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Pink Villa
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Why Did Bruce Springsteen Avoid Set Visits of His Biopic Starring Jeremy Allen White? Musician Reveals
Bruce Springsteen's life is set to open in theaters, with Jeremy Allen White playing the role of the musician in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. Following the trailer of the upcoming film being dropped on the streaming platform by 20th Century Fox, Springsteen opened up about having the most painful days of his life being included in the film. The musician sat down for an interview with Rolling Stone, where he also praised The Bear star, calling him very tolerant of him. Springsteen's upcoming biopic will revolve around the making of his hit 1982 album Nebraska. The record went on to become one of the musician's most enduring works. Bruce Springsteen talks about his upcoming biopic In conversation with the media portal, Springsteen shared that he avoided visiting the sets when the cast members were shooting some 'deeply personal' scenes. The musician went on to reveal, 'I'm sure it's much worse for the actor than for me.' He further said, 'Jeremy Allen White was very, very tolerant of me the days that I would appear on the set.' Springsteen further revealed that he told Allen White, 'Look, anytime I'm in the way, just give me the look and I'm on my way home.' The Dancing in the Dark crooner continued to add, 'The days that I got out there, he was wonderfully tolerant with me being there. And it was just fun. It was enjoyable.' Moreover, the veteran artist shared that he had some unusualness on the sets, as the film 'involves, in some ways, some of the most painful days of my life.' Bruce also revealed that he would stay at home on the days that had some deeply personal scenes coming up. He claimed that he wanted the actors to feel free. The movie Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is directed by Scott Cooper and will hit theaters on October 24.
Forbes
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Bruce Springsteen's Career-Defining Hits Rock Back Onto The Charts
Bruce Springsteen is spending the warmer months of 2025 trekking across Europe, with more than a dozen dates scheduled on his Land of Hope and Dreams Tour. 2025 marks the third year of the venture, and as the rock legend returns to the U.K. for several stops, fans have been showing their enthusiasm in a very clear way. British audiences are once again demonstrating their love by purchasing not just Springsteen's classic albums, but also a number of his most iconic — and even most recent — tunes. At the moment, three of his singles (well, two singles and one very short EP that is classified in the U.K. as a single) reappear on charts in the country. None of the three earned space on the tallies where they now land until just days ago. Springsteen and the E Street Band played two dates in Liverpool in early June, after kicking off the third leg of the trek in mid-May in Manchester, and the visits have helped him immensely on the charts. Springsteen's biggest hit in the U.K. at the moment is "Dancing in the Dark." The tune is the only one of his to appear on multiple rankings this frame. It reenters the Official Singles Downloads chart at No. 74 and the Official Singles Sales list at No. 78, despite the fact that it was released more than 40 years ago. Interestingly, "Dancing in the Dark" has only spent about a month on either of these tallies, and has never cracked the top 40. "Born to Run," which preceded "Dancing in the Dark" by nearly a decade, joins its successor on the Official Singles Downloads chart. The early Springsteen smash reappears on that list — which looks only at the most downloaded tracks across the U.K. — at No. 98, just managing to find space on the 100-position ranking. This week marks only the second time "Born to Run" has ever appeared on the Official Singles Downloads chart. It previously debuted, and peaked, at No. 93. For Record Store Day 2025, Springsteen and The Killers released a joint project titled Encore at the Garden. The live recording features the two acts performing a trio of tunes together at one concert several years ago, and it was shared on a physical format for the first time as part of the music industry initiative. While it's technically an EP, the Official Charts Company categorizes it as a single, due to its length. Encore at the Garden returns to the Official Physical Singles chart at No. 73. In the half-dozen frames it has spent on the list since its release earlier this year, the brief effort has climbed as high as No. 3.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Triggered Trump Unloads on Bruce Springsteen in Wild Rant
