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Springsteen to receive Ellis Island Award

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Today, April 22nd, Bruce Springsteen will receive the Ellis Island Family Heritage Award, because of his European roots, as his family came thru Ellis Island from Italy in 1900. The honor, presented by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., is for immigrants or their descendants «who have made a major contribution to the American experience. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will emcee the event and former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, also chairman of the foundation, is presenting the awards. Bruce is not expected to perform at this event, though the organizers say “We’d be thrilled if he came here with a guitar on his back”.

«London Calling: Live in Hyde Park» new Springsteen DVD/Blu-Ray

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London Calling: Live in Hyde Park will be released by Columbia Records on June 22nd. The show, filmed at London’s Hyde Park on June 28th 2009, was shot in HD and will be released in two different formats: a Blu-Ray disc and a double DVD. This Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band performance includes 26 song over 163 minutes.

It is surprising that this is the chosen show to represent the Working on a Dream tour, considering it was not really one of the best performances of the tour and Bruce’s voice was particularly soar that night. The shows from the final leg of the tour (including those at Giants Stadium, the Spectrum, MSG or the final night in Buffalo) were simply phenomenal. Maybe the Hyde Park show has been chosen as it’s a more standard, for-the-masses set list and it was shot in HD? Add to this «Rosalita» has been literally amputated from the show.

Back in 2009, Jon Landau said the plans for 2010 included a Working on a Dream tour DVD (Hyde Park) and a Darkness-era box-set, still due.

Complete song list for London Calling: Live in Hyde Park:

1. London Calling
2. Badlands
3. Night
4. She’s The One
5. Outlaw Pete
6. Out In The Street
7. Working On A Dream
8. Seeds
9. Johnny 99
10. Youngstown
11. Good Lovin’
12. Bobby Jean
13. Trapped
14. No Surrender
15. Waitin’ On A Sunny Day
16. The Promised Land
17. Racing In The Street
18. Radio Nowhere
19. Lonesome Day
20. The Rising
21. Born To Run
22. Hard Times (Come Again No More)
23. Jungleland
24. American Land
25. Glory Days
26. Dancing In The Dark
27. Music under end credit sequence: Raise Your Hand

BONUS MATERIAL:
The River: Glastonbury Festival, 2009
Wrecking Ball: Giants Stadium, 2009

Springsteen editará en junio un DVD de la gira Working on a dream

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London Calling: Live in Hyde Park es el título del concierto que Columbia Records editará el próximo 22 de junio. El concierto, filmado en el Hyde Park de Londres el 28 de junio de 2009 en alta definición, se editará en dos versiones: en formato Blu-Ray y en formato de doble DVD. En este concierto Bruce Springsteen y la E Street Band tocaron 26 canciones durante 163 minutos.

Sorprende sin duda que sea éste el concierto elegido para representar la gira Working on a Dream, si tenemos en cuenta que Springsteen sufrió bastantes problemas vocales durante el mismo (muchos momentos de semi-afonía) y que no fue precisamente uno de los conciertos destacados de la gira (para eso están conciertos como Bilbao, Santiago, Baltimore, Nueva York, o el fabuloso concierto de fin de gira en Buffalo). Quizá el hecho de que fuera filmado con cámaras de alta definición haya sido decisivo a la hora de tomar esta decisión. En todo caso, y en nuestra opinión, una oportunidad perdida donde la calidad de imagen pasa por encima de cualquier valoración artística (para colmo han eliminado «Rosalita» del concierto!).

Además del concierto de Londres, la edición incluirá también «The River», filmada en el concierto de Glastonbury el día antes, y el vídeo en directo de la canción «Wrecking Ball», filmada en los conciertos de Nueva Jersey. Ahora sólo nos queda esperar que el segundo DVD que Jon Landau, manager de Springsteen, prometió editar en 2010 salga a la luz. Se trata de la caja del álbum Darkness, sobre la cual se especula que incluiría el álbum remasterizado, un documental y un DVD con un concierto de la gira ’78. Es posible que dicha caja se edite antes de las próximas navidades.

Contenido completo de London Calling: Live in Hyde Park:

1. London Calling
2. Badlands
3. Night
4. She’s The One
5. Outlaw Pete
6. Out In The Street
7. Working On A Dream
8. Seeds
9. Johnny 99
10. Youngstown
11. Good Lovin’
12. Bobby Jean
13. Trapped
14. No Surrender
15. Waitin’ On A Sunny Day
16. The Promised Land
17. Racing In The Street
18. Radio Nowhere
19. Lonesome Day
20. The Rising
21. Born To Run
22. Hard Times (Come Again No More)
23. Jungleland
24. American Land
25. Glory Days
26. Dancing In The Dark
27. Music under end credit sequence: Raise Your Hand

BONUS MATERIAL:
The River: Glastonbury Festival, 2009
Wrecking Ball: Giants Stadium, 2009

Bruce Springsteen takes the stage again

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Although this year he is not expected to tour, Springsteen jumped on a stage again for the second time this year. It was at Rosanne Cash’s concert in Durham, North Carolina. Springsteen recently contributed to Rosanne’s latest album The List, singing a duet with her on the song «Sea of Heartbreak». Halfway thru her show at Duke University on April 15th she told the crowd: «Usually, I’d say that John Leventhal will be playing the part of Bruce Springsteen; tonight, Bruce Springsteen will be played by Bruce Springsteen». And so both artists sung «Sea of Heartbreak» to a stunned crowd. (See a picture of the show at Backstreets.com)

But this ain’t it: Bruce will be back on a stage very soon. He has been confirmed to join Wes Stace (formerly known as John Wesley Harding) in a special performance with poet Robert Pinsky at Wamfest (Words and Music Festival). They’ll play at a special event called «Words and Music, Perhaps II: A Discussion and Performance». The concert is free, but only available to Duke students.

Photo: Wes, Bruce y Ian. Pic from Wes Stace’s Twitter.