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Music - Bruce Springsteen - The Rock Laureate - NYTimes.com on 2009-02-11
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Magic” has sold a million copies, while his 2008 world tour grossed $204 million.
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He made another promotional deal he now bluntly calls a mistake. On Jan. 13 a $10 collection of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s “Greatest Hits” — 11 songs from a 1995 hits anthology, as well as “Radio Nowhere” from “Magic” — went on sale exclusively at Wal-Mart. Since Wal-Mart has been accused of anti-union practices by Human Rights Watch, among others, and has paid large fines for violating labor laws, the announcement prompted online criticisms like the one from asroma on the fan site backstreets.com: “Bruce is doing biz with Wal-Mart? Kind of goes against everything he stands for.”
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Music - Bruce Springsteen - The Rock Laureate - NYTimes.com on 2009-02-11
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Even more than “Magic,” the new album represents a sea change in Mr. Springsteen’s music. After the elaborate, tortured production of “Born to Run,” back in 1975, Mr. Springsteen went through a “reactive” phase that lasted more than two decades, building his songs on the basics of country, blues and folk music, with utilitarian melodies and straightforward, near-live production. He and the producer Brendan O’Brien, who first produced Mr. Springsteen with “The Rising” in 2002, brought some pop embellishments to “Magic.” And “Working on a Dream” follows through.
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Encouraged by Mr. O’Brien, Mr. Springsteen wrote five new songs during the week before he did the final mixes of “Magic,” he said. “I realized, I do love those big sweeping melodies and the romanticism, and I haven’t allowed myself much of it in the past,” Mr. Springsteen said. “When you have a little vein you haven’t touched, it’s full.”
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Music - Bruce Springsteen - The Rock Laureate - NYTimes.com on 2009-02-11
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In an interview with Billboard, Mr. Springsteen’s manager, Jon Landau, defended the release, saying Mr. Springsteen’s albums were already in Wal-Mart, which accounts for 15 percent of his sales. He also said: “We’re not doing any advertising for Wal-Mart. We haven’t endorsed Wal-Mart or anybody else. We’re letting Sony do its job.”
But Mr. Springsteen said the decision was made too hastily. “We were in the middle of doing a lot of things, it kind of came down and, really, we didn’t vet it the way we usually do,” he said. “We just dropped the ball on it.” Instead of offering the exclusive collection to Wal-Mart, “given its labor history, it was something that if we’d thought about it a little longer, we’d have done something different.” He added, “It was a mistake. Our batting average is usually very good, but we missed that one. Fans will call you on that stuff, as it should be.”
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After more than three decades of shaping American archetypes, Mr. Springsteen sees his career as its own community in the making, shared and constructed with his listeners. “It’s not just my creation at this point, and it hasn’t been really for a long time,” he said. “I wanted it to be our creation. Once you set that in motion, it’s a large community of people gathered around a core set of values.
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Music - Bruce Springsteen - The Rock Laureate - NYTimes.com on 2009-02-11
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AT 9 o’clock on a recent morning Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were already half an hour into a rehearsal at the rock club Terminal 5 in Manhattan. As N.F.L. executives and a television production team watched, they were tightening their miniset of four songs — dropping verses, streamlining segues — to fit their 12-minute slot as the halftime entertainment Sunday at Super Bowl XLIII, expected to reach tens of millions of viewers.
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Few musicians anywhere consummate symbolic occasions and mass events better than Mr. Springsteen. He’s used to working on a stadium scale, and for decades his concerts have been nonstop singalongs that perfectly embody the yearning for community in his lyrics. In an era when pop hits can be as ephemeral as a deleted MP3 file, Mr. Springsteen has spent much of his career laboring to write durable songs about American dreams, from “Born to Run” to “Promised Land.”
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Can Nurses Care Too Much? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com on 2009-02-06
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“If he dies I don’t know what I’m going to do,”
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