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Twenty years ago Bruce won an Academy Award for «Streets of Philadelphia», the song included in the Jonathan Demme movie Philadelphia. Antonio Banderas introduced Springsteen’s performance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles and Whitney Houston delivered the Oscar.

American Beauty, Bruce Springsteen’s Record Store Day special EP containing 4 new songs, will be released on April 19. Bruce talked about it recently with Rolling Stone‘s Sean Sennett. In the interview published at Rolling Stone’s website Bruce gives some details about these new songs, talks about the Australian tour and his choice of covers. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

«It’s got some nice things on it. This is material from the past decade. […] I believe «American Beauty» was a demo I made that I didn’t end up cutting with Brendan. I believe «Hurry Up Sundown» was the same thing. The other two songs, one was cut for maybe Magic or Working on a Dream and they’re just good music that didn’t get onto this record, and was sitting there.»

«We said, «Who’s the biggest Australian act in the world?» The Bee Gees. On my playlist I have a huge disco section — I like disco music from the Seventies a lot. The Bee Gees made great records and «Stayin’ Alive» was simply a great song. The lyrics are in our wheelhouse.»

See the full Q&A at Rolling Stone.

Meanwhile, Bruce seems to have opened to social media recently, increasing his personal presence on the net. Besides the much-welcomed live downloads and a vast amount of concert photos and video posts in his website, he’s been uploading many personal photos (including the so-called ‘selfies’) quite often: Bruce riding his bike with friends in Sydney, Bruce with his dogs and horses and now some pics taken at his Colts Neck studio, with an added promise of uploading soon more stuff from the recent Southern Hemisphere tour. So stay alert and check brucespringsteen.net for more updates.

No more tour news at the moment though we’ve heard more dates are being considered (in both the U.S. and Europe) .

Photo: Bruce Springsteen (www.brucespringsteen.net)

HBO will debut a special High Hopes documentary on April 4th at 9.30pm ET. The program, 28 minutes long, chronicles the making of the album and includes studio, live & rehearsal footage (from the South African tour), along with interviews with Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello, who discuss the album. It is titled Bruce Springsteen’s High Hopes and was directed by Thom Zimny.

Bruce Springsteen will be playing at Reunion Park in Dallas on April 6th, as part of the March Madness Music Fest organized by the NCAA during the Final Four play-offs. Jason Aldean will be the selected performer on April 4th and both Tim McGraw and The Killers will be performing on April 5th.

This free show (first come, first serve) will be the first of the Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band High Hopes US tour.