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Bruce Springsteen isn’t dancing in the dough — at least not to billionaire status.The 75-year-old rock legend denies the July Forbes report “conservatively estimating” him to be worth $1.1 billion.“I’m not a billionaire,” he told The Telegraph. “I wish I was, but they got that real wrong.

New York Dolls, has died at the age of 75.The news was announced by his daughter Leah Hennessey, who confirmed that he passed away on Friday (February 28) at his home in New York. He had been diagnosed with stage four cancer in 2020.As the singer in the New York Dolls, Johansen was fundamental in the shaping of the aesthetic that would go on to define punk rock, merging elements of glam and hard rock with a distinctively anti-establishment attitude and resonating with an emerging generation of music fans.Born on January 9, 1950, the Staten Island native began his music career with the band The Vagabond Missionaries in the late ‘60s, before forming the Dolls in 1971 with Johnny Thunders, Sylvain Sylvain and Arthur Kane.They released two highly influential studio albums together – ‘New York Dolls’ (1973) and ‘Too Much Too Soon’ (1974) – before splitting in 1976 and not performing together again until 2004.Johansen went on to lead a successful solo career, opening for The Who, before swerving in the late ‘80s into the alter ego Buster Poindexter, a louche lounge singer that performed regularly with the Saturday Night Live band.

Pete Doherty has announced details of his new solo album ‘Felt Better Alive’ along with details of an intimate UK tour. Check out the title track below along with our interview with The Libertines star.Due for release in May via Doherty’s own Strap Originals label and supported a run of shows in towns namechecked in Babyshambles‘ classic ‘Down In Albion’, his latest solo effort comes with a taster in the form of the country-tinged road song of the lead single and title track.“My ultimate fantasy moment is like in that film Yesterday where he’s the only person to know The Beatles songs,” Doherty told NME. “Before that film was written and made, I used to have that fantasy when I was a kid.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music If there’s a patron saint of New York City’s rock scene, it’s Jesse Malin. The frontman for the bands Heart Attack (a punk outfit he formed when he was 14) and D Generation, as well as a prolific solo artist, he’s been a vibrant presence on the city’s venues, rocker bars — some of which he’s owned — and extended social scene for nearly four decades, and seems to know everybody.

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy nominee and 2x SAG Award winner Steven Van Zandt has inked with Paradigm for representation in all areas, excluding his live music performances.

Jeremy Allen White in character as Bruce Springsteen for the upcoming biopic has been released.The Bear actor will portray the rock icon in Deliver Me From Nowhere, which focuses on the creation of The Boss’ 1982 album ‘Nebraska’.As production begins on the film ahead of its release in 2025, the first photo of White as Springsteen has been released, showing the star donning the musician’s look. Take a look below:“Beginning production on this film is an incredibly humbling and thrilling journey,” director Scott Cooper said.

told in the new Hulu documentary “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” out Oct. 25.“I knew that this was going to be different because the album was different,” Van Zandt added of the ongoing tour.

Jeremy Strong is giving a little insight into his forthcoming role in the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic starring Jeremy Allen White.

Springsteen on Broadway” at the St. James and Barrymore Theater, there’d been a grind-to-a-halt pandemic and new faces joined the fray.“So we actually did have to rehearse,” Van Zandt, 73, said.

EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Cannizzaro (Jersey Boys) has joined the ensemble cast of 20th Century‘s Bruce Springsteen biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere. The New Jersey native will portray Springsteen’s long-time confidant and E-Street band guitarist, Stevie Van Zandt, sources close to production tell Deadline.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Bruce Springsteen has always been a master at mythologizing his own story, and his latest film “Road Diary” is no exception: It’s a tribute to the E Street Band’s 50-year history and their decades of touring, his 60-year friendship with guitarist Steve Van Zandt (who makes a crack about finally officially being named the E Street Band’s musical director after 40 years), the familial bonds between the bandmates, the crew and his longtime manager Jon Landau, and other sentiments that are well familiar to fans and get a thorough and moving presentation in the Thom Zimny-directed film, an artfully executed documentary of the band’s 2023 tour of North America and Europe. Those themes were aired at length at a Q&A sessions following that followed the New York screening of the film at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday night, Springsteen, Van Zandt, Landau and Zimny, but the most revealing moment came when moderator Jon Sykes of iHeartMedia asked him why the film prominently spotlights a quote from a Jim Morrison poem: “O great creator of being Grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives” What Springsteen said about the quote itself was less interesting than the story that came with it, which involves a Doors concert in Asbury Park, New Jersey on August 30, 1968 that was attended by Springsteen, his wife Patti Scialfa and longtime E Street Band bassist Gary Tallent, but before any of them had met.

