Today, for
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inlovewithnight: BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCE
There are lots of things I could talk about. Like, the stuff that everybody talks about. You know, the music*, the dude, the other dudes, THE NIGHT A STORM LITERALLY BLEW THE BIG MAN INTO THE BAR
†, the LA years, &PATTI;, the political stuff, the butt, the guns, the night he crotched the world... crotched the whole world
right in the face, that video in the sewers that had me loling for sixteen days straight
‡, John Simm, the nostalgia, blah blah.
Instead I'm going to operate under the assumption that you're already in love with Bruce Springsteen, because why wouldn't you be, honestly, and you know all that stuff, and tell you about the night I fell in love with him.
I mean, I can actually pinpoint it, even if the shift where we all collectively lost our shit about him for seventeen pages is gone. BUT then someone posted a version of this and. AND:
Kragen explains, “The night before the recording session [for "We Are The World"] I was at the American Music Awards rehearsal and was told by one of the managers that the ‘rockers don’t like the song, it’s too pop for them and they don’t want to stand on the stage next to the non-rockers. They don’t think it’s a good image for them. So they’re leaving and not doing it anymore.’ But by the time the recording session came around, they had changed their minds. Later I found out they had gone to Bruce Springsteen, who had told them he was going ahead with it, as he was there to feed people and save lives. And at that moment they reneged on their threat to walk out.”
The recording session for “We Are The World” took place Jan. 28, 1985, the same night of the American Music Awards ceremony.
As each artist made their way afterwards to the A&M studios on La Brea Avenue, limousine after limousine pulled into the studio lot, except for one specific artist Kragen was surprised to see.
“This crowd started to form” remembers Kragen, “and soon there was a big crowd around the entrance gates of the studio. I was at the gate and looked through the gates and saw this commotion in the crowd and this guy pushing his way through the crowd. He gets to the front gate, looks up to me and I realized it is Bruce Springsteen! And he says to me, ‘Man I got a great parking space right across the street in La Brea.’ He had driven himself there, parked the car himself and made his way through the crowd.”
I MEAN. UGH, dude, what ARE you.
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blank days still available to claim)
* my favorite album is NEBRASKA**
** my other favorite album is THE WILD, THE INNOCENT, AND THE E STREET SHUFFLE***
*** ROSALITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
† http://joeposnanski.com/joeblogs/the-big-man/‡ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cNRQo1m3A LOLOLOLOLOLOL
