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Today, Steven Van Zandt held his Party at the Pony, a benefit in support of his nonprofit music education organization TeachRock. The star-studded event promised “special appearances from some of Stevie’s Disciples [of Soul] and E Street Band family,” and it delivered with an unannounced appearance from Bruce Springsteen. Held …

There was no shortage of major global events for the weekly news magazines to cover in October 1975. The last smallpox patient on Earth was treated in Bangladesh; Francisco Franco’s dictatorship came to an end in Spain after nearly 40 years; Saturday Night Live hit the NBC airwaves for the …

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere opened in multiplexes over the weekend following a worldwide publicity campaign, thorough fact-checks by the media, the official release of the fabled Electric Nebraska sessions, and a filming process that played out almost daily on social media thanks to Springsteen’s regular presence on the set. …

While writer-director Scott Cooper was working on early screenplay drafts for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the real-life subject of the film made it clear how he wanted him to approach the project. “Bruce gave me a piece of advice that I felt was really critical,” Cooper says on the …

For Stephen Graham, it’s been a big year for dad roles, starting with his part as the distraught parent of a tragically warped son in Netflix’s Adolescence —the culture-shaking show he also co-created. He gives an equally strong performance as a very different father, the troubled Douglas Springsteen, in the …

Most music biopics take place in a world of alternative facts where Queen broke up before Live Aid, Elton John named himself after John Lennon, Mötley Crüe‘s Vince Neil sang Billy Squier’s “My Kinda Lover” before it was released, Amy Winehouse didn’t thank “Blake Incarcerated” at the Grammys, and Bob …

Bruce Springsteen attended a screening of Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere on Wednesday evening at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles. At the end of the night, he performed “Atlantic City” and “Land of Hope and Dreams.” He also endorsed the growing No Kings movement in his prepared remarks. “Outside, …

In 1981, Bruce Springsteen found himself at a crossroads. He’d just finished his tour for The River, which had brought his marathon-length, rock & roll-revivalist shows to a record number of audiences. The E Street Band was hitting on all cylinders. “Hungry Heart” was his first single to crack the …

Throughout the first decade or so of his career, Bruce Springsteen felt it was important to limit his public commentary, and simply let his music do the talking. Early manager Mike Appel had to twist his arm to speak with Time for a 1975 cover story, and Springsteen generally stayed …

Jeremy Allen White’s renditions of nine Bruce Springsteen classics will appear on the official soundtrack for the upcoming biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which will be released in full on Dec. 5 via Columbia Records. The track list mostly comprises songs from Springsteen’s classic 1982 album, Nebraska, as the …