Bruce Springsteen
Review: German Rock Legend Herbert Grönemeyer Plays the Wilbur Theatre in Boston
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.
Celebrating Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run”
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 […]
American Icons: This Land is Your Land
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 […]