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  • Cover me... twice! Columbia promotion vet Paul Rappaport on the (in)famous TIME/NEWSWEEK covers @50

    The news-magazines, issues of which consistently got dated a week ahead of the date they first hit newsstands , were each dated October 27, 1975 for their respective Springsteen-cover-story issues. For example, in his Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story biography , Dave Marsh wrote, "One way What Marsh didn't note in print was that it very well might have been Marsh himself who informed and encouraged Cocks - with whom Marsh was friends and shared great enthusiasm for Springsteen's music -

  • Thirty years ago tonight... "Streets of Philadelphia" wins the Best Original Song Oscar

    March 21, 2024 EDITOR'S NOTE: Thirty years ago tonight, Bruce Springsteen won his first (and, to date We are honored to present Caroline's essay below: On March 21, 1994, Bruce Springsteen accepted the Academy Other songs have been adopted by the LGBTQ+ community. Music writer, cultural/political critic, and broadcaster Dave Marsh on “Streets of Philadelphia” and 1, 1995, Dave Marsh's 45th birthday,] he thanked Kristen, ‘whose spirit is in this song.’

  • "On the outside looking in:" Connecting with BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN @75 author Gillian Gaar

    program is designed to provide a retrospective view of artists who, in addition to their longevity, have And while she cites Dave Marsh’s groundbreaking work, there is not the overreliance on his pair of in-depth biographies from which previous publications have suffered. Bruce has definitely made choices that have challenged and confounded some fans: touring with different But it must be kind of a relief that you don't have to worry about its chart position or something."

  • New - and free - music for marching, courtesy of Nils and Amy Lofgren

    something to people, and gives them something to focus on... something simple to chant while they're marching

  • "Take a good look around..." - Steven Hyden makes us think...and RE-think... BORN IN THE U.S.A. @40

    May 28, 2024 "Born in the U.S.A. changed my life and gave me my largest audience. Nowhere - also asserts that, upon the release of Nebraska in 1982, rock-critics like Greil Marcus and Dave Marsh erroneously overemphasized the contemporary political aspects of the Springsteen album that directly And even Nebraska's songs with distant-memory aspects like "Mansion On The Hill" and "Used Cars" have Fittingly, the book has a very moving - if not downright heartbreaking - ending, set at Springsteen's March

  • Welcome to the Letters To You website!

    And just in case anyone may need or want it, here's some of the history behind this new website having speaking about (onstage and in interviews, especially once I got to read it all so well synthesized into Dave Marsh's still-essential-and-excellent Springsteen biographies Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story Becoming a regular Backstreets contributor, as well as remaining a regular reader, gave me some of the only our regular Springsteen-related news updates and analyses, but also for deeper, more thoughtful dives

  • Be True - the Letters To You review of SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE

    Broadway , or Bruce's autobiography (on which the Broadway show was based, of course,) or either/both of Dave Marsh's biographies, or... It's one thing to get the minutiae wrong, like having Springsteen tell the fictionalized daughter of or giving Springsteen’s sister Virginia the wrong hair-color in childhood-flashback scenes, or even having (Even the song chosen for the closing credits - a live Reunion Tour version of "Atlantic City," mashing

  • A Phoenix Rising - Springsteen & the E Street Band overcome yet again, in their tour of trials

    March 22, 2024 How appropriate it was, this past Tuesday night, to witness the onstage return of Bruce later phase of that same pandemic still dogged it, as various band members' illnesses forced several March 2023 dates to be rescheduled. -date appearance on this tour (having been played at only three European shows last summer.) In closing, I can't help but think of what music-writer and Springsteen-biographer Dave Marsh once wrote

  • Tramps like us, baby, we were born to celebrate BORN TO RUN @50!

    course - a bar band, in this case, the stalwart Pat Roddy Band , who were more than up to the task, having it's best to begin addressing the major problem with this panel by quoting this trio of sentences from Dave Marsh's book Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story , which includes the still-authoritative-more-than-forty-five-years-after-its-publication Yet again, I find myself asking myself where Dave Marsh's Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story is Manion told a particularly offbeat personal story of having joined the U.S.

  • Talk To Me: Corey Glover of Living Colour, and his still-open proposal to Jon Landau and the RRHofF

    He wouldn't have had a job; he wouldn't have been sitting in his dorm room making a magazine. During the October 19, 2016 broadcast of Live From E Street Nation, co-hosts Jim Rotolo and Dave Marsh "Yeah," said Marsh, "I saw a list [on RollingStone.com] that was not the list I remember from the meeting Marsh then checked his email on-air to confirm, found that the list posted on RollingStone.com was indeed BET and countless others have paved the way for this type of recognition.

  • Bruce talks the new Springsteen Center building, and we have a "Friends"-ly amendment to offer...

    And then they’d have a spot for my stuff, if anybody was interested and wanted to go and see what made

  • Saving what's left of Tillie and the Palace should be one of outgoing NJ Gov. Murphy's resolutions.

    image courtesy of Save Tillie January 5, 2026 In this, his final month in office, outgoing New Jersey Phil Murphy - a self-proclaimed Springsteen fan - has a relatively easy-peasy, no-brainer chance to save By all means, this should be one of Murphy's new-year resolutions. image courtesy of Save Tillie image courtesy of Save Tillie Last September, Preservation New Jersey 's Executive Director, Kelly C. Fans are begging N.J. gov to save it." by Rob Jennings for The Star-Ledger "Saving Tillie: The Fight

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