Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band launched
their European summer stadium tour this weekend with two house-rocking nights
at Barcelona’s Estadi Olímpic on Friday, April 28 and Sunday, April 30. Over
117,000 fans were on hand to witness a pair of three-hour performances, which
included staples like “Dancing In The Dark ” “Badlands” and “Tenth Avenue
Freeze-Out” alongside tour debuts each night, high-energy covers and an opening
night performance of “Glory Days” featuring Patti Scialfa with special guests
Kate Capshaw and former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama.
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September
23, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He has released 21 studio
albums during a career spanning six decades, most of which feature his backing
band, the E Street Band. He is an originator of heartland rock, a genre
combining mainstream rock music with poetic and socially conscious lyrics that
tell a narrative about working-class American life. Nicknamed "The
Boss",[1] he is known for his lyrics and energetic concerts, with
performances that can last more than four hours.
LYRICS
Dancing
in the Dark
I get up in
the evenin'
You can't
start a fire
Messages
keeps gettin' clearer
You can't
start a fire
You sit
around gettin' older
Stay on the
streets of this town
You can't start a fire
Fuente: LyricFind
Autores de la canción: Bruce Springsteen
VOCABULARY
Spark /sp ɑː k/ (fiery particle) chispa nf
·
The blaze was started by a spark from the fire. El
incendio comenzó con una chispa del fuego.
dump / ˈ d ʌ mp/
dump n (rubbish tip) vertedero
/ basurero nm
·
Wendy took some garden rubbish to the dump. Wendy llevó la
basura del jardín al vertedero.
dump n figurative, informal (unpleasant, dirty place) cuchitril
nm /
antro nm
·
Jason's house is a dump; I don't know how he can live there! La casa de Jason es
un cuchitril, no sé cómo hace para vivir ahí.
carve
/ˈkɑːrv/
carve [sth] ⇒ vtr (material:
sculpt) esculpir ⇒ vtr tallar ⇒ vtr
·
The
sculptor uses a chisel to carve the marble.
El escultor usa un cincel para esculpir el mármol.
carve [sth] vtr (shape:
sculpt) esculpir ⇒ vtr tallar ⇒ vtr
·
With a
knife, the man carved flowers and leaves into the wood. Con un cuchillo, el hombre
esculpió flores y hojas en la madera.
starving /ˈstɑːrvɪŋ/
starving adj figurative,
informal (very hungry) muerto de hambre loc adj famélico /a
adj
·
What
time will dinner be ready? I'm starving! ¿A qué hora sirven la cena?
¡Estoy muerto de hambre!
starving adj (having
no food) famélico/a adj (literal) hambriento/a
adj
·
Televised
images of starving children led to a flood of donations. Las
imágenes de niños famélicos en la tele hicieron que mucha gente donase dinero.
gimme
/ˈgɪmɪ/
gimme
interj slang (give me) (tú) dame
interj (usted)deme (ustedes)denme (vosotros)dadme
·
Hey,
gimme a slice of that cake. Oye,
dame un pedazo de aquel pastel.
Para los seguidores de Bruce, abajo tenéis una entrevista y la transcripción de la misma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fkqxgFv6ZY
Bruce Springsteen on his landmark album "Nebraska"
VIDEO
Para facilitar el seguimiento del video, a continuación tienes la transcripción de la entrevista
like us [Music] it's Sunday morning on CBS and here again is Jane Pauley just one of the many hits that over the decades has made Bruce Springsteen a superstar now at age 73 he's looking back to a moment in his career he considers a turning point and he's talking with our Jim Axelrod this is where the magic happened this is the room where it happened that's right it may not look like much but this small bedroom in Colts Neck New Jersey this is the orange shag rug that was here 40 years ago this is the same bed good Lord is where Bruce Springsteen made what he considers that's all we're standing his masterpiece [Music] Nebraska just a twirlin' ten songs Dark and mournful from the town of [Music] if I had to pick one album out and say this is going to represent you 50 years from now I'd pick Nebraska who do the Badlands the wrong man I keep leaving my pain written 41 years ago at a time of great upheaval in Springsteen's inner life I just hit some sort of personal wall that I didn't even know was there it was my first real major depression where I realized though I've got to do something about it and you can't succeed your way out of pain no you cannot that's a very good way of putting that you cannot succeed your way out of that business [Music] coming off a hugely successful tour for the river album he'd had his first top 10 hits [Music] he was 32 a genuine rock star surrounded by success and learning its limits your rock 'n' roll meds singing in front of forty thousand people all that is is anesthesia yeah and it worked for me I think in your 20s a lot of things work for you your 30s is where you be you start to become an adult suddenly I looked around and said where is everything where's my home where is my partner where are the sons or daughters that I thought I might have someday and I realized none of these things are there so I said okay the first thing I've got to do as soon as I get home is