The breakneck speed that Bruce Springsteen created his 2020 album “Letters to You” shocked E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt. “He wrote it in two weeks, which never happens,” Van Zandt, 73, told The Post. “We recorded it in four days, which never happens.” Featuring songs such as “Burnin’ Train,” “Last Man Standing” and … Read more
When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band reunited in a New Jersey music room in 2023, Little Stevie says the vibe was a little different. “It took an extra minute because usually we don’t rehearse at all,” guitarist Steven Van Zandt told me during a chat with Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau. “We get together … Read more
Baby, he was born to film. Music legend Bruce Springsteen is rumored to have been hired to serve as a consultant on a feature film about the making of his 1982 album “Nebraska.” According to Showbiz 411, the E-street band leader, 74, was allegedly hired by “Black Mass” director Scott Cooper, who is also known … Read more
The Boss isn’t quite ready to hit “Thunder Road” just yet. Steven Van Zandt revealed Friday during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony that E Street frontman Bruce Springsteen is in “great shape” amid his peptic ulcer disease condition. “We’re gonna come back stronger than ever in March,” Zandt, 72, told People. … Read more
When Mike Appel — Bruce Springsteen’s first producer and manager — initially heard the 22-year-old baby Boss in November 1971, he wasn’t impressed. “He sang two songs at the piano … and they were two songs that were just blah, nothing,” Appel told The Post about Springsteen’s audition. “I said, ‘Is that all you have?’ … Read more