To experience Bruce Springsteen counting in the E Street Band at the top of a song is to experience one of rock music’s great live performance moments. Captured in that expression of ultimate control – exerted over arguably the world’s pre-eminent live band – is captured in a split-second the urgency, joy and vitality in live music itself. This is Springsteen’s ‘magic trick’. Read about his enduring legacy in this special edition magazine…
“One! Two! Three! Four!”
Springsteen Collector's Edition
FRONT ROW / CONTRIBUTORS
Rated. • Pitch picks a bit of tech to get you moist. With it being worth ‘twice the price’ as the criteria.
…Create a Trumpet Solo. • Our ten-step guide.
Bigger, Better, Louder THROUGH HISTORY • Four drummers that changed music, and what it is to be a modern percussionist. From the ’60s to now.
In 60 Seconds with… Frank Clark • One minute with the much-decorated footballer and Premier League manager.
State of New Jersey • The Garden State defined by its attractions…
Club Call: New Jersey Devils • In Detail. On ice.
Toilet Reads. No.1 King Tut’s - Glasgow • The world’s leading small venues name-checked and waxed lyrical.
Kezia Gill Singer-songwriter
REGGAE In 10 Characters, or Less… • Telling the history of an entire genre through its most influential people.
Instruments of E Street • ICONIC PLAYERS LINKED TO ICONIC INSTRUMENTS. AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO SOME OF THE MOST RECOGNISABLE WORKHORSES IN ALL OF ROCK MUSIC.
Meet The Band… • From coffeehouses to clubs, to arenas, to stadiums, to the world. Some have come and gone, some have come, gone and returned for second and third visits. Over the upcoming pages, enjoy the visual representation of the ins and outs of the legendary E Street Band. Over time. All aboard.
THE TIES THAT BIND • Shaped by blue-collar poetry, heartland Dust Bowls, and the King of Rock, Andy Afford takes a tour of our hero’s heroes - the voices and visionaries that forged Bruce Springsteen.
DISCOGRAPHY Every Album. Ranked. • Bruce Springsteen has sold more than 140 million albums globally, with 21 studio albums, eight live albums and seven EPs, the 20-time Grammy winner’s music tells the story of a working man come good.
Grammy Hits & Near-Misses • Springsteen received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, as well as the following single awards…
Nominations without Wins • Springsteen has also enjoyed some notable ‘almost’ Grammy moments for some of his biggest songs and albums…
Definitive. The shows that made a legend • From the ‘70s to ‘now’, here are the shows, the venues and the legendary performances that made Springsteen and the E Street Band peerless as a live act.
Fact or Fiction? 108 pub-friendly tit-bits • From boardwalk to the Badlands, Pitch strings together 75 years of knowledge about ‘The Boss’.
TRAMPS LIKE US • Paul Simpson on why Born to Run has managed to retain its promise with listeners for 50 years. By showing them something - and somewhere - better.
ON THE COVER
From Classic Rock to Hip Hop • Timeless. Here’s a list of groundbreaking albums that hit shelves 10, 25 and 50 years ago.
As It Happened… Glory Days • A career of moments, highs, lows and brilliant nights, Pitch signposts the key dates in Springsteen’s musical life.
Everyone’s From Somewhere • As country music continues to exert its influence on everything from US politics to UK high street fashion, how has the genre’s mainstream repositioning affected its spiritual home? We spoke to artists and scene-makers living and working in Nashville about Music City’s emergence as the place to be.
Music Row
Six Bar Boogie • Artists staking their claim on Lower...