Jon Stewart has interviewed Bruce Springsteen for the cover story in the next issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands March 16th. As host of The Daily Show, Stewart has talked to Springsteen publicly, but within the tight confines of brief segments. In this interview, the men get the space to speak at length about the Springsteen’s new album, Wrecking Ball, as well as their common ground as popular entertainers with a serious interest in politics.
“It’s not at all surreal,” Stewart says with heavy sarcasm, referring to his friendship with the legendary rocker. “It’s very hard to reconcile sitting and fishing in a little pond in New Jersey with a guy that you spent many years hitchhiking the New Jersey I-95 corridor to see in Philadelphia back in the day. The only band I think I’ve seen more than Bruce Springsteen is the Springsteen tribute band Backstreets. I try not to let him know how pathetic I truly am.”
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“There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.”
“Bruce Springsteen is on the verge of announcing the details of his 17th studio album, which his manager Jon Landau says has “social overtones” and “a very pronounced spiritual dimension.” According to Amazon.com, a new single called “We Take Care Of Our Own” is going to hit the web tomorrow.”
Bruce Springsteen Releasing New Single Tomorrow - Rolling Stone
Despite remaining off the road for the past two years, Bruce Springsteen has been showing up all over the place. Last month, the Boss strummed a few chords from “Born To Run” on a New Jersey beach and now video has surface of him busking with a guitar in Boston’s Public Garden. Reportedly in town to drop his son off at college, it seems Bruce decided to have a little fun and borrowed a local busker’s guitar. We’re pretty sure his son was not surprised—even move-in day is still another day in the Springsteen household.
Read more on The Boss’ impromptu performance over at RollingStone.com.
—Colin Jones
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Audio for Bruce Springsteen’s conversation with Ed Norton is now up. Enjoy!
SPRINGSTEEN - THE RISING - LINCOLN MEMORIAL 2009
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Jon Stewart’s tribute to Bruce Springsteen. Kennedy Center Honors.
“I am not a music critic. Nor historian, nor archivist. I cannot tell you where Bruce Springsteen falls in the pantheon of the American songbook. I cannot illuminate the context of his work, or its roots in the folk and oral history traditions of our great nations. But I am from New Jersey. So, I can tell you what I believe. And what I believe is that Bob Dylan and James Brown had a baby. Yes! And they abandoned this child, as you can imagine at the time…interracial, same sex relationships being what they were…they abandoned this baby by the side of the road between the exit interchanges 8A and 9 on the Jersey Turnpike…that child was Bruce Springsteen.”
“Like many of you who live in New Jersey, I’ve been following the progress of the marriage-equality legislation currently being considered in Trenton. I’ve long believed in and have always spoken out for the rights of same sex couples and fully agree with Governor Corzine when he writes that, ‘The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is — a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.’”
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“I’m the president but he’s the Boss.”
President Obama on Bruce Springsteen
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“i’m on fire”, (springsteen cover), bat for lashes
U2 honors the 60th birthday of Bruce Springsteen on September 23, 2009… In New Jersey, appropriately. View from the back of the inner circle. “She’s the One” plus Desire.
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