Awards and nominations

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Bruce Springsteen has won a lot of prizes and he has been nominated for a dozen of different awards many times. Here you are, the list of his awards and the nominations.

Academy Awards, USA

  • Nomination for Oscar, 1996
  • Oscar for best music and original song, 1994

American Music Awards

  • Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist, 1985
  • Favorite Pop/Rock Album, 1985
  • Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist Video, 1985
  • Favorite Pop/Rock Single, 1984
  • Nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist Video 1984

ASCAP Film And Television Music Award

  • Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures, 1995

Brit Awards

  • Nomination for International Male Solo Artist, 2011
  • Nomination for International Male Solo Artist, 2010
  • Nomination for International Male Solo Artist, 2008
  • Nomination for Best International Male Solo Artist, 2006
  • Nomination for Best International Male, 2003
  • Won category Best International Solo Artist, 1986

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

  • Won category Best Song, 2009

ECHO Awards

  • Nomination for Best International Pop/Rock Male Artist, 2010
  • Nomination for International Pop/Rock Male Artist of the Year, 2008

Emmy Awards

  • Nomination for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Specia, 2001

Golden Globes

  • Won Best Original Song – Motion Picture, 2009
  • Won Best Original Song – Motion Picture, 1994

Grammy Awards

  • Won Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, 2010
  • 3 nominations in 2010
  • Won Best Rock Song, 2009
  • One nomination in 2009
  • Won Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, 2008
  • Won Best Rock Song, 2008
  • Won Best Rock Instrumental Performance, 2008
  • One nomination in 2008
  • Won Best Traditional Folk Album, 2007
  • Won Best Music Video, Long Form, 2007
  • Won Best Rock Vocal Solo Performance, 2006
  • 4 nominations in 2006
  • Won Best Rock Vocal Solo Performance, 2005
  • Won Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, 2004
  • Won Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, 2003
  • Won Best Rock Album, 2003
  • 2 nominations in 2003
  • 2 nominations in 2000
  • 1 nomination in 1998
  • Won Best Contemporary Folk Album, 1997
  • 2 nominations in 1997
  • Won Song of the Year, 1995
  • Won Best Rock Song, 1995
  • Won Best Rock Vocal Perofrmance – Male, 1995
  • 2 nominations in 1993
  • Won Best Rock Vocal Solo Performance, 1988
  • One nomination in 1986
  • Won Best Rock Vocal Performance – Male, 1985
  • 2 nominatinos in 1985
  • 1 nomination in 1982 and 1981

Juno Awards

  • Nomination in 1993
  • Won International Album of the Year, 1985

Meteor Ireland Music Awards

  • Won Best International Male, 2008

MTV Movie Awards

  • Nominations in 2009, 2001 and 1994

MTV Video Music Awards

  • Nominations in 1997, 1994, 1992, 1988, 1987, 1986 and 1985
  • Won Best Video From a Film, 1994
  • Won Best Stage Performance video, 1985

O Music Award

  • Nomination in 2011

Polar Music Prize

  • Won in 1997

Rammy Awards

  • Won Best Original Song, 1993

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

  • Won in category Performe, 1999

Satellite Awards

  • Nomination in 2008

World Soundtrack Awards

  • Nomination in 2009

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Conclusion

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While I have done this presentation, blog or what you want to call it, about Bruce Springsteen I’ve learned a lot of his history. He was born in a poor family in middle of nowhere and his mum had to take a loan to buy him a guitar but still he is a living worldwide known rockstar.

My opinion of him is that he’s good! Even it’s rock it’s still more like the opposite of rock because it isn’t screaming and shouting stupid things. That’s good!

The final conclusion is that the music he plays and writes is the best on the Earth. You can think njah, it’s not, but this is just mine and millions of other people’s opinion.

By the way, the new album, that was just released, is great!

Career

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Bruce Springsteen started to sing in different bands (read the earlier posts)  before his successful single career. Though it’s his single career hi tours and records albums with the E Street Band. His first own album was recorded in 1972 and it was released next year. The album was called Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. It includes nine songs:

  1. Blinded By The Light
  2. Growin’ Up
  3. Mary Queen Of Arkansas
  4. Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?
  5. Lost In The Flood
  6. The Angel
  7. For You
  8. Spirit In The Night
  9. It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City 

In the same year 1973 he released his second album, The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle. It includes seven songs and you can see the list of them here. The biggest hit on the album was Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).

