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Bruce Springsteen had a difficult 1976 and 1977. All he wanted to do was make new music for his fans, but he was stuck in a painful legal battle with his manager and producer, Mike Appel. When it came ...

Bruce Springsteen, "The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story" (Columbia) 5 stars. If there were more box sets like this one, the record industry might survive its own darkest days and ...

If you're a Bruce Springsteen fan, you've heard the album "Darkness on the Edge of Town" a hundred times. “Badlands” and “Adam Raised a Cain.” “The Promised Land” and “Prove It All Night.” But you've ...

An incisive anatomy of an album that was painstakingly recorded in 1977 by a lean and hungry young Bruce Springsteen, Thom Zimny’s rock-doc “The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town” ...

Director Thom Zimny’s docu feature about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness On the Edge of Town,” preeming at the Toronto Film Festival, will be a key part of a lavish three-CD/three DVD ...

Eric Meola once asked Bruce Springsteen about the creative order of songwriting: Is it the music or the words that come first? Springsteen laughed and replied, "Sometimes it's the one, and sometimes ...

You’d better be some kind of genius to ask the world to admire your spiral notebooks. Bruce Springsteen, who’s spent a quarter-century-plus absorbing the love of people who feel his music changed ...

Disclaimer: I’m biased on this subject. Bruce Springsteen and I are the same age, and we’ve known each other for a long time. We met in the mid-‘70s at his first West Coast gig. I interviewed him, ...