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11 unusual facts about Bruce Springsteen


8-track tape

Another is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Live/1975-85, which was one of the very few boxed sets to be released on vinyl, cassette, compact disc, and eight-track tape.

New Jersey Route 88

The road is mentioned in the lyrics of the 1973 song "Spirit in the Night" by Bruce Springsteen.

Orbitz

In 2009, the state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit against the company alleging violation of their Consumer Fraud Act surrounding events with a Bruce Springsteen concert, where tickets were allegedly offered for sale on their website which did not actually exist.

Peter Charles

Charles reportedly to have sold his gold medal winning horse, Vindicat W, to rock star Bruce Springsteen for his showjumper daughter Jessica.

Philip Testa

Testa's violent death inspired the first line of musician Bruce Springsteen's US hit song, "Atlantic City".

Seating assignment

(In 2002, the city had made a one-time exception to the ban, allowing festival seating for a Bruce Springsteen concert; no problems were experienced.)

Set list

In the case of Bruce Springsteen, fans attending concerts even take on the assigned role of set list caller, periodically calling out or text-messaging from a cell phone to a friend, to report the most recent songs played, with the friend then updating a running set list on one of several Internet forums.

Sid Meier's SimGolf

Other facilities made available as players progress through the game include a bar, a putting green, a tennis court and homes to parodies of Hollywood stars or other international celebrities, such as William Robins, Bruce Springstone, Pamela Panderson, or Rosie O'Doul.

Stockton's Wing

The band took its name from a line in the Bruce Springsteen song, "Backstreets" - "Slow dancin' in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing..."

The U.S. Express

Once they joined the WWF they were given a patriotic gimmick along with the Bruce Springsteen classic "Born in the U.S.A." as their entrance music.

TicketsNow

In 2009, Suspicion arose when attempted consumers of tickets to a concert by Bruce Springsteen were instantly redirected from Ticketmaster's own site to TicketsNow, only to see the same tickets being sold at premium prices.


Cafe Wha?

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool and the Gang, Peter, Paul & Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and many others all began their careers at the Wha?

Charles Calello

He has worked with such diverse artists as Nancy Sinatra, Roberto Carlos, Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Al Kooper, Bruce Springsteen, Laura Nyro, Barbra Streisand, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ray Charles, Bobby Vinton, Janis Ian, Barry Manilow, Juice Newton, and many others.

Crisler Center

The arena has also hosted concerts, perhaps most famously, the opening show of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's The River Tour, in which Springsteen began the show by completely forgetting the words to "Born to Run", but was rescued by the Michigan audience.

Dale Maharidge

Also with Williamson, Maharidge wrote Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass, which singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen has credited as an influence for songs such as "Youngstown" and "The New Timer".

Danny and the Champions of the World

Danny George Wilson recorded ‘Tougher Than The Rest’ for a Limited Edition Bruce Springsteen tribute 7” EP for Record Store Day 2011, alongside fellow contributors The Magic Numbers, Willie Nile and Billy Franks.

Dave Prater

The duo has also been cited as musical influences by numerous artists including Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, and Stevie Winwood.

Dylan Anderson

Dylan also says his father who was an artist would play Bruce Springsteen and Peter Gabriel albums within his art studio, while he and his father would sing along.

E Street Radio

Its format concentrates on Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, including interviews, guest disc jockey sessions, studio outtakes, concert recordings, rarities and more.

Ed Sciaky

Sciaky (pronounced SHOCK-ee) became known for promoting new talent, helping establish the careers of scores of artists, most notably Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, David Bowie, Janis Ian, and Yes.

El Último de la Fila

The band began performing at larger and larger concert venues throughout Europe and South America including 1988's Amnesty International Human Rights Now! concerts along with other acts such as Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, and Youssou N'Dour.

Fair Haven, New Jersey

Fair Haven has an annual Fireman's Fair during the last weekend of summer including Labor Day weekend which attracts a couple of thousand people, including noted musicians Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi.

For the Working Class Man

Journey's Jonathan Cain contributed, produced and performed on two tracks, "Working Class Man" (Which has since become Barnes' signature song as a solo artist after being featured in the Ron Howard film Gung Ho) and "American Heartbeat", with Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band co-writing "Ride the Night Away" and Chas Sanford penning "I'd Die to be with You Tonight".

Frankie LaRocka

It reached #12 on the Billboard 200 album chart and featured a top ten single hit in the Bruce Springsteen song Streets of Philadelphia.

Georgian Terrace Hotel

Musical performers providing concerts at the hotel included Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, Patti Smith, and Bruce Springsteen.

Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Politics

The series feature an impressive list of interviewees, including Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, Bono, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Bob Dylan, Ice-T, Bob Geldof, Willie Nelson, Roger Waters, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, and Neil Young.

