It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce SpringsteenAlterman, Eric
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Commemorating Bruce Springsteen's 25 years as a recording artist, here is a panoramic view of his career in a form never seen before. This is the complete collection of Bruce Springsteen's recorded lyrics, illustrated with hundreds of never-before-published images from some of rock & roll journalism's greatest photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, David Gahr, Lynn Goldsmith, Bruce Weber, and many others. From Jim Marchese's informal backstage shots during the European leg of the 1980 The River tour to Neal Preston's amazing documentation of the Born in the U.S.A. days to Pam Springsteen's portraits showing a side of the musician rarely seen by the public, this is the most intimate look at Bruce Springsteen ever published. The photos and lyrics are accompanied by original commentary by Springsteen, in which he reflects on the songs, the performances, and the quarter-century career that for many defines the American dream. In words and in pictures, here is the one book no Bruce Springsteen fan can afford to be without.
"The tone is frank and confessional, and besides tracing his own development as a writer, Springsteen follows his characters...as they grow into the fully formed people who inhabit the GHOST OF TOM JOAD. Even the photos are of interest, revealing a gawky Bruce on the streets of New York, or loitering on the Jersey shore....The Bruce who emerges is, of course, engaging and likeable, but what makes Songs really intriguing are the small details....Also reproduced here is Springsteen's note to Jo Landau which accompanied the legendary Nebraska cassette, including his comments on one number which never made it to the finished album: "Song is in rough shape but is as good as I can get city at the moment-it might have potential". The song was BORN IN THE USA, which Bruce admits later "changed my life". Things were never the same again, but Songs intriguingly and eloquently retraces that journey from the broadwalk, to the edge of town, and beyond."
Patrick Humphries, Mojo, April 1999
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