President Donald Trump is losing it after Bruce Springsteen torched his administration as 'treasonous' and 'incompetent.' 'This dried out 'prune' of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country,' the 78-year-old president fumed on Truth Social Friday morning. Calling Springsteen, 75, 'dumb as a rock' and 'Highly Overrated,' Trump went after the music legend for 'speaking badly about the President of the United States.' 'Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy,' he said of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and one of the world's best-selling artists. '[He's] just a pushy, obnoxious JERK.' Though Trump now insists that he's never been a Springsteen fan, he used to blare 'Born in the U.S.A' at rallies in 2016—much to the rocker's dismay. The president's hissy fit came in response to Springsteen's remarks at the start of the 'Land of Hope & Dreams' European tour earlier this week. 'In my home, the America I love, the America I've written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration,' Springsteen told the crowd in Manchester, England before performing the tour's namesake song. 'Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!' Throughout the show, Springsteen—who performed at a rally for Kamala Harris last year—came back to the subject, slamming Trump for attacking the press, cozying up to dictators, and defunding universities, without directly naming him. He also decried the Trump administration for its 'sadistic' firing of federal workers, mass deportations, and for 'abandoning the world's poorest children to sickness and death.' It's not the first time the 'Dancing in the Dark' singer has taken aim at Trump—he's spent years warning that the former president poses a threat to democracy. But his latest rebukes clearly hit an nerve with the famously thin-skinned president, who launched into a familiar tirade against his predecessor—as he often does when trying to deflect criticism. He chastised Springsteen for supporting former President Joe Biden, whom he described as 'a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country.' 'If I wasn't elected, it would have been GONE by now!' he added. Trump is flying back to the United States after wrapping up his Middle East trip. In another unhinged Truth Social post he presumably typed out while aboard Air Force One, he said Taylor Swift had stopped being 'hot.'
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trump hits back at ‘dried-up prune' Springsteen
Donald Trump has called Bruce Springsteen a 'dried-up prune' in an escalating row with the musician. Springsteen, 75, criticised the president during the first show of his UK tour earlier this week, branding Mr Trump's administration 'corrupt, incompetent and treasonous'. In response, the president took to Truth Social to question the 20-time Grammy winner's musical talents, calling him 'highly overrated' and 'dumb as a rock'. Mr Trump said: 'I see that highly overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a foreign country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his radical Left politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy.' The president has previously played the singer's 'Born in the USA' anthem at his rallies. Credit: Instagram/Bruce Springsteen Mr Trump, 78, also lambasted the singer for his looks. 'This dried out 'prune' of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that's just 'standard fare'. Then we'll all see how it goes for him!' the president said. During his Manchester concert, Springsteen said: 'Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.' The Dancing in the Dark singer later went on to deliver a longer political speech in which he warned of 'very weird, strange and dangerous s--- going on' in the US and labelled Mr Trump an 'unfit president' presiding over a 'rogue government'. Springsteen is a long-time Democrat supporter who called Mr Trump an 'American tyrant' when he performed at a star-studded Kamala Harris rally on the 2024 campaign trail. Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, accused Springsteen of suffering from 'Trump derangement syndrome'. Mr Cheung told The Washington Post: 'When this loser Springsteen comes back home to his own City of Ruins in his head, he'll realize his Glory Days are behind him and his fans have left him Out in the Street, putting him in a Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out because he has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his brain.' Mr Trump's diatribe came less than an hour after he criticised Taylor Swift, saying the singer-songwriter is 'no longer hot'. 'Has anyone noticed that, since I said 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,' she's no longer 'HOT?'' the president wrote on Truth Social. Mr Trump previously fulminated against the Shake It Off singer in September after she endorsed Ms Harris for president. The musician announced her endorsement after the presidential debate with a social media post signed 'Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady,' in a nod to JD Vance's jibes against Democrats. During his first term in office, Mr Trump frequently clashed with a number of celebrities, including Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Los Angeles Times
