Bruce Springsteen surprises audience at Stand Up for Heroes, plays five songs (2024)

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Does Bruce Springsteen support veterans? ›

Springsteen is not a vet, but he's been supporting veterans' causes for decades. His donation of the proceeds of a 1981 concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena to the Vietnam Veterans of America was a pivotal moment in the way vets were viewed by American society.

The Boss is officially a billionaire. Bruce Springsteen, who, with songs like “Badlands,” “Hungry Heart” and “My Hometown” became rock 'n' roll's voice of the working class, is now worth $1.1 billion, according to a “conservative” Forbes estimate. Much of his net worth has been solidified in the past few years.

Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen performed "Forever Young" at the Concert for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Dylan was a surprise guest, who did a five-song set that included “All Along The Watchtower," "Just Like a Woman," and “Highway 61 Revisited.”

For the bulk of Springsteen's recording and performing career, the band included guitarists Steven Van Zandt, Nils Lofgren, and Patti Scialfa, keyboardists Danny Federici and Roy Bittan, bassist Garry Tallent, drummer Max Weinberg and saxophonist Clarence Clemons.

Bruce Springsteen sat down for a wide-ranging interview with his longtime friend Tom Hanks at the Beacon Theater for Tribeca Film Festival's Tribeca Talks: Storytellers series on April 28. Their intimate, career-spanning conversation spotlighted Springsteen's unique place in American musical history.

BRUCE Springsteen jetted into Scotland in not one but two private jets today. The Boss proved to be every bit the superstar as he and his entourage took over an Airbus and a smaller private jet to make it up for his gig at Hampden.

In 2012, Springsteen said that it was his Catholic upbringing rather than his political ideology that most influenced his music. He said his faith gave him a "very active spiritual life" but joked that this "made it very difficult sexually" and added "once a Catholic, always a Catholic".

The deal does not likely include future releases, and no, the Boss will not have to pay Sony when he plays his songs in concert. The deal also takes the onus off Springsteen heirs, including kids Evan, Jessica and Sam and wife Patti Scialfa, from settling the matter.

He may have been born in the USA but it seems Bruce Springsteen also has a hungry heart for exploring his Irish lineage. The 73-year-old singer-songwriter's great-great-great-grandparents left Rathangan in County Kildare for New Jersey in 1853.

Eric Clapton is a consistent hitmaker and one of the greatest guitarists of all time—perhaps that's why he is the only person to be inducted into the Rock Hall three times. His diverse influences ranged from reggae to the blues and established him as a versatile and resilient artist whose relevance never fades.

Who was Bruce Springsteen's backing band? ›

Known for backing Bruce Springsteen in his storied performances, the E Street Band is a gang of musicians bursting with skill, soul and endurance.

Springsteen himself was drafted in 1967 when he turned 18, but later told Rolling Stone that he played up his bike accident injuries to make sure he wouldn't go to war, being given a 4-F classification.

Springsteen's first wife, Julianne Phillips, filed for divorce in August 1988 and their divorce was finalized in 1989. After Phillips and Springsteen separated, he and Scialfa began living together in New Jersey; they later moved to N.Y.C. and Los Angeles.

The E Street Band is Bruce Springsteen's band. They perform four decades, since 1972, along with Bruce Springsteen. The name is derived from "E Street" in Belmar, New Jersey, where one of the then musicians (keyboard player David Sancious) grew up and where the band occasionally rehearsed in his mother's garage.

He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out. At age 19, Springsteen was drafted, but failed his physical examination because of a concussion he suffered in a motorcycle accident two years earlier combined with his behavior at induction, both of which reportedly made him unacceptable for military service.

Springsteen himself was drafted in 1967 when he turned 18, but later told Rolling Stone that he played up his bike accident injuries to make sure he wouldn't go to war, being given a 4-F classification.

The wall by Bruce Springsteen is anti war song because the song gives tribute to the soldiers which fought against enemies in the Vietnam war and criticize the personals who started the war. Both Walter Cichon and Bart Haynes were the closest friends of the Bruce Springsteen who were killed in the Vietnam war.