Bruce Springsteen

German rock legend Herbert Grönemeyer showcased his new English-language album “I Walk” Tuesday night in Boston. It was a solid set of translated Grönemeyer classics with Bruce Springsteen, Joe Cocker, and Randy Newman songs thrown into the mix which attracted a largely German audience.

From the first beats, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” is captivating. The lyrics, the imagery, the aspiration. In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines Tonight, Springsteen will perform in Boston. In honor of his visit, our […]

This is the national anthem we actually know the words to. Americans sing it at school and summer camp; Bruce Springsteen sang it at President Obama’s inauguration. Yet Woody Guthrie’s song was once branded anti-American, even Communist. Pete Seeger tells Kurt Andersen how Guthrie wrote it as a sarcastic response to “God Bless America,” and […]