remind myself of who I am and where I came from I lived in this house exactly half a lifetime ago home at the time was a fixed up Farmhouse he was renting I enjoyed it here because I liked access to this Reservoir I think they keep the canoes my canoe remains it's still there here he would try to understand why his success left him so alienated this is all inside of me you can either take it and transform it into something positive or it can destroy you there are records films books that don't just come in the front door they come in the back door they come up through a trap door and stay with you in Life author Warren Zanes' new book deliver me from nowhere offers a deep and moving examination of the making of Nebraska here's Bruce Springsteen making a record from a kind of bottom in his own life Springsteen's pain was rooted in a lonely childhood they were very poor and then he becomes Bruce Springsteen he felt that his past was making his present complicated and he wanted to be freed of it oh here it is this is oh wow for Springsteen Liberation had always come through writing while he filled notebook after notebook it's funny because I don't remember doing all this work the album didn't come together until late one night when he was channel surfing and stumbled across Badlands believe I shoot people over down there men Terrence Malick's film about Charles Starkweather whose murder spree in 1957 and 58 unfolded mainly in Nebraska I actually called the reporter who had reported on that story in Nebraska and amazingly enough she was still at the newspaper and she was a lovely woman and we talked for a half hour or so and it just sort of focused me on the feeling of what I wanted to write about they won't know in a serial killer Springsteen had found a muse sir I guess you're just a man in his word there's a meanness in this world that explains everything Starkweather's done yeah I tried to locate where their Humanity was as best as I could in a surge of creativity he wrote 15 songs in a matter of weeks this is pretty much the setup I think I had a little chair here mic was over there with this tape player and one January night in 1982 it was time to record the Acoustics of this room not bad the orange shag carpet makes it really dead you know there's not a lot of echo so not just beautiful Not only was it beautiful it came in handy one of Rock's biggest stars sat in this bedroom alone and sang at least [Music] getting exactly the sound [Music] he was looking for some songs explore the confusion left from childhood mansion on the hill my father's house used cars they're all written from kids' perspectives children trying to make sense of the world but they were born into she said I'm sorry son but no one by that name lives here and others profiled adults left out or left behind there's that very Stark Dark Lonely sound it's austere very austere very Bare Bones on a broken down Boombox Springsteen mixed the songs onto a cassette tape he carried around in his pocket you got one cassette that's right and you're walking around with it in your pocket for a few years in my back pocket I hope you had a plastic case on it I don't think I had a case I'm lucky I didn't lose it the band would record what he had on the cassette but bigger and Bolder wasn't what he was looking for it was a happy accident I had planned to just write some good songs teach them to the band go in the studio and record them but every time I tried to improve on the tape that I had made in that little room it's the old story and this gets any better it's going to be worse Bruce Springsteen wasn't working E Street but another road entirely Nebraska was muddy it was imperfect it wasn't finished all the things that you shouldn't put out he put out I didn't like if any part of you worry oh my goodness what am I putting out there I knew what the Nebraska record was it was also a signal that I was sending that I've had some success but I do what I want to do I make the records I want to make I'm trying to tell a bigger story and that's the job that I'm trying to do for you a few more songs that didn't make the cut [Music] well you probably heard them later Born in the USA pink Cadillac all stuff that didn't make it songs the guy in the leather jacket who'd written a chrome wheeled fuel-injected suicide machines kept in this binder with Snoopy on the cover boy I'm glad we can see it people wouldn't believe it otherwise in that small bedroom Springsteen The Rocker made an album that fleshed out Springsteen the poet imagine if he hadn't and then people might be assessing a career and say oh it's great man seventy thousand people singing Rosalita in the stadium but that might have been closer to where it ended in considering what you've done yeah I mean I was just interested in more and more than that I love doing it I still love doing it to this day but I wanted more than that you make sure sitting right there on my land if they want to enjoy your work try anything if they want to understand your work yeah Nebraska yeah I'd agree with that I definitely agree with that [Music]
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