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NEW YORK -- "The Boss" may have just made a cool half-billion dollars. Bruce Springsteen has sold the rights to his music catalog to Sony Music Entertainment for a value that could be north of $500 million, according to The New York Times, citing sources ...
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Why Bruce Springsteen's Kids Won't Inherit Any Money From His Music After He Dies: They ‘Ignore' His Success
Springsteen described himself as an "attention whore", and that his kids don’t see the appeal in his fame. "They ignore it," the Born in the U.S.A. singer said. "They might come to a show, bring their friends, but it's never been a central part of their lives."
The movie then jumps forward to the adult Springsteen (Jeremy Allen White) in 1981: a rock god in tight jeans and sweat-soaked work shirt, closing out his tour in support of The River, his first LP to top the Billboard charts.
The song was “Dancing in the Dark,” the future lead single from Born in the U.S.A. Hearing it for the first time, Landau was convinced Springsteen had delivered the hit he asked for. Springsteen and the band cut six takes of the song on February 14. Roughly another month was spent making 58 mixes of it until everyone was satisfied.
"Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere," in theaters Friday, has more blatant biopic cliches despite zeroing in on two years in the life of the singer.