Published Date: 07 February 2009By JON PARELES
IT'S 9AM AND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E Street Band are half an hour into a rehearsal at Manhattan's Terminal 5 rock club. As NFL executives and a television production team watch, they're tightening their mini-set of four songs – dropping verses, streamlining segues – to fit a 12-minute slot as the half-time entertainment at last week's Super Bowl XLIII. "My take on the Super Bowl?" Springsteen says after the rehearsal. "Fundamentally, it's a 12-minute party.&
Few musicians anywhere consummate symbolic occasions and mass events better than 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, Springsteen has spent much of his career labouring to write durable songs about American dreams, from Born to Run to Promised Land. follow this link for details.
Few musicians anywhere consummate symbolic occasions and mass events better than 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, Springsteen has spent much of his career labouring to write durable songs about American dreams, from Born to Run to Promised Land. follow this link for details.
