Posted on 09/26/2009 7:12:33 AM PDT by ETL
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has graced countless magazine covers, from Time to Rolling Stone. But today, on his 60th birthday, he has turned up in a place many of his fans would never have imagined: the cover of AARP The Magazine.
The AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons) is not exactly the place we’d associate with a rock icon. But editor Nancy Perry Graham said Mr. Springsteen’s landmark birthday was an ideal time to feature him.
“We put Bruce on the cover first and foremost because he was turning 60,” she said. “Like the rest of America, we found that to be inspiring. Looking at Bruce, he really personifies our message at AARP that attitude matters more than age.”
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lol, I have a disowned sister has spent her youth running after him and Billy Joel. She has thrown her life in the toilet. She is 43 and never been married chasing after rock stars hoping one of them will marry her.
Bruce is an ass. Far beyond his political beliefs, he cheated on his wife by knocking up his back up singer while married and dumping said wife for poontang slut. Then wants to come off like he is some good ole boy family man. Douchebag.
“My former favorite until he went political; now F-— him!”
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I used to be a fan also...even went to two of his shows with the E Street Band. Awesome shows.
Since it seems that 99% of the musians and entertainers out there are liberals, it’s kinda hard to boycott all of them. Me? I generally only stay away from those who can’t keep their political beliefs to themselves.
The consider themselves “artists”....and artists are always leftists, so it’s just gotta be.
From what I’ve read online, he has a $10 million spread in Rumson NJ:
“The racial makeup of the borough was 97.77% White, 0.24% African American, 0.06% Native American, 1.06% Asian, 0.36% from other races, and 0.50% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.39% of the population.”
and he paid $13 million back in the early 90s for a mansion in Beverly Hills (Black population 1%)
Yeah, he’s a real working-class hero....
...looks tickets to see the “the Boss” at Giant’s stadium aren’t exactly going for egalitarian prices...
http://www.ticketliquidator.com/tix/tickets.aspx?evtid=1098095
Who know he would become such a d**khead
I never liked Brucie in the first place. No offense to anyone here, but ‘Born to Run’ seemed like such an overwrought thing. I can’t believe a man would sing something like that and in that way.
I was able to ignore his excesses during the Born in the U.S.A. period, and even his trashing of Ronald Reagan, but he jumped the shark when he fired the E Street Band (he later rehired them), then campaigned for John Kerry...the latest offenses, his support for the fascist Obama and Soros groups, put him on my personal boycott list. Not another penny from me, Bruce!
Who know he would become such a d**khead
He was fantastic when I first saw him, in his prime from 1975 to 1978, when he was just a cult figure. The fame and the stadium audiences went to his head, it seems. Shut up and sing!
“At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head...”
Now maybe he can sing it to his night nurse.
BFD to his "60".
Alice will be 62 in February and puts on a show that "Broooooose" can only dream of doing.
Bruce -imitated- Dylan.
Almost every hard rock band confesses that they were influenced by Alice, who, instead of being a left wingnut is a conservative Republican that's NEVER cheated on the *only* wife he's ever had.
Screw "the Boss".
I stopped buying his liberal, "political expert" piss and moan albums in the early 80s.
I'll buy everything Vince puts out until he can't put out any more.
And then he dumped the backup singer for a younger, racier model when she got “too old”.
He got his ‘pair and a spare’ kids out of her.
[That’s all he wanted, to begin with...progeny]
Well, happy birthday Bruce. Still ain’t a fan of your music, or your moonbat politics.
In the early 80’s, before I had any understanding of politics and bias in the media I was wondering why they promoted Born in the U.S.A. so much. Then, I found out that Springsteen was one of the biggest libs around.
“Why do gazillionaire musicians turn into commies after making their fortunes within a capitalist system?”Good question.Kind of hipocritical isn’t it?They reap the benefits of capitalism but despise our system.Except for a handfull of exceptions,performers w/out the “correct” political views never get a shot at the big time in the first place or are blackballed.Especially true for Hollyweird.
I think it was Laura Ingraham who said it best. “Shut up and sing!”
This is a man who made some fantastic albums that never made any money. Then he started making atrocious albums that had commercial potential so that he could make some money. I will not be lectured to by a man who so thoroughly betrayed his talent to make a quick couple of million bucks and now demands that the real middle class turn over the product of their labors to those who have committed no labors at all. I will not be persuaded by an artist who diminished the aggregate quality of art in the world just to increase the aggregate amount of bucks in his bank account and now dares to call the system of economy allowing the greatest amount of economic liberty to the greatest number of people as oppressive. I will not be ingratiated to a working class hero who has never done a days worth of work in his life.
That night, Lennon, deep thinker and humanitarian, would hit the Sunset Strip with a toilet seat around his neck and a Kotex on his head.
"Born In The USA" is anything but a patriotic song, yet it's played at many major patriotic events.
America’s Most Successful Communist (Pete Seeger)
By Howard Husock, Summer 2005
excerpt...
What Howe and Coser wrote in 1957 remains true: “Between the ‘progressive’ sentiments of Popular Front politics, and a certain kind of urban middle-brow cultural yearning, there was a deep rapport—most of all, a common anxiety and pathos—which the Communists brilliantly exploited. . . . Even after the Popular Front lay shattered . . . the style of American mass culture retained many of its crucial elements.”
Its echoes in music are ubiquitous. We hear them in John Lennon’s “Imagine,” a vapid celebration of moral relativism that, like “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?,” tells us that no cause is really worth fighting for:
Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for No religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace.
We hear the echoes, too, in the music of the man who organized the Artists for John Kerry tour: Bruce Springsteen, who specializes in depicting the desolation of American life in albums such as Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad (a self-conscious reference to Guthrie). The emblematic Springsteen song, “Born in the USA,” laments the meaningless sacrifice of the Vietnam vet, the ultimate used and abused working-class hero:
Born down in a dead man’s town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much Till you spend half your life just covering up.
Born in the USA, I was born in the USA I was born in the USA, born in the USA.
Got in a little hometown jam So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man.
Born in the USA. . . .
Come back home to the refinery Hiring man says “Son, if it was up to me” Went down to see my V.A. man He said “Son, don’t you understand?” . . . .
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary Out by the gas fires of the refinery I’m ten years burning down the road Nowhere to run ain’t got nowhere to go.
Born in USA, I was born in the USA. . . .
Juxtaposed with the bleak lyrical narrative of tragedy and indifference, the song’s seemingly celebratory chorus becomes a parody of patriotism, implying the foolishness of the benighted blue-collar victim of the system, naive enough to think that it’s really a good thing to be an American—or, God forbid, that America might be worth fighting for.
It’s tempting to dismiss the politicization of popular music as of limited consequence. But as the Popular Front keenly grasped, culture matters—and music matters perhaps most of all. Allan Bloom, glossing Plato, wrote that “to take the spiritual temperature of an individual or society, one must ‘mark the music.’ ” In America, popular music provides a soundtrack for growing up. And the lyrics of that music too often deliver the message that our leaders are “idiots,” that our politics are corrupt, that bourgeois life is purposeless, that this country is no freer than any other—and probably less so. How can we find ourselves surprised, then, by the cool indifference that typifies many kids raised in times of affluence, freedom, and peace?
http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_urbanities-communist.html
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