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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen was born September 23, 1949 in Freehold, New Jersey. His father, Douglas was a bus driver, of Dutch ancestry and his mother, Adele Zirilli Springsteen, a Italian-American legal secretary. He began performing in Richmond, VA in late 1969 and through 1970 with singer Robbin Thompson in a band called Steel Mill. They went on to perform some memorable shows at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Before being discovered nationally, he returned to Asbury Park and performed regularly at The Stone Pony and other small Asbury Park, New Jersey nightclubs. Even after gaining international acclaim, however, Springsteen never forgot his New Jersey roots and routinely would praise "the great state of New Jersey" in his live shows.
He began his recording career with the E Street Band in 1973. Upon signing a solo record deal with Columbia Records in 1972, Springsteen brought many of his New Jersey-based musician friends into the studio with him, many of them forming the E Street Band. His debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., from January 1973 established him as a critical favorite, though sales were slow. Manfred MannManfred Mann was a British R&B and pop band of the 1960s, named after the keyboard player. Manfred Mann himself was originally named Manfred Lubowitz (born October 21, 1940). Born in South Africa, he originally formed the band in 1962, with his friend Mik's Earth Band later turned one song from this album, "Blinded By The Light," into a number one hit. Although " Greetings" and his second album, " The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle " received critical acclaim, they failed to acheive commercial success.
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Springsteen is probably best known for the multi-million selling Born in the U.S.A.( 1984), and the successful world tour that followed it. After this commercial peak, Springsteen released the much more sedate and contemplative Tunnel of Love ( 1987), a mature reflection on the many faces of love found, lost and squandered. It coincided with the breakup of his first marriage to actress Julianne Phillips.
Reflecting the challenges of love, on Tunnel of Love's title song, Springsteen famously sang:
"Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough. Man meets woman, and they fall in love. But the house is haunted, and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above."