An American Life: The Bruce Springsteen Story

I have the three part radio programme listed below. I would like to
see if someone would be interested in trading for a concert or other
Springsteen recordings.

The documentary begins with Bruce as a teenager and finishes with "the
Rising" and explores Bruce's career as a writer, musician an
recording artist. I do not have the listing for the second part yet,
but I do have the second part. It is 3 one hour radio programs.


An American Life


The Bruce Springsteen Story

BBC Radio 2 Broadcast 10th June 2003: FM Broadcast

Part 1

Intro
Early years
John Hammond
Greetings
Wild and Innocent
Born to run
Darkness
Is a dream a lie
Politics
Nebraska
The next step

Part 3

01 Changes
02 Jersey Roots
03 Call of the west
04 Family man
05 Those records
06 Aids
07 Ghosts
08 The cult band returns
09 American skin
10 A new album
11 A singer for all times
12 Rise up
13 Revival
14 Dialogue with my fans

Featuring new and exclusive interview material with The Boss,


Johnnie Walker presents a three-part series profiling the rock
superstar. Notoriously selective about his interviews, Bruce
Springsteen has opened up to Radio 2 exclusively and in-depth,
talking about his life and music from the 1960s to 2003.

In the first programme, Johnnie follows Bruce's journey to stardom,
culminating in the release of the hit single Born To Run and his
first European tour.

We join Bruce, the son of a factory worker and a secretary in his
childhood home in New Jersey and follow him through the trials and
tribulations of a strict Catholic upbringing.

Bruce's mother bought him his first guitar, and he soon formed his
first band, The Castiles. The Partridge Family songwriter turned
star-maker, Mike Appel took Bruce under his wing and signed him to
Columbia Records. Commercial success eluded the young Springsteen,
however, until one day, in a tiny New Jersey shack, he came up with
Born To Run and a meeting with the former journalist Jon Landau
turned a near-disaster into glorious triumph.

Born To Run turned Bruce into a superstar, although his rapid rise
to fame included a humiliating first visit to London. His career was
once again sidelined when a vicious legal dispute stripped him of
the rights to his own songs.

The programme features exclusive interview material with The Boss
himself, along with comments from former band members and business
associates. A selection of fellow songwriters, including Billy Bragg
and Badly Drawn Boy, reflect on the enduring appeal of the man who
remains something of an enigma even to his most devoted fans.

Johnnie Walker presents a three-part series profiling the rock
superstar. Notoriously selective about his interviews, Bruce
Springsteen has opened up to Radio 2 exclusively and in-depth,
talking about his life and music from the 1960s to 2003.

In the first programme, Johnnie follows Bruce's journey to stardom,
culminating in the release of the hit single Born To Run and his
first European tour.

We join Bruce, the son of a factory worker and a secretary in his
childhood home in New Jersey and follow him through the trials and
tribulations of a strict Catholic upbringing.

Bruce's mother bought him his first guitar, and he soon formed his
first band, The Castiles. The Partridge Family songwriter turned
star-maker, Mike Appel took Bruce under his wing and signed him to
Columbia Records. Commercial success eluded the young Springsteen,
however, until one day, in a tiny New Jersey shack, he came up with
Born To Run and a meeting with the former journalist Jon Landau
turned a near-disaster into glorious triumph.

Born To Run turned Bruce into a superstar, although his rapid rise
to fame included a humiliating first visit to London. His career was
once again sidelined when a vicious legal dispute stripped him of
the rights to his own songs.

The programme features exclusive interview material with The Boss
himself, along with comments from former band members and business
associates. A selection of fellow songwriters, including Billy Bragg
and Badly Drawn Boy, reflect on the enduring appeal of the man who
remains something of an enigma even to his most devoted fans.



Bruce Springsteen
Blue-collared, many-sided, 100 % genuine rock 'n' roll superstar.
For over 30 years Bruce has used his music to explore what it really
means to be an American; with all the contradictions, wonder and
pain that this entails.

What you do if someone doesn't understand your song, is to keep on
singing your song.