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That hasn’t stopped Springsteen from taking part in Renegades, a recent podcast featuring him and President Obama. Green recorded rock star Alice Cooper’s observation that asking a rock star about politics is like asking the garbage man about nuclear physics. “In the last days of the Obama presidency, when nearly 70% of Americans thought the country was ‘heading in the wrong direction’, Springsteen gave a private show to some two hundred Obama staffers in the Rose Room of the White House.” “The origins of Springsteen on Broadway could not be more partisan,” Dominic Green wrote in the Spectator. In his one-man show, Springsteen on Broadway, which ran from 2017 to 2021, Springsteen sang songs and shared personal memories and reflections.
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The past few years gave warning signs that Springsteen was drifting from his former principled stance against the dingy world of advertising and politics. There is a sad tradition of fallen heroes brought down by the lure of lucre-especially in the U.S., where you so obsess about “the pursuit of happiness” and the apparently vital role of money in that pursuit. It is an unwanted and updated “Say it ain’t so, Joe” moment. But despite being in a similar position, Springsteen has gone the other way, shattering our hopes and illusions. Presumably, Elton John’s stance is influenced by the fact that he already has absurd amounts of money. The U.K.’s Elton John, for all the reports of his difficult behavior and divalike qualities, has continually refused to sell his song catalogue. Writing for the Guardian, Ben Beaumont-Thomas notes that “artists trust in, and sometimes have longstanding ties to, the companies they are selling to: in Springsteen’s case, he has been with the Sony-owned Columbia Records since his debut album in 1973.” But the Columbia Records of today is not the Columbia Records of 1973-it is part of and one with the behemoth that is Sony Music, which has one goal: to make money. His music gave voice to America’s blue-collar workers, and chronicled the struggles of protagonists such as “tramps like us” on “a last chance power drive” in “ Born to Run. No matter how you parse it, by shaking hands with the corporate devil, Springsteen has thrown most of the principles and virtues propounded in his songwriting out the window. Springsteen’s songs are believed to be worth $15 million a year in revenue anyway.
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“If, therefore, you do not spend your money in doing good to others, you must spend it to hurt yourself.”ĭid Springsteen make the move to secure his family’s future? I suspect all the Springsteens are pretty well set already. “It will betray people into greater follies, and make them live a more silly and extravagant life, than they could have done without it,” Law said, expounding an age-old truth about the moral dangers of wealth. Quite possibly it’s just too painful, certainly for Americans-being a British fan, I am perhaps not quite as emotionally invested-to squarely face the truth of Springsteen embracing “a Mammon of unrighteousness, a monster of iniquity,” to quote William Law, the neglected and now largely unknown 18th-century English clergyman whom Aldous Huxley described as “one of the most interesting thinkers of his period and one of the most endearingly saintly figures in the whole history of Anglicanism.” Beyond reporting those basic details, most media seem to be burying their heads in the sand about the deeper implications of our beloved Boss-a man who made his career singing in defense of the working-class American-finally giving in to The Man. The sale gives Sony ownership of 300 songs spanning 20 studio albums and 23 live recordings, including the intellectual property rights.
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It dwarfs the reported $300 million Universal paid for Bob Dylan’s song-writing catalogue in December 2020.
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In mid-December, anonymous sources leaked that Springsteen had sold his entire song catalogue to Sony Music Entertainment for $500 million, the biggest deal of its kind in music history. Forget Omicron-Bruce Springsteen made an already- tumultuous year much worse.