Bruce Springsteen

‘I experience joy very easily’: Patti Smith on Springsteen, the climate fight and the meaning of punk

The singer, poet and writer answers your questions about playing music with her children, being at her friend Allen Ginsberg’s deathbed and maintaining hope in a troubled world

As told to Dave Simpson

31, Mar, 2022 @2:00 PM

The Boss was Born to Run and run | Brief letters

Brief letters: Top billing for Bruce Springsteen | Piano concertos with tam-tams | Counting on divorce | Testing for dementia | Afghanistan inquiry

Letters

16, Feb, 2022 @5:05 PM

Cloth face covering fails the smell test | Brief letters

Letters: FFP2 face masks | English idioms | Price of daffodils | Trident

Letters

30, Jan, 2022 @6:27 PM

Renegades: Born in the USA by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen – review

The American figureheads and friends discuss their childhoods, their debt to strong women and the illusion of the American dream in a series of candid conversations garlanded with unseen photographs

Kitty Empire

30, Nov, 2021 @11:00 AM

John le Carré, Daisy May Cooper and Paul McCartney expected to boost book sales at Christmas

The annual event known as ‘Super Thursday’, when most of the hardbacks aimed at the Christmas market are published, promises big names and a boon for the industry

Alison Flood

08, Oct, 2021 @12:00 PM

‘I saw something in Bruce Springsteen that nobody else saw’: the world according to Stevie Van Zandt

The Boss’s trusty sideman has many plans – from saving central America to TV Hogmanay at the Playboy Mansion – and he’s more than happy to share his rock wisdom

Michael Hann

05, Oct, 2021 @8:00 AM

Hurricane Henri scuppers New York comeback concert

Crowd asked to leave Central Park extravaganza that featured Springsteen and LL Cool J on the billing

Lauren Aratani in New York

22, Aug, 2021 @1:17 AM

Glory Days: Jessica Springsteen helps USA to Olympic showjumping silver

Jessica Springsteen, daughter of Bruce, earned an Olympic silver medal for the USA but lost a thrilling jump-off with Sweden in the team showjumping

Suzanne Wrack at Tokyo Equestrian Park

07, Aug, 2021 @12:36 PM

Bruce Springsteen’s daughter Jessica selected for US Olympic showjumping team

Jessica Springsteen, the daughter of Bruce Springsteen, has been selected for the Tokyo Olympics show jumping team, the US equestrian team have announced

Guardian sport and agencies

06, Jul, 2021 @2:33 PM

Springsteen’s back on Broadway – and now AstraZeneca vaccine recipients are allowed

Ban lifted after fans at first told only those with US-approved Covid vaccines could see singer’s return

Richard Luscombe

18, Jun, 2021 @4:14 PM

Rockin' in the free world? Inside the rightwing takeover of protest music

It’s easy to laugh at hardcore patriots misunderstanding Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA, but such appropriation is increasingly widespread – and dangerously twisting the truth

Luke Ottenhof

13, Apr, 2021 @2:00 PM