Bruce Springsteen
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Also known as: Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen, Bruce Springteen, The Boss, ブルース・スプリングスティーン
With over 140 million records sold worldwide, Bruce Springsteen has built one of rock's most enduring careers across six decades. Nicknamed "the Boss" because he was the one who handled the money after gigs in his early band days, Springsteen broke through with Born to Run in 1975 and cemented his status with Born in the U.S.A. in 1984, still the 23rd best selling album of all time. His writing has always had weight: critics compared his lyrics to Bob Dylan's, and his songs became hits for other artists too, with Manfred Mann's Earth Band taking "Blinded by the Light" to number one in the US. His work with the E Street Band is the spine of his catalogue, though he has repeatedly stepped away to make stark solo acoustic records like Nebraska and Western Stars. Letter to You, released in 2020, made him the first artist to land a top five album in six consecutive decades. He has won 20 Grammy Awards and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but his reputation rests on something simpler: the kind of live show that turns a concert into an event.
