Bruce Springsteen

"The Promise" is a compilation album of Bruce Springsteen. Is a collection of previously unreleased tracks from the 1977-’78 recording sessions include long-missed studio versions of such live standards as “Because the Night”, “Fire”, and Springsteen’s most celebrated outtake, “The Promise”. Finished in some cases with modern vocals and additional instrumentation, they form a “lost album” between "Born to Run" and "Darkness". The album features one of the last appearances of Clarence Clemons before his death in June 2011.

In the decades following his emergence on the national scene in 1975, Bruce Springsteen has proved to be that rarity among popular musicians, an artist who maintained his status as a frontline recording and performing star, consistently selling millions of albums and selling out arenas and stadiums around the world year after year, as well as retaining widespread critical approbation, with ecstatic reviews greeting those albums and shows.

If there’s any period in modern Springsteen history that continues to grow in admiration it is the 2007-2008 Magic era.

“Hit! I wrote a hit last night!” –Bruce Springsteen to Roy Bittan, as told by Peter Ames Carlin

"Born in the U.S.A." was American rock musician Bruce Springsteen's seventh studio album. It quickly became Springsteen's biggest album and was the best selling album of 1985 in the United States. "Born in the U.S.A." was extremely inspirational, the lyrics are viewed as a sign of hope for citizens working towards the American Dream.