I remember living in New Zealand and going to see Bruce Springsteen live in concert.
The venue was the Speedway Track and Bruce got every petrol head singing I’m on Fire into the night air, like it was a Billy Graham Revival Meeting in the middle of a dirt track.
The crowd he sung too weren’t Born in The USA, but that didn’t matter, it was the fact that someone was proud of their own country and was also a global citizen that you felt resonating in Brucie’s music that inspired the crowd.
His material on 9-11 was so compelling. It hit the right tone, of America having to rebuild after such a tragedy. Ironically, Springsteen’s tone for dealing with and having to rebuild America after the devastation of The World Trade Center’s twin towers tragedy, was prophetic for having to rebuild the American economy in the age of Barack Obama.
It’s Bruce Springsteen’s prophetic backwood’s gospel, meets New Jersey, working-class rhetoric and harmonics, that make him still The Boss to me of music.
Here’s what Forbes, has to say about Sprinsteen who comes in on the list as the 6th most powerful celebrity in show business: “This New Jersey idol had fourth-highest-grossing tour in 2008, bringing in $166 million on sales of 1.6 million tickets worldwide. Capped tour by headlining Super Bowl halftime show. Signed exclusive deal with Wal-Mart to sell greatest hits album; later called the deal “a mistake.” Outspoken critic of looming merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster.”
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A decade later, yes I would see The Boss in concert again! That’s a star.