Gregory Markel

The song, with its Radiohead and Pink Floyd like properties and mixed by legendary mixer/producer Bob Clearmountain, (Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen and others), stood in profound contrast to the radio fare that year.

Innocent Bystanders

Their Monday night residences at the Herdsman Hotel drew crowds of over 250 people, many of them music industry types there to listen to this powerful Australian band heavily influenced by Cold Chisel and Bruce Springsteen.

Jacksonville Coliseum

The Coliseum hosted hundreds of concerts and shows during its 43-year history, including Rush, Bob Dylan, Duran Duran, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Journey, AC/DC, Deep Purple and Iron Maiden.

Kasey Anderson

The indictment also alleged Kasey falsified emails from Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen's manager, as part of the effort to defraud the investors.

KFBT

Playlists from 1985 show Sheena Easton, Prince, and Teena Marie getting heavy airplay at Magic 104, while KBOS was big on Billy Squier, Bruce Springsteen and David Lee Roth.

Life Under Mike

Music was provided for the movie soundtrack by rock stars Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

Live in Barcelona

Live In Barcelona is a full concert video DVD of a performance by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band of their Rising Tour performance of October 16, 2002 at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

Mary Dillon

In 2010, she released a digital-only EP containing covers of Army Dreamers by Kate Bush, Undone in Sorrow by Ola Belle Reed and Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen.

Moving Forward

Several well-known guests are featured on the album, including Bruce Springsteen, Dave Koz, and fellow athlete turned musician Wayman Tisdale.

New Jersey Music Hall of Fame

New Jersey has a rich musical heritage, covering artists from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra to Bruce Springsteen.

New York State of Mind

Joel has also performed duets of the song with Elton John during their collaborative Face-To-Face Tour, with the country singer Garth Brooks during Brooks's Central Park Concert in 1997, and with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as one of Springsteen's special guests during his performance at the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert" at Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 29, 2009.

Oren Bloedow

Career highlights for Oren include being named Artist of the Year by Greil Marcus in 2004, musical directing the Randy Newman tribute at UCLA's Royce Hall for impresario Hal Willner, performing with Lou Reed, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and once with Bruce Springsteen at Carnegie Hall.

Out in the Street

"Out in the Street" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band from the 1980 album The River.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

In 2000, Orr, in conjunction with Libman, began a series of commissions for contemporary ballets inspired by American music, including such musicians as Indigo in Motion, Ray Brown, Stanley Turrentine, Lena Horne, Billy Strayhorn, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, and Cole Porter, with choreography of Kevin O'Day, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Dwight Rhoden, Derek Deane, Matjash Mrozewski, and Twyla Tharp.

School of Sound Recording

), Martin Hannet (The Stone Roses, Joy Division, etc.) and Arthur Baker (Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Kraftwerk, Al Green) all visited Spirit to record and produce their work.

Stade Richter

Even after the Stade de la Mosson opened, the Stade Richter was used for concerts, by artists including Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson & Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.

Steel Breeze

In 1984, Steel Breeze (now with ex-707 vocalist Kevin Chalfant and keyboardist Loren Haas) released their second album, Heart On The Line on an independent record label, but the record went unnoticed despite guest appearances by Bruce Springsteen's saxophonist, Clarence Clemons and Santana's vocalist, Alex Ligertwood.

Sun National Bank Center

Since then the arena has hosted over 1200 events with over 4,000,000 guests attending and has sold out shows by Bruce Springsteen, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Shania Twain, Keith Urban, Cher, Elton John, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Britney Spears and Justin Bieber.

The Chicken Song

On the Spit in Your Ear album, the "Celebrity Mega Mix" version of "The Chicken Song" was included, which features celebrities like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Tina Turner singing the lyrics.

The Day Is Brave

Tomas handpicked Brendan's ballad “Hero's Song” —a piano-driven anthem about war from a soldier’s perspective—to appear, alongside tracks by Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, on the Eddie Vedder's soundtrack Body of War: Songs that Inspired an Iraq War Veteran, a documentary about Tomas's experience.

The Way You Do the Things You Do

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed an extended version, as part of a medley with "634-5789", during their radio-broadcast show at the Apollo Theater and have continued to perform it throughout their 2012 Wrecking Ball Tour.

TKO-HQ

The band's collection of interests and influences is integral to their stage presence and live atmosphere, claiming popular culture references from Bruce Springsteen to Chewbacca.

Todd Loren

In 1989, he sold Musicade and started Revolutionary Comics, which produced Rock 'N' Roll Comics, a line of unauthorized comic book biographies of rock stars prompted in part by the success of an unauthorized Bruce Springsteen parody comic called "Hey Boss."