One summer, 7 albums and 83 songs

At 75 and with an estimated fortune of $ 1.2 billion, he entered the exclusive group of the richest men in the world, according to Forbes in the annual survey released at the beginning of this month. Last year, his name had already integrated the same list of multimillionaires, although the artist refuted this information. Whether true or not, if you wanted to, Bruce Springsteen could reform, abandon the stage and enjoy life away from the spotlight. However, without fashion, he has argued that « stopping is dying », continuing to occupy a unique place among the great of American music. And the summer of 2025 will be one of the best ever for the fans of the singer of Dancing in the Dark.

7 albums ‘lost’
On June 27, the American artist will launch the Tracks II: The Lost Albums collection composed of 83 songs: 74 were never heard before. The songs will be divided between seven albums: La Garage Sessions ’83; Streets of Philadelphia Sessions; Faithless; Somewhere North of Nashville; Inyo; Twilight Hours and Perfect World. Each album will have different packaging and the boxes will be accompanied by a 100 -page hardcover book (and bound in fabric) with rare photographs and notes on each album.
According to Sony Music, the themes were composed and produced between 1983 and 2018 and will « reveal rich chapters of Springsteen’s career, while offering an invaluable view of their life and their work as an artist. »

In addition, most of the tracks were recorded in ‘Home Studios’: ‘The ability to record at home whenever I wanted to follow me to follow a series of different musical directions,’ said Bruce Springsteen, also revealing that this release only became possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which allowed him to ‘end everything he had in the file’. «I have played these songs for me and close friends for years. I am happy to have the opportunity to hear them. I hope you enjoy it, ”shared the musician in a statement.

The songs that were in the drawer
According to Rolling Stone, Tracks II begins with La Garage Sessions ’83, which Springsteen recorded in the interval between Nebraska and Born in the USA. Continues with Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, which has been « informally known for years as the album » Drum Loop ». Somewhere North of Nashville was recorded in May 1995. Inyo, in turn, came to life while the musician was on the road promoting The Ghost of Tim Joad between 1995 and 1997. Perfect World highlights several songs that Bruce composed with Joe Grushecky throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, combining them with other unpublished songs at that time.
Faithless’s songs were recorded in 2005 and 2006 for a movie that has not yet been made. And finally, Twilight Hours was created at the same time as Western Stars in 2018, and is essentially ‘a complementary album’, adds the American magazine.

From New Jersey to the World
Springsteen grew up with his youngest sisters Virginia and Pamela in Freehold, an industrial city in New Jersey where his father, Douglas Springsteen, worked as a worker. The mother, Adele, was a legal secretary.

As Oi wrote in 2016, the oldest music connection dates back to the nights when, in the company of his grandfather, owner of an electrical repair shop, he searched the trash «looking for radios, any radios, regardless of their state … When we find them, we throw them into the car’s suitcase to take them home, to ‘the shelter’, the two-meter, two-meter wooden cubicle, two meters In a corner of our house, ”he told in his biography -Born to Run -launched the same year. Since young, it has been interested in melodies, compositions, instruments. According to the singer, one of the main reasons that led him to bullied at school was that he liked Beatles and trying to look like members of FAB Four-Tribute Band to the British group.

However, his greatest idol was Elvis Presley. Bruce bought his first guitar after seeing a performance of the rock and roll king on television.

She became a disc collector, bought by herself or with her mother’s help. Then came the band time. He discovered soul and rock, began to become a frequent figure on the stages of his area after school parties and initiatives of the city’s associations. It was in 1973 that he released his first two albums, Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ and The Wild, The Innocent & The Street Shuffle, which, although not major commercial hits at the time, were well received by critics. This would only be the beginning of a successful career after the release of Born to Run in 1975, which is often cited as one of the best rock albums of all time.

Their lyrics were conquering people’s ears in all parts of the world with topics such as personal struggle and resilience, joy and loss, marginalization stories and despair. The artist is also very active in the political field, not hiding his ideologies.

In 1984, he released Born in the USA, his best -selling album ever, which included seven singles that reached the Billboard Top 10. Tracks like Born in the USA, Dancing in the Dark, Glory Days and I’m on Fire have become hymns of a generation and have resisted the passage of time.

Acclaimed by Rolling Stone as « The Personification of Rock & Roll », with over 140 million records sold worldwide and over 70 million in the US, Bruce Springsteen is one of the most successful artists in the world. During his career, he has won 20 Grammy awards, one Oscar, two Golden Globes and a special Tony Award. In 1999 he joined the Rock and Roll fame hall and the composers’ fame hall. In 2013, he received the Kennedy Center award and in 2016 was awarded the country’s presidential presidential medal, the highest civil award in the country by President Barack Obama.