Bruce Springsteen - Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen born September 23, 1949, he has been awarded fifteen Grammy’s, an Oscar, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Probably best known for his album “Born in the U.S.A” released in 1984, and was also released as a picture disc it has sold 15 million copies in the U.S. alone and became one of the best-selling albums of all time with seven singles hitting the top 10. The much more sedate and contemplative “Tunnel of Love” 1987,was also released as a picture disc, reflecting on the many faces of love found, lost and squandered and the break-up of his first marriage to actress Julianne Phillips.

Reflecting the challenges of love, on Tunnel of Love's title song, Springsteen famously sang:

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough. Man meets woman, and they fall in love. But the house is haunted, and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

 

 

 
 
 
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