Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen是美国70年代以来大红大紫的摇滚乐巨星之一。到了90年代，他依然光彩照人，余音袅袅。

1949年9月23日，Bruce Springsteen出生于美国新泽西洲(New Jersey)的费里霍尔德(Freehold)。1963年开始学弹吉它。1965年他加入了凯斯泰尔乐队，参与了专辑《那是你将要得到了》。凯斯泰尔乐队宣布解散后，Bruce Springsteen在其它几个乐队里又陆续干了3年。

1971年组建了经自己名字命名的乐队。它在1973年发展成为著名的东大街乐队(the E.Street Band)，主要成员包括键盘手大卫.山休斯(David Sancious)、电贝斯手加利.泰伦特(Gary Tallent)、风琴手丹尼.费德里奇(Danny Fedrici)、架子鼓手维尼.洛佩兹(Vivi Lopez)、萨克斯风演奏手克莱伦斯.克莱蒙斯(Clarence Clemmons)等人。

1973年1月，Bruce Springsteen的首张专辑《来自阿斯贝里公园的祝福》(Greeting from Asbary Park)面世。但是这些源于民谣的歌曲并未引起乐迷的兴趣，唱片仅销售出5万多张。同年，11月的专辑《野蛮.无知和东大街的混乱》(The Wild,The Inncocent And The E.Steet Shuffle)仍然没有达到预期的结果。

1974年，东大街乐队组成了更理想的阵容，实力大大加强，新加盟的有钢琴家洛易.比坦、鼓手马克斯威伯和键盘手丹尼.费德里西。1975年又增加了吉它手斯坦福.范.扎德特，原有的键盘师和鼓手也都换了人。

1975年9月，Bruce Springsteen在新专辑《为跑而生》(Born to Run)终于冲上了排行榜的第三位，他本人则成为举世公认的摇滚乐明星。10月，Bruce Springsteen的照片同时在《时代》(Time)和《新星期》(Newweek)两家杂志上刊出，名气大振。就在这一年，为扩大影响，Bruce Springsteen和他的乐队不失时机地在美国的各地不断地举行巡回演出。

接着，他们又创造了令人惊奇的成绩：

1978年，《城镇边缘的黑暗》(Darkness on the Edge of Town)进入排行榜的第5位。获金唱片奖和白金唱片奖。该专辑主要是反映以往的问题，是一张充满忧郁的专辑。15年后，该作品仍在乐坛上占有一席之位。

1979年，现场演出专辑《不要原子能》问世。

1980年，《河流》(the River)高踞排行榜首，销售极为火爆。

1982年，《内布拉斯加》(Nebraka)排行榜第三，《饥渴的心》（Hungry Heart)也进入了前十名。

1984年，《诞生在美国》(Born in the U.S.A)在美国排行榜榜首停留了7周，销量超过了1，200万张。而在英国排行榜上停留了两年半之久。

Springsteen是“拯救非洲难民”（USA for Africa)活动的参与者之一，他与迈克.杰克逊等明星一齐演唱了We Are the World。

1986年，从10年来的曲目中，Bruce Springsteen挑选了一些精品，推出了一张精选集（Live 1975-1985)。它又稳居排行榜首达7周之久。Bruce Springsteen的艺术生涯如日中天。

1985年，Bruce Springsteen和女演员朱莉安.菲利浦(Julianne Philips)结婚后，渐渐失去了往日的狂热，他想多享受一些私人生活的快乐。当然，他的艺术生涯仍在继续，并参与了大量的公益演出活动。这期间发行了专辑以1987年的《爱的通道》(Tunnel of Love)最为成功，专辑对其爱情的失败进行了反思。这部柔和优美专辑由于预先的订购一发行就在英美两地进入了排行榜榜首。

1989年，Bruce Springsteen和朱莉安结束了仅5年的婚姻。随后，他和在巡回演出中合作过的女歌手帕蒂.莎尔法（Patti Scialfa)确立了恋爱关系。同年，东大街乐队在其建议下解散了。

1992年，Bruce Springsteen在解散东大街乐队的同时，推出了专辑《幸运之镇》(Lucky Town)和《人类的接触》(Human Touch)。由于乐迷的支持，两专辑虽然没有以往那么火热，但还是如期所料登上排行榜。

1994年，他为电影《费城故事》（Philadelphia)创作了Street of Philadelphia。

1995年，据说他又重新与大东街乐队的队员合作。当他率领人员精简的新乐队作巡回演出时，Bruce Springsteen自己同时操作几种乐器，其令人眼花缭乱的动作在乐迷中引起了轰动。

1995年，其推出了一张对越南战争感想的专辑《汤姆.周的灵魂》（The Ghost of Tom Joad)，这张专辑是不再是象以往那样的狂热，充满激情的作品，而是单纯的哲理性的沉思。该专辑可以说是他多年来最成功的作品，但也是商业上最失败的专辑之一。

When Bruce Springsteen finally broke through to national recognition in the fall of 1975 after a decade of trying, critics hailed him as the savior of rock & roll, the single artist who brought together all the exuberance of '50s rock and the thoughtfulness of '60s rock, molded into a '70s style. He rocked as hard as Jerry Lee Lewis, his lyrics were as complicated as Bob Dylan's, and his concerts were near-religious celebrations of all that was best in music. One critic became so enamored that he quit reviewing to become Springsteen's manager.

But the hosannas, when piped through the publicity machine of a major record company, were perceived as hype by a significant part of the public as well as the mainstream media — Springsteen landed on the covers of Time and Newsweek, but both magazines were covering the phenomenon, not the music. Springsteen's album, Born to Run, became a hit, and he jumped to arena status as a live act, but as many people were turned off by the press campaign as turned on by the records and shows.

