It’s possible the N.Y. Post jumped the gun on the Bruce Springsteen Super Bowl halftime extravaganza. Variety reports that he NFL says no entertainment has been confirmed as of yet.
Oh well.
I’m willing to bet the Post got it right, but nobody is ready to talk about it yet. The NFL has been asking him since the mid-1980s, only to be repeatedly turned down.
Still the Boss!
Well, I guess it was “A Long Time Comin.”
I don’t know if it’s a big deal, or if it cements him as being a has-been in the eyes of many … or maybe both … but if you believe the New York Post, Bruce Springsteen will be the halftime performer at Super Bowl XLIII (is that 43?) Feb. 1 in Tampa, Fla. Here’s the note from Page 6:
THE next Super Bowl is really going to rock. This year, Tom Petty rocked the halftime crowd at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. But Super Bowl XLIII on Feb. 1 in Tampa will feature Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, sources said. “He was just confirmed,” a spy added. “Little Stevie (Van Zandt) has already rented out the Hard Rock Café for a party.” A Boss rep didn’t return calls or e-mails.
For as long as I can remember, Bruce has been mentioned as one of the NFL’s top targets that they’ve never been able to land for the gig. A big reason involves his refusal to lip-synch anything, which was the norm for most Super Bowl music for sometime (see the totally-BS-but-yet-a-big-hit version of the “Star Spangled Banner” by Whitney Houston in 1991).
Nonetheless, should he be the performer, I won’t miss a note.
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Don’t know?
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2. What was John Edwards thinking?
Uh, there’s no link for this one. it’s just a question.
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Nirvana's "Nevermind"
This week, I heard a cool little feature at the end of NPR’s All Things Considered.
They did a little feature, umpteen years later, on the kid who was the baby on the front of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album cover. His name is Spencer Elden, and he seems like a pretty normal teen, at least as normal as normal as you can be when there are 28 million copies of your naked baby picture floating around.
Check it out …
“Tear down this wall,” said President Ronald Reagan, on a 1987 visit to West Berlin.
Many have credited Reagan with being instrumental in not only the dismantling of the wall, but the fall of communism all together.
But now, according to Reuters, some who were actually behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s believe a 1988 Bruce Springsteen concert in East Berlin may have played a bigger part than Reagan’s speech.
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