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Rilo Kiley's reunion is right on time at Just Like Heaven
'Can you believe,' Jenny Lewis asked, 'this is our third show in 17 years?' Wearing the same outfit she'd worn at the first two — polka-dot mini-dress, white ruffle socks, a glittering tiara perched atop her head — Lewis was onstage Saturday night with her band Rilo Kiley at the Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena. 'It's truly amazing to be here with you all,' she told the crowd of thousands spread across the leafy grounds surrounding the Rose Bowl. 'But mostly,' she added, turning to her bandmates, 'it's amazing to be here with you all.' One of the defining Los Angeles rock bands of the last quarter-century, Rilo Kiley formed in 1998 — both Lewis and the group's other singer and songwriter, Blake Sennett, had been child actors — then spent the next decade steadily approaching the big time with clever if jaundiced songs about sex, bad decisions and the Hollywood dream machine. Yet just as the band was poised to blow up, Rilo Kiley split amid creative and personal tensions between Lewis and Sennett, who'd also been romantically involved. Now, for the first time since 2008, the group — rounded out by Pierre De Reeder and Jason Boesel — is on the road playing shows again; its reunion tour launched last week with gigs in San Luis Obispo and Ojai and is scheduled to run through the fall. The timing makes sense, given that Lewis over the intervening years has become something of an older-sister figure for a subsequent generation or two of smart young musicians writing about all the ways the world can disappoint a woman in her 20s. (Think Phoebe Bridgers, think Haim, think Olivia Rodrigo.) Then again, nostalgia is rarely required to justify itself, as Just Like Heaven made clear. A fixture of the Southern California festival landscape since 2019, this annual show brings together veterans of early-2000s indie rock to relive memories of an era before streaming and social media remade pop music; other acts high on the bill this year included Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, the Drums and Toro y Moi. Near the end of its headlining set on Saturday, Vampire Weekend offered up what frontman Ezra Koenig called 'a salute to indie' — strung-together covers of period hits by Phoenix, Tame Impala, Beach House, Grizzly Bear and TV on the Radio — in a slot the band typically dedicates to audience requests for oldies like 'Don't Stop Believin' ' or 'Dancing in the Dark.' That Grizzly Bear's 'Two Weeks' now qualifies as a classic was a fact nobody seemed to need convincing. Indeed, Lewis has said that part of what led her to reconvene Rilo Kiley was the huge success of a recent reunion tour by the Postal Service, the electro-pop side project that she and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard introduced in 2003 and which last year headlined Just Like Heaven after earlier selling out three nights at the Hollywood Bowl. Yet if all that eagerness to reminisce made easy pickings of folks in Pasadena, Rilo Kiley played with more muscle and panache than it needed to on Saturday in an hour-long set that showcased the band's impressive versatility. 'The Execution of All Things' and 'With Arms Outstretched' were crisp and strummy, while 'The Moneymaker' rode a raunchy soul-rock groove and 'Dreamworld' evoked the glossy menace of mid-'70s Fleetwood Mac. Now as during the group's heyday, what elevated the performance was Lewis' skill as a storyteller: the torch-song melancholy she found in 'I Never,' about a woman betting too much on a relationship, and the perfectly soapy romantic drama of 'Does He Love You?' in which she plays two of the three parts in a doomed love triangle. For the latter, she grabbed a video camera and roamed the stage, sending footage of her bandmates to the giant screen behind her — not just the star of the Rilo Kiley show but its director too. On Spotify, the band's biggest song is the coolly self-assured 'Silver Lining,' from its darkly funny final LP, 'Under the Blacklight,' and here Lewis delivered it with a swaggy nonchalance. But the true heads know that Rilo Kiley's real should've-been-a-hit was 2004's sly yet ebullient 'Portions for Foxes' — 'The talking leads to touching / And the touching leads to sex,' goes one key line — which is why the group finished with the song at Just Like Heaven. As she sauntered offstage, Lewis blew a kiss to the crowd, then jumped back to her microphone, grabbed a Modelo she'd left behind and took a sip through a straw.
