#happy birthday Bruce Springsteen

[born-in-the-silver-springs]

Bruce Springsteen on his 27th birthday in Asbury Park, nj

[antiquesintheattic]

I OPEN TUMBLR! I SCROLL MY FOLLOWING! I AM TEN POSTS IN! NOT ONE HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISH TO BRUCE! this is what’s wrong with society

[thegroovyarchives]

Bruce Springsteen Photographer: Lynn Goldsmith From the September, 1978 issue of Creem Magazine

[harmonicawizard]

[nadja-antipaxos]

you know, if "thunder road" was the only thing bruce springsteen ever wrote and released, that would be enough to categorize him as an amazing musician, but the fact he didn't stop there, incredible.

it's so familiar that i often forget the beauty of it. it took seeing him live to fully understand.

"show a little faith, there's magic in the night"

"make crosses for your lovers, throw roses in the rain"

"we got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels"

"and I know you’re lonely, for words that I ain’t spoken, but tonight we’ll be free, all the promises’ll be broken"

"there were ghosts in eyes of all the boys you sent away"

"so Mary climb in, it’s a town full of losers, and I’m pulling out of here to win"

i included a recording of when he played it before the release of born to run at a bar in nyc. it's absolutely gorgeous.

[tenthsfreezeout]

Danny Clinch on the iconic Letter to You album cover - a sweet NYC coincidence, taken in March 2018. Via Liz Leavitt.

[ghostsmp3]

Bruce Springsteen, NYC, 2018. 📸: Danny Clinch.

[coralreeferband]

[soisaidfine]

Happy Birthday Bruce Springsteen, 75 ♡

'But it was Springsteen’s thirtieth birthday, a milestone in the life of any rock star, and one that he seemed to take especially hard. “Well, I’m over thirty now,” he said, after enough cries of Happy Birthday had reached the stage. “I guess I can’t trust myself anymore.”' - Dave Marsh

Bruce Springsteen:

'Well, I believe in the love that you gave me I believe in the faith that could save me I believe in the hope And I pray that some day It may raise me above these Badlands, you gotta live it everyday Let the broken hearts stand As the price you've gotta pay Keep pushin' 'til it's understood These badlands start treating us good Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa'

Badlands The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts

Bruce Springsteen / Ethel Cain: 'Our story':

[lady-starkiller]

the fact I wasn't alive to go to a bruce springsteen concert in the 1980s...FUCK

[tonightillbeonthathill]

Bruce Springsteen: 'it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive'

Happy Birthday Bruce Springsteen, 75 ♡

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Bruce Springsteen: “The characters ain’t kids, they’re older—you been beat, you been hurt. But there’s still hope, there’s always hope. They throw dirt on you all your life, and some people get buried so deep in the dirt that they’ll never get out. The album’s about people who will never admit that they’re buried that deep.”

Dave Marsh: "And so the final verse of the record’s first song, “Badlands,” is both an invocation and a benediction, Bruce Springsteen attempting to do for every listener what rock and roll had done for him:

'For the ones who had a notion A notion deep inside That it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.'"

Badlands The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts ...

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[stopandimagineloveforever]

Happy birthday, BRUUUCE!! 🎉

[westernstarofthenorth]

Happy 75th, dear Bruce 💖💖

[ragamuffingunnar]

me, who wasn't even alive in 1978: how is darkness on the edge of town 45 yrs old

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happy birthday Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rocksinger, songwriter, and guitarist. Nicknamed "the Boss", he has released 21 studio albums during a career spanning six decades, most of which feature his backing band, the E Street Band. Springsteen is a pioneer of heartland rock, combining a commercially successful rock sound with poetic and socially conscious lyrics reflecting the issues of working class American life. He is known for his descriptive lyrics and energetic concerts, which sometimes last over four hours

Springsteen released his first two albums, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, in 1973. Although both were well received by critics, neither earned him a large audience. He changed his style and achieved worldwide popularity with Born to Run (1975), followed by Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978) and The River (1980), Springsteen's first album to top the Billboard 200 chart. After the solo effort Nebraska (1982), he recorded Born in the U.S.A. (1984) with the E Street Band, which became his most commercially successful album and the 23rd-best selling album of all time as of 2024. All seven singles from Born in the U.S.A. reached the Top 10 of the BillboardHot 100, including the title track. Springsteen mostly hired session musicians for the recording of his next three albums, Tunnel of Love (1987), Human Touch (1992), and Lucky Town (1992). He reassembled the E Street Band for Greatest Hits (1995), and recorded the acoustic album The Ghost of Tom Joad(1995) and the EP Blood Brothers (1996) solo.

Springsteen dedicated The Rising (2002) to the victims of the September 11 attacks. He released two more folk albums, Devils & Dust(2005) and We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006), followed by two more albums with the E Street Band, Magic (2007) and Working on a Dream (2009). The next albums, Wrecking Ball (2012) and High Hopes (2014), topped album charts worldwide. In 2017, 2018 and 2021, Springsteen performed the critically acclaimed show Springsteen on Broadway, in which he performed songs and told stories from his 2016 autobiography; an album versionfrom the Broadway performances was released in 2018. He released the solo Western Stars (2019), Letter to You (2020) with the E Street Band, and a solo covers album Only the Strong Survive (2022). Letter to You reached No. 2 in the US, making Springsteen the first artist to release a top-five album across six consecutive decades.

One of the album era's most prominent musicians, Springsteen has sold more than 71 million albums in the U.S. and over 140 million worldwide, making him the 27th best-selling music artist of all time as of 2024. His accolades��include 20 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Special Tony Award. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999, received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, was named MusiCares person of the year in 2013, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. In 2010, Rolling Stone ranked Springsteen 23rd on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", describing him as "the embodiment of rock and roll".

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