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It’s not hard work locating great Bruce Springsteen lyrics. In the early years, he was often seen as the New Dylan. The next person up to speak for their generation. No pressure. But Springsteen didn’t just speak for his generation. His songs reflected ...
Post-Nebraska, post-emotional breakdown, post-psychotherapy and with an all-new exercise regime, Bruce returns anew in 1984 with Born in the USA. It is a colossal album, filled with radio hits, that remains one of the best-selling albums of all time, and certainly of the singer’s career.
Author and music historian Warren Zanes, who served as an executive producer on the newly released Bruce Springsteen biopic, revealed that the “Born to Run” singer led director Scott Cooper and a small crew on an expedition up and down the Jersey Shore before filming was officially underway.
Stephen Graham plays Springsteen’s troubled father; Jeremy Strong is Springsteen’s loyal manager, Jon Landau; and Odessa Young appears as a composite girlfriend character. Springsteen has said that he was especially touched by the performances of Graham and White.
Deliver Me From Nowhere' sticks remarkably close to the historical record, even if there's one composite character.