Bruce Springsteen Research Paper

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American musician, singer, songwriter and humanitarian. He was born on September 23, 1949 in New Jersey, USA. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Irish and Dutch ancestry & worked as a bus driver. His mother, Adele Ann, was of Italian ancestry & worked as a legal secretary. He has an older sister named Virginia and a younger sister named Pamela Springsteen. Bruce was raised under the Catholic religion. At this point in his life Bruce has long since given up on the Catholic religion lifestyle , but he has admitted that it had quite an influence on his life and his music. He would later say said: “Much of my music is a result of being completely brainwashed by Catholicism in my formative …show more content…
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 1984, he said, "When I got on the bus to go take my physical, I thought one thing: I ain't goin'." He had suffered from a concussion in a motorcycle accident when he was 17 years old, & this together with his "crazy" behavior at induction and not taking the tests was enough to get him a 4F, which meant he had more than 1 medical problem with prevented him from serving in the military. During the summer after his high school graduation, Springsteen worked with a band that went by the name Earth, a Cream-style power trio, and hung out in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Springsteen acquired the nickname "The Boss" during this period from playing at club gigs with a band he took on the task of collecting the band's nightly pay and distributing it amongst his bandmates. The nickname also been said to come from playing games of Monopoly with other Jersey Shore musicians. Springsteen is not fond of this nickname, due to his dislike of bosses, but seems to have since given it a reluctant acceptance. He had the nickname