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Springsteen, Bruce Frederick, 1949?, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, b. Long Branch, N.J. Springsteen established himself as a singer and songwriter, as well as a stage showman, while playing in bands in cities along the shore in the Northeast during the late 1960s and early 70s. Backed by the E Street Band, he achieved success and lasting popularity with his 1975 record Born to Run. His songs have frequently drawn their inspiration from small towns and the Midwestern industrial heartland, expounding working-class themes and exploring the effects of a decaying American dream. Other recordings include The River (1980), the solo Nebraska (1982), and the enormously successful Born in the USA (1984). Springsteen displayed a more austere, less hard-edged style in such albums as Tunnel of Love (1987) and The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), but returned to emotionally compelling rock and to backup by the E Street Band in his World Trade Center disaster-themed The Rising (2002).
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