hubie Maxwell and he also wrote a piece headlined South Africa, Racist Fascism That We Support for the school alternative newspaper The Student Pulse. Morello graduated from school with honors in June 1982
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Jay Weinberg
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Jay Weinberg is an American musician, and drummer and the son of American drummer Max Weinberg. He has played with the American punk band the Reveling and toured in 2009 as a drummer with Bruce Springsteens E Street Band, during 2010, he was briefly the drummer for Madball. During 2011 and 2012, Weinberg played with Against Me, in 2014, Weinberg became the drummer for the American heavy metal band Slipknot. Weinberg is the son of drummer Max Weinberg, who joined the E Street Band in 1974, his mother and he grew up in Middletown Township, New Jersey. As a child, he played travel team ice hockey as a goaltender, at age 9 he first saw the E Street Band on their 1999–2000 Reunion Tour, and saw shows on this and subsequent tours, especially in Europe. He began playing guitar at age 9, bass at age 12 or 13 and he then started playing drums at age 14, mostly self-taught and without much instruction from his father but using his fathers old gear. By the next year he had performed a guest appearance on stage with band the Used and he played in the New Jersey metal band Chaosis. He attended Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School where he played on the team for a time, played in a band called Sadie Mae. Weinberg graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey in 2014 and he joined the New York punk band the Reveling in August 2008, which plays before small audiences in venues such as the Ace of Clubs nightspot in Manhattan, various spots in Brooklyn, and elsewhere. With them he does some of the songwriting and arranging. Springsteens manager Jon Landau viewed Weinberg as the weapon to substitute for his father without losing fan satisfaction. Both Landau and E Street guitarist Steve Van Zandt attributed Jay Weinbergs skills to a genetic gift, once the initial portion of the tour began in early April 2009, Weinberg played from several songs to half the show on most of the dates. He began playing shows in mid-May 2009 during the tours American first leg. Modern Drummer magazines editor said that a freshman playing on one of the years biggest rock tours is certainly a unique story. He also played during a few dates of the American third, I like doing this just as much as I like doing that. In February 2010, Weinberg began playing with Madball, a hardcore band based out of New York City. In June of that year, it was announced that he would become the drummer for their upcoming album Empire and a tour. In response, Weinberg said that he had quit the group by that time
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Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
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Greetings from Asbury Park, N. J. is the debut studio album by Bruce Springsteen. It was produced by Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos during July–September 1972 at the budget-priced 914 Sound Studios, the album was released on January 5,1973, by Columbia Records to average sales but positive critical reviews. In 2003 it was ranked at #379 in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the album also reached #60 on the Billboard 200 album chart. There was a dispute not long after the record was recorded—Appel and John Hammond preferred the solo tracks, as such, a compromise was reached—the album was to have five songs with the band and five solo songs. However, when Columbia Records president Clive Davis heard the album, as such, Springsteen wrote and recorded Blinded by the Light and Spirit in the Night. These two songs bumped Jazz Musician, Arabian Nights, and Visitation at Fort Horn, leaving a total of seven band songs, the album was originally slated to be released in the fall of 1972, but it was moved back to early 1973 to avoid the pre-Christmas crush. Both Blinded by the Light and Spirit in the Night were released as singles by Columbia and this recording of Blinded by the Light is Springsteens only number one single as a songwriter on the Hot 100. His best showing on the Hot 100 as a performer was in 1984, with Dancing in the Dark, which peaked at number two for 4 weeks. Greetings from Asbury Park, N. J. first charted in the United Kingdom on June 15,1985, in the wake of Springsteens Born in the USA tour arriving in Britain, it remained in the top 100 for ten weeks. Peter Knobler wrote in Crawdaddy that he sings with a freshness, the album rocks, then glides, then rocks again. There is the sensibility of the chaser and the chaste, the street punk. Creem magazines Robert Christgau said Springsteens songs are dominated by the kind of mannered emotional transparency, in All Music Guide to Rock, William Ruhlmann gave Greetings from Asbury Park, N. J. It was saved from pretentiousness by its sense of humor and by the eye for detail. That kept even the most high-flown language rooted, in 2003, the album was ranked number 379 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. They ranked it 37th on their list of greatest debut albums, All songs written by Bruce Springsteen. As with every album to follow, Springsteen recorded more songs than he could fit onto the album, many of the outtakes have been released throughout the years on various bootlegs however never have been given an official release. Most are in a raw, demo form featuring just Springsteen and were not fully completed, demos such as Mary Queen of Arkansas, Growin Up, Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street. And Its Hard to Be a Saint in the City were released on the Tracks boxset, Blinded by the Light Springsteen – guitar, electric bass, keyboards, vocals Clemons – saxophone, backing vocals Lopez – drums, backing vocals Wheeler – piano 2
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