Born In the USA hitmaker reveals he has been thinking about his mortality and has made a big life decision.Bruce Springsteen was recently hit with some serious medical issues that left the singer wondering if he would ever sing again. Last year he was left crippled by a severe illness that forced him to cancel several shows on his current World Tour With the E Street Band.Not only was Dancing In the Dark singer very ill with a serious peptic ulcer issue, but several members of his band were also recently stricken with Covid, according to Radar Online.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic When Bruce Springsteen stands onstage, staring out at the crowd, or with his head bowed, and cocks his guitar behind him, that pose is now as iconic as that of the young Abraham Lincoln holding an ax over his shoulder. It’s a mythic image of American nobility. In “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,” we follow Springsteen, in his first concerts since the pandemic, as he reconnects with his fabled band and they rehearse for six days and go out on a tour that will take them from the U.S.

“Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” at the Toronto International Film Festival. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was there, too, faraway from his jurisdiction.

has been battling multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, since 2018.Onstage after the screening with Stevie Van Zandt, music producer Jon Landau and director Thom Zimny, Springsteen said that the unwavering support of Scialfa and the E Street Band are what make it possible for him to be a frontman.“You’re not alone,” Springsteen, 74, said. “I can look to my left, Stevie’s there. To my right, Nils [Lofgren] is there.

James Gandolfini almost walked out on The Sopranos following a failed drugs intervention, according to those behind the show.The actor, who passed away in 2013, famously played the role of mobster Tony Soprano across the show’s six seasons between 1999 and 2007.Speaking in new documentary Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos, HBO CEO Chris Albrecht recalled the actor’s struggles with substance abuse during production.“We did an intervention with him at my apartment in New York,” he said. “That was to try to get him to go to a facility for rehab.

Bruce Springsteen on display at the Roy Thomson Hall for the world premiere of “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band,” a look at the rock legend and his tight-knit group of collaborators, which also served as a meditation on mortality. Throughout the film and in the post-screening Q&A, though, the 74-year-old rocker stressed that he doesn’t plan to hang up his guitar any time soon. He wants to keep rocking until “the wheels come off.” “If I went tomorrow, it’s OK,” Springsteen told the crowd to loud applause.

Bruce Springsteen has shot down the recent rumours that he’ll be retiring soon – see what the music legend had to say below.While performing at the Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Friday (August 23), Springsteen told the passionate crowd that he’s not “goin’ anywhere” and isn’t planning for “no farewell tour bullshit.” Per a clip shared by Consequence, he said: “We’ve been around for 50 fuckin’ years, and we ain’t quitting! We ain’t doing no farewell tour bullshit! Jesus Christ! No farewell tour for the E Street Band!”He continued: “Farewell to what? A thousand people screaming your name? Get the hell out. I ain’t going anywhere!”Bruce Springsteen: "We ain't doing no farewell tour bullshit! Farewell to what? A thousand people screaming your name? Get the hell out.

Bruce Springsteen‘s guitarist Steven Van Zandt has teased more shows for the future, despite recent rumours that the music legend could soon be retiring.During a new interview with The Telegraph, the E Street Band musician and Sopranos actor responded to speculation that The Boss’ current tour may be his last.The outlet noted “a narrative vein of ­looming mortality” in Springsteen’s recent studio albums and live shows – but Van Zandt suggested that the 74-year-old icon isn’t done just yet.“You never know,” he said. “I mean, we treat every show like it could be the last show, and we’ve been doing that for 50 years.

Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong has covered Jesse Malin‘s ‘Black Haired Girl’ for the latter’s upcoming tribute/benefit album.Armstrong’s cover of Malin’s 2007 track is the latest to be released from ‘Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin’, a tribute and benefit LP for Malin, who suffered a rare spinal stroke last year that left him paralyzed from the waist down.“Jesse is a dear friend to me,” Armstrong said in a statement. “I love his songwriting. He is all heart…His passion is endless.

Steven Gaydos Executive VP of Content For fans of American roots music, the Mississippi John Hurt Museum in Avalon, Mississippi, may have been housed inside a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof—it was the childhood home of the late great bluesman—but it was living in an edifice as beautiful and inspiring as the Louvre, the Guggenheim Bilbao, or the Tate. And now it’s gone, burnt to the ground, lost forever along with all the irreplaceable John Hurt memorabilia such as recordings, guitars and more, probably the work of local racist vandals, but good luck finding any authorities in hot pursuit, as they say in the movies. Immediately after the disaster struck, Mary Frances Hurt, the artist’s granddaughter who is director of the non-profit Mississippi John Hurt Foundation and the primary curator of the museum, set up a GoFundMe Campaign.