Two decades later, however, Springsteen remained an established star who could look back on a career that had produced one of the best-selling albums of all time, sold-out stadium shows, Grammy awards and an Oscar, and a group of imitators who constituted their own subgenre of popular music. If he no longer seemed divine, he remained popular enough for his Greatest Hits album to enter the charts at number one, and he had won over many of those skeptics from 1975.

Growing up in southern New Jersey, Springsteen turned to rock & roll as a teenager and played in a series of bands from the mid-'60s on, varying in style from garage rock to power trio blues-rock. By the early '70s, he was trying his hand at being a folky singer/songwriter in Greenwich Village. But when he was signed to Columbia Records in 1972, he brought into the studio many of the New Jersey-based musicians with whom he'd played over the years.

The result was Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (January 1973), which went unnoticed upon initial release, though Manfred Mann's Earth Band would turn its leadoff track, &Blinded by the Light,& into a number one hit four years later. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (September 1973) also failed to sell despite some rave reviews. (Both albums have since gone platinum.)

The following year, Springsteen revised his backup group — dubbed the E Street Band — settling on a lineup that included saxophone player Clarence Clemons, second guitarist &Miami& Steve Van Zandt, organist Danny Federici, pianist Roy Bittan, bassist Garry Tallent, and drummer Max Weinberg. With this unit he barnstormed the country while working on his third and last chance with Columbia. By the time Born to Run (August 1975) was released, the critics and a significant cult audience were with him, and the title song became a Top 40 hit while the album reached the Top Ten.

What Springsteen needed to do in the wake of the hype, of course, was to play and record more to consolidate his position. He was prevented at least from the latter by a former manager, who kept him in court during the next couple of years. Meanwhile, the musical world changed. Part of the reason critics had welcomed Springsteen so enthusiastically in 1975 was that he seemed a return to basic rock & roll values in a world of soft rock, heavy metal, and art rock.

By the time Springsteen returned with his fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town (June 1978), however, the punk/new wave movement had outflanked him, pushing him from the vanguard to the mainstream. Similar sounding heartland rockers such as Bob Seger had appeared, so that Springsteen sounded less like an innovator than a member of an established genre.

Nevertheless, he set about winning fans with an album that found the lost children of his early albums stuck in factory jobs, still longing for some escape. The album was a hit, though it did not match the success of Born to Run. Springsteen returned with the double album The River (October 1980), which topped the charts and featured his first Top Ten hit, &Hungry Heart.&

Nobody was calling him a hype anymore, but Springsteen retreated from his expanding success, next recording the low-key album Nebraska (September 1982), a virtual demo tape on vinyl. (Springsteen did not tour to promote the album, and in the interim E Street Band guitarist Van Zandt amicably left the group for a solo career, to be replaced by Nils Lofgren.)

But then came Born in the U.S.A. (June 1984) and a two-year international tour. The album threw off seven hit singles and sold over ten million copies, putting Springsteen in the pop heavens with Michael Jackson and Prince. After touring for more than a year, he released a five-LP/three-CD concert album, Live/1975-85 (November 1986), which topped the charts.

Characteristically, Springsteen returned with a more introverted effort, Tunnel of Love (October 1987), which presaged his divorce from his first wife. (He married a second time to singer Patti Scialfa, who had joined the E Street Band.)

After another marathon tour, Springsteen gave the E Street Band notice in November 1989, breaking up a celebrated unit who had stayed together 15 years. In March 1992, he simultaneously released Human Touch and Lucky Town, and though the albums premiered near the top of the charts, they were less successful with fans than previous efforts. In the fall, Springsteen taped an MTV Unplugged segment (though he plugged in after one song), and the performance was released as an album in Europe in 1993.

Springsteen continued to tour until July 1993. In the fall, he wrote and recorded &Streets of Philadelphia& for the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia, which concerned a lawyer dying of AIDS. The song became a Top Ten hit in 1994, winning the Academy Award for Best Song and cleaning up at the Grammys the following year. At the same time, Springsteen had readied his Greatest Hits album (February 1995), reassembling the E Street Band to record a few new tracks. The album was an immediate best-seller. Springsteen followed it with The Ghost of Tom Joad (November 1995), another low-key, downcast, near-acoustic effort and embarked upon a brief solo tour. In 1999, shortly after his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band (including both Lofgren and Van Zandt on guitars) and embarked on a world tour that lasted until mid-2000, its final dates resulting in the album Live in New York City.

Bruce Springsteen then set to work on The Rising, his first full-length studio album to feature the group as a whole since Born in the U.S.A.. Released in July 2002, it was also Springsteen's first album of new studio recordings since The Ghost of Tom Joad. Another successful tour followed, as did the release of Devils & Dust in 2005. One year later, the songwriter released the first covers album of his career, a tribute to the songs of Pete Seeger titled We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. Live in Dublin, featuring concert material from the tour supporting Springsteen's Seeger project, was released on both CD and DVD in 2007. Springsteen then returned to his work with the E Street Band and released Magic in the fall of 2007, followed by another round of touring. Several months later, however, longtime E Street organist Danny Federici succumbed to a three-year battle with melanoma.

Springsteen finished the tour in 2008 and held several additional shows in support of Senator Barack Obama, whose presidential campaign had kicked into hyperdrive earlier that year. While playing an Obama rally in early November, Springsteen debuted material from his forthcoming album, Working on a Dream, whose tracks had been recorded with the E Street Band during breaks in the group's previous tour. The resulting album, which was the last to feature contributions from Federici (as well as his son, Jason), arrived on January 27, 2009, one week after Barack Obama's historic inauguration.

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