In 1975 he released his breaktrough album, Born To Run. It contains eight songs on a vinyl disk including several hits: Thunder Road, Backstreets and Born to run. The title songs Thunder Road was continuous played in the radio and you can here it still. The second famous song in the radio is Streets of Philadelphia which I will tell you later.

Because Born to run was recorded on a vinyl disk there is a new version of it published in 2005. The new version is named Born To Run: 30th Anniversary 3 Disk Set. It contains two extra DVDs: The first one is about his Hammersmith Odeon Concert and the second one tells how the Born to Run was made.

The original version is one of the most famous albums in the rock and roll history. The knowledge is based on many polls.

Let’s skip three albums and we get into Born in the U.S.A. The skipped albums are Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River and Nebraska. If you want to read more about them you can just go here.

Born in the U.S.A. was released in 1984 and it includes 12 new songs. Maybe the best known song from the albums is it’s title song Born in the U.S.A. but it contains many other famous songs too including Working on the Highway, I’m On Fire, Glory Days and Dancing in the Dark.

After releasing the Born in the U.S.A. he started his two year long world tour. The Boss was born.

In 1987 the Tunnel of Love was released. Back then he was facing some adult problems (lost love, emotional problems etc). The songs dealt with love as you can guess from the previous.

The next album was released 1988 and it was named Chimes of Freedom but let’s skip it, it doesn’t contain anything worth of telling.

On March 31, 1992 he released two albums: Human Touch and Lucky Town. The fist one (Huma Touch) was more orientated for radio but Lucky Town was seen as a step forward for Bruce Springsteen. Human Touch has one bigger hit (but it’s not a hit like Born to Run or Born in the U.S.A.), the title song Human Touch.

On Lucky Town there are a few better known songs such as Better Days, Lucky Town and Living Proof.

In 1993 the Philadelphia movie was released. Bruce Springsteen has written the theme music of the film and it’s called Streets of Philadelphia. It is a great song and Bruce Springsteen has won a Grammy award with the song.

Since 1994 till 2004 there were released ten albums, some of them were new and some of them were collections and live DVDs. They aren’t very famous except the new version of Born in the U.S.A. triple set.

Devils & Dust was released in 2005. It’s title song Devils & Dust is the most famous songs from the disk. It contains a DVD including live performances. The DVD was recorded in New Jersey. There is a 5.1 surround mix of the album on the DVD too.

In 2007 Magic was released. It’s actually the first studio album in five years from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It contains a hit single, Radio Nowhere.

Working on a Dream (2009) contains many songs widely played in the radio like Working on a Dream, Queen Of The Supermarket and Outlaw Pete. It is his 24th album.

He has written two more albums and the latter isn’t released yet. It should be released on 6th March, 2012. It’s called Wrecking Ball. The 25th album, The Promise, was released in 2010. It includes a big number of songs – as many as 22! It is sold in 2-CD pack.

There will be also a special edition available of the disk and it will contain two extra songs and some photos.

See the complete list of his albums here.

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Birth and early life

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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (“The Boss”) was born on September 23, 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey. He was born in a normal family, a middle class family.

His father is Douglas Frederick Springsteen, and his mother is Adele Ann Zerilli. He has two sisters: Virginia (older than Bruce) and Pamela (younger than Bruce).  He and the whole family are Catholics. His father was working as a bus driver and the mother was a legal secretary.

When he was 13 years old, he bought his first guitar for 18 dollars. After three years his mother took a loan to buy him a 60 dollars guitar, the Kent guitar.

His mother wanted him to use his talent, but his father wanted him to be drafted in the U.S. Army and the Vietnam War. Douglas (his father) wanted him to become a real, hardworking man, not a guitarist and a singer.

When he was 16, he became the lead guitarist in a band called The Castiles. Later he became also the lead singer in the band. They recorded two songs in Brick Township.

From 1969 to 1971 he was part of “Child”. Later the band was renamed as “Steel Mill” when a new member joined in and wanted to rename the band.

Bruce didn’t go to a college he went straight to working life. It didn’t seem a gift back then, but he wrote some successful songs in those days.

When Bruce was 20, the family took Bruce with them and moved to California. He didn’t perform a lot, but sometimes he occurred with local bands on the beaches.

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