Bruce Springsteen Forum

The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen A to E to Z
by Gary Graff
Table of Contents
Introduction
Foreword
A labor of love, The Ties That Bind is an encyclopedic examination of the people, places, events, and recordings significant in the artistry and thirty-plus year career of one of America's most eminent and enduring rock icons. Ranging from the Academy Awards to Warren Zevon and all points in between (including the mighty E Street Band), the encyclopedia examines all aspects of the Springsteen universe, influences and the influenced, significant others, career evolution, recordings, side ventures, political forays, geographic bases, and of course, legandary shows and venues.

With 300 entries (plus sidebars) and 100 photos (many previously unpublished), this is the first and only book to take a systematic approach to objectively chronicling Springsteen's life and music. Plus, The Ties That Bind provides lists of concert appearances, television appearances, and E Street Band tribute bands and tribute albums; the text of Springsteen's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame speeches; and a lyric index, amid other comprehensive indexing.

Led by veteran rock critic and media man-about-town Gary Graff, the team of writers includes Chris Phillips, impresario of Backstreets, the preeminent fanzine and Web site; Denver-based Steve Knopper, who covers the music business for Rolling Stone magazine and has written for Spin, Entertainment Weekly, the Chicago Tribune, and many others; New Jersey native Robert Santelli, director of the Experience Music Project in Seattle and a collaborator with Springsteen on “Songs,” the complete collection of Springsteen’s recorded album lyrics; Dan Durchholz, a frequent contributor to Stereophile magazine, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune, and radio station KMOX in St. Louis; and Jeffrey Zaslow, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal who previously, as advice columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, often advised readers by quoting a Springsteen lyric. Behind the scenes, staff enthusiasm for the subject amounts to nearly 100 years of devoted (some would say obsessive) Springsteen appreciation. So we’ve done our research. Damon Gough (of Badly Drawn Boy) and Mike Mills (of R.E.M.) each contribute nicely written forewords.

About Gary Graff
Gary Graff is an award-winning journalist covering the music world. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, People, Reuters, Billboard, Backstreets, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times, in addition to numerous other magazines, Web sites, news sources, and major market newspapers. Graff is the founding editor of the award-winning MusicHound Essential Album Guide series and was the editor of Thomson Gale's Popular Music annual. He can be heard on the radio regularly reporting on rock news for Detroit's WCSX-FM and Milwaukee's WLZR-FM. A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Graff lives with his wife, daughter and twin stepsons in suburban Detroit, where he can sometimes be found coaching kids' sports teams and flailing at racquetball, golf balls, softballs, floor hockey pucks and bass guitars.

Hometown: Detroit, Michigan

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Hey, schön dass so ein alter Threat wieder entdeckt wurde.
Das Buch ist für mich über die Jahre ein absolut wichtiges Nachschlagewerk geworden und ich ziehe es gerne mal in einer ruhigen Feierabendminute aus dem Regal und blättere es durch. Entdecke jedes Mal etwas Neues.